I'd blow this baby up. What I mean is I'd go out there and own my .... and I'd make sure everybody else owns theirs. If coach wants me running a play, I'd demand the ball, call the play, and if somebody didn't run it...I'd climb up their a.. and tell them about it. Confront them right on the floor. Get right in their face and hand it to them. I don't care if it's Harden, Howard, Parsons, etc. I wouldn't care. I'd blow it up. If they wanna trade me....they gonna trade me anyways. I'd play my role and when other guys screwed up...I'd climb on them. I wouldn't play around with Dwight and James. It's his career he's dealing with. If they wanna bench him for being "disruptive" or "not a team player" that's a bunch of hogwash. When you watch CP3, he doesn't let up, he doesn't let guys get away with crapping around. He's very in your face. He's the undisputed king of his team. Nash climbed up on Dwight last year as well. If Jeremy did something like that he would only help himself. It's time for him to quit allowing himself to be the victim here, to be the little kid that all the other boys pick on or that the other boys roll their eyes, shake their heads and walk away from when he's the one executing and they're the ones flubbing it up. Jeremy needs to stand up for himself. That doesn't mean he's gotta curse and act like a devil when he's a professing christian. It means he needs to hold his teammates accountable the same as he holds himself accountable. If I was Jeremy, I'd study my career and start a different course. It's obvious Dwight and James are forcing him out here. He needs to bring it to a head sooner rather than later and either force them to respect him and work with him or force his way out of town. When I say work with him, I'm talking about his teammates working with him as he works with the coaching staff. Lin isn't a rebel. He does exactly what he is coached to do to the best of his ability. He needs to force the issue for the betterment of his career. And stop with all these foolish charade games and trying to get these guys to like him. Just bring it, ball, be accountable, and hold everybody else to the same standard of accountability. What would you do if you were Lin?
Take the blinders off. I wasn't on this bandwagon until last night. What happened was despicable and disrespectful. They're forcing him out. Time to get it on.
Even though I agree that Lin would make a good leader for this team, McHale Dwight Haren would never allow it. Even Parsons is getting a bit cocky after he played a part in bringing D12 here. Nah, Lin's character is to just work on his game and wait for the opportunity to let his play do the talking (not that I necessarily agree with this approach but I kind of admire it). I actually think he needs to speak up more for himself. I think the writing's on the wall that the Rockets will trade him and Asik. Now he's benched and soon to be traded, I'd go all Linsanity again and be super ball-dominant and aggressive (he's bringing the ball up for friggin sake, just ignore Haren). He needs to pad his stats. Lin is better off without the Rox Rox are better off without Lin
I see that "Haren" has been added to "McFail" in the LOF vocabulary. Shakespeare would be proud of such inspired coinage. Shakespeare at the age of 9.
All because they didn't pick him up when he fell down, right? You gone on and on and on about it in the other thread. Wrong. Harden was there. Looks like he even extended a hand but Lin took a moment to collect himself. 1:40 <iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ZeHmNJy_ijU?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> And maybe because Dwight was "yelling" at Lin after the game. (Which again would appear to be wrong.)
Stopped reading right there. CP3 and the rest of the Clippers KNOW that he is the only thing keeping the Clippers contenders. Without Paul, Clippers would be middling for a low seed at best. That's why he can get away with being more assertive / authoritative. Lin can't do this. Harden and Howard are better players - everyone knows that. Lin doesn't have the pull to be able to "order" other players around. Rockets don't need Lin to win. Clippers, however, need Paul. And Lin going somewhat rogue and "manning up" isn't great either - deviations from what Harden might want to do doesn't paint a pretty picture to other teams; the teams that might want to trade for Lin.
What are you talking about? Is your example when Harden ran the play that Lin called and went and stood in the corner like he was supposed to? What else do you have?
Here's my reasoning: The ONLY CHANCE Jeremy Lin has of staying here and being on this team long-term is if he changes his attitude of being subordinate to James and Dwight and becomes somewhat demanding of James and Dwight. It's really on him what is happening here. If he stays the way he is it won't matter if he shoots 60/45...he's still going to be out of here. The only chance he has of staying here is if he changes his demeanor and doesn't allow himself to be the whipping post and blame sponge for anybody but himself.
if i was lin, i'd be playing ping pong with daryl's lady friend, well pingpong partner, don't want to start any rumors. daryl, i hope your wife knows, she gota play for life no b.sing.
People calm the hell down... no one is trying to run jeremy out of town. hell, harden asked darryl to keep jeremy when darryl had him on the trading block (same with asik). its one game folks...im glad the game vs lakers ended up the way it did, its the only way these players will learn to cope and learn. if this were mid dec i would be on the same boat with you but no way not now.
The whole summation of the game culminating with the drive where he crashed and James and Dwight looked around like they didn't care. The whole game was full of it. James not running plays that were called. Dwight jacking off on the last play and then trying to pin it on Jeremy. The whole sordid mess. It's rotten. And Lin has allowed himself to become the whipping post for everybody. He needs to get off that snide and hold other guys accountable instead of being a sponge for all their negativity.
