[ClutchFans] The Jeremy Lin-Carmelo Anthony jersey controversy is ridiculously overblown

LoFs are still in denial, they should be happy cause they will be available to buy a new Lin jersey soon.

And he'll have some new proverbs too.

 

Man, some people.

Just because we lost the series doesn't make us 1st round fodder. Everyone, even after losing, knew we were the better team and would put us safely in the 2nd round fodder territory.

And if I'm following you correctly, you are saying now that we no longer have Asik it's your belief we are not at 1st round fodder level, making us a lotto team?

Jesus jumped up Christ.

 

It is a non-issue. No matter how much you fanboys want to make it out to be it is simply not an issue.

There is literally just as much information to say the Rockets did inform him as there is to say they did not. It's the Rockets organization's word vs Jeremy Lin's agent. Due to the fact that agents tend to be scumbags, I'm much more inclined to believe the organization. You obviously believe the word of his agent. We'll leave it at that.

Morey did come out and address the issue. Something he probably should not have done because of Jeremy's crazy fans. But he definitely did have the guts to come out and address it. So that point is invalid as well.

LOL at you bringing Yao into this. Yao was a superstar player. Thus, he got treated like a superstar. This is comparing apples to oranges. Don't make vapid leaps of logic.

Also, stop throwing words like "family" around as if they have some sort of major significance. The corporate world is not a family. That's true for any workplace. You can be fired/transferred at a moment's notice.

There is, however, a culture in the team. And a very good one at that. The Rockets locker room has always been one of the best. Players feel wanted here. Why do you think Aaron Brooks keeps signing here? Why do you think Goran Dragic cites nothing but positives about Houston? Why does Chandler Parsons always talk about how the Rockets have an amazing team culture? I can keep posting examples, but my point is made.

Also, as evidenced in this thread. The Rockets did the same thing to Beverley year. It was a non-issue. The Lakers just did it to Xavier Henry. Which was, not surprisingly, a non-issue.

So, how about this. Why don't you admit this is a non-issue and stop hiding behind faux outrage?

Idiotic and distasteful response. Welcome to the ignore list for making one of the most asinine claims I've ever read. Don't speak about things you know little about. Eddie Griffin had his own personal demons that no one could combat except he himself. That had nothing to do with "family" or anything else. Holy ****. This should be ban worthy to drag his name through the mud like that to make a point about Jeremy Lin. Stay classy. Well, you probably wont.

 

Thanks for not addressing anything whatsoever

 

There was nothing intelligent or on topic for him to discuss.

 

Yes it was considering we let the better guy walk and gave more $$ to the other guy we brought in that is inferior.

Perhaps if Dragic was not in the equation, it might have a been an easier pill to swallow.

 

This site was one of the best sports site long before Lin's trash moved in.

No one misses trash. You take it out and disinfect the area.

That is what we will be doing once Lin is booted off the team.

The site will be quarantined and back to good ole' days.

 

we can go back and forth all day if I want to put a highlight to each lowlight you put up.

The bottom line is without Jeremy Lin they get swept by Portland. With Lin they lost in 6. Probably would've at least gone to 7 if he wasnt inexplicably benched at the end of game 6 after holding Lillard to 0 points the entire 4th quarter. Lillard couldnt even get the ball half the time, and the moment Lin is off him, he goes and hits the series winning shot. That's the fact.

 

LOL look at the 2 games they won. He carried them in one, hit big shots in the other and cleaned up Harden's mess by coming up with the loose ball and finding Daniels for the 3.

If he wasnt on the team, which game do they win?

 

DOn't matter, the way Dragic developed you can't even afford to keep him at this point if you want Melo.

 

LOL how many years is that excuse gonna stand?? When Yao/Tmac went down to Dallas and Utah the same excuse was used.

 

Those were two critical lowlights at the ends of playoff games. Even our own announcers ripped him.

Such a stupid comment. Without Jeremy Lin they'd have $8m in cap space they could have spent on someone else who wouldn't be one of the most overpaid backup point guards in the league.

The fact is you don't what the hell you're talking about. Lin shot 21% from three point range and had two of the most mind numbingly stupid plays you'll ever see at the end of playoff games. Unlike Harden who had great defenders on him the whole series and an entire defense geared to stop him, Lin was matched with some of the worst defenders on the Blazers team.

 

But but.....Mo Peterson, the defensive juggernaut was defending Lin.

*RAWR*

Lin fans living in their own fantasy world....

 

If it was only a bunch of Houston homers saying it then it would be an excuse.

This is stuff I here from unbiased respected NBA writers on various podcasts.

They were ranking the the teams after the season on one of the Zach Lowe podcasts and had Indy, Portland, Dallas and Memphis in the tier below the Rockets. Putting us in the top 4 of the West top 5 in the league. That does not make you 1st round fodder just because we happen to of lost in the 1st round this year. Just like when Dallas lost as the 1 seed it didn't make them "1st round fodder" sometimes the better team losses. But I'm sure you already knew that, but it doesn't fit the whole Houston is crap narrative.

 

Matters because with Dragic onboard we would have gone much further in playoffs, Lin was a liability.

Also matters because Dragic would have been much easier to off-load when needed to.

Multiple teams would be interested in Dragic.

Teams aren't exactly lining up to take Lin.

Bottom line: Dragic would have been a positive asset. Lin is a negative one.

And lastly, if Rockets dont get their intended targets, it would have been much easier to live with Dragic.

 

Has there been a player as divisive as Jeremy Lin for the Rockets? My money is on Charles or Maxwell...

 

You insulted Rockets history.


Charles Barkley led the Rockets to the WCF and took the league minimum to let the Rockets sign Pippen at max salary. He took the #4 jersey, he didn't care.


Maxwell? You know the story of Clutch City? if you don't then you need to look in your soul and ask yourself if you have a soul.

 

Where are Harden's lowlights? Let's be real, Harden carried this team (for the most part) to the playoffs but he disappeared in the post season. Completely until the last game and it was not enough.

Lin is not a superstar, Harden is. Blaming Lin, a non-starter, for the series loss is infantile and contrived. Dwight came to play, so did Lin, but Harden and even Parson were AWOL when Rockets needed them most.

Lin will not be a Rocket this time next year, but all Rocket fans should be more concerned about our best player(s) playing their best during ring time. Scapegoating Lin is r****ded, Rockets should never have had to depend on him to win the big games when they have the Houston Untouchables - Harden, Howard & Parsons.