[Y Sports Radio] Calvin Murphy: Jeremy Lin Needs The Ball In His Hands

The whole coaching group is the biggest issue

 

Reserved by Parsons :grin:

 

If Lin was a better player, he'd handle the ball more. Simple as that.

 

The point Murphy, and now almost everyone, is trying to make is that Lin would be a better player if he handled the ball more.

 

Calvin Murphy is a deluded LOF. I'm so ANGRY right now. Rage is 10/10.

 

Possibly, and the team would be worse off. Do you want to do what's best for one individual player, or what's best for the team?

 

That's official. Calvin Murphy is a LOF. He blames the coach for Lin's problems. And according to some posters, he's certainly not a true Rockets fan.

 

I diagree. Lin has done a SPECTACULAR job of handing the ball off to harden as quickly as possible and standing as far away from him as possible. Sometimes he just takes a seat on the bench without coach even telling him just to give harden more space. Great job coach!

 

Yes but I love it even more when he decides to handle the ball, drives the lane, jumps in the air with no clue of what he plans on doing with the ball and turns it over. Every time I see him do that, I think "Man I want that guy handling the ball instead of arguably the best SG in the NBA"

 

Without harden . Lin is a superstar. simple as that. spurs games.proved it. last time i checked he can handle the ball just fine. and don't give me last year Miami crap

 

Lin needs to go, no use in beating around the bush about it. He was signed to be the point guard of a team that, after the JH trade, no longer exists.

Trying to change him into the point guard needed to compliment a Harden led team is useless. He deserves better and the Rockets deserve better.

 

Whose to say that Lin handling the ball will make the Rockets worse? I would argue, as would Murphy, that the team would play better if Lin had more opportunites to run the point. Yes, Harden's numbers may theoretically drop (though I don't believe this to be true) but perhaps the Rockets may begin to develop an actual halfcourt offensive system that involves the team.

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LOL, fair enough, there is room in the world for every opinion no matter how far fetched.

 

I agree. NO ONE knows what to do in the houston offense. Except to stand around at the 3 point line. Given those options (a PF shooting 3's, Asik's inability to catch, or even make layups, TD's poor shooting, parsons and harden shooting 36 and 33% from 3's, I'm not sure any PG would know what to do, either.

 

U got issues son.

 

How do you know the team would be worse off? The first two games when Lin was playing main PG handling the ball more, Harden got his records of 37 and 44 pts.

Don't sound as if Calvin Murphy doesn't know anything when he said the team needs to let Lin handle the ball more. Murphy watches every games and comments on each of them. He knows what the reasons we are losing. When he says: Lin needs to have ball in his hands, he means for the benefit of the whole team. It's not that Murphy were Lin's dad that only wants the best for Lin!

 

I would say that the team would be worse, because putting the ball in the hands of an inferior ball handler usually doesn't work well. It would be like insisting Mario Chalmers run the offense instead of Lebron or Wade.

 

This describes Kevin Martin. You can claim that is a "traditional 2 guard." That's not true. That's one of the traditional 2 guards.

Popovich does not do this with Ginobody. Jackson did not do this with Jordan or Kobe; OKC did not do this with Harden. Wade won a championship playing completely different than Kevin Martin.

So why would you advocate Harden doing this now?

 

Getting open like a receiver is supposed to?

 

It's faulty to cherry pick games as you did, just as it's fauly to cherry pick mistakes in which Lin makes just to prove a point. I've rewatched that Spurs game just as I've rewatched Gerald Lin's Youtube videos, and it really looked like Lin was making a bunch of spot up 3's, something he has been unable to do consistently and effectively this season; however, with that being said, he did a relatively higher amount of mid range J's during that game, some he made, and some he missed.

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