[CultureMap] Jeremy Lin shackeling hurts the Rockets: Almost treated with Tim Tebow disdain

The problem is, you cant.

8 mil a year can't get you anything half decent these days.

 

i am laughing at how many thought and are still thinking beverley is better and derserved to play over than lin. who has the high or low IQ is clearly demonstrated throughout many threads on this board.

what about t-rob? how many has actuallty watched him playing? he is so raw that i am completely lost. why were and are so many high on him before they even knew what he looks like? frankly speaking, i still don't have any clue on what t-rob could be? a bust, role player, or someone derseved to be picked at 5?

 

If Harden cared about his statistics they would be a hell of a lot higher. He shots less than almost any superstar and will defer for whole quarters when the team is doing well.

 

I'm not surprised TRob is raw. He's young, he's barely played any minutes, and his development environment was the Sacramento Kings.

And whether you believe he should have been a top 5 pick or not is just an impression and opinion. None of us actually know how he'll pan out, just that he displayed good rebounding instincts and was highly athletic.

Still, I don't doubt he's a top 10 pick for sure... which means he potentially has some upside.

Under ideal circumstances, he wouldn't sniff the rotation and would be working on his game as the 3rd PF or in the D-league. It speaks to our lack of depth at PF that he's getting the minutes that he gets.

I think it's way too early to judge TRob. Half a season on a real squad vs the Kings and we'll have a much better idea. Unfortunately for us, that half season coincides with our play off push, putting the team in a bit of a spot.

We can only hope the rest of the Roster has what it takes to make up the difference.

 

Keith Smart telling TRob to work on his perimeter skills so he can play the 3 at times just shows you how badly of a mess the Kings are.

 

he should be in d-league. i don't know why he is still getting mins in nba.

The point is not how I view him. the point is i am laughing at those ppl who are supposed to have high bball IQ. they have no clue on anything of him but just blinded to believe him. just like they thought beverley looked better than lin.

 

Can you understand for Lin to score more than 21 points last night, he would have to take more than 16 shots as he did?

I actually think the author is right when he says 16 shots isn't enough, FOR LAST NIGHT. Or do we NOT want him to score more than 21 points last night?

And I don't think in this article he is saying that Lin is making 16 FGAs per game over the season, but is just saying Lin should take more shots than his current average to help the team, and WHEN HE IS HOT like last night "when he is the only player firing at anything close to a 50% rate," 16 shots will not be enough.

Isn't for Lin to take more shots what a lot of people here have been calling for for months?

 

thought there was somthing to talk about here ...

 

clutch is laughing at you right now.:grin::grin::grin:

 

Good point.

 

Actually the problem is everyone has a different view of what Lin should be doing, and even worse is they insult anyone else who thinks differently by questioning their IQ or whatever.

I would love for Lin to be the focal point of Houston's offence, but I don't think he's ready for that yet. Even Harden at this point is made to look bad when the other team prepares for him properly. Lin's best moments come when he makes everyone around him better, and then unexpectedly takes over when points are needed.

I've put it in my sig all season. 16 pts and 8 assists a night is great for Lin. For that, 15-16 shots should be enough, especially if he pops a couple of 3's and sinks a few FTs. Next year maybe I'll up it to 20 pts and 9 assists a night, but 16/8 makes me happy this year.

 

:grin:

 

Can't say that is true. Many, Lin himself included, have scored more pts on less shots. And technically speaking, Lin would have scored more had he made his free throws.

Not a knock on Lin, he gave valiant effort & was the only one who had a decent FG% on Sunday. But to say he needs 16+ shots to score 20+ pts just isn't true. Lin is a much better player than that.

 

i agree. arguing how many shots he should take and how many min he should play is meaningless. i don't know why so many ppl are interested in these tiny things. what's the difference btw 16 and 17 shots? what's the difference btw playing 32 min and 34 min? i can't understand those ppl.

 

Clutch, it's quite obvious that you don't particularly like Lin fans but the disdain you show to those who agree with the basic message of the article which is to trust jeremy more is completely not fair. Yes, everyone sees the mistakes in this article and that the GSW game was a bad example as what do they want? For Lin to shoot 50 shots? But this article would have had valid points were it about the game a week or two ago when Lin was benched yet again in the 4th. No need to bring up a trollish article like this yourself then openly mock and disparage posters for expressing their views when the basic point is really a debatable point.

Unless you dispute that?! That benching Lin in the 4th was completely the right choice and undebatable, or if you feel that the coaches really have trusted Lin all this time and many of us have in an insane Lin-worshipping brainwashed low bball iq stupor somehow misunderstood the benching of Lin in the fourth as a show of a lack of confidence, which of course it was.

The article's main contention was for the coaches to trust Lin more and not to sit him in the fourth giving him irregular minutes to close the game with a sprinkle of hyperbole and bad examples such as the 16 shot example added to it, but to ridicule those who agree in such a manner??

 

Lin hasn't really proven anything yet. If he keeps on playing like this I'm sure he'll get more opportunities.

 

Lynching in 3, 2, 1

 

Raskol

you know what I really think it is.
I think you're jealous that Clutch can talk to Jeremy Lin anytime he wants and that Lin knows who Clutch is.

You are mad that he is a pure Rocket fan and he's rewarded for being pure while your Lin fandom has done nothing for you to get close to him.

Hell, I even met Lin last week.

It's jealousy that the pure Rocket fans will always be superior to the Lin fans, on this board and in life.