This dude is a pure LOF. When they talk about Lin's ball handling, he's thinking of handling Lin's balls.
I'm pretty sure other fans are talking about Harden in a way that would not be favorable to us Rockets fans. But that's ok. We're not going to join a Spurs site and pretend to be a Spurs fans so we can retort them everytime they say Kawhai is better. But Lin fans are the most insecure insects on the planet, they go on every site on every internet medium, Twitter, Youtube, ESPN, Clutchfans. It's sad. Their parents need to tell them to grow some balls.
I am from Australia. I was on this site pretty much when Maury joined as GM. I know more about Chucky and the job he did on Garnett as a generously listed 6-6 center than Tinman who just plays re-runs of the 1990s Rockets games for thevlast decade or two. And I've watched more Dave and Cecil than Ben and Dante. And no, Tinman does not do a good job of anything. Maybe wash dishes. Vetting loyalty? You mean as long as the poster joins his Hakeem-lite army to dispose the world of Lin-fans means vetting loyalty? TInmac is more Asian than most Lin Fans. scary thought for you ...
Most NBA fans from what I've seen on other sites and forums have so far done 180- degree turn on Harden and are praising him and his stellar play this season. Granted season is in the infant stages right now .
Maybe I see Lin through my Rocket Red colored lenses, but this is how I picture Lin: There's just no coming back from that for me. Not unless you return to the Rockets and win a chip with a heroic last second play. If you are really a Rockets fan, why doesn't his action bother you? Lin made a heavy contribution towards our first round exit and then immediately follows that up with some line about how he's just like Jesus. All because we were courting Melo? Melo is awesome, why not embrace playing with him? These are anti-Rocket activities. Unforgivable.. minus a miracle.
Comments hiding behind Rockets fandom and "Red colored glasses" is like Trump supporters who won't say the real reason they're voting for him. Just a load of BS. Just say you don't like him. Don't hide behind other Rockets fans on a Rockets site. That's p***y. Don't associate your irrational hate of a player who left three years ago and inability to let go, to Rockets fans as a whole. You're the exception. A weirdo. 99% of Rockets fans don't give a **** anymore lol.
Yeah, and hating Tmac for quitting is hiding behind fandom? Loving Yao for coming out and playing on an injury is hiding behind fandom? I'm a fan of those that help my team and hate those that do things against the team. That's not hiding, it's justifying. I justify my feelings for Lin because he hurt the organization. We paid money and I think multiple picks including a first just to get rid of him. You do what helps the team if you're the gm and you cheer for players that help the team if you're a fan. It's simple. You're obviously trying to play a race card, but I ain't your racist buddy. And I'm not voting for Trump either. Yao, Asian. Love him for what he's done as a player and even more as a human. Lin, Asian. I don't hate him, but he's got a checkered past in his time with the Rockets. And I cheered like mad for him before his costly mistakes.
I was amongst many rockets fans of all ethnicities watching that Lin nightmare playoff game. Everyone from every race thought Lin screwed that game up. Lin united all the races They all thought he sucked
Re: Playoffs - Yes, he made a couple of bad plays. But he also had a couple of games where he contributed to wins. Other players like Harden and Parsons also had good and bad moments. To blame Lin as the main reason for the first round exit is ridiculous. He left the court in Game 6 with the Rockets winning and less than a second left and all set to force a Game 7 when Harden switched a defensive set and Parsons lost his coverage and Lillard scored the game-winner. How this becomes a "no coming back from that for me" is a big stretch. Re: Courting Melo - the reason why he didn't "embrace playing with him" was because if the Rockets signed Melo, they would have to trade Lin. And even if they didn't, it was obvious that Melo was one of the main reasons that the Knicks never resigned Lin. As far as the Bible quote, how is quoting Luke "being like Jesus"?
I feel the same way about Parsons, but he was chasing money so I can get leaving, but that play could have gone better. Overall, I'd say good riddance to him, I like Ariza better. Remember when Parsons was yelling at Batum saying, "who's the best small forward in the nba" (that's not verbatim) Yeah, f him for that one. The play he was late on? Come on, he was pushed off on and that created the separation. It was not tough defense, but he wasn't stupid either. Shoulda just tried a little tiny bit harder, who knows, ya know? Lin, he was stupid. Pick ball up. Take time out. Bad reaction vs stupid reaction. F both of them, but Lin was worse while being a Rocket. Parsons ran off and went 2x douchey after leaving on an already douchey summer of modeling. F em'. Who leaves a city and calls is trashy and expects some love? Enjoy Memphis, douche! HEY, EVERYONE LOOK AT ME, I'M TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK YA'LL. That's what happened. How very christ-like of Lin. It's basketball, no need to thump a bible at an organization that's trying to improve. No need to leverage a bible to get your way. It was disrespectful to the Rockets and to Christianity if you ask me. And before you say, no one's asking you, you did. There's your answer. Ima start partying to this:
I agree with you on the Melo part. I would guess that the reason Lin was upset was probably because he found out through the media, as opposed to directly from Maury. BTW, I'm a big supporter of Murray, even to this day. With regards to the TO, yes it was bad. But you go through the series again, and Beverley made a very similar critical TO trying to get the ball past half court im the waning seconds, but nobody seems to remember. Also, the game winning Troy Daniels 3 assisted by Lin came off a what would have been ugly Harden iso-TO -> loss, but because of the Lin-Daniels heroics, nobody seemed to remember. Also, nobody seemed to remember that Lin was the 2nd leading scorer in the 3 overtimes against Portland, behind Dwight (not Harden), and Parsons/Beverley scored 0 across 3 overtimes, and Lin only played 2 of the 3 overtime games and those were the games we won. They also don't remember in game 6, Lin defended Lillard very well down the stretch, only to be replaced in the last second for defensive purposes, and then we had the ill-fated switch/non-switch that lef to the Lillard 3 that ended the series. The only guy that consistently played great in that series was Dwight. Harden was meh, Bev/Parsons meh, Lin had a bad OT as did Harden and Bev, but played great in the two OT wins, yet that's all people remember. So I understand what you would think if a guy like Tinman replays that Lin TO over and over again, but it is what it is. Lin botched another fast break layup with no defenders in front of him, but other than that he was 4-5 with 12pts in 18min and +8 or something like that. And then he pulled a hamstring. Then you get postera coming out to say Lin is injury prone when he has averaged probably 75+ games a season for the last 4 seasons. It's all in the mind of people. I mean, can you believe as a PG alongside Harden, Lin averaged 6 assists in his first season in about 30min? Look at the performance of all our PGs in the last 4 years?
Showed me when you cheered madly for Lin before. Love to see those posts. We paid a 1st round pick, because Morey wanted to chase Bosh (and how Parsons left as well), and he had to pay a 1st round pick because the cash component of the poison pill contract was $15m.in season 3. A mid-late first round pick is ~$3-4m, so it was monetary reimbursement. If Lin wasnt on the Rockets and only Harden was in season 1, Rockets would not have made the playoffs. Dont believe me? Check Harden's splits and Lin's splits second half of the season. If the Rockets had not made the playoffs that season, Dwight wouldnt have joined the next season. There would not be the western cobference finals run later. It's all perspectives. You choose to focus on one TO, I chose to look at a bigger picture.
BTW, it's good to chat over the differences in opinion. Better than the guy that talks about chickens and is pretty much the clown of the thread.
