Jeremy Lin's list of excuses -Turns the ball over a lot - Dwight has bad hands!! Jeremy makes perfect passes but Dwight and Asik keep dropping them. Otherwise he get 10+ assists with 0 TO's NP!!! -Does not shoot the ball well - McHale no let Jeremy Lin get into a rhythm. -Jeremy Lin is not aggressive- Did you see casspi playing PG? How can you play basketball if you're not the PG??? **** you Casspi for ball hogging. and finally -Jeremy Lin does not play well overall McHale is conspiring against Jeremy!! Did you see how he yanked his minutes around and played him at strange times. He's trying to marginalize him!!! Well dang...at least when Jeremy Lin plays well they'll stop right? NOPE -Jeremy Lin plays well and McHale finally plays him a lot like Harden.. but he doesn't score in the 4th quarter. - McHale over played Jeremy Lin and played him the entire 4th quarter!!!! Otherwise he hit clutch shots! -Jeremy Lin plays 30 minutes #$#$# u McHale. You only play Jeremy 30 minutes, we win game if you play him 40+ minutes. -Harden goes iso and misses game winning shot Why you no let Jeremy shoot!! He win game for us NP!!! Summary: McHale cannot win and Jeremy Lin can do no wrong.
Yes, 36 points to a D Leaguer is cherry picking one of the worst players in basketball. That's hilarious. Good point.
Indeed. Or to put it another way: If Jeremy sux/Rox lose, then "McFail!" If Jeremy rox/Rox win, then "Jeremy!" <3 :*
So just admit Lin is a poor defensive player and there are legitimate reasons for him not playing 35 minutes a game when his shot is not falling and he's not getting to the rim. The stark denial that requires you to take weak aspects of the games of better players than Lin and use that to somehow prop up Lin is embarrassing. Harden, Parker, and Westbrook are all far superior players to Lin. Stop living in delusion.
In an effort to get more consistent play overall, Rockets center Dwight Howard said players might have to ask out of games more often. James Harden is fourth and Chandler Parsons is seventh in the NBA in minutes played per game. Howard has played an average of 35.2 minutes, the 31st most in the NBA. “We have to play four consistent quarters of basketball,” Howard said. “It can’t be one quarter or two quarters or three. It has to be four. Guys have to know their limits, know when they need a break, be humble enough to raise their hand and get somebody else in to play those minutes. A lot of times, guys cruise. I’ve cruised a couple times, wanted to stay out there longer. “You can’t do that if you want to be a great team. You have to go out there and go hard and play 48 minutes as hard as you can, whether that’s 20 minutes, five minutes, 30 minutes (each), we have to all give it all and trust that the guy off the bench is going to give us the same effort or more. We all have to get to that level where we trust each other and trust that the guy that is going to come in for us will come in with the same intensity. Once we get there, we’ll be a tough team to beat.”
Lin didn't have a good game, but for all those who thinks Bev can be a defensive stopper for long stretches is kidding themselves. Monte had 37 points and bev played a large chunk of his minutes guarding him.
Monta is a bigger guard though Apparently its hard for some to process that its harder to defend bigger/stronger/longer players
you were watching with antilin bifocals on, both bev and lin had given up five points each at the end of the half. Funny enough, that all the points they gave up were given up in the same manner. Caught behind picks.
Picking the stat of one game is not cherry picking. Just sad. Let's try this again. Lin held an nba starter to zero point. He's an elite defender.
So you extrapolated all this from my rebuttal to another poster's comment on how Lin was torched by a D-leaguer and thus a defensive liability. While Lin, a D-leaguer and undrafted who put up some big numbers against solid point guards, so they must be, by that poster's logic, defensive liabilities. And you call me delusional. Hello? Maybe you're the one who needs to come back to reality.
If your going to tear down one of the top performers on the team that you support, maybe you should get your facts straight. Anderson didn't score 36 points on Lin. He scored 19 points on Lin which is still a lot, but Lin's D on all of those 19 points was good except for the first 4 points, where Lin got beat off of the dribble by him twice. After the first two possessions Lin played very good D, Anderson was just on fire.
Oh, here's a YouTube highlight video of Anderson's torching of Lin: Lin had some lapses, but when he was defending Anderson it was a matter of great offense beating good defense.
I disagree, I think it would be worthwhile to try and develope Lin. I'm a rocket fan and I think Lin has shown great potential already. He's improved since last yr, he's also a hard worker, I feel he's also fairly loyal and not greedy. He does want to be appreciated and he's work hard to get that. Also a outstanding character and that's just a plus. He has shown he can fit into a system as well, though he still needs to prove consistency. Why wouldn't you try to develope this player, its not like we are trading for a top for a top 5 pg and not likely we get one soon. Lin still has a lot to inprove, but at least hes recognizes it and has been improving. Rondo will be better in some cases for the rockets but I don't think hes the answer nor would he be a better fit with harden then Lin. rondo would be good with d12 and defnese but to really be great team we need someone who's also fits with the rest of the team, and I think Lin has potential to be that and at a cheaper cost then rondo alowing us to improve in other areas such as a better wing defender or pf (though tj has been proving to be a good pf for us lately).
It wasn't merely one game, it was a game against a guy from the D League that averages 4 points per game. I'm not sure what part of that you're missing.
