The Shadow League "The Jeremy Lin Exposé"; By Russell Westbrook

I saw the Miami-Knicks game last year. Miami trapped Lin using Wade primarily and others secondarily. If a player is trapped he must get rid of the ball or he will lose it. His other teamates didn't help him so he was smothered. Marv Alpert was covering the game and he screamed out they are trapping him. A team only spends energy trapping very dangerous players, such as Durant etc. They must have thougjht a lot of Lin to send two and three players to trap him.

 

AMEN!

 

Wrong. You only started watching basketball when Linsanity started didn't you?

 

What kinds of people get this many attention, love, and hate?

Popular kinds I suppose

 

Or.... or or or teams use strategy... Maybe they trapped lin because they watched film and knew he is prone to give up the rock... Just saying. Every trap against lin typically leads to a turnover. Just saying

 

You think it is funny, having a senior man minding his own business, and then be viciously sucker punched by a vile young criminal coward?

Somehow, I am not surprised that such a video clip is popular among the LOF community.

 

I'm tired of all of the LOH's and LOL's, why don't you just go away.

 

The article in the op is pretty ignorant. The first thing that jumped out at me was the authors belief that a poison pill still exists. Jeremy Lins cap hit for year three is the same as year 1 which is the same as year 2; 8.3 million dollars and not 15 million as the author claims.

The author also claims that Raymond Felton out performed Lin this season. All the anti Lin people and perticularly those from New York want to use the 1st couple of months of last season to say "I told you so" about Lin. No one took into account (including me) that Lin was still coming off knee surgery. In the even that was mis-represented because Lin played so bad in November.

November Averages:

Felton
PPG - 14.6
APG - 6.7
RPG - 2.5
SPG - 1.5
FG% - .418
3PT% - .403

Lin
PPG - 10.2
APG - 6.4
RPG - 4.5
SPG - 2.0
FG% - .373
3PT% - .263

In November, Felton was a better 3Pt shooter which is mostly why his FG% was better than Lins, but Felton's .418 FG% was nothing to brag about. Of course Felton was considered fully healthy in this month while Lin was still recovering from knee surgery. Outside of shooting Lin either had just as good or better stats than Felton.

December Averages

Felton
PPG - 17.2
APG - 5.8
RPG - 3.4
SPG - .9
FG% - .377
3PT% - .296

Lin
PPG - 13.8
APG - 6.3
RPG - 3.2
SPG - 1.6
FG% - .489
3PT% - .292

I think Lin very started to out play Raymond in December. While Felton scored more points per game, his FG% was just atrocious. Both players had a very poor 3pt% but Lin's FG% of .489 was just outstanding. Jeremy was really starting to finish at the basket with a lot of success while Felton looked like one of those volume shooters.

January Averages:

Felton
PPG - 11.7
APG - 7.3
RPG - 2.0
SPG - 1.0
FG% - .433
3PT% - .429

Lin
PPG - 12.4
APG - 5.5
RPG - 3.5
SPG - 2.3
FG% - .422
3PT% - .327

It's kind of hard to compare these two months since Felton only played 3 games but both players had respectable Fg%s and Lin's 3pt% was finally starting to become respectable.

February Averages:

Felton
PPG - 12.3
APG - 4.9
RPG - 3.0
SPG - 1.5
FG% - .417
3PT% - .308

Lin
PPG - 14.5
APG - 6.6
RPG - 2.0
SPG - 1.5
FG% - .438
3PT% - .424

Both players played 11 games but Jeremy clearly out played Felton. Jeremy had a great month as far as efficiency hitting his 3s at an outstanding .424 and a very respectable FG% of .438 while Felton was not efficient at all.

March Averages:

Felton
PPG - 13.3
APG - 4.2
RPG - 2.6
SPG - 1.6
FG% - .500
3PT% - .403

Lin
PPG - 13.8
APG - 5.0
RPG - 1.6
SPG - 1.1
FG% - .482
3PT% - .400

As far as efficiency both players were just outstanding with a slight edge going to Felton.

April Averages:

Felton
PPG - 12.0
APG - 5.5
RPG - 3.3
SPG - 1.4
FG% - .455
3PT% - .333

Lin
PPG - 17.3
APG - 6.9
RPG - 4.5
SPG - 2.8
FG% - .440
3PT% - .364

Both players were solid in the last month but Jeremy really became more aggressive and had his highest scoring average for any month of the year.

Lin was better in head to head match ups vs Felton. Raymond's salary is almost 5 million a season less than Lin's so there is a substantial factor there. Of course Raymond is 28 and he is what he is while Jeremy is 24 and appears to have a lot of upside left.

Based on salary cap hit vs production it's hard not to say New York got the better value last season but I don't think anyone can objectively say that Raymond is a better player now or a more desired asset heading into the future.

 

GEEZUS!

I thought Bleacher Report was bad but this Shadow League crap has taken sports journalism to a new low.

Actually, I wouldn't call it journalism. Just crap.

 

Another day and other Lin post.

Oh, saw you tried to start another Lin thread using Bleacher Report article.

 

The other thing with going for Felton over Lin is that Novak has become pretty useless without Lin (so $5M/yr wasted), and Progioni is 36-yr old a 3rd PG and Kidd has retired. So basically for Felton + Kidd + Progioni, they cost a similar amount to Lin, Kidd has retired, Felton is offensively on par with Lin at best with little upside and is a big defensive liability, and has no upside, Novak's salary is wasted, and it's going to be hard to find a capable back-up PG to Kidd for the Knicks given they are over the cap and in heavy luxury tax territory. Whatever they save from Kidd retiring will go to JR Smith, and they still won't be better than this year.

For the 2012-13 season it may look like a wash, but for 2013-14 and 2014-15 ... it won't look good for the Knicks at the PG position.

 

Another great post by OMR

 

lol some of you detractors are amazingly relentless. props for that, got to respect that.
howevaaah, I can guarantee you that guys who used to be in player devolopment, who have now been promoted, are sold on what Lin brings to the table.

Sometimes eye tests can be flawed and bias. For example, detractor says the black russian played great d on westbrook. Reality, westbrook scored 29 pts.

Reality again,
The first matchup between westbrook and lin, lin was pick pocketing westbrook and making him throw up crazy shots. But because he was standing around the 3 point shot being a spectator to the teen wolf set, lin looked "out worked" by westbrooks outstanding 6/15 fg and a scoring delight of 14 points.

the second matchup westbrook did destroy.


the third matchup, lin won hands down.




the potential to be a really really good pg is there and by that I mean 16 pts/8 ast a night by the time he is 26 years old.

 

Every player has potential, the question is will they reach it...

You guys can argue, debate, and number crunch all day _ the game still has to be played on the court and we'll see if Lin will rise, or if Beverly (The Black Russian as you call him... SmMFh) eats into your boys minutes and have him delegated to the bench. Or maybe both will be good or maybe Morey will trade one or both... We'll see how it goes.

 

Roxlove's obsession of Lin is disgusting and disturbing.

 

For some, a picture is worth a thousand words.

For you, it merely tries to mask an inability to use any arguments.

 

I think you might have a ROXLOVE OBSESSION ...

Sorry to break the news to you bub, but I am already taken.

 

by lin

 

Hey man, I don't hate the player, I simply hate the game!:grin:

Off court, its a whole different ball game..