[ClutchFans] Lin and Yang: Why Choose One Point Guard When You Can Have Two?

You can't seriously think that.
Mchale just doesn't have a clue when it comes to stuff like that. remember, he also genuinely didn't believe there was an issue with lowry. just don't ask lowry that.

you have to take to account that mchale comes from an era where there was no touchy feely crap. if you had a problem, you punch them in the face.


It was lin that said chasing linsanity was distracting him from enjoying the game. Mchale was basically re-iterating those words in a mchalie way.

 

If he's really that clueless then he shouldn't be a coach. He may have been a great player but something got lost in translation when he became a coach.

 

Starting line up is fine as it is, McHale just needs to figure out how to fit in Howard offensively (like run more PnR). I see that as a bigger problem than the guards.

 

Yes, the McHalie way.

I think my opinion of McHale started changing when I saw this clip Grigori posted during the preseason about the Celtics team that McHale was on. (The clip with the great line, "Has there ever been a better passing team than this...." I remember thinking, I want them to say that about this Rockets team someday. ) There were short glimpses of McHale in unguarded moments talking to reporters, etc. and young McHale seemed kind of intense and slightly clueless (vis a vis dealing with the press). It made me like him more for some reason.

 

You should write tabloid headlines.

 

Lol. Yes, Jordann, I think you could have a future in that.

 

That's because of one game where Harden was out and Lin started and scored 30+ points. I could that as a bench game because he essentially was doing just that.

The point isn't about Lin being a "starter" or a "bench" player - it's about maximizing Lin's time away from Harden. Not saying that they can't play well together - it's just a better way to utilize the two.

So yes, the evidence supports keeping him on the bench for now. He's doing so well, why mess that up?

 

Mchale had front row seat to how the expectations of linsanity effected Jeremy. And jeremy himself owned up to that this past summer. In mchales mind, the less that people talk about linsanity, the less that people measure Lin by linsanity, the better. I know that can come across as him having low expectations of Lin and thinking linsanity was a fluke.

But I don't think that necessarily the case. He could still have very high expectations for him... He just won't say what those are because that doesn't help with anything. He's just letting Lin develop at his own pace, and tried to publicly remove the expectations of linsanity from him. I think that's a good thing.

"There is a joy about him when he plays that is fun to see." This is a cool quote. And sounds like he's becoming a real Lin fan. After all, isn't this why we love watching him play in the first place?

 

If Mchale is not a liar, then who is? He likes to put words into his player's mouth. Dude is clueless.

 

Yes, it is. It was missing in stretches last year, and it is so good to see that back

 

As of now Lin is on the court without harden for about 8 minutes a game which is pretty much how much time he played away from Harden last year as a starter. And Lin was playing well as a starter last year but that didn't stop McHale from moving him to bench & Bev was playing well on the bench last year but McHale started him. Why did we mess that up? Just some food for thought.

 

Lin went to the bench primarily to support the twin towers experiment. Bev is a better fit with the crowd in the paint, and the Rockets wanted to see if they could get Asik effectively involved with Howard. Now that that experiment is over we May see Lin getting more starts. But I don't really expect that change until after the All-Star break.

 

That was PR spin. TT is over and he's still not starting.

 

If he keeps on outplaying Beverly so much then he should start. His problem is however that the better he plays the more the coach will argue that he is a good fit for 6th man. No escape really until McHale is fired perhaps.

 

These coaches see these players in practice every day. I think they've had a chance to evaluate Harden's defense for over a year, and they're not too optimistic, at least in the short term. The Beverley move seems to be their temporary solution until Harden gets better.

I think Bev's move up to a starter shows the coaching staff's lack of faith in Harden more than in Lin.

 

Patrick Beverley is a high energy defence specialist. It is larghable to call him a NBA caliber starting point guard.

It is amazing how much the hate can do to people. Yes, I am talking about the Lin hater in this forum.

 

Because mchale hates his guts. Anyone who thinks otherwise, ala Lowry anybody?

 

He thought linsanity is a dream, that kid cant be jeremy lin, but lin has to prove to him that he can be that good . Now lin is better than two years ago, he just need a coach who believe him, a chance that he is a PG holding the ball.

 

I guess the coach staff had realized that Lin is better off the bench due to the fact that he is a rhythm shooter. He could find his rhythm easier off the bench.

Look.. If they start Lin, they would just let him play off Harden at the very beginning and when he comes back from the bench to start the 2nd quarter with the 2nd-Line up, his body and hands would be ice-cold. Otherwise, when Lin play off the bench for 15 mins straight, he could find his rhythm easier than they turn him on & off & on & off.