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

Best way to put it thus far about this whole Lin/McHail situation.

 

What point?

Shane Battier has always been known as the player who does what the team needs to win. If you have followed the Rockets when he was around that should be obvious to you.

He himself knows what his role is.

And why does this even matter? If Lin is a winner then he will do what it takes for the team to win, just like Battier. You are free to disagree if you don't think so.

And why does Harden need to be a spot up shooter? That isn't his strength either, but he is the best player on this team.

Harden and Lin overlap when they are on the court, and since Harden is much deadlier on offense than Lin is, Lin specializing in 3 point shooting on the court would only serve to aid the team. When Harden is out for a rest, Lin can be the primary ball handler and playmaker.

 

lin doesn't care either. did lin complain to be a sidekicker? when we signed him, he was supposed to be our offense focal point. i am not sure what you tried to say. only an idiot will use lin as a spot shooter. lin didn't complain instead said he should improve his shooting. as a rox fan, we feel we need to use lin differently. we don't want to see lin being used as a spot shooter since he is not good at it. he has other strength that was not utilized fully.

 

I tried reading all of these pages, but I get the gist.

 

There is no such thing as high risk. What I am seeing just high probably.

As far as I can see, McHale fail as a coach. It is not just Lin.

Look at Delfino. Why do you want Delfino to handle the ball and Lin camping at the corner? Does it make a sense to any body?

 

Can you stop taking my quotes out of context.

 

what?????? harden is not a deadly spot shooter. you are kidding me, aren't you? harden is not super good at ball handling. please pay attention i use super. it's reason we had a tough stretch when harden handled ball alot. since that, rox changed a quite bit and ask lin to handle the ball most. harden still does but not as much as when we had the losing stretch.

 

And when Harden handles the ball Lin needs to be a spot up shooter no? Harden handles the ball equally as much as Lin and when Harden does Lin needs to be prepared.

Or are you enamored with the idea that the coach should utilize Lin's strength and try to hide his weaknesses.

 

Exciting basketball draws spectators. Yes, but McHale tend to camp Lin in the corner and direct Harden's hero ball in the beginning of this season.
Sometimes bench Lin in the 4th q that is not truth for win.
We Lin fan will wait and see.

 

how?

you kept bringing up battier but you forgot one basic thing is battier has been doing what he is best at. what you ask lin to do is what he is worst at. this is the difference btw you and me.

 

So if you create a username like jlfans does that mean you get to speak for the entire LOF community? Are you borg?

 

of coz as a coach, you have to know your player's strength and weakness so you can put him in a right place to blossom. if you plant a banana tree in north pole, don't tell me you can have banana to eat.

 

It's more like natural selection rather than planting a banana tree in the North pole. Adapt or die, not everyone is going to be put into situations where they fit perfectly. Overcome thy weakness.

 

Okay let me make this really simple.

Harden and Lin both need the ball. When Harden has it, Lin has to adjust to be prepared to hit spot up shots.

When Harden is on the bench and when he doesn't have the ball, then Lin's "strength" is being utilized. However, trying to hide his weakness and making sure Lin is never in a situation where he doesn't need to hit spot up shots is just the worse way to go about improving a player.

Really?

Did you know Shane Battier was tasked to play PF?

Did you know Battier also started coming off the bench?

 

i like natural selection you used but i look at it in a different way. nba just looks like an earth. there are many types of environment, such as different positions, different playing style (half court, fast pace...). a bball player needs to know where you can survive with your strength. on the earth, rarely you see something can survive in any environment. those are superstars. most players are good at something and have weakness. lin somehow passed very tough nba entry test by using his strength. now GM and coaches like human being, being able to decide what to do with those natural things. they can leave banana tree in tropical or move those trees to north pole. a smart coach will definitely not move banana tree to north pole for sure unless global warming reaches a point where every place were tropic.:grin:

 

There is also natural selection for coaches in the NBA. There is , after all, an abundance of former players wanting to be coaches.

 

clearly i didn't take your words out of the context.

yep, battier should play PF PF PF PF PF.......

luckily, no coach was so dumb to play him at 4. of coz, occasionally against don nelson's team may work.

 

selfish? Lin is the least selfish player on this team. Mcfail has some problems.

listem Mcfailburger, it's not so hard to coach this team. just put the ball into Lin's hands and he'll usually find the open guys or take it himself. simple. don't complicate things when you're a clueless moron of a coach and you want to save your job

 

Of course and McHale is overachieving with a young team so his job is safe for the foreseeable future.

 

I agree with coach McHale, although sometimes I really frustrated with his coaching decisions, but I think overall he had made this team better.