I'm beginning to believe. Dude played good game tonight. If he can keep playing like this with Melo in the fold I'll be sold. Yellow Mamba!
barring major injuries, the starting guards in the east will be rose and wade for the next few years. So votes don't really matter.
Linsanity looks like he's for real. He faced his first big test against a decent defense/team tonight, and he pulled through. The dude dropped 38 in his fourth start! He outplayed Kobe Bryant! I said it before, I love Lin's playing style. Aggressive drives to the hoop for easy layups and foul shots all night long. Play like that and it's VERY hard to have a bad shooting night. This game was pretty much a textbook on the differences between efficient and inefficient offense. God, look at Kobe launching all those long, contested 2pt fadeaways. Future Hall of Famer or not, his weakness has always been his willingness to go for those tough shots. Jeremy has outplayed (and out thought) yet another star. He's starting to make a list...
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this is like saying bruce lee wasn't chinese. but this is nba dish not D&D so i'll leave it at that. btw his mother is from mainland and lin clearly got his height from his mom.
But his dad's dad is from China. So I guess that means his dad is Chinese, therefore making him Chinese. If his dad's Chinese that means JLin must be Chinese That's how it works right? Who cares, he's American.
The Taiwan/China thing shouldn't be that much of an argument. Taiwan's official name is "Republic of China" (as opposed to the mainland "People's Republic of China). Ethnically, most people in Taiwan are Chinese. While Taiwan basically operates as an independent nation, it never declared independence. As far as I know, Taiwan still claims to BE China. The US government plays it both ways, holding back from recognizing Taiwan's independence while promising to militarily defend Taiwan's independence. But as SuperHighFly said, Jeremy Lin is American.
Watch the video in the sidebar of the one you linked titled Jeremy Lin speaking Chinese. It's pretty obvious his Mandarin is neither the 'proper' Beijing accent of the Mainland (no rolled r's at the end of words.. this is what Yao speaks) nor the Fujian/Minnan accent that's common in Taiwan. In fact, his Mandarin is the broken, unpolished accent common to most ABC kids who grew up speaking English to everyone except their Chinese diaspora parents, in other words, 90% of their life. Who cares what ancient long-forgotten village his ancestors originated from. It's where HE's from that counts.
