Once again, anyone who thinks McHale hates Lin or is racist is an idiot. Straight up. What people are saying, or at least what I'm saying is that McHale really does not think much of Lin's game at least enough to think that sitting him in the fourth is fine. I do not think that and as great as Bev is (I love Bev), he's not better than Lin over the course of the year so as to bench Lin as often as McHale does. This is not saying he should play Lin 48 minutes a game as he gets plenty of minutes, but that watching the rotations, it's clear that McHale and his staff up until now did not think as high of Lin's game as I do. And that is Linsanity was not a "fluke". That is who he is and how capable he is, it's just that with Harden, Lin will have to play a different role. In other words, he's not gonna average what he averaged in NY cuz we have Harden who is better than him with a skillset that overlaps to a certain degree, not because Lin isn't as good as his previous games have suggested. Imo.
Here is a transcription of the youtube joke. Actually McHale is using Harvard in the traditional sense, to represent intelligence, and saying the guy who asked for five on five was not the Harvard guy. "We have ten. So I can-- We had nine. One of the guys was getting mad and said 'Why don't we play five on five?' I said 'Coz we only have nine. That'd be hard. I know that-- You know-- It wasn't the guy who went through Harvard. So. . . . I told him. I said 'It takes ten to do that.' So actually we can go five on five. That's that's one of the main things--" Also, I don't think McHale took any "big step" regarding Jeremy during the Asian trip.
Thanks for your kind respond. Maybe it was not a big step for Mchale but truely means a lot to me and really nice of him to do that.
We all know the real reason why McFail hates Lin. He hates how Jeremy looks ....on the court when he commits a bad turnover.
Guys like you that profess to hating LOFs and what they post here, but can't stop yourself from trying to instigate more of this crap ...
You're right that he wasn't talking about Jeremy, but even if he was its just a joke. McHale has always been sarcastic and jokey with the media.
There is bias, in the engineering sense. The bias isn't against Lin, it is against Lin's style of PG play ("home run hitter") vs Beverley's ("I hit singles") style. McHale prefers PG play in the "I hit singles" style. And I'm not saying the bias is wrong. But it does mean that Lin has to be enough better than Beverley to overcome the bias.
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/6T7cCQHw_js" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> All Lin fans remember this game...
Can you give me proof of this? Like when McHale has said this, as in when the hell he ever thought of Lin as the home run guy(JR Smith type) vs. Beverley(Andre Miller type)?
I'm geninuely curious. How do you think McHale is biased against Lin? What makes Lin so special that McHale will look at him differently from other players in the NBA?
McHale called Jeremy "by nature a home run hitter" (aproximate quote from memory). I believe it was an after practice press session; there was a video of it that I watched at the time. Google searching clutchfans yields the massive, overreacting thread prompted by a nasty NYPost interpretation of the quote: http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=234381 I have no quote for McHale saying Beverley hits singles; instead there is another video somewhere on Rockets.com or CSN Houston (helpful, I know) where in an interview Beverley describes his own play at the pointguard position as "I hit singles". I thought at the time that was a striking way of referring to himself given all the brouhaha of the previous line. I don't know if it made any press at the time. The only thing google returns is my own reference to it.
Addendum: McHale was being candid and trying to describe the problems Lin was having, and what he would prefer his PG to be doing. That was where the part about wanting Lin to hit singles came up.
Dude. I am not claiming McHale dislikes Jeremy Lin. They seem to get along just fine. I'm not claiming McHale is a bad person. He seems really funny and a nice guy. I'm not claiming McHale is a bad coach. He took the youngest team in the NBA and got them to the playoffs. I'm claiming he has a particular style he is looking for in PG play. That is all. Adding comments like that doesn't help when trying to actually have a conversation about McHale and PG play.
Common lets get down to the Fact.. Jeremy Lin gets treated this way simply because he's asian.. nothing more nothing less.. the same way he gets all the hype is a double standard.. Mchale sees him as being less then bev cuz hes asian. There i said it and done it.
