he did alot small things which are hard to be recorded with #s. this is what mchale wants him to do. do you watch baseball? if do, you should understand the leadoff man and home run hitter. clearly, mchale knows lin is a home run hitter. it means he can carry the team by his stick. that is what home run hitter does.
You're just repeating what I'm saying son. Lin had 29 points in that OKC game, and guess what, we won? Then follow that up with <15 point games and we go 1-2, 2 against teams we have favored to win. Sorry if I actually have expectations for this team. Sorry if I get pissed off because we are losing on this "easy" schedule. Sorry that you don't really care about this team. But oh yeah, we beat the thunder, who cares if we lost to the wizards and bucks who were on a b2b?
Stop putting words in my mouth, where did you get that "You dont really care about this team"? Out of your arse? Just because I have a lowered expectation given the fact that this is a young team, doesnt make me any less of a fan than you.
I watched the replay three times to be sure what actually happened. The last fast break happened in the last minute (46 seconds left). Harden had Parsons right behind a bit on the left and Lin was less than two steps after Parsons. As Harden took his last three steps towards the rim, a buck crossed him in his front from left side. Then Sanders blocked the layup from behind when Parsons was wide open on the left. At the split second when the block happened, I thought Harden was selfish or playing hero ball, since it would have been an easier layup if he had just passed the ball to Parsons. Lin seems to be more aware of things happening around, even of those behind him some times.
Whats that supposed to mean? Strictly speaking none have won us anything since the Dream, if you were talking about games then Lin has contributed in plenty of our wins this season.
Right upon the 17 point lead with Just less than 6 minutes left, McHale brought TRob, Smith and Beverley up consecutively. And then we saw the 17 points cut to two with 30 seconds left in the first quarter. The subs by themselves were necessary. But when you saw 7 or eight points gone in just two or three minutes, or your team hasn't scored a single point in four or five minutes, you need to immediately call time out and make some changes. I didn't see McHale do that.
The Mavs has been hot in the last ten games. I actually think they are more dangerous than the Bucks as we have already lost to them both at home and in their court. We need to get two games back from them to guarantee our seat in the playoffs.
When will this coaching stubbornness with multi-PG system end? Let's check the W-L record with their TOs: 1. When Harden has at least 6 TOs, their record is 2-7 (22% Win Pct). When will they not utilize Harden as the PG and curb the TOs like they did Lin? 2. When Parsons had at least 4 TOs, their record is 2-6 (25% Win Percentage) 3. When Lin had at least 5 TOs, their record is 6-2 (75% Win Percentage!!!) Don't the coaches want to win? It should be clear that Lin should be the main PG with most TOs as long as he gets most assists and wins!!!! The coaches' inconsistency in harping only for Lin on TOs but not for Harden/Parsons are maddening. The Win-Loss record should be enough to make coaches say, "Go Lin, do your PG thing. Make good TOVs trying to make plays as long as you get us a lot of assists". But nooooooo.... Coaches think future HOF Coach George Karl is clueless for saying JLin is the engine of the system. HOFer Calvin Murphy had no idea saying JLin should be the PG and Harden should be the SG. But I'm not even surprised anymore... Sometimes coaches are so stubborn and so blind to make their flawed multi-PG system to work. They'd rather try to prove themselves right and keep losing. We're not asking the coaches to revamp the system. All we ask if to make Lin be the PG before Harden and Parsons hit 6TOs and 4 TOs per game. Is that too much to ask?
And I am upset because as I have already predicted in Post #71 before the game, this "Will be a blowout win though if we tune up our defense," but our defense was still almost non-existent.
If it's Lin's own fault then he deserves it. If it's the coaching staff's fault, then it is not only unfair to Lin but the same would tend to happen later to some other players with this same coaching staffs.
Perhaps the coaches are aware of that but have some others long term goals which make them experiment with other PGs
It's exactly losing the 17-point leads and allowing the game to continue to be dead close (17 lead changes) that allows the final bad luck to set in. We need to build enough buffer early on to ward off last second lucky shots to take our game.
Good point. That could be the moment when they start looking down upon their opponents and let the wind change. Many analysts and writers have already been saying that the Rockets would play down to the level of their opponents.
Just look at the contradictions: Quote a: Lin and Parsons killed us down the stretch. We deserved to lose. Lin has his head up his ass 60% of the time and Parsons needs to play smarter. Quote b: #1 I didn't turn on Lin. I didn't say he was terrible or caused the Rockets to lose. Lin disappeared? You know what, Lin actually played pretty well down the stretch in the 4th Q. He made 2 of 4 shots & he was setting the table nicely for Parsons, Delfino & Asik. They just couldn't convert the WIDE OPEN shots. And the last few possessions, he didn't even get to bring the ball up. It was all Harden's fast break & iso plays. Go watch the video again.
