You want your players to be confident. By doing this, you simply destroy your players confidence. If Lin played bad defense, you benched him and let him know what he did wrong. Then you put him back in. This is how players learn unless you do not trust that player would learn. The conclusion is that McHale doesn't trust Lin. So there is no conspiracy anymore....
Shumpert and Harden are not the same player and do not have the same role. Harden has the role that melo plays except he distributes and creates for others more.
Dwight seemed disinterested the whole game. In fact it was like he was just going through the motion. I definitely agree something is wrong.
He is tired of not getting the ball, plain and simple. As soon as he gets position give it to him. Harden and Chandler act like it's the hardest thing in the world, they take forever to get it to him and he has to re-position himself most of the time far away from the basket or he gets in a bad position misses and then they go away from him next play.
I think Howard was expecting us to be rivaling Portland and Spurs for that 2nd place under the sun. Now we have to be worried about the 5th or 6th place. Of course he is going to be pissed if we have problems beating the Knicks, a team in disarray couple games ago.
Dwight came in at the 6 minute mark. I am not sure what AB was doing well before that then. And if I recall, AB got him the ball twice in those 6 minutes. The rest was Harden isos or AB fadeaway jumpers.
I can't stand watching Harden's hero-ball either, even when he's making his shots. The only thing worse than watching a ball hog is playing with one.
No. No idea! He was pretty good really! Made 5 pts in 6 minutes at 67% shooting, and the team went back from -4 to take the lead, and then he got no more court time, though Garcia was bad and Jones mediocre... I don't think he was hurt, so this is really strange... Same with Lin (no court time in the last 20 minutes or so), though he was at least benched with some reason...
If lin played in the last minutes and we won, I cant bet youthat they all would be jumping up and down with the win regardless of how we won.
No, they got an 8 point lead even due to that. Harden was keeping us in there. Best player of the game easily.
Man are yall watching this post game? The hell was going on. Felt like Bill was going to say "My N***az" lmao
lol I was just about to say something. What the hell is Bill thinking? I don't think he really said anything terrible, in fact I bet off air they make jokes like that with each other, but kinda questionable to do it on live tv.
Asik is better, but still, you sit Dwight for a while to let him know, then you should put him back in.
You are a fool. This isn't high school basketball for crying out loud. Go find a Lin message board, sick of hearing this low bball IQ, attention seeking crap. Take off your tin foil hat and disappear.
Lin was actually playing well in the beginning of 3Q and feed James for couple of nice looking 3. He was having a hard time fighting off screen later. You can sit him down but benched him the whole 4Q? Rockets won because of the Knicks have more boneheads (led by JR Smith). Brooks almost blew it. He is like 1-5, 4 fouls, 2 TOs in the 4Q. Jeremy Lin, listen to me, call in sick next time cause the stupid coach does not value your game/value *at all*.
He basically gift wrapped the last possession to us. If he had waited Knicks would have had the last possession. Worst result for them would be OT.
