McHale "(Lin) rather have 29pts and 9 TOs, I tell him 'we wanna win'""

That wasn't clueless, mchale was being a smart ass, of course he knew they had issues.

 

So to sum up, the Rockets have a higher % of Wins and thus higher probability of winning when A. Lin scores 20+ and B. Lin has 5+ t/o's.

 

thx. good data although # of games limited.

 

OMG. Stop the madness!! I can't believe the credence that some people are giving to this stupid Daily News piece. Really?!? The NY tabloids tried to float a story earlier in the season that the Houston Rockets were unhappy with Lin because they felt he didn't work hard enough. Do any of you really believe that, because it showed up in some NY newspaper (may have been the Post rather than the Daily News but there's not much difference between them)?

Like someone else said, I highly doubt that McHale came out, threw that one line out there, and took off. Who knows what he was asked, what he was responding to, what he was saying, how he was saying it....We don't even know that it's something that Coach said after the Nets game. Who knows when or where they got that from? It just strikes me as such a bizarre quote...

If you don't think that the NY tabloids can spin something real into something totally unrelated to reality, then you're sadly mistaken. They do it all of the time.

To just jump on McHale and crucify him without even knowing what the guy actually said....it's just not right.

I can't believe that this Daily News story is getting this kind of attention. Oy!

Good night all.

 

Innocent until proven guilty. I like it. But doesn't that just mean that the statement itself is an act worthy of a trial?

 

But, actually, I like Lin. He has an amazing story, and I like his game. But that tabloid has been printing nasty stuff about Lin ever since he left the Knicks. You know, like cherry picking for bad quotes.

 

NY do spin and spread rumors like mofos and usually in the context of hearsay, but they will never directly attribute a quote like this unless its true. Book it.

 

While I do admire the effort, the data set is so small that you cannot reach any reliable conclusion about the subject. Sorry, it is just the way that extremely small sample sizes effect statistical significance.

 

Way too many unaccounted for variables and too small a sample size to garner much from that data.

 

I liked the ppg data, but the TO data is just totally useless. I don't know what sort of conclusion one can come up with without context because a T.O is a negative, less is always better. Looking at that you could make the assertion (not saying anybody would) that the ratio of wins:losses is positively correlated with Lin's turnovers. You would have to rack up a ton of assists for that to be ignored.

 

It was an artsy post though!

 

MADNESS??

Spoiler

 

Lmao at people making graphs. Lin's game is analyzed to the *****ing extreme, maybe that's why his mistakes are always overamplified and the same goes for his good plays.

 

Why don't we just have mchale confirm it? I am pushing for this because no coach had EVER called out a player directly for going for his points at the expense of team win? Again EVER. Just cuz Lin is Asian/Christian/polite whatever, doesn't mean he should be dissed this way.

 

Name
Total FGA / Games = feild goal attempted per game

Russell Westbrook
1007/54=18.65

Tony Parker
818/53=15.43

Chris Paul
535/45=11.89

Jeremy Lin
600/56=10.71

 

You missed the point here.

What I have tried to get at is to see if McHale was justified to say that if he did say it. What's been hinted in that quote are two points:
1. that Lin's effort to scoring hurt the team's chance to win;
2. that Lin's too many turnovers hurt the team's chance to win.

Try to look that the numbers to justify those points.

 

You obviously do not live in NYC. Your statement is completely false.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...dAeWC4h8KAiiVu-8g&sig2=CGz3UM1kGQ4bPvrcrf6E_Q

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...DPBeLuO_-ifmPTODQ&sig2=2JbdABaQYTMCW_KebOjoLg

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...5XDsch0PV5cTU90Rg&sig2=vuCrDkZh43oslaMQfIqd1g

There are a hundred incidents of made up quotes a year in the NYC media.

 

Out of the 3 links only 1 is about ny sports media and even in that they didn't make the quote up, sure it was out of context. Fine, but i Just don't see what context could make mchales quotes less offensive.

 

And why do you think that McHale made that statement? Just because some hack writer at some ****bag rag of a paper said so? With absolutely no other corroborating source. I live in NYC and that rag is a rag's rag.

 

22 pages. You guys really had a fun Sunday night.:grin:

Can't wait for the next game. Let's see whether Lin will bounce back.