I am a fan of Lin but I gotta say that you're wrong about Beverley. I've seen improvement from him on the offensive end this preseason and while he's not on Lin's level, he's not completely hopeless. Your statement about Beverley, imo, is just as silly as saying that Lin can't defend. Lin CAN defend, and defend well, but he doesn't defend in Beverley's style, and perhaps slightly less efficiently depending on if your judging solely on on-ball pressure. Ditto with Beverley's playmaking, while its not Lin's style, he can playmake, with good handles, and while he may be slightly less creative than Lin offensively, he's also more controlled.
My observation is that Beverley tend to stay too close to opposing team PG and they can get away easier in one-on-one defense situation relatively easily if the other team's PG is quick. While Lin is harder for other PG to get pass him one-on-one. Thus they usually call up another team mate to do picks and that's why you see Lin got involved in defending a lot of opposing team's PnR play. Lin's defense on PnR was good the first half of last game in Taipei but second half he didn't do as well maybe due to fatigue. So in this sense Lin's one-on-one defense is pretty good, you don't see the other team do a lot of picks to pick off Beverley because they don't really need to, their PG can handle Beverley by himself.
i don't think it matters whether lin starts or not. Team chemistry and finishing are the more important things
Which sentence in my post says that Lin can't defend? You are crazy. I think Lin isn't a great defender, but he is a good defender, 3rd behind Parsons and Bev last year. I have all of last year's games to prove my point that Bev is not a playmaker, ALL of last year's games. He might have improved a little this year, I don't know, preseason is too mall of sample size to judge Bev's playmaking ability. But I have every right believe it won't be any dramatic improvement.
Wow, clutch crew merged the other thread: → Lin needs to be in the starting unit, and other things. into this thread, this is pretty underhanded. People create that thread because they don't agree the title of this thread and don't want to keep bumping it. Please respect freedom of speech if you can help it.
It's all about longevity in the NBA. Just because we have two great players in Harden and Howard, doesn't mean we need to run them to death. We don't need to do that to win. The biggest reason why I want Lin in the starting unit is because it would dramatically reduce Harden's pg duty, so he can put in more effort on the defensive end. Rox is a great offensive team, our defense is our biggest priority this season. If Harden can take leadership on the defensive end, he will be a true super star. At end of day, it's everybody's opinion. Nobody can predict the future. As I said, it doesn't matter who starts, as long as Rox win. If Bev ends up starting and we are doing well, then fine ride with it. But it doesn't give us Ws, then start Lin. It's that simple. Imo, I think Lin is a better choice as the starting pg for the reason stated above.
I know right. It makes perfect sense to merge two completely different opinions into one thread, I mean c'mon. I don't know if I should post more on this site if all they end up doing is merging non-related topics together.
There is an (unwritten?) rule that you don't make a new thread if the topic is being discussed in an existing thread. It's happened on a lot of occasions, not just for Lin.
The there should be one gigantic thread then, technically all posts are about Rockets, right? I just don't think I was posting about the same thing. It wasn't just about Lin anyway, so what's up with that? Unbelievable how they merged my post into this one. SMH.
That should teach some of you a lesson or two before making a new thread about the same topic every 20 minutes. Since the garm is the most cluttered we need to stop this.
yeah but imagine for every post that there exists a counterpost. the garm would be flooded with similar threads.
I understand that the site wants to keep posts organized and make the forum look clean, but as I said, I wasn't posting the same thing. This thread "Jeremy Lin needs to be the sixth man," is all about Lin and Beverley and who should start. My post wasn't. I have talked enough about other things that I think my post has earned its right to be posted as a new thread. Maybe I am not used to how this forum operates, but I don't think it makes me or any newcomer want to post more.
I think you're mistunderstanding me. I didn't say you posted the same thing. What I said what that you posted a counterpost which means it's the opposite of an existing thread's opinion. Now it's also time to merge all the Omri Caspi threads as well.
I thought it was perfectly fine for Clutch to do this. It's basically two sides of one argument. Starting vs coming off the bench. You can't discuss one without the other, so do it together. No big deal.
So you're saying every post in every message board should be similar views? You do realize that in a "Casspi should start" thread there are people in there saying he shouldn't, right? Message board threads by nature contain point and counterpoint. Otherwise, we'd double the threads for no reason.
Not sure what that means. But tinman not one of my favorite personalities here. Prefer playing for championship this year, than reminiscing about Otis Thorpe.
I wonder how many of you want to continue to ignore the fact that I have actually talked about things other than Lin and Beverley in my original post. It's ok though. I understand people like to do things their own ways. I am fine with whoever regulates this website doing what they deem to be the right things to do. I just don't think it's a good practice merging threads together when one is clearly distinguishable from the other. It's cool. I just hope other newcomers won't run into the same situations where they think their opinions can't be rightfully spread. I will stop posting stuff on this forum from now on just to avoid running into the same situation, when it doesn't make me feel like I am being fairly treated in the sense.
