He has one season to learn in my book, but the criticism he is getting is fair. $25 million to a backup PG is what happens when ownership is making management's decisions. I will gladly eat crow if I'm wrong.
10 assists doesn't mean he created 10 baskets necessarily... like just swing the ball around the perimeter = a cheap assist. jeremy rim
What does this even mean? Stop embarrassing yourself. He's shooting 34.3% from the field as a staring point guard averaging approx 34.3 MPG. That is bad. He's shooting horribly. It's a legitimate criticism. Your excuse is that he's not perfect and if he actually played well and averaged 15 and 10; he'd be getting paid 15 mil (THE MAX). Really? WTF. He's not worth the 8 mil we're paying him now.
So many fans looking for scapegoats... This team is the youngest in the league, playing against a seasoned team with arguably at least 3 hall-of-famers (maybe four). The team held their own. So bash Harden cuz he's expected to carry the scoring load. So bash Lin when he's expected to look for teammates on the floor, dishing out the equivalent of 15 to 20 points a game while making some other players look pretty good, while only shooting 8 or 10 shots a game in a shooting slump. So take out these two guys, what do you got in a year that saw management clean house?
That 25mil argument is simply flawed, especially in the first year. Lin's getting paid 5 mil this year and 5 mil next year.
Um, there's no excuse for Lin's lack of wide open shot. He's getting paid like a starting NBA point guard so he needs to make shots like a starting NBA point guard. The criticism is warranted. If Lin is hitting the shots he should be, this team is not losing all of these close games.
How about if Harden quit iso play every time, we would not lose any of those games. You guys just blame everything on Jeremy Lin no matter what.
There is only one thing he needs to do right now. He needs to take it strong to the rack. That's how you get higher percentage shots and build confidence for the outside shot to start falling.
He tried a few times but Pau & Howard were there lol so he passed it out. This is the first time he has played against Howard though remember that. There was a play where Lin was going to take a charge on Howard when he was going in for the dunk but Lin didn't want to die so he didn't bother. Frankly I don't blame him.
