Hey, another thread about Lin! , we don't have enough of those But anyway. despite ending the month with 2 bad games against the Nets / Wizard and a meh one against the Bucks, February had been the best month so far in Lin's season. he shot .438/.424/.838 this month against a season line of .433/.318/.784 , the improvement from downtown was especially obvious and continue a trend of him to getting much better at it over the season, he started the year shooting a Monta Ellis esque .263 in November and improved on that every month since. this is also his best scoring month per game (14.5) and assis per game (6.7), despite playing fewer minutes per game than in November and January it's also his best in terms of not turning the ball over, as he turned it over only 2.7 per 36 min versus his season average of 3.2, and of course last years rather horrific 4.8, 2.7 would be pretty damn good for a guy who gets the ball as much as he does (in context, Steve Nash is about 2.9 for his career.) Here's hoping that this trend continue, god knows we need it in this final stretch.
He's had a bad last three games otherwise his record for February would have been very good. But this is Jeremy. One game he is good and next he is a scrub again.
Seems a lot of people around here don't believe in or aren't familar with the concept of jinxing players or teams. When you get cocking and start boasting... things usually start going wrong.
One thing that's promising (or makes me hopeful) is that Lin is the 10th rated PG in the NBA this year vs either playoff teams or .500+ teams. http://www.hoopsstats.com/basketball/fantasy/nba/playerstats/13/2/eff/13-1 This, while playing the second most games in this category (33) - only G. Vazquez has played in more (36). What makes no sense - other than he steps up his game/focuses more against tougher competition (or plays down to his competition) - is that he's a rather BAD 34th against sub .500 teams. (26 games) http://www.hoopsstats.com/basketball/fantasy/nba/playerstats/13/2/eff/14-1 Obviously, it's a small sample either way, and it could just be that Lin is inconsistent. But here's hoping there's something to it and, as Morey seems to be banking on, he continues to improve. I'd rather him be playing well against better competition than vice versa.... more hopeful that the consistency will come it would seem. One thing of note - Lowry was a 26% three point shooter through the first four years of his career. But, he worked hard in the summer of 2010 and in the two plus years since, he's been a 38% three point shooter. If Lin is able to develop that part of his game, it will make a huge difference. (on a pretty cool note, Harden is the #2 SG against .500+ teams and Parsons is the #9 SF if you don't include Budinger's 3 games played this year)
He goes 29 points on OKC and coach calls him out for being selfish, and then the next 3 games, he doesn't get to play his game and gets benched. I wonder why he's doing bad the last 3 games
How dare a young PG be inconsistent. Every single young PG in his first season as a starter must be revelatory as Kyrie Irving or Damian Lillard. Everybody who falls below that standard must be relegated to the D-League.
to be fair, he was sick in the OKC game and the following two games, and hurt his ankle in the first quarter of the 3rd game but played on. things are never as black and white.
Last 3 games, he's playing the same style the coach is telling him to do. Take care of the ball, pass it, don't turn ball the over by going aggressive. He's not having bad games. I don't believe those are bad games since McHale didn't complain about them. McHale only complained about his 29pts games.
instead o speaking of a snaeky good Februar, lets hope he has a very "killing you all" March run, this hopefully mean a postseason for the Rockets. That is all that i care for
Yes this is one of Lin's weaknesses. Even in college he was known to play average against average teams. Then when an elite bb team comes to town he plays like a superstar.
