Harden/Lin modeled after Knicks/Miami or Spurs/OKC?

tOo hungover for for this. tLDNR

 

tl;dr

But I legitimately voted "I don't know." I think either scenario could be beneficial for the team and I expect our front office and coaching staff to be able to figure that out much better than a bunch of reactionary fans (and Linners) on Clutchfans.

 

Look, if they both start, you know LOF's will be complaining about Harden/"McFail" ISO for the remainder of Jeremy's contract. The poll should include an option: "Start them both and fire McFail and hypnotize Harden not to ISO"

 

Iso Beverley!

 

Finally Lin is living up to his contract...however it's only been 3 games. Still, he looks like a different play: his shot is so pure, his decision making and passing are getting to the point of Nash-like, and his defense has certainly improved. In 30 minutes yesterday Bev meanwhile only took 3 shots (made 1): that means Bev is not very involved in the offense; in fact most of his passes were simple lobs into the post. It's too early to tell what lineup works best and there are a lot of catch 22s. For example DMo plays well offensively off the bench however his passing in the first unit accommodates Dwight. Lots of options, good problem to have.

 

Didn't read lol

 

i dont' mean to instigate anything but why do ppl think lin is a great playmaker??? I haven't seen him with that many assists in houston. He seems to get a mix of rebounds, steals , and assists.

 

Stop man. This isn't LeBron/Wade or Westbrook/Harden. In this case one is extremely good and the other is a roleplayer. Overlapping skillsets happen all the time. It's up to the roleplayer to fit into his role. My stance is I don't care much what we do at the moment. Let Lin try out starting, let Lin try out the bench, and just trade him if he doesn't fit into the team.

It reminds me of that answer Morey gave to the guy who won a dinner with him. He said earlier he was just worried about accumulating decent players. Now that he has great players, he's worried more about the fit.

 

whoa, you mother lovers need to stop comparing lin to a H.O.F in frazier. Oh that was Frazier doing the comparing, Nevermind, i'm a dumas!



It's not just frazier. having had to watch all the enemies broadcasts, many of the analysts love our tandem. Either of the first two options in the poll will work.

 

Getting 6 assists when you aren't the primary ball handling guard is pretty good

 

I voted I dont know but for what its worth Clyde said play them together.

 

See this is what I don't get... People say they are tired of the same post over and over, but when somebody actually post a valid discussion they have nothing to say.

Anyways, I would bring Lin off the bench so he can run the second unit rather than always having to play off of Harden and Howard. This is not me hating on Lin because I think he is a solid NBA player that has a pretty good upside, (I don't think he is a superstar like some of the posters here), Its just what I think would be the best solution in a perfect world. Now if Jeremy totally shuts down coming off the bench and you lose him (mentally not physically, because I think eventually he does get traded), I wouldn't do it because Beverley can still be that spark that we need off the bench.

I don't think you can go wrong either way though really because Harden and Lin do seem to get along really well and have shown they can play really well together at times, and this team is only going to go as far as Harden and Dwight take us, regardless of what Lin does.

 

To be fair, Frazier made the comparison himself...

 

how about we bench both Harden and Lin. Problem solved.

 

I chose the last one just because i'm an *******

 

Finally!!!

 

Yes..

 

I went with starting them together and just have them get use to working with one another. I believe Lin will prove to the world this season he was no fluke.

 

Lin as 6th man isn't just about Lin and Harden's skillset duplication.

Our non starter rotation players look to be

PG, Garcia, Casspi, Dmo, Asik.

Dmo can create for himself somewhat, but not really others, the other 3 can't create for anyone, but 2 of them seem to work really well off drive and kick. Beverley isn't that man, put Bev there and there's no one who can create for others.

Now look at the other 5

pg, Harden, Parsons, Jones, Howard, all of those guys except for maybe Jones can create for others at either a reasonable or elite level. Beverley benefits here because he can serve to harass the opposing starter early

For the first 3 quarters, the goal here is for the offense to be as strong across the board as possible, it's not even that i think beverley is a better starter, it's that i think lin on a ginobili style minute rotation (runs with primarily bench first 3 quarters, plays with starters in quarter 4) will provide much better production out of the bench players than what the starters lose.

It's a case of, i feel (a healthy) lin probably adds at most +2 over beverley for 48 minutes with the starters, but is probably closer to +6 with the bench rotation guys.

As for the team comparisons, I'll take Gregg Popovich as who is the best utilizer of team talent in nba history thanks.