Will Lin be another Dragic/Lowry?

I hope he is, in the sense that we get rid of him

 

are there stats for telling us his dribble is too loose and shaky?

 

The "eye test" is telling you those things because Lin is one of the most inconistent players I've ever seen.

Alot of nights he's terrible, other nights he's average, some nights he's great.

Which gives you those averages. Those are probably the least impactful "decent" stats you'll see. Simply because he was not bringing that statline every night.


On his growth as an all-star like Lowry/Dragic: I honestly don't see it. He lets the same flaws he had in the DL come back to bite him in the NBA most nights. He can't play at different speeds, his passing is average, his finishing in traffic can be good but he misses so many gimmes. And he is relatively old for a young, high potential player. He will be 26 next year.

 

No...

 

Lin's inconsistency is on entirely different tier from every name you mentioned in this thread.

 

Lin will be MVP with his next team.

 

The difference between Lin and those other two is he has a significantly lower Basketball IQ, which is really going to hinder him becoming anything more than a mediocre player. He just doesn't understand the game very well from a macro level.

Furthermore his defense is very limited.

 

Any PG will flounder in McHale's "system". PG's are supposed to be floor leaders. When you give them no plan to succeed, they are going to play wildly inconsistent. On the other hand, Lin isn't even playing pg half the time.

 

It's possible. Don't forget when looking at his percentages to adjust for the fact that he was feasting off playing next to some very talented offensive players who took a ton of the defensive attention away. Just look at Hardens numbers when he played next to Durant and Westbrook. You move him to a team where he's 1st or 2nd option the number of easy looks goes down and with that goes the shooting percentages. Not to mention with more minutes, more time with the ball and more defensive pressure the TOs are likely to go up as well.

I think his defense will continue to improve, but I think it's pretty funny that the 1 quarter of defense is enough to know he's not a liability.

I guess time will tell. I will be interested to see how it goes for him if and when he's gone.

 

Once Lin leaves he'll be, at worst, All NBA 2nd Team.

 

If we have to basically pay another team to take Lin, then we should keep him unless the 15M in payroll hinders us from getting someone we want.

By basically pay, I mean give up extra assets just to unload him. This would seem counter productive for we might need those very assets to improve the team rather than spending on getting rid of Lin.

Sure, he will be vastly overpayed for his production in 2015. But given this, no team will take him without substantial sweeteners.

So, we may as well give it another year and hope for the best. He could have a breakout year after all.

 

The difference between Lowry/Dragic and Lin in this situation is that Lowry & Dragic were already good when they played for the Rockets.

It's not like both of them just magically became borderline all stars. They were well on their way to that point when they were still with the Rockets. Lin, OTOH, would have to see a gigantic jump from his play with the Rockets to get to near-all star status.

 

Actually Lin's number this year is pretty comparable to Dragics in his final year with the Rox. And it can be up for debate whether playing with a ball dominant guy like Harden would hurt or help Lin's stats. Im very curious as to Lin's production if he is traded to some scrub team. One thing I am certain is if Lin somehow ends up with DAntoni again then well. He'll prob put up similar stats as Lowry or Dragic.

 

His IQ and Defense looked pretty damn good shutting down Lillard in the 4th quarter..should've played another .9 seconds.

 

Lin is a bench player not an all star

You can't put Lin in the same sentence as lebron

Your grammar check should immediately spot that error

 

Which also reminds me, the other day on the radio, Doug Gottlieb compared Lin to Evan Turner. Saying he is a guy capable of putting up big numbers on bad teams. But a backup role player on a championship contender. So it will really depend on who he ends up with. But ill just say never say never when it comes to his future production. The reality is we dont know. Just like Lowry and Dragic. Also for people to say Lin will never be an All Star, who knows. He could put up 18 and 7 on a bad team and then all the fans vote him in.

 

Someone on sports talk mentioned going without an in bounds defender and guarding 5 on 4. I know that's hindsight but you HAVE to have a plan for Lillard. He was open by 5 yards.