Hate to make another Lin thread, and I am not a LOF or LOH, but looking over his production, I noticed how each month his numbers have slowly increased. Do I think he is the next Chris Paul? No, but I certainly think he is more then enough to lead us to a second round playoff appearance, and I think our situation at the 4 needs to be upgraded first and foremost. Based on his increased numbers, what is Lin capable of next year? Or the year after? With some time to gel with his teammates, I think our combination of Lin, Harden, and Parsons next season will be tough to handle, as tough as any 1, 2, 3 in the league. Jeremy Lin: November 10.2 PPG 6.4 APG 4.5 rpg 26% 3Pt December 13.8 PPG 6.3 APG 3.2 RPG 29% 3Pt January 12.4 PPG 5.5 APG 3.5 RPG 33% 3Pt February 14.5 PPG 6.7 APG 2.0 RPG 42% 3Pt March 16.0 PPG 7.0 APG 0.5 RPG 50% 3 pt
Wow. He is really improving well. I'm telling you, keep Lin-Harden-Parsons-DMo-Asik-TRob. Thats a hell of a core.
It shouldn't be up to lin to rebound.. i think with dmo getting significant time alongside lin, the combo of him and asik are grabbing everything
Once he works on his shot over the summer and adds a couple more offensive moves I think he can easily average 15 and 8 shooting at a high percentage. Key is to get to the line more and shoot a better 3 point %.
add delfino. I hope Morey keeps THIS team together (barring a superstar trade --unlikely) for next season. Give them another year to play together and see if they can't take it to the next level. If they don't , then we can go into the summer of 2014 for free agency. my 2/100 dollar
A couple of other stats worth watching Jeremy Lin: November 2.21 a/t (ideally want this to be above 2.5 for PGs) 1.23 pps (ideally want this to be above 1.3 in the NBA, 1.5 is lights out and 1.1 or lower is volume shooting abyss) December 2.17 a/t 1.01 pps January 1.72 a/t 1.27 pps February 2.68 a/t 1.22 pps Chris Paul would probably be the high water mark for a/t this season: 4.32 a/t 1.37 pps I really don't care at all what his rebounding numbers are. I'd rather he be in transition.
Good stats and it's noticeable too. He's taking good shots and there haven't been as many LOH threads about him turning the ball over. Hopefully he keeps trending upwards, this team is really starting to get and im excited for these last 20 games
Good point. I don't want my PG going down trying to bang for rebounds. In all honesty whichever of Lin, Parsons, and Harden don't shoot (I would like the shooter to follow his shot) the other two need to... A) Go for the long rebound if it can be reached B) Spot up if we happen to get the offensive rebound C) Get back on transition defense until the bigs can recover By all means on the defensive side, if you don't play the 4 or 5, take off. That's how I played in my day, and we would run people out of the gym by the second quarter. Practices were long and full of sprints but by the time the 4th quarter rolled around our pace and ball movement was too quick for most teams to keep up. Rockets have the youth, they need to use that to their advantage.
If I may, I think we should do away with per game stats. Instead, we should use PER36 or PER48 mins instead. This way, you iron out the inconsistent minutes that players get. Here's Lin's month by month PER36: November 10.7 PT/36 6.7 AST/36 4.7 REB/36 2.1 STL/36 3 TO/36 December 16 PT/36 7.3 AST/36 3.7 REB/36 1.9 STL/36 3.4 TO/36 January 13.4 PT/36 6.0 AST/36 3.8 REB/36 2.5 STL/36 3.5 TO/36 February 16.2 PT/36 7.5 AST/36 2.2 REB/36 1.6 STL/36 2.7 TO/36 March 23 PT/36 10 AST/36 0.7 REB/36 0.7 STL/36 2.9 TO/36 As you can see, Lin had All-Star caliber months in Dec, Feb, and possibly Mar if he keeps up his production. Not many people noticed it would seem. For perspective, here are all the 2012-2013 NBA players that average 14.1 PT, 6.9 AST, 3.3 REB, 2.1 STL and shooting .436% or better (these are Lin's PER36 numbers for the season): Chris Paul Jeremy Lin That's it. Crazy right?? See for yourself. Considering this is his first year of starting and adjusting to a lot of new teammates, coaches, and environment in general, I'm of the opinion that Lin is vastly underrated relative to his hate/production ratio.
I don't deny that Lin is improving. But to suggest he is the man to "lead" us to a second round playoff appearance is more than silly. Don't get me wrong, I hope we make the second round (and then some) - but surely Harden is leading us there? We all need to remember how inexperienced this team is! 90odd NBA starts between them at the beginning of this year. They'll enter next season a lot more seasoned for the run; a lot better suited to the longer road trips (which is where we collapsed this year); and hopefully with at least one playoff series worth of experience under the belt.
