Option 1: Go play flag football on I45 during rush hour Option 2: Watch Battlefield Earth 18 times in a row in one sitting Option 3: Play Golf in a thunderstorm Option 4: Listen to this podcast hmmmm.....
I had to laugh at this... the guy is practically describing how the 2 3 pointers Lin missed in a preseason game. A miss is a miss. There is no he "almost made it". I stopped listening after that.
I usually really like his videos and game recaps but sometimes it feels like he is reading too much into the situation and/or not looking at what benefits it could be for both Jeremy and the Rockets. I get it's a Pro-Jeremy video and channel but it still the Rockets as a team that Jeremy is a part of. If the team feels like Jeremy is better utilized as the 6th man, then you go with what the team says unless it's looks otherwise. I think Jeremy can be deadly in a 6th man role. Just because Jeremy won't be starting, it doesn't mean the Rockets or McHale don't like Jeremy or want to get rid of him. And same goes to the Lin haters who love to jump to conclusions when something like this happens too. It's quite maddening for the rest of us that support the Rockets and the players but have to go through discussions and threads about this or that that it pulls away from the team in general.
How'd this thread get opened again? I saw Rockets2k had shut it down earlier. In any event, love PhiSlamma's post, hate his blog. Way too repetitive, and slow, and long. And repeats his main points. And then says the same thing again, repetitively. But great job rallying the LOF troopers to fight the good fight while remaining calm.
give me 20 million bucks and have posters of me all over the place and plus get to come off the bench on stacked team? that's shady slim shady
The guy sounds like a big conspiracy theorist. I feel like most of his points are just his subjective feelings rather than looking at the basketball fit for the entire team.
No , he doesn't really have any cult followers here in Clutchfans. neither does Dwight, the majority of the insecure fans here are Lin fans who can't accept Lin for who he is.
Mods -- and fellow posters -- I didn't post this but since it's about my work, I will respond to it. I don't promote my own videos here, pretty much ever, as that is not why I post here. And yes, I am the person who made the video. I would have to listen to the video again, to go over what I said. The supposed "shadiness" of the organization, if I recall it properly, was how I felt about the premise that starts would be alternated during the preseason and that pattern having been broken in the Memphis game. The video was about the Memphis game. What I said in the video, and this is how I felt, was that the Lin postgame interview felt to me like a gesture intended to calm Lin fans. Did the Rockets do the interview? No. CSN Houston did, I think. It's important to understand that many people have been unhappy with how things have been handled as regards Lin. As I have said in the videos and here on ClutchFans, I am ok with Beverley starting. I would have liked the process to have been handled a bit better, however. And I have also said that here on ClutchFans. My guess is that the person who began this thread is the person who came over and made a comment I had to remove calling other commenters "idiots" and being upset at me for supposedly calling out the organization. Anytime any decision is made, there are likely to be two different perspectives about that decision. Lowry or Dragic? Lin or Beverley? Etc. I don't need to question the fanhood of anyone who disagrees with my point of view, nor do I need to call out people who don't appreciate how the organization may have handled a particular matter. I have been a fan of the Rockets longer than many of the posters on this board have been alive. I also say, and have said repeatedly in the videos, that I respect the organization and all of the members of the organization. Lin is a big boy. McHale is a big boy. The organization is comprised of big boys. People are going to express their opinions, and I am sure that everyone involved will be ok and continue to move forward. Regardless of what I, or anyone else, thinks about how things have been handled or decided.
If Lin fans want him to start, they should direct their anger at Lin for not going out and winning the starting job. Beverly did that by working his tail off this offseason. It's not the Rocket's fault that they are starting the player who won the job.
Seriously...this crud needs to stop. We dont need uptodate info about the Chinese news media calling out our organization on a player that is American. Not Chinese. Lin is American born. In my opinion he is American. Then he could be considered Taiwanese because of his parents heritage. Lin is going to be a terrific NBA player, and most people on this board believe that Lin's best attributes is going to be shown more during the course of the season. He will have a Ginobli type of impact. And he will be successful on this team. To all LOF: stop this constant madness To all LOH: he is gonna be a terrific player for the Rockets. Go Rockets...Game one tomorrow night.
Fans are of course free to have the opinion that McHale was being shady or disingenuous or whatever. Personally I don't see the point. There's no way for us to know what's going on in his head. Maybe he was leaning towards Beverley at the beginning of the preseason and was impressed enough by how Patrick played that he decided by the end to make him the starter to begin the season. Nothing particularly shady there, unless we want to speculate that he never had any intention in starting Lin and its all been an act to mitigate a media blowup over a "PG controversy". But that's all it is -- speculation. While we're speculating, I'll go ahead and throw out the theory that a lot of fans are simply upset that Lin is seemingly getting a raw deal here, and they're just looking for someone to direct that agitation towards. Its an understandable reaction.
Classy response, despite OP's obvious intention to create more unnecessary LOFvsLOHvsROF turmoils. I don't agree with your view, but you certainly have the right to express them, even if unpopular.
