Not arguing the fact he might not be 100% yet, just wondering why he is making poor decisions out there.
I want to like Lin but he plays like S**t, to the point that I hope we draft a good point guard this upcoming draft.
He got taken out of his game really easily. I think his poor shooting is really affecting his confidence. From what I read he worked really hard on his shooting this off season so likely just him not shooting well is really bothering him mentally. He just has to push through it & shoot don't think about it to much. It is easier said that done he just has to do it, he will be all the better for it.
i think he has gone from too passive in trying to find an open man to trying to shoot his way out of this slump and just praying it goes in.
He needs to be able to effect the game in other ways. Can't have to many disappearing acts like tonight and expect to keep his starting job.
He is in a major shooting slump right now needs to get out of it. It makes him so much easier to guard & it affects the entire team we saw that tonight. I don't know I will wait until after the NY game that should be a really interesting one. Apparently he hits his shots in shoot around but it doesn't translate into games & he presses. And Sampson in my opinion keeps him on a really short leash which doesn't help. I get that Sampson wants to win games & the team comes first over any player but at the same time. I tend to feel that McHale would trust his starters. Lin just has to grind.
I liked hearing tonight from all the national basketball analysts who really see things from a much less biased view. There has been talk about staggering minutes between him and Harden, but in the second half of the season, those guys might be right to go ahead and move Lin into a bench(Harden/OKC)role where he can run the show with the bench crew. Its something to think about doing, but I would like to see them give the Harden/Lin experiment till the all-star break to see what can happen. Its still early, and it just takes time for players of their offensive calliber to mesh together on the court. In a facilitator type role, Lin did pretty good tonight(as he usually does) against the Celtics though. The Lin to the Bench scoring role just might make this team lethal with him coming off the bench filling up the score board if they decide to try it out later in the season. Just something to keep an eye on.
I think Lin could really flourish off the bench, could even be a top 6th men if he bought in. Don't forget Mchale was once a 6th man in Boston, he could help sell Jeremy on the idea.
He has to score. That's it. There's just no excuse to not being a good jump shooter. Even if you have the ball, you can't just do lay-ups. You also have to have a jump shot. It's not like the difference between catch and shoot and stop and shoot is heaven or hell. He just doesn't have a good jump shot.
Problem is, McHale doesn't see Lin as someone who can run an offense without Harden on the floor. You never see Lin playing when Harden is out for some inexplicable reason.
I think Lin is a bit timid on the floor and doesn't look for his shot when Harden is in the game. He "defers" a bit too much. Great that he wants to be a great teammate and 7 times in 27 minutes is awesome, but I do think he needs to look for his own shot more.
Staggering minutes or having Lin come off the bench is a tiny tiny bandaid for a gaping wound of a problem. Harden is going to play AT LEAST 36 minutes a game, so Lin AT MOST will get 12 minutes by himself. If Harden plays 40 min, Lin gets only 8 minutes by himself. Even if Lin comes off the bench -- haha, let's just entertain this idea -- the coaches will still have to figure out how to maximize their time together, because most of the time, they will be on the court at the same time. (Unless they just want to sit Lin out for entire quarters, final quarter no less, like tonight.) If you think about the numbers, the staggering/benching idea really doesn't address the core issue.
