Which players style of play does Lin remind you of?

Couldn't agree more, especially the style of play part, which I wanted to address in my original post but my post was already too long and you did a much better job at explaining it. One thing to add to "one's weakness is the other's strength": Lin has worst handles while Rafer's handles is superb.

I like your mention of Battier to Stromile as an example. This thread is not about the stats/numbers to begin with. It's about the play style that we are discussing, as JJ23 pointed out, some people simply fail to see that and keep on arguing which player has better numbers, which is not the point of this thread at all.

 

Dragic is 2 years older than Lin though.

And I imagine it is easier to fix inexperience than to instill brilliance.

 

A lot of Rafer's style of play on offense (dumping the ball into the low post and camping out at the 3-point line) had to do with playing next to a dominant big man and, alternately, a dominant wing player. He showed his versatility anytime when Yao and/or McGrady went down, as well as during his season in Toronto. He also hit his stride during the 22-game win streak.

He wasn't spectacular, mind you, but he was capable as a role player on a championship-caliber team IMO.

 

Take it from the master: Gary Payton sees Stockton in Lin if the latter further develops.
I say Lin would be a cross between Stockton and Tony Parker.

 

Kenny Smith:

Both fast as lightning, both get to the hole in the blink of an eye, both good on the ball defenders, both about the same height and both are hot and cold shooters.

Special Note:

Smith > Lin until Lin wins the big one. Game one Kenny Smith lights up Anfernee Hardaway!

 

Kenny Smith was pretty annoying though. I remember when Mike Breen was commenting on how great Yao was on free throws, and somehow Kenny tried to belittle him anyways. Breen shot back and said that kenny was like a career 70 something percentage free throw shooter. Smith was like Jon Barry, you'd never know that he was a Rockets.

 

so we have hall of famers payton and magic comparing lin's game/style to stockton's, while a few resident geniuses on this board saying rafer alston.

LOL!

 

Lin has his own unique style
I like watching Lin
When he drives into the paint he has so many moves to the rim or can dishinge ball off at the last second
Very entertaining to watch

 

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One of the reasons that Morey said he wanted Jeremy was because Jeremy displayed such a wide variety of ways to score.

I don't know if it's the coaching or the personnel (probably both), but he demonstrated a much larger variety of moves last season than he has so far in Houston.

He had a pretty good mid-range game in NY, but I guess he's not doing that in Houston because the coaching philosophy is 3pts or at the Rim only.

He obviously can't do his alley-oop to Chandler move with Asik. He would toss it high over the heads of all the defenders, out of reach of everyone, except the 7ft Chandler who was the only one with the height to jump and grab in out of the air for a dunk on the way down. Asik has the height but not the hops for such a move.

He's also not doing his alley-oop to cutters move, where he would frequently toss a ball to a fast cutting Landry Fields or Iman Shumpert for an alley-oop. Rockets haven't displayed that type of off-ball movement and athleticism, even though they've had more time to build chemistry for such an alley oop than the early Linsanity crew ever did. I'm not sure if this means the coaching isn't getting guys to cut, or if Lin doesn't get the opportunity because he's doing less ball-handling, or if the Rockets just don't have those athletic high-jumping, fast running cutters like Fields and Shumpert. Though I think T-Jones and Chandler Parsons might be capable.

I'm happy to see that his signature long distance football passes have recently come back. And he seems to be penetrating more now that his knee is better and the coaches set screens for him.

His 3pt shooting is worse though, that knee injury really screwed up his off-season. He said he had to change his shot to account for his weaker knee during the off-season when he was still recovering. Hopefully, next off-season, with his knee stronger, he can go back to his old shooting form where he didn't need to account for the still weak knee.

It's a pity the coaching/personnel/maybe knee hasn't allowed him to show the same variety of moves he showed last year. He could be dangerous from anywhere and D'Antoni said he was unguardable because of that large variety of moves and plays.