I'm not upset with the losses but even if we have won these games.. i'd still be disappointed with the system our coaching staff is running game after game. What's the difference between how the Lakers used Derek Fisher or Miami's using Mario Chalmers compared to the Rockets role for Lin right now?
Meanwhile, elsewhere around the internet: Reddit: Rockets fans, your coaching staff has to go. RealGM Jeremy Lin has been turned into Derek Fisher Jeremy Lin got benched tonight in OT
Lin is really being under-utilized by Rox coaching. If anyone watched his NYK games last year, he has a big upside on offense, if utilized better (like D'Antoni did). He drew alot of fouls off of high pick & roll plays, run specifically for him. Those plays put alot of pressure on the other team's guards. Currently he is forced to look for shots. He is not CP3, Westbrook, Deron Williams, or any of those elite PGs. But that doesn't mean he can't score. Coaching needs to learn from D'Antoni and how he put Lin in a situation that took pressure off of his own team, and created pressure for the other team's guards. Lin is only getting 8 or 10 shots a game. But he is excelling on the other stats. In fact, his rebounds are up from last year, his assists are up from last year, his steals are up from last year (4th in the league), and his TOs are down from last year. It's a shame Rox coaching is not using him to full potential. Just sad.
Rep sir! He could've painted Tony Douglas white skin over Lin for all I cared. We needed to slap these dumb Portland announcers in a big way tonight. bring back the 09 playoffs.
Haha that reddit thread "Lin is being used as a pass-the-ball-to-Harden machine" so true late in games.
http://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/13cawk/rockets_fans_your_coaching_staff_has_to_go/ Lakersprotagonist8362 2 points 26 minutes ago I don't know whats going on, but they need to stop it with the harden isos every 4th quarter. Harden is not an iso specialist, hes a pick and roll guy, why the hell are they designing plays for him to iso people?
Yea watching harden try to create space w/ a crossover on Mathews was depressing. He did 4 crossovers and failed to create space.
Sampson has it stuck in his head that TD is a better defender than Lin. This is patently untrue and all of the advanced stats prove this. Even in this game, it was TD's useless defending that allowed Lillard to get hot in the first place.
This. "Everyone's now saying that Lin is actually just an average PG and was overrated last year. Just because he isn't putting up big numbers anymore. But that's not because he's ****ty, but because he's not being given a chance to do his job. Which is to be the ****ing point guard. The whole offense is run through Harden, and only Harden. Lin's being used as a "pass the ball to Harden" machine instead of being given the chance to be the playmaker. He absolutely flourished in NY last year because D' Antoni's system is all about giving the PG the ball, running the pick and roll, and allowing the PG to make decisions from that point on. He's proven himself to be really good when he's actually called upon to be a ****ing point guard. But the Rockets coaching staff are just completely missing the point of having Lin on the team. They seem to be completely infatuated with Harden and would rather watch him run iso plays all day long. During one of the last few possessions of the last game (can't rmb which team it was against. The one where the Rockets had a 21 point lead at the half), the Rockets came out of a TO in a really tight game, and the best play the coaches could draw up was to run Harden off several screens to get free, so that Lin could pass him the ball at the three point line, then the rest of the team just ****ing STOPS moving and watches Harden. No cuts, no ball movement, just WATCH HARDEN DO HIS **** NOW! Seriously? You've got a PG who's shown to be very efficient at running the pick and roll and even DRIVING (one of his biggest strengths), but yet you just want him to pass the ball off to your SG who's heavily defended every single game and let your PG stand in the corner and watch? Lin isn't a spot up shooter, that has never been his strengths. His strengths are passing and driving, not the ****ing corner 3. Why the hell do you put him in the corner and let Harden have the ball and iso around like it's OKC? So yes, I really agree that the Rockets' coaching staff has got to go. Or at least realise that "HEY! YOU KNOW WHAT! WE'VE ACTUALLY GOT A POINT GUARD THAT CAN PASS AND DRIVE! MAYBE WE SHOULD ****ING USE HIM!"
Haha, yeah that's funny and true. I really like reading Reddit, as the best comments can be easily read from the top. The community in general is great.
I don't want to say he has been that terrible this year but he is what he is .. a role player who should not be in when the game is on the line. Lin NOT toney was brought in to be future of the team. He is certainly getting paid as much. We might have lost the game tonight even with LIn but LIn needs to be in these situations to develop as a player. Just like asik, just like Harden, just like chandler. You just cannot sit him for the whole OT as if he was playing a horrible game. You do things like that to people like Royce White or Cousins who bark back at coach and undermine other players. Jeremy did not deserve this. This was inexcusable. You make a mistake like this at your job, you get fired. That's the fate that should befall on Sampson after tonight.
This. At this point in the season I can't even tell if Jeremy Lin is a good or bad point guard. My gut is saying yes because when he actually gets to play the role of PG he's been effective. With that said for most of the games he's played he's been relegated to the status of spot up shooter. I think the offense runs best when he's the point guard and playmaker. With all this said I'm not certain of any of this because the Rockets don't have him running the PG position most of the time.
