Can we have a serious discussion about Jeremy Lin?

Really? If 25 games of linsanity is too small of a sample size, 2.5 games of linsuckity is enough to dump him?

If you want better production from the PG, it will cost more than $8m.

 

If you are talking about the playoffs, SMALL SAMPLE SIZE. Everybody played scared in Game1. Lin played decent in Game 2 until he got hurt. He shouldn't have played tonight because he was clearly not able to function well with the injury.

There. That's his playoffs career. Let's start judging him from that.

 

Lin should not be playing in his current state. We know that Lin playing tentatively does not help the team, and how else could he play if he's in constant pain?

When healthy, Lin has shown himself to be a solid, if generally unspectacular, starting PG. He can absolutely be an important piece of a championship team. Its unfair to judge him based on his output in this series.

 

By "his showing in the playoffs", then, you mean "his first playoff game ever, plus two injury-ridden clusterf***s"? Too small of a sample size and too riddled with odd circumstances to extrapolate his worth to the team.

How about using the 82 game season we just saw? That tells ME at least that he's a mediocre to average starter, but is also 24 years old and capable of improving (just look at the in-season improvements in his three-point shot).

No doubt, if you're the architect of this team PG is the second weakest position and if Chris Paul is walking through that door you take him. But Lin did fine this year.

 

should have never let Dragic go

 

lulz

No, we can't have a serious discussion about Jeremy Lin.

 

Sigh. OP says we should have a serious discussion about a player & then uses a 60 minutes sample of a 24 year old players first experience in the post season as a basis for saying he isn't a starting PG for a contending team. Laughable.

 

Just take an arrow in your knee and go.

 

you would see israel and palestine playing endless games of soccer friendlies before your suggestion of having a "serious" discussion.

 

I feel the only time we can seriously make this call is after next year's playoff run

 

I don't know what to say about the Lin's situation. I don't know if injury have any effect on him or whether because we're way behind that they need to try some other players. Really, i can't gauge the matter cuz i don't know. And i don't think you know.

I do know this: When healthy, Lin is one of the driving force and run this offense by pushing the ball harder than anyone beside Harden.

 

I've been a die hard Rockets fan since 1991 and i say, GIVE THE KID A BREAK. We can discuss this after atleast 2 to 3 years.

 

Biggest games for who? We know he doesn't play for you.

 

All this thread needs to be even more hilarious is the OP citing +/- as evidence or making a graph like JCDenton.

 

Yes I hate him as a plkauer please Daryl Get rid of him in the offseason on a Snt

 

You're either willing to invest some time into developing a young, raw player with some good upside and be patient doing so or you're not and therefore if Les or Morey is the latter they SHOULD trade him to a franchise that is willing to do the former.

 

And to add to my post above I've never thought the coaching staff is willing to invest the time and energy into developing Lin just like I didn't think Woodson's coaching staff was willing to either.