Too much love in a thread about Lin. Not used to it. Will revisit in a few days to see whether peace derails. Usually glass half full (at least) guy. But on Clutchfans, glass half empty reduces disappointment.
I'm glad you bring up the Ginobili comparison. I was saying Lin's Ginobili in PG's body preseason. To be honest, Lin's bothered by his recovery so he's showing less Ginobili like skills this season. I watched all his games last season in NY, and that's where I got the Ginobili impression from. He didn't show any Euro step this season yet, but last year he had a few highlight Euro step baskets very similar to Wade/Ginobili. Lin doesn't even need to be better. He just need to be fully healthy and return to the way he's capable of and had been playing before.
You mean 14&6? He's averaging 13.3/6.2 despite having a horrific first month (10.2/6.4 in November). If you backed out his November number differential vs his season average (3*14/68), he would actually be averaging 13.9/6.2. He's basically at 14&6 since December (52/68 games)... perhaps you had higher expectations than that for $8m/year?
Lin's stats the last 20 games (February and March): Per game 15.6 ppg, 2.0 rpg, 6.1 ast, 1.3 stl, 2.5 to in 31.3 minutes Per 36 17.9 pts, 2.2 reb, 7.0 ast, 1.4 stl, 2.8 to Shooting percentage .481 FG%, .431 3P%, .813 FT%, .589 TS% There's no splits for PER but I would think this gets him over 20 PER, which is all-star level.
What's good about Lin is that he's busting his a$$ off. I agree he's not yet reached his full potential but I trust his work habit can get him there. I also believe his ceiling is higher than what he's showing now. That said, I just hope that him and Harden will develop better relationship on the court. I can still see that something is still not clicking between them. They can still play better together.
It's rather creepy isn't it. But really it's been going on for a while. Guys like Gil who were extremely critical of Lin earlier in the season (with understandable reason) have started to come around on him quite awhile ago, when they recognized his steady improvement. It's only a handful who are still down on him with obvious dislike (Karolik, Ijholmes)
Stick with him OP, hes OUR guy. We should support him and in a year he will so much better. Just watch.
then ignore them but some of them do provide very interesting points and some factors you won't see or you won't think about due to our human being limitation. we all learn from each other no matter what.
That's what has impressed me most. Improving your three point shooting in the middle of the season is not an easy thing to do. It shows that he is willing to put in the work. I don't think he'll ever be a Tony Parker/Chris Paul type but he can certainly become the Chaucy Billups 17 and 7 steady-hand-at-the-wheel type point guard.
here is my view on him. his skill sets make him an above average pg (a good pg) but his extremely high IQ makes up some grounds so he turns himself into a borderline all star.
He probably would average another point or assist a game is McH would bump up his average playing minutes to 36-38 instead of 32 like other starting pgs in the league. Think about it is it really on Lin. The problem is not Lin. We don't even know what his real output could be do to McH weird sub patterns and playing Bev too long. Would it really hurt that much if McH let Lin finish out a whole qtr ocassionally instead of predictically bringing in Bev after the first 8 min. Lin could have probably established or got in a groove earlier in the season but we had to showcase our asset TD. Like last night Lin did that in 30 min. I appreciate Asik and D-mo but if the Turk had better hands and D-mo wasnt so cold on 3's the last couple of games Lin could easily have anywhere from 1-3 more assist a game. When Lin was in NY you never heard Tyson or Novak say there wasn't enough assist from Lin. If the pg passes you the ball and you don't put the ball in the basket, its not the pg fault in the box score that Lin didn't get the assist.
it's the reason i watch games and make comments on whether he plays good or not w/o looking at #. # sometimes misleads you. sorry i am old school.
lin is playing well as of late. but he is still young and will continue to have his ups and downs. come playoff time, i am predicting he will stuggle with his first taste of playoff intensity.
Why? Base my observation, Lin is one of the kind player feeding on the energy from the crowd, that's one of the reasons why played very well inside the MSG.
