come on guys. Lin doesnt have poor handles. he has good handles as he proved often enough. not elite handles like paul, D-will Irving and so one, but real good. do you think you can run circley in the paint with bad handles? agreed that he should work on them tough to make them better as its one of his biggest flaws. and he should be ready to take shots all the time, not just when he is hot or in rythm. his passsing is easily elite go watch his no look pass compilations with the rockets on youtube. has at least 100 decent ones this season alone. his handles when being pressured early and being trapped are his biggest flaws just like him being a very streaky shooter. an offense shouldnt rely on a PG shooting jumpers imo, but sometimes you ahve to shoot them and then you have to hit them. he has to do it like Tony Parker did it. shooting can easily be improved, get more consistent.
If the other team is crashing the offensive glass and getting 2nd chance points then you negate a big part of Lin's game. His game right now is all about pace and pushing the ball to create for himself or others. Brooks took this away by making sure 2 or 3 are back everytime and had Perkins and Ibaka crashing the boards.
Do not care about your theory or anyone's theory about Lin's poor play. Give these guys a break, seriously we don't need people yapping the same love/hate for the same 2 darn players. Harden and Lin alone fill up all of the first 2 pages with dumb threads.
Seriously. After seventy something games and just one poor game and it's his first playoff game and vs the best team in the League. Guys need to stop blaming. No one play really well last night.
I don't think that's a fair assessment. He's playing in the NBA, the highest level of basketball around the world. You can't lack talent and play at an adequate level. He's not some scrub that just suddenly manifested himself. You know what could be worse? What if we had Smush Parker as our point guard instead? Jeremy Lin had a poor game. It's his first playoff game against the contending Western Conference Champions. He's playing against a top 5 PG in the league currently in Russel Westbrook, a freak of nature that can play both sides of the court. Does he look outmatched right now? Yes. Does this confirm every single notion that he lacks skill to play basketball at the highest level? No. Let's see what happens Wednesday. If he plays poorly again, I suggest starting Beverley as a way to mix things up. Let Lin run the second unit, get rhythm and confidence. It's essentially a Sophomore year for Lin, coming off a year of injury for his Rookie year. Give him some time before we burn him in effigy. He's our PG, and we have to deal with the good and the bad. So far, let's hope that there's more good than bad.
Think about it yall. All that time Jeremy spent studying the SAT IIs he could have spent working on his jump shot or left hand.
I don't think you have Lin quite pegged as much as you think you do. He has had an up and down season, most can be attributed to the fact that he was coming off of an injury after playing at a high ceiling for an albeit short year. Does this game spell the end of the tunnel for Jeremy Lin's career? Does it really serve as the biggest indicator to what he's capable of and not capable of? I refuse to believe it. Not because I'm some crackpot LOF or some Lin Apologist. I'm a Houston Rockets fan, first and foremost, and I refuse to believe that an organization that I've spent years rooting for is willing to invest their time and money into a player that doesn't have what it takes to make it in this league. Lin is a player that has the "potential" to be something. What that something is, I don't know. Above average PG in the league? Maybe. Border line All-Star? In my dreams. A good, high quality player, that any team with any fan can root for, that's the guy I got. Is he terrible? Sometimes. Will he improve? If any indication of what he's done now, to what he was before is used as evidence. Then, the answer is yes. He will improve. He will learn from this beating, and get better. Devin Harris had one year of great play where he made his all star appearance. Other than that, he's had a career marked by around 40%FG, 30%3PT, while averaging around 15 PTS and 6 AST. I think Lin is already around that level. If he had started the season out more healthy, he'd probably be producing at this rate, but with a better shooting percentage across the board. So I don't agree that he's a poor man's Devin Harris. He's currently at Devin Harris's level, and has a chance to put up all star numbers down the stretch for his career.
The tags for this thread coupled with this post right here are horribly offensive. Do you have some sort of complex? Did you score a 900 combined on your SAT's or something?
lin needs better handles no doubt. he cant just keep relying on that quick first step of his. He really should work with Harden on penetration in the offseason.
It's an oddity in itself. His handles look very weak. I don't know how to explain it but from a pure spectator's point of view, it looks like you could just poke the ball out at any time. Watching players like Jamal Crawford, Beverley or Harden, you just kinda trust them with the ball. Watching Jeremy Lin dribble makes me weary. It's weird because the numbers say that he has decent handles. But, something about his technique, or even style just makes you think and feel otherwise. I do agree that they can still use improvement. Overall though, with his adequate handles, he just has to get rid of that stupid habit of jumping in the air when has nothing else to do. It's so frustrating to watch.
they're not good. decent at best tbh. the reason lin cant create his own shot is because of his weak handles. The dudes moves are very limited. He also has a hard time bringing the ball up the court when they pressure hil because he dribbles too high. he needs to shorten his dribble in those situations
90% of Lin bashing is a reaction to Lin fans bashing everyone else when Lin isn't the focus of the entire organization.
I don't know if i should take this thread serious or not after your explanation of "pg camp" and that he "didn't" focus on basketball first
Do we really need theories on why a young and very unexperienced pg is having trouble in the playoff, against the top 2 or 3 team in the league? He may never "get" it, but right now he just needs to get more experience.
Heres my theory, its about whats between his ears, not his physical capabilities. The nba's athletes are all similarly equal physically but what seperates the best is their mentality. Jeremy unfortunately for the Rockets is not the strongest mentally, that is the main reason for his roller coaster play all year. Hes a great guy, individual, but we need a new starting PG, coming from a neutral Lin fan
