Lin Fouls Video Makes Front Page of NY Times

Os Trigonum · Apr 14, 2016

wow.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/sports/basketball/jeremy-lin-video-hard-fouls-fan-charlotte-hornets.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
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Open Season on Jeremy Lin? In Video, Fan Highlights Hard Fouls

By ANDREW KEHAPRIL 14, 2016

Hsiu-Chen Kuei waited until her husband and three sons had gone to bed one night recently before surreptitiously beginning work on an ambitious personal project.

As they slept, Kuei, 48, a stay-at-home mother from San Jose, Calif., hunkered down at her computer and began poring over highlight videos featuring Charlotte Hornets guard Jeremy Lin, her favorite N.B.A. player. She fumbled around on Final Cut Pro, a video-editing program, splicing together the specific clips she had sought. She did this for six straight nights, three hours each night.

On April 5, Kuei uploaded her finished product, a six-and-a-half-minute video, to YouTube. She called it “Jeremy Lin: Too Flagrant Not to Call.” Piecing together clips of Lin over the years getting whacked in the face, clotheslined, bleeding, tumbling to the floor — all without ever drawing a flagrant foul — Kuei tried to convey that Lin, an American-born son of immigrants from Taiwan, was the victim of excessive physicality from opponents and insufficient protection from the league and its referees.

To Kuei’s surprise, the video soon attracted close to a million views, capturing the attention of basketball fans around the world and the eye of the league — even if no one quite knew who was behind it. With its bruising simplicity, it revived questions about the fairness and consistency of officiating in the N.B.A. and sparked conversations about the possible effects of latent racial biases. With its far-flung reach, it reiterated the power of social media in the contemporary sports landscape.

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Critics of the video have suggested similar ones could be made about other players. Kuei, who was born in Taiwan, does not disagree with that notion and does not feel that it contradicts her view that Lin gets shortchanged. She said fans of other players should make their own videos.

“Through this, I just want to make sure the rules apply to every player and players get protected by the rules,” Kuei said.

Though Kuei’s video does not attempt to speculate on the root cause of Lin’s perceived treatment, much of the ensuing discussion has gravitated toward Lin’s race.
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vinsensual · Apr 14, 2016

Lin-centric message boards? LOBbs's?

AstroMechPLZ · Apr 14, 2016

Lin-only Newspaper (LON)?

apollo33 · Apr 14, 2016

let me guess, the ref waisis right

Duncan McDonuts · Apr 14, 2016

ESPN reporter Tom Haberstroh, who noted in his own short video that the 813 fouls that Lin had drawn over the past three seasons represented the highest total for a guard — and the third highest number for any position — without a flagrant foul.
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That stat says a lot.

Duncan McDonuts · Apr 14, 2016

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=15198725&ex_cid=espnapi_internal

Times fouled without a flagrant call for Guards
Lin 813
MCW 804
Knight 752
Oladipo 735
Irving 697

Times fouled without drawing a flagrant for all positions vs number of drives
Durant 981 fouls - 939 drives
Gasol 816 fouls - 286 drives
Lin 813 fouls - 1528 drives

sew · Apr 14, 2016

Study of N.B.A. Sees Racial Bias in Calling Fouls

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/sports/basketball/02refs.html?_r=1

White referees called fouls at a greater rate against black players than against white players [...] Justin Wolfers, an assistant professor of business and public policy at the Wharton School, and Joseph Price, a Cornell graduate student in economics, found a corresponding bias in which black officials called fouls more frequently against white players, though that tendency was not as strong. They went on to claim that the different rates at which fouls are called “is large enough that the probability of a team winning is noticeably affected by the racial composition of the refereeing crew assigned to the game.”
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Amel · Apr 14, 2016

I mean it has some validity

There are some flagrant fouls that a pretty obvious

Not sure why its being dismissed, maybe of the way he plays, like a headless chicken at times...

ThatBoyNick · Apr 14, 2016

Not a surprise to Rocket fans, we saw how many times he would get busted up when he played for us, some players have it out to foul him hard because he's asian.

RedRedemption · Apr 14, 2016

Amel said: ↑

I mean it has some validity

There are some flagrant fouls that a pretty obvious

Not sure why its being dismissed, maybe of the way he plays, like a headless chicken at times...
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It is being dismissed because of his dumbass superfans.

Vivi · Apr 14, 2016

Well, i still remember (and hate) Violet Palmer for calling a lot of bs against Yao...this actually reminded me one game where she made a couple of terrible calls on Lin too...

krnxsnoopy · Apr 14, 2016

made front page of reddit/nba too

reddit.com/r/nba and nytimes.com LOFs for agreeing with LOF video

krnxsnoopy · Apr 14, 2016

RedRedemption said: ↑

It is being dismissed because of his dumbass superfans.
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1. Flagrant foul no calls
2. dumbass superfans

One thing has nothing to do with another.

To link the two just shows an incapability to separate objectivity from personal feelings.

linvetb6 · Apr 14, 2016

I like Lin, but maybe he should stop driving in so recklessly al much and play smarter?

dmenacela · Apr 14, 2016

Some of those non called flagrants are unbelievable. Carmelo you punk.

Jeremy Lin is relentless.

CometsWin · Apr 14, 2016

Hsiu-Chen Kuei waited until her husband and three sons had gone to bed one night recently before surreptitiously beginning work in an ambitious personal project.
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Staying up all night while her family sleeps to make videos of Jeremy Lin. LOL That's a hardcore LOF there. Are there a lot of Hornets fans in San Jose? :grin:

shastarocket · Apr 14, 2016

krnxsnoopy said: ↑

made front page of reddit/nba too

reddit.com/r/nba and nytimes.com LOFs for agreeing with LOF video
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The game after it was posted to reddit and blew up, Lin got to the line like 10 times in the first half, lol

And this was after the nba sent her a relatively dismissive response via email.

Try telling me again that refs aren't biased

krnxsnoopy · Apr 14, 2016

CometsWin said: ↑

Staying up all night while her family sleeps to make videos of Jeremy Lin. LOL That's a hardcore LOF there. Are there a lot of Hornets fans in San Jose? :grin:
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They're both Chinese. They're both from Bay area. What's so hard to understand about that? Lol

tinman · Apr 14, 2016

Somebody call al Sharpton

DaDakota · Apr 14, 2016

It is a race thing, guys have been beating up on him since he got in the league, they don't respect him it seems.

Same thing happened to Yao until he started slamming on their heads.

DD

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