Patrick Beverley has a torn meniscus (UPDATE: Will not require surgery, expected to return)

I can already see it: Steve Blake or Mo Williams goes off against us in a first-round playoff game next month and CF collectively whines over Lin's poor D and the poor sad fate of Beverley.

Not that this hasn't been a taxing season on the Rockets injury-wise, but we've beaten several of the top teams when missing one or more key contributors. The Bev injury undoubtedly hurts our chances at going deep this year, but even then those chances still look pretty good. I'm confident in the team going forward and DM's ability to plug the hole in the lineup. Go Rockets!!

 

The rockets curse continues... First tmac, then yao, ohh geez now bev? What does this organisation has to do to sweep the curse?

 

Interesting and sad to see that when Lin gets injured, the narrative around here is that he is "weak".

When Bev gets injured, the narrative is, "he plays so hard he pushes himself to the limits of his physical capacity"

 

Bye Bev.

 

Lol. You do know Lin started all season last year right. Think he avg like 13-14 pts and 6.5 assists. Lin will be fine. I'm way more worried about the back up PG spot and the bench to be honest.

And also I can't believe reading that people want Canaan to start. The dude is a rookie with like 76 total NBA minutes? And people say that there are no such things as Lin haters. 76 minutes! Unless I missed that Canaan can somehow replicate Bevs defense.

 

Why would it be up to a player's fans to prove what they can do on the court?

 

Everyone?? I certainly never did and never will agree with thay statement so your logic of "everyone" is completely mislead by your own personal beliefs. I believe Lin is as good as any PG that deserves to start. I also believe the same for PB and AB, everyone of these pgs deserves a spot its just not the right situation, right team, enough spots, etc. Someone like Wiggins and Parker will immediately get bumped to starter role even if they may or may not deserve it.
Lin would do wonders in a team like Boston where they lack scoring. However, I think PB is better for the Rockets personally because of the focus on letting Howard and Harden take 100 shots a night because they are max players.

 

Hope not. He will not have enough money afterwards.

 

It isn't just the defense that will sorely be missed with Beverley down. It is also his 3pt shooting that helps spread the floor. I think Lin is shooting 3's at 34 percent this year.

 

I can't believe I'm writing off a deep run in the playoffs because a guy we picked up out of Russia who makes pretty close to the league minimum is out injured - but I am.

I just think Pat is the heart and soul of this team.

 

Lin has been shooting it at better than 37% for the last 10 games - Bev for the same stretch has been at 33.9%. We'll be ok.

 

Personally... I am not too concerned about Lin. It's what comes afterwards that really, really scares me... Canaan. This will be the epitome of trial by far.

McHale: "Hey rookie, you ready for minutes?"
Canaan: "Hell yeah!"
McHale: "Good spirit! Go chase after Westbrook, Curry, Paul, Conley, Ellis, ect!"

- 10 minutes later -

Canaan: "Coach... I'm getting killed out there!"
McHale: "It's OK! Run harder! Defend better! Hustle!"

 

We are EFF'ed!!

Lin will bring the usual but IMO Its all on Caanan now...

 

There is no question that Bev will be missed. Even more than the semantics, his attitude on the court alone will be missed. There's no other player on this roster like him.

Personally, I think Lin will be fine. He will probably end up being a more consistent scorer than Bev was as a starter, but that's not the issue. Our perimeter defense will take a huge step down. That will put a hell of a lot more pressure on the bigs inside. Might we see the Howard + Asik combo once again?

 

Everyone done talking? Back to Linsanity

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Yep yep yep. A minor setback for a major setup. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Wolverine&amp;src=hash">#Wolverine</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23TheReturn&amp;src=hash">#TheReturn</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RedNation&amp;src=hash">#RedNation</a></p>&mdash; Patrick Beverley (@patbev21) <a href="https://twitter.com/patbev21/statuses/449936865395634176">March 29, 2014</a></blockquote>
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we need this to be deciphered! what does he mean!? lol

 

is he actually gonna come back for the playoffs?.......

 

PLEASE KNEE GODS LET BEVERLEY COME BACK!

 

I have to shake my head at some of these posts from both the pro and anti Lin camps.

Isn't this thread about Beverley's injury? I realize that the Lin/Pat debate has been raging all season but damn. Losing Pat for the season would suck. We're a better team with him playing. His intensity has impacted the team in ways some folks clearly just ignore or don't understand.

Spinning injury news as a reason for people to spout their agenda based bashing just really rubs me the wrong way. The same goes for any player. I didn't care for it when people were on Lin last year for his playoff injury either.