I'll say Lowry is the best point out of all of them, while Dragic has the crappiest team. i think Dragic has better overall stats, but Lowry has been killing in lately in multiple losing efforts.
His Stats and his natural way of playing - that's what he is sacrificing. Watching how he played last year, how he got the whole Knicks team involved, he is doing the same here. The main difference, as I see it, is he was playing with veterans who were able to get on board very quickly last year, versus now on a green team with mostly inexperienced players.
For example, with Tyson and A'Mare and even Jared Jeffery, Lin's AST would be way up for sure and the team would have more wins .
Would not have imagined this but Lin is shooting better from 3 than Dragic... 3pt fg% Lin - 32.1% Dragic - 31.7%
Yeah I wouldn't have imagined it either. We will see how long it lasts though. Maybe Lin was just in a mean slump in the beginning of the season when it came to his outside shooting. It is rare that people improve on skill sets during the regular season. Usually the off season is when players get better.
Excellent post! Thanks so much for this as I definitely learned more in general about basketball and the stats used to track things. Oh come on, that's ridiculous. It's one thing to disagree with his statement after you read and understood it. But it's something else entirely to disregard it simply because you either think it's too long or it's too hard for you to comprehend. This is the reason so many people are uneducated today because they aren't willing to take the time and learn something. Instead, they want the whole world summed up to them in a few sentances
As bad as his Fgp has been earlier this season, his season Fgp is now at a solid .44 and .32 from 3pt line. Definitely a good news for rox! I hope the coach and team is aware of that and let him control or shoot the ball a little bit more
I think what you're alluding to is correct. Lin put in hours each day on his outside shooting last year. And by all accounts it had improved greatly in the offseason (ie it's not a mid-season improvement). But he came into the season with a pretty bad (was going to say worst possible, but honestly we've seen worse) slump. I think it had a lot to do with not having the lift on his legs/knees post surgery, and when he was training and doing the reps, overcompensating for it with more action from his arms. Then of course, when the games started, the adrenaline plus his slowly improving legs/knee meant his shot was out of whack. I'm no sports scientists, but if you go back and look at his 3pt shots in the first 20 games or so of the season, many of us kept commenting he put too much arc on it, and it seemed he was aiming/trying to will the shot in too much. I think that may have been the result of all those hours in the gym trying to perfect the shot without his full legs/bounce back having an adverse effect. Nowdays, you can even feel that his shot travels in the air for a shorter period of time (even if just a split moment), and Lin seems to just let it go. The arc has certainly come down a bit. I also think having the ball in his hands more have mattered, as Lin is a rhythm shooter and he's also taken more shots off the bounce than earlier in the season. It's really starting to come together, and in the last 20 games or so he's shooting ~38% from 3s. If he shoots the 3pt shot at ~35% the rest of the way (NOT averaging 35% for the season, just shoot 35% rest of the way and end up averaging 33-34% for the season), I would be quite optimistic Lin will end up being a 36-38% career 3pt shooter (at least). Hard work + a trajectory of improvement for a young player usually leads to rapid improvement in a player's first 2-3 seasons with minutes, and shooting among the skill sets in basketball isn't the hardest to improve (but to be honest, they're all hard to improve on).
Ye I agree. I always said that he is a lot more confident shooter at jumpers off the bounce. So maybe he was slumping because of the just coming back from injury, getting a new back court mate etc. I always heard that recovering from your first major injury is always the toughest to do. It was weird cause in the beginning of the season I figured it was just a mean slump & he would get out of it. But then it didn't get better so I was like he isn't a great shooter off the catch, a lot better of the bounce & I figured that this off season he didn't work as hard on his shooting (off ball skill) as he did on other aspects of the game (on ball skills) because nobody anticipated the Harden trade. And honestly it wouldn't be farfetched that his shooting got worse because that is what happens to a lot of players (ex Parker when he was younger). Honestly only time will tell in terms of his shooting what really happened but if it does continue to stay in the low-mid 30's then yes it was likely just a slump, if it gets worse then he is likely just having a bad shooting year.
Those are exactly the same averages as those of his 35 games played in NY, including the 10 games he played in garbage time before Linsansity.
That's the highest vertical I've seen from Lin ever. Anyone know what vertical you need to dunk from the bottom of the circle for a 6'3" guy?
God this thread is turning into love fest between posters agreeing with each others. I have to say it's kind of gaay.
You didn't see his dunk last year during Linsanity? The guy has always been able to do that. He just seems to save his energy rather than do it.
I think it was because Jeremy was still working his way back from his injury and didn't have his legs back. His outside shot, elevation at the rim, everything is better now.
The dunk against the wizards? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiwSUxszuN0 It wasn't as empathic. It looks like he struggled to get that dunk compared to the dunk last night. And he was also closer to the rim. He had higher elevation in the dunk last night.
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bZ6WIaCR0QA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> here it looks more like a layup than a dunk, in the game against SAC one could hear the iron clunk at the dunk, on the videos above not so much
