Hakeem Olajuwon Working With Dwight Howard and Jeremy Lin in Aspen, Colorado

It's pretty obvious the skeptics in this thread are the ones who cemented the stereotypes raised during Linsanity. These are the repeat offenders minus a few who simply haven't caught wind of the news.

These are the same contributors who would rather bite their nose to spite their face. LuckTxn and the likes would rather lose and blame Lin than win and give the guy any credit. It's not in their DNA and it's not going to change. Epiphany's may happen but I'm not holding my breath.

Instead, I'lll quietly lurk, open my mouth to reinforce the quiet majority's presence and enjoy what should be the most fun team to watch in the NBA. I can't wait for the season to start! Go Rockets!

 

Hakeem, Mchale and the coaching staff are all there but it is only Dwight and Lin? Seems like that would have been a great opportunity to get some work in with some of the other players

 

This is exciting! Dwight can use well-timed alley oops from Lin.

Watch Jameer Nelson to Dwight's Insane Alley-Oops
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Watch Lin threw alley-oops to Tyson Chandler from NY days (#9,#7,#4)
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Add Harden as another threat plus our shooters (Parsons, Garcia) and
I can see ... the ring

 

One more on Jameer Nelson and Dwight Howard creating the Orlando Magic's "Art of the Alley-Oop"

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Lin is great off pick and roll passing and great at throwing alleys, He threw more to greg smith than asik.& more to chandler combined. If you watched most of the games he always felt comfortable driving dumping off to greg smith more because he would catch and finish more with a higher percentage. With howard down low sky is the limit!! this will be a fun team to watch !

 

check out this video starting 11:48 showing the passes. This is some things the coaching staff were there working on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF69Khfg0q8

 

We've already seen different players working out with him at different times, if twitter photos are to be believed. Lin is just the latest.

 

People may not know it but both Lin and Dwight are really big into the "God" thing. When Dwight first came into the league he even wanted to change the NBA logo to a cross. Lin and D12 have similar personalities, too. I don't view it as all surprising that these two guys would train together and even be the best of friends. Good for the team.

 

I'd seriously enjoy seeing Lin post up Nate Robinson again.

Always loved the little guys who could post, from Andrew Toney to Adrian Dantley to Tim Hardaway, even to some extent Sir Charles.

 

You seem to forget that Harden typically plays point in our offense, not Lin. Unless something changes with Harden, I see Lin regulated to even more shooting with Dwight's addition unless it is during transition offense.

 

could this be Linsanity 2.0?

Dwight > Chandler
Terrence Jones = Jared Jefferies
Harden > Billy Walker (a better version of Billy Walker)
Parson = Landry Fields (similar type of players)
Lin = Lin


If we dont make WCF, then something is wrong as we have a ton of talent on this team

 

Both, I hope, but clearly getting Dwight the ball has to be the focus. I think this is great news. How often have members posted daydreams about the Dream working with a particular player? I know I have, and instead, I'd read about Hakeem working with Kobe, and stuff like that. This is a very groovy development, in my opinion. Jeremy's a smart guy. I think he'll learn a lot.

 

I actually thing Lin could learn a thing or two from Rudy's staff that worked with Cassell/Smith and ultimately I believe Rafer Alston. Chop step and arm bar to take ground.

 

Why are you drawing comparison to an NY team that won't even make the playoffs?

 

can you stop this on every thread? it's pretty stupid.

 

Perhaps there would be a change in the philosophy of the coaches.

We know Harden can run both point and be lethal scorer but he doesn't need the ball as much as Lin to be effective. And Harden's efficiency and health dropped a bit last season because he was asked to do so much. Lin's shooting improved in the 2nd half but he's not as lethal as Harden in the shooting department.

Coaches might experiment trying Lin to run the point to see if he can feed both Howard and Harden effectively. We still have to wait and see what's best for the team in the training camp.

But having Lin to run the point and Harden to focus on scoring might be better in the long run in the playoff to optimize their strength and health.

 

Jeremy is making the hardest NBA transition. He is going from a PG to a C

 

They're working out in that high altitude area...if only the regular season started this week with a game against the Nuggets.

 

I saw some stat recently where Lin's assist conversion rate on passes was like 28% and Harden's was only about 21%. Ideally the Rox would like to have the ball in JLin's hands. Too much Harden ISO ball is bad anyway for the team psyche (other players stand around watching and are left out until 2 seconds left in shot clock) and bad for the scoreboard.