What would have happened had we NOT signed Jeremy Lin?

Lin was a first-year starter at the PG position, so of course he's going to be inconsistent. What, did you think that you were getting Magic Johnson?

What is this "eyeball test" and why should anybody rely on it?

Lin is no longer a "TO machine", unless you think 3 TO/G constitutes a "TO machine". Just to compare, even CP3 averages 2.3 TO/G.

Lin is way better than Tebow will ever be. Tebow can't even get playing time. Lin just started 82 games for the Rockets and played well.

Next.

 

Jeremy Lin is a very fast PG. Have you ever seen him take off on transition or go coast-to-coast? You can criticize him for various things but speed isn't one of them.

And he has shown he can improve his shot. His FG% this year was 44%, and he brought his 3pt% to a respectable 34% after his bad start.

 

That makes no sense because your system requires the PG to be the SG half the time and Lin doesn't thrive in it. Lin needs to be THE PG to be effective, not a SG camping the wing (b/c if his shot isn't falling he has nothing to do) or one of many PG's swinging the ball around in a motion offense (which neutralizes his talent of being able to get in the paint). So yea from a role perspective, it actually would be better for him to come off the bench as a 6th man and run the offense.

 

Response

TOs is not a big problem for him (compare stats against other Pgs, his TO stats is not that bad), although he made dumb passes time to time. The problem is to play with Harden, you need to have a good jumper. He has a very quick first step, but the problem is aside from driving to the basket, he doesn't know what to do once he gets inside. However, Lin is flat out the best passer on Rockets team. Even the pass he made to Anderson (Anderson got blocked when he tried to reverse dunk), no one else on Rockets team would have made that pass. And he's really good on the transition plays when he has the ball and makes good decisions. The problem is that he does not fit well with Harden (to fit well with Harden, you need good jumpers). Bev is not a starting material in terms of passing ability, but maybe in Rockets' system, he could be a starter because he can just pass to Harden. AB's D sucks, and his offense is not good enough to offset his poor D. Also, AB's long jumpers are not that good. Harden actually needs to play with someone like KM, but Harden is also not good PG and might not be all that good playing off ball. He's a SG who likes to play "on" ball; Lin is more a PG who likes to play "on" ball also. They both need to have the ball, but there is only one ball. Unless Lin's jumpers improve, it's better to trade Lin and get someone who can fit Harden. Or have Harden play off ball, but if Harden gets unhappy, then since he's a max K player, there is going to be a lot of problem.

Parsons is good off ball player. His problem is when he tries to dribble too much. Parsons only has one play: catch the ball or do his fake and then go in. But when he has to dribble, he gets stripped a lot.

Rockets will have to pay Parsons good money, so I don't know if they can keep Parsons and attract that many good players.