Jeremy Lin is a large reason of why we lost this series

Why do you bother? Seriously. There is no intelligent discussion in here anymore.. Just bunch of baiting.

 

Contusion is a medical term for bruise. *yawn*

I think McHale sat him because Lin was sucking it up out there. He knew he had a huge quickness advantage with Beverley and Brooks so he milked it. The fact that Lin didn't start today was telling.

 

Dude , since september all i have seen on GARM is

Lin's not as good as Dragic
Lin's not as good as Lowry
Bench Lin , start Douglas
Bench Lin, Start bev

Somebody just started a Sam Cassell Thread , to show how a real back up PG plays

I dont even like Lin and i end up defending him and Harden most of the time

and for your other post about AB, u do realize that this isn't 2009 and that for the past 3 years AB has been a terrible player(3rd string PG)

AB scouting report

undersized ineffective chucker, but can hit the three sometimes
not a consistent playmaker
high TO PG
AND MOST IMPORTANT CAN'T PLAY DEFENSE

you understand that in 10 min. AB scored 4 points and gave up 7 points, plus 2 TO

Lin and Bev played bad to

but dont prop up AB over the starting PG because he had 2 decent games in the playoffs

 

Contusion: injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise 1a
— con·tuse transitive verb

 

Or they're aware of the fact that Lin only had one game where he made more than one shot from the field. One shot.

 

I didn't say a single word about AB bud.

 

There is something to be said about the energy and the way the team flows when Lin is on the court. Stagnant is the word.

 

Where were you watching the game from? I was 8th row lowers and saw Lin hustle his ass off on D fighting through picks and getting a hand up in his mans face almost every time. He was the only one who made Fisher brick a shot tonight bc the rest of the time when Bev or Brooks was on him, he was shooting uncontested... just like Jackson who went off again against Bev.

Bev is the one who floats along the top of the paint and let's his man get wide open time and time again. And what irritates me the most is he doesn't even try to run out there and get a hand up when they rotate the ball to his man. The great defender... What a joke.

And as for Lin being soft, he was in pain the entire time he was on the bench and biting down on his mouth guard non stop. The guy shouldn't have been out there to begin with but with Delfino out and Beverley playing outta control, we had no choice. Yet, most of the LOH's on here that wanna label him soft probably call in sick to work bc they're hung over and have a headache or their back hurts from sitting in their cheap Walmart office chair typing thousands of hate posts on clutchfans.

 

Why are you spewing this nonsense? You know this isn't true, and it's even less true when Lin is the primary ballhandler as we've seen this year. The reason Lin couldn't do even more this year is because he's parked at the baseline at mchale's instruction while Harden ISOs.

 

That doesn't mean it isn't serious. It's not like getting a shiner.

And you're really questioning a guy who pops in his own dislocated shoulder during a Practice? Who played 82 games after multiple ankle sprains? Who got clocked hard enough to require stitches multiple games and kept coming back?

And McHale had no issues reducing Lin's minutes when he thought Beverley played better during the season. Thinking they'd keep him off the roster and make up the severity of the injury is beyond stupid.

What if Beverley got injured? Would you have been shocked if OKC had gone headhunting for Beverley in game 3 or 4?

Keep spinning the conspiracy theories. Tin hats are in aisle 5.

 

And Derek Fisher was +32 while Kevin Durant was only +1. Hurry up Morey and offer Fisher the Max!!!

 

+/- is the most overused stat and its pretty useless unless in large sample sizes, as in SEASONS.

 

So true, he should have been striving for 3 of 10 or 4 of 11 instead... All while in an Armani suit on the bench.

 

That's why Lin had the most double digit assist games this season by far over any other Rocket... 9 to be exact. Because stagnant offenses get you lots of assists, right? Sheesh- get some facts to back up your assertions people.

 

Come on guys, give Lin a break. First full year as a starter, he's done pretty well! I'm sure he'll work on the TO's and the jump shot this offseason, and will be ready to go next season. If Chandler can improve that much over one offseason, why can't Lin?

Seems like ya'll expect him to be better than Chris Paul or something. He has 1 and maybe a quarter year of experience as an NBA starter and no prior experience in playoff atmosphere, I can definitely see him show some improvement as he gets more experience.

 

If the choice comes down to Beverely or Lin to start next year, Lin will start over Beverley. And he should start over him.

Beverley had a good two or three game run. Nothing comparable to Linsanity 1.0, and the run also came against a 2nd-year backup.

That backup then torched Beverley in the 4th quarter of Game 5 and outclassed him in Game 6. If Beverely isn't going to hold his man down, he has no advantage over Lin and isn't likely to see much playing time ahead of Lin.

Jeremy averaged around 17/2/6 in his last 10 regular season games. He had a tough first playoff game, against Westbrook, then he got hurt.

He is better than Beverley, and will start over Beverley next season if the choice is between the two players.

 

EXACTLY thank you, Patrick has proven to hustle more than most of the guys on the team and plays decent defense but hes not "Unbelievably" good, to be honest, He has not proven to me that he can be a starter yet, also Aaron Brooks should've got more minutes than Patrick tonight , I was at them game and Patrick missed so many shots that were critical to our lost , two open threes , a couple of shots inside the paint and shots that he took because of being overly confident when he could've passed to an open three point shooter , Parsons or Francisco. Also he currently does not possess good play making skills like James and Jeremy. I'm not saying Jeremy is perfect either , Jeremy has to work on being more consistent with his offense , he has the play making skills and he has improved his defense a bit but he will have a whole summer to work on those things , seriously stop bashing him and give him another season to prove himself

 

Harden needs to work on reducing his TO's more than Lin. He averaged 3.8 during the regular season and 4.6 during this series.

 

Actually, I'd appreciate it if you didn't try to correct people on this. It makes it really easy to see who actually knows what they are talking about.

 

Um, he was still on the roster kid and he just said the Rockets forced him to sit which (conspiracy theory woooo) means either Lin is lying or they didn't want him on the court and perhaps the chest BRUISE was a good cover to sit Lin, who looked like a deer in headlights, in favor of quicker guards that posed matchup problems.

Dumbo hats ran out here a long one ago so I got nothing for ya.