The Smile and Adorkable video is from his Knicks days and is shown having fun on court and with his team mates. Thank you for posting the twitter reactions to the Sundance doc. I hope you continue to do this. Did you come across any negative reactions?
Lin was smiling and beaming with confidence during his Linsanity run. Now he looks hesitant and scared most of the time . Maybe after watching his own movie he'll remembered how he used to play.
I'm happy to report: NOPE, no negative reactions that I know of. There will be more viewings so we'll see.
re confidence - I really think D'Antoni has a lot to do with Lin's confidence last season. First and foremost, he was allowed to play through mistakes.
Probably but you see it in spurts this season. Like against the Knicks and a couple of games after that. His mindset going into the Knicks game was that he was going to play hard and give it his all. I think he has to play get into that mindset every game.
I think Lin still has the same mindset - to play hard & to give his all. He is just struggling mightily with a system that does not fit his skill set (plus other factors). I just hope this phase in his career is another blessing in disguise. As they say, struggling is an important part of any growth experience.
I now remember where I got that struggling saying from, http://instructor.mstc.edu/instructor/swallerm/Struggle - Butterfly.htm Struggle is Good! Once a little boy was playing outdoors and found a fascinating caterpillar. He carefully picked it up and took it home to show his mother. He asked his mother if he could keep it, and she said he could if he would take good care of it. The little boy got a large jar from his mother and put plants to eat, and a stick to climb on, in the jar. Every day he watched the caterpillar and brought it new plants to eat. One day the caterpillar climbed up the stick and started acting strangely. The boy worriedly called his mother who came and understood that the caterpillar was creating a cocoon. The mother explained to the boy how the caterpillar was going to go through a metamorphosis and become a butterfly. The little boy was thrilled to hear about the changes his caterpillar would go through. He watched every day, waiting for the butterfly to emerge. One day it happened, a small hole appeared in the cocoon and the butterfly started to struggle to come out. At first the boy was excited, but soon he became concerned. The butterfly was struggling so hard to get out! It looked like it couldn’t break free! It looked desperate! It looked like it was making no progress! The boy was so concerned he decided to help. He ran to get scissors, and then walked back (because he had learned not to run with scissors…). He snipped the cocoon to make the hole bigger and the butterfly quickly emerged! As the butterfly came out the boy was surprised. It had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. He continued to watch the butterfly expecting that, at any moment, the wings would dry out, enlarge and expand to support the swollen body. He knew that in time the body would shrink and the butterfly’s wings would expand. But neither happened! The butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly… As the boy tried to figure out what had gone wrong his mother took him to talk to a scientist from a local college. He learned that the butterfly was SUPPOSED to struggle. In fact, the butterfly’s struggle to push its way through the tiny opening of the cocoon pushes the fluid out of its body and into its wings. Without the struggle, the butterfly would never, ever fly. The boy’s good intentions hurt the butterfly. As you go through school, and life, keep in mind that struggling is an important part of any growth experience. In fact, it is the struggle that causes you to develop your ability to fly.
lol i literally spit my drink out reading the post above. Please tell me your are trolling. Please. I'm begging you. The caterpillar story is great, but to put it in the clutchfan forum in describing Lin's struggles is just pure comedy gold. i cant stop laughing. someone tell me the post above me was trolling. Lin's struggles and his story is something amazing, but to post the caterpillar story just cracks me up.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90491673@N08/8407458575/" title="jlin rank by Rockets888, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8492/8407458575_193b95c2de.jpg" width="500" height="342" alt="jlin rank"></a> How do you not tap to that talent is beyond me. By the way, thanks Kainainhi!
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