Part of his game today has to do with Utah's terrible defense though. They really stopped packing the paint after the 1st half, leaving wide open lanes for Lin and Harden. I don't know why Jefferson kept following Asik out to the arc. No Paul Millsap = no D for Utah.
You can't just cherry pick it like that. The last 4 games were... Utah 8/14, .571 OKC 3/7, 429 Toronto 7/9, .778 New York 6/12, .500 One bad team, one playoff team, 2 legitimate playoff contenders. The difficulty of schedule easily averages out to above average defense between NY, Utah and OKC. Rankings for Points Allowed Utah - 16th OKC - 12th Knicks - 8th Toronto - 27th Terrible defense is directly related to HOW our offense picks apart another team's defense. Good Offense makes defenses look bad. And our offense is the 5th highest scoring in the league.
I agree with you, but terrible defense is also directly related to how Utah's defense w/o Millsap is just non-existent. Yea our guys hitting outside shots opened up the lanes and Lin/Harden did a great job taking advantage of the space in the paint. Moreover, he seems to have a quicker step. But also, Utah had no idea what they were doing on defense. You can't tell me having Jefferson follow Asik out to the arc is a good defensive move. That's just bad coaching. Don't worry, I'm giving Lin credit. But some of the credit has to go to Utah's defense because it was so especially bad.
Very true. It's weird, it's almost like all this young team really needed was to build some chemistry like the non-kneejerks said, who would have thought?
It also helps that the guys are unselfish for the most part and willing to pass. Love the balanced scoring.
Hey, I told you to keep criticizing him, and you're doing great. We need threads like this to balance things out and to be able to tell the true blind haters from the rest.
OP, stop replying to your own thread to keep your own thread alive. This thread with such stupid title deserves no more attention than it has already gotten. Don't you have any sense of shame for putting up a thread title like this? You are looking really dumb in front of the CF fans. Be quiet, let this thread die already. Otherwise, you will forever be the laughing stock on this forum.
if that qualifies as an appropriate rebuttal in your book then HAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAAHAHAAH to you too sir
i think the one thing that is helping lin maybe more than anything else is familiarity. when the season started the rockets had no clue who they were as a team, who was going to provide what role and this was a problem before the harden trade. You add your most important player 2 days before start of the season to a established team and it throws things off, imagine what it did to the rockets. Other than parsons and patterson, no player on the current roster had a role last year and even patterson had a much diff role with scola as the starter. this type of uncertainty hurts a pg like lin more than even other players bc his game is predicated on playing off other players, feeding them the ball, using pick and roll to get to the bucket etc. Going into the season, did we know parsons would be doing what he is, did we know the patterson was going to become a legit 3 point shooter and not someone who ventures there now and again? no and now that we are finding this out and lin is getting comfortable, his game is picking up
