When Petrovic came over in the late 80s, no one thought Europeans could ball. But he paved the way for Kukoc, Radja, Divac, and eventually Dirk winning the MVP and the Finals MVP.

What I'm saying is, no one went out and said "I hate Asians so I will work hard to keep this kid out", it's simply because no one is used to seeing Asians ball hard like Lin, so their brains don't have the connections established which would allow them to see an Asian baller as a viable option for dropping the buckets.

Yea, effectively, you can call it racism, but it's not because someone went out of their way to stop Asian ballers from balling.

I'm sure there are a ton of guys playing in China, for example, that could make an impact in the NBA, it was just a matter of time until someone like Lin came along to blow the floodgates open.

Bonn1997 wrote:

MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:It's because you don't see Asians balling like this very often. You can call this racism, but that's just how it is.

When Petrovic came over in the late 80s, no one thought Europeans could ball. But he paved the way for Kukoc, Radja, Divac, and eventually Dirk winning the MVP and the Finals MVP.

What I'm saying is, no one went out and said "I hate Asians so I will work hard to keep this kid out", it's simply because no one is used to seeing Asians ball hard like Lin, so their brains don't have the connections established which would allow them to see an Asian baller as a viable option for dropping the buckets.

Yea, effectively, you can call it racism, but it's not because someone went out of their way to stop Asian ballers from balling.

I'm sure there are a ton of guys playing in China, for example, that could make an impact in the NBA, it was just a matter of time until someone like Lin came along to blow the floodgates open.

That would be what's called overt racism. I highly doubt that occurred.

What are you saying occurred?

MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:It's because you don't see Asians balling like this very often. You can call this racism, but that's just how it is.

When Petrovic came over in the late 80s, no one thought Europeans could ball. But he paved the way for Kukoc, Radja, Divac, and eventually Dirk winning the MVP and the Finals MVP.

What I'm saying is, no one went out and said "I hate Asians so I will work hard to keep this kid out", it's simply because no one is used to seeing Asians ball hard like Lin, so their brains don't have the connections established which would allow them to see an Asian baller as a viable option for dropping the buckets.

Yea, effectively, you can call it racism, but it's not because someone went out of their way to stop Asian ballers from balling.

I'm sure there are a ton of guys playing in China, for example, that could make an impact in the NBA, it was just a matter of time until someone like Lin came along to blow the floodgates open.

That would be what's called overt racism. I highly doubt that occurred.

What are you saying occurred?

One reason Jeremy Lin was held back was because of the infantile practice of making player comparisons. Since there was no prior model for Jeremy Lin that fit the academic, athletic or racial profile - his future as an NBA player was doubted at every stop. Yo', how many street ballers (which Lin is) hail from Palo Alto?

Playing behind Steph Curry, Monta Ellis and Charles Jenkins did not help either.

Allanfan20 wrote:The Knicks picked him up after the Boston game, I believe. He wasn't able to even get on the practice court, according to MDA, because he was focused on getting Bibby, Shump and Douglas going. Even MDA admitted he was ignorant in this situation. Whether it's true or not, I have no clue.

MDA has been quoted as saying that Lin "came out of nowhere."

So we have someone in Lin who:
Has his coach humbled and at the same time happy that people are seeing his O-system for what it is.
A player who's handling the hype like a normal human being, for once, who's not flouting his instant fame, but who continues to talk about the game, his teammates and his coach [thankfully, he's got no reason to talk about Dolan or IT]
Superstar teammates who are publicly laying aside huge portions of ego and are acknowledging this players talent and impact.

This could be the one magical year where:
The Giants win the Superbowl [check]
The Knicks win the Finals
The Yankees win the Series [pencil check]

I love life. Really.

MDA talks in coach speak. He knew that Lin had talent or else he wouldn't have asked Glen to bring him to the team. What he didn't know is the extent of his ability to run the team on the NBA level. We saw how shaky Lin looked when he 1st got here. He did some things that gave evidence of his talent, but that's a far stretch from executing on a high level against starting NBA lineups. Lin was primarily brought in as injury insurance. So yeah he was low on the depth chart.

People keep thinking that Lin was sent down as some kind of punishment or cuz they thought he sucked, but the stint in the D league was with the purpose of giving him some playing time and a chance to learn the system better, which it did. IMO I don't think they would've let Lin go without seeing him play. The way TD and Bibby were playing, it only made sense to me that they would at least give him a shot to see what he could do and after they saw his D League explosion it gave them more confidence to do that. With each game he got more comfortable and showed a bit more, so I think it was handled about as well as it could given the lack of a training camp or practices to really assess Lin earlier.

Jeremy Lin, being an Asian American PG, didn't fit the scouts prototype of a PG. Otherwise, he should've been a no brainer to go to Stanford in his backyard. Instead of going to a major conference, he ends up in the Ivy League at Harvard. Now you add another layer- he doesn't have the background of your traditional PG, and he's at the ivies. NBA scouts are not gonna be jumping up and down to see him.

Through all of that he still plays well enough to play past the biases and make the NBA. Once in the NBA, it came down to finding the right fit and opportunity as it does for most players. This was the perfect system for him to thrive in, and he seized the opportunity when given. Sometimes good players don't do that on their first try.

He is first EVER Asian American starting PG in NBA. Ever

So just by that alone u have to assume that it was hard to compare him to anyone
Must of been difficult for scouts to look past his race not only cause there has never
Been another like him but because we are in an era of super athletic PGs in the game right now.

all that being said I don't believe it was racism

Racism is malicious and hateful this case I believe is ignorance way more then
racism!

I think all the neglet motivated him into a better player either way!

Also I also believe on Bobcats Lin the Master would be much less a success then he is
In this system!