1. contract. not really his fault (in terms of getting paid) but he has not lived up to it. from what ive heard and seen, he spent a lot of the summer building his brand and not improving. people say he is not a finished product. Well then he should not be getting that money or starting. Finally, his aquisition was purely non basketball relation (ie marketing) which as a rockets fan upsets me as we have downgraded from one of our strogest positions to one of our weakest. 2. Lin fans. I dont mind if you like a player but a lot of them bash others who state facts and give lin excuses. For example, did not build enough chemistry with harden not being in camp and stuff. While he stunk in the pre season and harden seems to be doing while with even less chemistry with teammates. Fans also downgrade our other players to defend lin or are not rockets fans but lin fans (which frusterates me the most). 3. He is not our pg for the future. I DO NOT want him with this core moving forward. Hes older than a lot of the core (not by much but still) but is a lot further down on the development level. We could get a better pg (i could probably name 20 i would take over him) and i feel our core should be harden, asik, parsons, tjones, dmo because they are preforming now or show huge signs of promise in the future
You can't point to a lone, exceptional example (in this case, an affable 7'6" Chinese giant) in order to disprove widespread skepticism against Asian athleticism.
Asik: 26 Harden: 23 Parsons: 24 Morris: 23 Patterson: 23 Yeah, compared to these guys, Lin (24) belongs in the Mesozoid Era.
Expectations for sure. Lin got a "big time" contract in the eyes of a few active GARM posters and thus should perform at an elite level. When really all he received was a pretty average contract for a NBA starting point guard. http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/48033/jeremy-lins-contract-in-perspective Granted he is playing below average, but that's because he's shooting horribly. Once he gets out of the slump, he'll be playing above average and when he does, let see if every mistake he makes gets him crucified.
I'm trying to figure out who exactly is being racist against Lin. Last I checked one black dude said something racist about Lin last year. When black people joined the league people would protest, refuse to serve them at restaurants and make them use separate bathrooms and drinking fountains. To compare J Lin to that is utterly ridiculous. A lot people in Houston hated Tracy Mcgrady why? it wasn't cuz he was black. It was because he would get injured and not take the time to rehab. He would take awful jumpshots and not drive to the hoop. Me and my whole family are black and we love Yao Ming. Last I checked Yao Ming is Asian. I agree that people might underestimate him because he's Asian but it is more due to the fact that before Yao we have never seen any Asian compete the way he did. Heck me and all my friends were happy when J Lin came to Houston and we were pissed when he was sent to NY. J LIN has not played well. Plain and simple. If Jeremy were playing well we'd be 8 and 5. People are not stupid they can see this, he is a weak link on the team right now. After all the hype your telling me that an injury and chemistry makes you miss wide open lay ups? no he's sucking and he's making the Knicks owner look very smart right now. I pray J Lin turns it around but if he doesn't he will join a list of busts after the hype like Greg Oden, Kwame Brown, Darko Millic who are criticized not because of race but BECAUSE THEY SUCK.
I stated age and development correlation man. I even put in a note saying he is not much older. Out of all the players you listed that i included in the core, he is one of the least developed.
Really? You really think that Jeremy Lin is the least developed of the group. Guy went from being a undrafted d-leaguer to a starting NBA point guard. That's a huge development jump and to do that in 2 years is even more impressive.
nah,you're making it up. he never used his race as an excuse. in fact he only mentioned it once in an interview when he was asked about the treatment he was getting from other players and fans while he was playing in college.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameo...m-on-new-york-knicks-fame-i-hated-it/1705533/ Anything else? That was on November 14. Some of the things he said on there are true, but get over it and play ball.
Lin said it himself that he has experienced all kind of racial slur playing basketball since middle school, and he grew up in California, played in IVY league. I've coached more than 10 years NJB, my kids played several years AAU ball. It's unbelievable how many racist out there, both on and off the court. Lin was the first California High School Player of the Year not recruited by any division I school, and you tell me it's not due to his race?
To my knowledge he played Div 3, there has been some black kids not getting any offers before too from Div 3, but yes I'm sure race was a factor. I still believe as much as it worked against him in the past, it worked for him too (lucrative deals and such because of the following in Asia). Anyway, all of that is irrelevant now, the criticism RIGHT NOW, is because he's sucking. Period. If you're a Rockets fan you would have seen criticism of all types of players and races on this forum. Lin is no different.
If Lin were playing great he'd be on ESPN everyday. When you suck and your getting paid a lot of money your gonna get criticized, it goes with the territory. He needs to suck that up and work harder. Half the time he looks defeated out there, you would think that he was the only person in Houston who we ever criticized. We all love Yao so I refuse to believe that most of is criticism is due to race, if he was playing great and still getting criticized like this then maybe call racism but he sucks right now, so people are unhappy that's common sense.
Numerous time? How do you define "numerous"? Links? Either you do not understand what the word "numerous" means or you are just a whiny drama queen.
The criticism that Lin said was racially motivated was the criticism he received after he got his $25 million contract, not the criticism he is currently receiving due to his subpar performance. This is from the original Yahoo! article that the USA Today article quotes (emphasis mine): Lin would probably be the first person to tell you that the current criticism he is receiving based on his play is deserved, and in fact he says as much in this article:
LOFs whine about it a lot more than he does, that's for sure. It's really becoming a pain to navigate the GARM these days where the proportion of LOFs is challenging true Rockets fans.
