Jeremy Lin sets record for 6th worst PER in the history of the playoffs

hate hate hate

 

Well, just watched it, so it certainly doesn't apply to me.

OK, this islander. Last time we weren't sure if it was sarcasm or not because he impersonated SAS's voice. So now we know this is a pure hater. From what I heard Lin is huge in the Philippines, so this guy got jealous or something? Racistic hate? Who is this spineless coward type of LOH?

 

It is sad and unfortunate that this is happening. Mind you, Asian are completely not responsible for this. You might have directed your hate in a wrong direction. Or you just want to take it out to the smaller minority?

Anyhow, whatever that is, it is what it is, nothing anyone could do about it. What we could do is make this forum a better place by quitting the hate and bickering. No one is going to bring up the race issue if there isn't such overt, numerous, violent and persistent hating going on.

 

yeah right, i need to see some hard stats on that!

 

I always find it kind of sad when people start arguing about who has it worse in the discrimination department. It's as if we live in a world where there's a Jew waiting in line to be gassed, and there's a slave in a nearby field who walks up to him and is all like, "You think you got it bad? I have to work this field for the rest of my life! At least you're just gonna die!" Meanwhile, the blonde German is standing there eating his ham sandwich like it's a pork holiday.

Really, people? This is what it's coming down to?

How about we pay attention to the actual issue at hand, which is that discrimination, in any form, is unacceptable. The purpose of highlighting discrimination is not to compare the size of our wounds, but to prevent those injuries from being inflicted on future generations.

Get some perspective.

 

So just because certain demographics have been discriminated more against than Asian Americans have, we have no right to talk about the blatantly obvious prejudices that Lin faced in pursuing his basketball career?

Using that logic, we should never talk about hardships that Black Americans face because hey, Native Americans had it far worse in that they were victims of genocide and are now almost demographically and culturally extinct.

 

Excellent post Nubmonger.

I only know the stories of Lin and Beverley in the Rockets and think of both as triumphant.

Lin of course didn't get the college offers and scholarships, got cut from 3 teams, and even to this day people are telling him he's not good enough to play in the NBA.

Beverley lived in a real tough neighbourhood as a kid. He said it was tough just getting to school, didn't if gangs would chase him... etc. Many people also probably told him he would never get out of that neighbourhood and make it in the NBA.

We should celebrate these stories and not tear these two players down. Just because one succeeds doesn't mean the other has to fail.

Of course they are not free from warranted criticism. But some of the stuff I've heard is ridiculous:

"Lin is the only player on the Rockets I feel I could beat one on one. He has no left hand. I think some High School players could beat him"

"Beverley cant play defense"

"Lin is afraid! He can't play because his muscle hurts!"

I wish the hate and bashing would stop because its just a reflections of the poster's own insecurities. We should focus more on the positives and constructive criticism. Building up instead of tearing down. NBA fans around the world have fallen in love with this team, everyone except for the haters on Clutch Fans.

 

I know what you guys mean. Some of the haters here need to grow up!

Reading some of the comments below this Bleacher Report article
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1627322-what-jeremy-lin-will-take-away-from-the-nba-playoffs
-especially- pisses me off.
It makes me want to join in the discussion to defend Lin against these biased so-called fans. If they were really fans, they would not be tearing one of our players apart like that.

 

Absolutely.

Or we'll have to follow your plan of shipping Lin out to a demographically suitable city. Which city do you recommend?

 

I answered in the other thread, NY, NJ, LA/LA, SF and Sac-town are of course good places.

 

Why would those cities be demographically suitable for Lin and not Houston?

 

lol you forgot Toronto

 

I'm not comparing Yao to a cartoon character, so I think you completely missed my point. Your post is the reason I don't want to get into a discussion of racism on here.

But for the record, I agree with most of what you said. I think the situation with the incarceration and forced labour of black youth in America is an absolute travesty.

It's interesting that you use President Obama as an example. I wonder, do you feel that now that Obama has been elected and then re-elected, does this mean that racism against black people no longer needs to be talked about in America?

Just as you seem to think that Yao's success means the NBA, Rockets staff and fans should be immune to criticisms on racial attitudes where asians and asian americans are concerned?

How is it that you don't see the paradox in your post?

 

Don't ever take Bleacher Reports seriously. In fact, don't waste your time or energies. The majority of the writers don't do their research before writing the article. I came across some articles during the beginning of the season that were so bad, it was unbelievable. I stopped clicking on their links.

 

You have a point.

And of course I am not claiming to be a professional caliber writer myself by any means lol, but that does not mean that I can't critique the shoddy writing and analysis on bleacher reports.

Some of the articles seem ok, but a lot of the ones about the Rockets have been sucky as heck.

 

Interesting that you are such a dedicated Rocket fan that you'd like to share our players with other teams so they can have the same joy of rooting for our players as we do.

 

He is a undercover LOF. It's quiet obvious.

 

Well... there's two categories of people who would ignore the fact or pretend it doesn't matter when a player is clearly hampered by injury that prevents him from being able to perform.

1) People who are ignorant and uninformed as to the basic facts.

2) People who are prejudiced against the player (for whatever reason), i.e. haters.

If people want to say the entire team had a terrible first game, Lin included. I think that's fair.

He was doing fine in game 2 till he got injured.

Then he tries to play in game 3 despite injury and you can see he can't use his right arm. It's kind of hard to play well when you can't lift up your right arm if that's your shooting arm.

He then get's re-injured again in game 3 intentionally by Durant.

Has to sit out game 4 & 5.

You can see he is still not fit in game 6 but is forced to play because of Beverly getting into foul trouble and Brooks' less than pathetic defense on Reggie Jackson(who lit up all nba 1st team defender Beverly all series long) who Lin did a decent job of defending when he came on.

But if you want to talk about game 6. How about your annointed superstar being abused on both ends of the court by old man Fisher? Oh wait... he had A SORE THROAT.

What kind of people would consider a sore throat an acceptable reason for poor performance from a player but yet pretend that having an injury that restricts the movement of your dominant arm is irrelevant?

Please refer to the top of my post for the answer to the above.

Or how about everyone's latest favorite starting point guard having 1 assist total in the last 3 games...

I have really tried to avoid getting into a discussion about why we lost the series. The thunder were better, and Lin and Westbrook's injuries cancelled each other out. But I'm sick of haters trying to make Lin the scapegoat when he was barely able to play for the majority of the series.

 

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