the LOF's Verbal/Reading SAT score was significantly lower than Jeremy Lins. we're talking significant.
Lin's PER is higher Williams and Rose at this point. John Wall is way below Lin's Per . MCW is below Lin's PER. Kyrie is the only guard you mentioned that has a higher PER at 19.22 and he is ranked 9. Lin's current PER is 18.88 and he is ranked one rank below Kyrie at 10th most efficient in the NBA. Kemba Walker is currently below Lin and Jenning is slightly below LIN at a rank of 12 and a PER of 18.61 So Lin is quite competative with the eastern all stars. Many people have extreme difficulty recognizing Lin ability even when they see it happening in real time. Like right now. That is, he is ranked as the 10th most efficient PG in the NBA at this moment. (Lin's numbers include the Mav's game. Lin's worst game this year.)
The bottom line is that Lin must play better no matter how he is treated. Be profersional and give it all on the court no matter how many minutes the coach gives him. Be aggressive and assertive on both defense and offense. As said by himself many times, be who you're no matter what. My guess his up and down is part of growing pain for young players. Compared with last season, he had up & down swing 2-3 games. So far, this season 5-6 games. Already a big improvement.
this...in essence, captures the mindset of modern America. We choose to see and believe what we want to see and believe, disregarding facts and evidence. No wonder our economy is headed for another meltdown.
Illusion? That is the concept of ANY team sport. If endorsement contract/s is the measurement of an NBA player's individual success, then Lin fans ave nothing to complain about - he is an ALL STAR when it comes to endorsements. Jeremy Lin Says He Has Turned Down Millions Upon Millions In Endorsement Money
That would be great if all the LOFs left America, started their own country. They can have their own basketball team for the Olympics too and get Dennis Rodman to coach them.
you funny guy tinman. We need Linsanity to happen to clear the minds of media washed Americans. Only then will they see that their country is owned and manipulated by a handful of Goldman bankers in the white house and at the Fed.
Linsanity is a win streak that happened with the Knicks, also name of a movie Jeremy Lin is a Rockets guard. I like Jeremy Lin, don't care about Linsanity.
It's really a trust issue when it comes to letting a player play his way out of a slump. Whether fair or not, it just seems like McHale does not trust Lin to play himself out of a bad stretch: honestly, both sides of the argument have valid points: Lin is a great offensive player when he's on a roll, but he's also turnover prone and a liability on defense (yes, he's improved in those areas, but that doesn't mean they're still not his weaknesses) -- you roll the dice, either let him play it out and suffer Lin's deficiencies in the process, potentially getting big plays out of him, or you take him out and put Bev in, whose biggest strength really is that he doesn't really do anything to hurt you while playing dogged defense. When Lin has it going, McHale doesn't hesitate to let him play (you can try to debate this all you want, but minutes played don't lie). On the other hand, when he doesn't, McHale doesn't hesitate to pull him either, i.e. last night. You can try to parallel Parson's early season struggles, but it's clear that McHale just trusts Parsons have a positive impact on the game, even when his shot ain't fallin'. The same does not hold true for Lin -- McHale simply opts for the safer bet in Bev rather than gamble on Lin. The same applies to why he plays Harden so much. I'd also like to point out that even when TJones has it going, Casspi often still subs in for him (again, boils down to trust since TJ is essentially a rookie in McHale's eyes), yet few seem to care. The problem is more McHale's mismanagement of players' minutes and/or mistrust of certain players in general, rather than some conspiracy against Lin (side note: imo, he also trusts Garcia too much based on last year's playoffs rather than his mediocre career. I'd like to see McHale move Casspi back to his natural position at the 3 and have DMo in next to Asik, but that's just me.)
Yeah, this is a problem unique to modern American. It's a human problem, not an American one. As for Lin, people don't like him because of his fans.
Yes and no. On this board maybe. But definitely Linsanity set him up to have high expectations so that could be part of it. People nowadays in this day and age expect instant gratification and instant results.
I agree. But Lin must put all on the court. He was hersitant and unassertive, probably due to Dallas'd denfense strategy (JH also had a hard time to score in the paint). Good coaches would have adjustted. You cann't simply allow the other team taking away your bread and butter.
If you don't like a player due to his fans, then you really need to look yourself in the mirror. Seriously?
1. I am a Lin fan but also a basketball fan. I posts contain a bit of humor but never to the point of attempting to antagonize other fans. 2. Modern America exemplifies this problem most. The lack of quality education at the youth level, the rising tuition costs of college, the horrific divide between rich and poor create a society that isn't freely thinking. Instead of being taught to use their own analytical skills to assess situations independantly, they believe anything they see in media (ie. time warner, newscorp), owned of course by power hungry rich folk who want manipulate society to maintain their own power at the top.
I don't want Lin to be traded as I feel he can greatly help the team off the bench. That said, I don't mind if he gets traded if that means his fans on this board have a massive exodus like lemmings.
Newb. This has nothing to do with Basketball and no correlation at all to Jeremy Lin's basketball relationship to his coach. We have something call the D&D section where you can talk politics. Talk basketball.
Why are you being hostile? I was responding to someone else's inquiry. I'm using Jeremy Lin's relationship (or lackthereof) with his clueless coach to underscore the ignorance of modern America as a whole. In fact, I think most people would find this analogy quite interesting.
