Same here. Criticised Lin when he played bad, nothing, but once I said something positive about Lin, gets called a LOF.
Let's see... 4 of 11 from the field, 3 of 5 from 3-point range, 11 points total, oh yeah, and... a "dagger" 3-pointer. Sure. Good game Lin. 54 more to go before unemployment.
If anything, this game against the Warriors solidifies Byron's decision to start Price over Lin even more. Price was playing out of his mind.
This is the key point folks are missing. There was a stretch in the 4th quarter where Warriors made a 16-0 or something run with Lin running the point. Byron had to bring Price in to run the point again. Jeremy Lin has been relegated to the bench because Scott does not trust him running the point. You saw glimpses of that that in this game. If your own coach calls you out in the media for making "dumb mistakes" (his words, now mine), you have issues that need to be ironed out. If your coach says you have to "learn to play the point guard position", and you are a point guard, you have issues that need to be addressed. McHale had the same issues with Lin. If Lin plays elsewhere next year, his new coach will have the same issues.
Can't agree more. As always, you are the best poster I have ever seen here. Back to the topic, Kobe can't even defend Price nowadays I guess: http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/rpm/_/page/3/sort/DRPM/position/2 But Byron chose to blame it all on Lin/Boozer(At least he made it seems like).
Poor lin. unfortunately lin is going where he belongs. He's not a starting caliber PG. at least not for any team in the west. a bottom barrel team maybe
Looked a whole lot more like a move to add a defensive player and get Clarkson out, since he was trying to run prevent defense and it wasn't working that well. So Price PG, Lin SG.
You serious didn't watch the game carefully. Lin or Nick Young were still playing the point after Price got in. But I got it a long time ago, no matter who would be subbed out by Scott, you were gonna blame it on Lin.
Lin's box score tonight is one example that you can't trust box score stats-- which, by the way, is the whole reason behind the whole analytics movement in basketball. Lin was playing effectively on both ends of the floor (the same goes with several other laters)-- fighting on defense, pushing the pace, getting into the lane to create opportunities for himself and for teammates. He missed some shots, but they were generally pretty good, smart shots to take. A couple of his misses also came during the Lakers' "clock bleeding" phase in the 4th quarter, where they just tried to run out the time by having a guy dribble the ball for most of the shot clock and then chuck up whatever they could manage to find in the final 5-8 seconds.
Enjoy it for one night! <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>��✌️<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/purpleandgold?src=hash">#purpleandgold</a></p>— Jeremy Lin (@JLin7) <a href="https://twitter.com/JLin7/status/547646819673464833">December 24, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Bench player? Sure. If only his fans would stick to that description of him. But then again, when have LOFs stuck with the truth? Again, good game for a "bench player" by all means. Also, I could care less what Kobe does or does not do. Once upon a time, it was Melo, then Harden, and now Kobe; always someone keeping Lin from taking over and playing to his potential, which even with all obstacles removed like tonight, is still a bench player.
