My worry about Lin (and I am a Lin fan) is if he handles the ball too much, he always have those boneheaded turn-overs. The game where he is 0 t/o in 27 min or so, he handles the ball less. He catch the pass, either drive to the rim (no passing), shoot it or quickly pass it. In the OKC game, he is back to dribbling into the painted area, then go out, dribble dribble - turn-over. Also, I don't think he can use in the coming games his stop under the rim and shoot. He will be scouted. Why he not make a floater, he is good at that last year, I mean Bev is hitting those floaters now and it's beautiful.
He's never good at floaters, thought that was on his list to add over summer, but he tried to improve more on his shootings, which he should.
Man I really want people to stop posting in that other thread but ofcourse I can't do anything about it. People who are defending Lin in the other thread should just stop posting there. Nothing good comes out of it... You can't change people's minds. That other thread is so depressing. People only want to argue there. While I like this thread better because it's more positive over here. Or that's what I'm hoping for.
His turnovers didn't stop him making excellant overall contributions in a lot of games and in linsanity. Some of the TO's will be improved with familarity with teammates, but he should keep trying. We had better record with higher TO's this season.
Today's game was within reach, an epic collapse happened after Lin sub out and in the third quarter. No1 came to play except Lin
I was typing "He was making a living shooting floaters during Linsanity" but I changed it to "He made floaters during Linsanity". I forgot to delete "was"... But I guess you just tried to make fun of me, didn't you?
lin's had two 20 + point games with zero turnovers in the last three games. The key thing is once you do something, you have a much better chance of doing it again. I think he's about to 'level up' and his turnovers are going to go down. He'll probably have some rough games in the playoffs though. Needs more experience there since the difference between playoff games and regular season games is about the same between NBA and D league.
I've been critical of Lin's game for most of the season for his bonehead play, but it looks like he is getting healthy.
as long as he can play like he did tonight, its cool. Maybe its better that he rides the bike when he's not in. One of his big problems always seemed to be that he cooled off while on the bench and he seems to need to run and get warm before his game gets hot.
Damn you LOF. I don't usually post much but when I do... He was the only bright spot I can remember tonight though which I find rather sad. Very disappointed from tonight's loss but maybe this will wake us up and have us motivated to kill Miami Sunday.
Reading Clutchfans would make one think that Jeremy Lin is either a bad, overrated player or a talented player who is having a bad year. When Lin has played 24 or more minutes per game (i.e. half the game or more) he averages 15.3 pts, 5.4 asts, 3.7 TOs, and 47.56% shooting. The team's record in those games is 28-14. Those are really good numbers and results (though the TO rate is higher than last year).
Glad he's getting out of that funk. Lin was terrible, excited to see him be a contributer. Makes the team that much more deep, and hopefully a productive bench.
You shouldn't be, it's all about match ups. Lin isn't as effective against teams with top shelf, athletic shot blockers (OKC or Indiana for example) as they can impair his ability to get to the rim. He does exceptionally well against teams without top flight shot blockers (like the Spurs or Chicago). This is also one of Harden's weaknesses (though to a lesser degree). Lin also does very well against teams that are not great in transition defense as he's the best player on the team when it comes to pushing the ball. So very Fast, Athletic teams which are also LONG that can chase the ball down and get a hand in the passing lane also reduce his effectiveness (like the Clippers) in the open court. So, against the Spurs, Bulls, GSW, Portland, etc Lin will slice and dice their half-court defense. Against slower teams like Memphis or the Bulls, Lin will carve them up in transition. Teams like OKC you'll get more middling results depending on defensive assignments (more effective if played with Harden as Harden draws more focus). And the Clippers are just a tough match up for the team all around (Long, athletic, fast, and able to single man defend Harden). The key is McHale *should* understand how to match up on the floor properly in a way that's more nuanced that "big or small". If you play OKC, you should ideally have Harden + Lin to drive the offense. If you play the Spurs either Lin or Harden can still be effective. If you play Memphis you pretty much *must* have Lin on the floor since Harden and Bev are erratic when it comes to pushing the ball in transition. And against the Bulls, Lin should have been spending a LOT more time on the floor as soon as McHale saw that Harden was struggling. All in all, just poor in-game adjustments, and that's going to haunt the Rockets when we hit the play offs.
