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

Read the chart more closely, that's his top end speed at 20 meters...he's still accelerating at that point, and probably doesn't reach his top speed till the 30-40 meter point.

 

Exactly, there are so many players that don't play well or not up to par, why is there such a huge swamp of groupie following to hate Lin? What is their purpose? What is their subconscious motive? It really gets me thinking, probably the obvious reason?

 

11 missed free throws. Thats what I'm blaming this one on.

 

The missed free throws were BRUTAL.

 

And it just wasn't this game. Check every game we lost except game 1 which overall performance was awful. If our players don't choke at the line we win this series easily 4-1 or 4-2.

 

-64.

-64.

 

I swear, thats kindergarden in here. The Rox had a great season, we should celebrate that instead some buttheart ppl would rather play the blame game and point fingers.

I like Lin as a person, he is trying his best you can tell. But somehow he lacks the self confidence on the court. It's obvious, he feels the pressure due to the great expectations in him. But he has to go through this and prevail. Its in his own hands, nobody can help him there.
Give it your best, Lin and if you go down, go down in a blaze of glory, so ppl can say he died trying (not literally of course)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZbN_b6P8Ks

Yeah, i went there:grin:

 

Everyone loves hoping on the backup players bandwagon until he starts regularly and isn't a massive success. It has happened in Houston and on this board for years, Alston to Brooks, Brooks to Lowry, Lowry to Dragic, Dragic actually got out before this could happen to him to a great degree and now Lin to Beverly.

If we dealt Lin and Beverly essentially stayed the same (high effort guy that doesn't really score well against starting PGs or gets a lot of assists) then people would latch onto the backup PG the minute he shows promise or has a really good outing.

 

~lol~ thx

So you are saying the groupie of Lin hate has a long tradition of hating starting PGs? Alright. ~lol~ They can't get over Franchise leaving?

 

Embarrassing stuff, dude.

This is why I only take so much time with posters and commenters such as yourself.

I will trust the readers to make up their own minds about what I said and what you said.

 

There was definitely hate for Alston but I don't recall any hate for Lowry after he became a starter except when he was out hurt and came back with Dragic playing so well.

But yeah, Lin and Alston are on the same page in terms of being disliked by a lot of posters as a starting PG. Make of that what you will.

 

Someone should lock this thread up. This is not funny anymore. All season long you all argued about Lin or Harden and it hardly ever was an educated debate.

 

Like I said above, I can only give these "debates" so much time because the ignorance often shown is too much to deal with, at least for me. I lose patience and interests.

Everyone is allowed his own opinion. They are now allowed their own facts.

I said earlier about "smoke and mirrors" arguments made to discredit Lin, or his fans.

I think we all just got a very good example of such an "argument."

 

he's talking about defense vs jackson in game 6 in which Lin was better. He was tooling brooks/bev all game till Lin came in. Jackson pretty much disappeared, think he scored 4 on lin all game. Bev's too out of control, it's pretty clear if he becomes starter he'll be in foul trouble every other game.

YOu cant start Bev cause he doesn't do enough on offense. PLus he's not much of a playmaker, you're just going to force Harden to do more than he can handle.

Like that pass dribble and pass Lin had to Anderson before he got his dunk blocked...Bev would never be able to do something like that. YOu're better off playing all 3 together for chunks of minutes.

 

That's not very hard to do at all. Even if iJHolmes were right in this instance, his reputation precedes him. I doubt anyone reads his posts anymore.

That being said, after the stupid signing of Ariza because of his playoff performance, I trust Morey to look at the bigger picture.

 

So Lin haters are ultra conservative puritans who hate street ballers. They enjoy highly disciplined and rigid PG than exciting and unpredictable ones. That sounds like it. They are very puritanical in terms of one must follow a basketball team a certain way. I guess their religious background has a bit too much influence on their basketball forum posting life. Well, this is the cross we have to bear.

 

The LOH needs to calm down and this thread needs to be killed. I don't think he's covering its more like a reminder that Lin is not some scrub that cause the loss. You're response to his post is adding more hate to this thread which is undeserving.

The stats don't lie with PB as a starting PG particular for this game. I'm sure if JLin didn't play this game at all the PB performance would've be more clear cut.

 

Spoiler

 

Lin will be fine. He had a good year, 13/6 is solid, he's obviously not a scrub. It was his first playoff series, and he was hurt. He had it rough, but I'm sure he'll be fine.

If the front office decides Pat Beverly is our PG of the future, I have no doubt Lin will succeed as a 6th man here or as a starter on another team. I'm sure he'll put in work this offseason, too.

 

Don't let The Haters get you down.

I remember earlier this season, people were comparing Lin to Alston. When Lin was still recovering from the knee. The fake outrage at that time was Lin's FG % and how it compared with Alston in Houston.

Well, here's what you need to know:

Alston's best FG% as a Rocket = 39.5%
Lin's FG% first year as a Rocket = 44.1%

So, that's done.

I said this before and will say it again: If you are a Hater, you don't WANT Lin to succeed. It's like the Whack-A-Mole game. Haters will pop up, and then their arguments are usually rapidly smacked down. But then another new "argument" will spring up. This isn't a coincidence.

One of the recent "arguments," one that I addressed earlier, is that there are supposed fan factions that don't like Lin. As in, doesn't matter if he is clearly the best option on the team as starting PG. So, "Twitter" may be unhappy. Or maybe the "We want Brooks" group at the game isn't happy.

These 'arguments,' such as they are, are being brought up as something of a last resort by Haters, in my opinion.

If you can't win on merits, or statistics, then you play the "well, we just don't like him" or "'the fans' don't like him" games.

I take this as a good sign. It means to me that The Haters are running on fumes now. If you're playing the "the fans don't like him" card, chances are you've already played your best cards. And lost.

This is why I brought up Lin's popularity in Asia. If there are 1,000 fans in Houston who don't like him, chances are there are 1,000,000 fans in Asia who do like him to counter that potential 1,000 in Houston.

The NBA is global. Attendance and local markets are important, of course, but the scope is far broader than that.

Lin is one of the most important assets in the NBA right now. They know that, Les Alexander knows it and a lot of Haters know it, too. And they don't like it. Too bad. Let me repeat that: Too bad. As I said earlier, you're shooting bb guns against a steel-reinforced warship. You're not going to win. So, I guess it's up to you to figure out how you're going to deal with the impending loss.

Hopefully you will come to support our starting point guard. I hope you do.

But if not, then back to the battle stations and man the bb guns. To Twitter! We Want Aron Brooks!