[Y Sports Radio] Calvin Murphy: Jeremy Lin Needs The Ball In His Hands

Pretty obvious analysis but good thing someone pointed it out. Harden is a fantastic player but he's not a team by himself and at times in the recent lose streak, he has taken it upon himself to try and do the scoring for the whole team, even when he's shooting really poorly. I'm not saying he shouldn't be taking the lion's share of shots but he needs to trust his teammates more and find them when they are in better shooting positions instead of forcing shots from really difficult positions. The team was winning when everyone bought in to moving the ball around quickly and everyone on the team were getting good looks but it's become more iso heavy of late with Harden playing hero ball too much. Lin has to take more responsibility too and not pass it off to Harden so often, even if that's McHale's gameplan. Lin should become more aggressive and drive to the hoop more, either to get the lay-up, pull-up for a mid-range jumper or kik it out to an open shooter. If he does this more and gets the shot, foul calls and/or assists, then McHale will not have a problem with Lin if he can pull it off. During Linsanity, Lin showed he was great at taking contact while taking it to the basket. He has realize that being passive and deferring to Harden will only get his minutes reduced and Beverly is waiting in the wings. Lin is good enough to be an above-average starting PG but it's down to him to be more aggressive and relight that Linsanity spark which I know he's capable of.

 

You are a lost cause. I see Lin as he is, for what he has done in the league and finally for what he is currently doing. I see the organization using the guy that gives them the best chance to win now. Lin is not that guy. To tell you the truth most of these guys will not even be here the next time we become a contender.
Harden is the only one that will be wearing rocket red long term.

To take line from Royce, be well my friend.

Good debating with you

 

(1) He is injured and washed up

(2)A prime Billups, like all "dominant" PGs, is not sacrifing his game so that Harden can freelance at his position. He would want to run his team and will tell you to GTFO.

 

so true, lol

 

We set the league record for second most wins in a row with rafter at the pg.

Not sure if the clippers broke it this year.

Yeah, I'll agree it ended badly with tmac but that dude was a gifted player when he was here.

 

Internet debate is just so fun. one thing convince me is no one can convince anyone.

 

If the coaches half-court offense is down to Hardenball because he's the best at one on one heroball then the coaches suck...but I guess I already said that before so never mind.

 

And? You broke the win record because of prime Yao and TMAC beasting in the regular season (yet again) not because of Alston running the offense FFS.

I agree that TMAC was a gifted player but he was also a quitter and in sports quitter = loser.

 

Dude Yao was not even playing at the time. He was hurt. Rafter was a solid point guard. See I think you think I'm saying Lin should be getting 25 pts and 14 asst and 10 boards every night. The rockets just need him to be solid and consistent be a stabilizing force that can keep the team on track and get them back on track when they fall off. That is what floor general type pg does.

 

well, then guess I'll have to give TMAC his props for yet another meaningless record.

 

Yeah just saying that they do exist unlike unicorns, unless of course you're from North Korea.

 

Agree. A player should just play one role at a time even if he has other skills, which is good for team efficiency and for his development. Otherwise the player could grow his reliance on playing other roles for the purpose of getting his main work done correctly, hurting the efficiency of the whole team.

 

You Lin apologists are so annoying.

If he does something right, its because he is amazing. If he does something wroing, its because of someone else.

He just isn't a very good basketball player.

 

Yep. And we were losing because of hardens ball hogging and turnovers. Not cause our defense and terrible shooting.

We also won yesterday because the coaches "let" Lin play, not because we made shots, played sound d and ran in transition.

 

1) Did you consider that we were making more shots because the players we're being set up more effectively by our guards passing the ball?

2) Did you consider that players tend to play better, more intense D when they feel like they're a part of the offense?

3) Did you consider that playing better D leads to more transition opportunities, which brings us back to number 2?

 

Lin, himself, has stated that it starts with solid D and pushing the ball in transition. Strong D leads to more transition opportunities, which lead to more offensive involvement.

http://www.nba.com/rockets/news/controlled-aggression

 

Last night's win over the Hornets exemplifies this.

 

Gladly agree.

 

Lin could definitely be more aggressive in relatively few chances he was getting. Rest of the **** is all off the ball in their stagnant offense that he's pretty much out of place in. Yeah, he gets the ball, most of the team does. Not much for any of them to do with it outside of chucking up a long jumper, mainly because they don't do terribly much outside of watching harden. Pretty much guaranteeing they are playing 4 on 5 as you don't have to guard him out there.

Harden SHOULDN'T get any blame, he's not the coach.

 

Yao did play in the first 12 games of the win streak. He was injured on 26Feb2008. The 22 game win streak started on 29Jan2008 (vs GSW) & ended on 18Mar2008 (vs Celtics).