BRIGGS wrote:Give Lin a lot of credit last night. Toronto came out and were prepared to stop him--they clogged the lane--ran doubles on him--and Lin adjusted in the 2nd half--lowering his TO's getting better flow and took his opportunities at better times in smarter positions than the first half. Moving Shumpert into the lead d guard position was a great move by MDA--it seemed to take pressure off Lin--who subsequently raised his game on the O. You read where Lin did not play well--but I think he played very well.

It seemed that, since the second half of the Lakers game, teams have keyed their defenses to stopping him. He adjusted nicely to this in the second half last night. Shumpert should always defend the other teams best guard. Since we have a player with that kind of skill defensively, we should use it.

Ira wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:Give Lin a lot of credit last night. Toronto came out and were prepared to stop him--they clogged the lane--ran doubles on him--and Lin adjusted in the 2nd half--lowering his TO's getting better flow and took his opportunities at better times in smarter positions than the first half. Moving Shumpert into the lead d guard position was a great move by MDA--it seemed to take pressure off Lin--who subsequently raised his game on the O. You read where Lin did not play well--but I think he played very well.

It seemed that, since the second half of the Lakers game, teams have keyed their defenses to stopping him. He adjusted nicely to this in the second half last night. Shumpert should always defend the other teams best guard. Since we have a player with that kind of skill defensively, we should use it.

Well, it is going to get REAL INTERESTING what teams will do when we Lin, Melo, Stat and Chandler on the floor together. I mean yeah, Landry's man can leave but then he drives. Perhaps the lesser of two evils. This is still going to be a problem for opposing teams as if we spread the floor and have Stat and Melo on either side of Lin (and spread out) what do you do as a defense?

misterearl wrote:In his fifth professional start, Lin's performance and toughness is nothing short of insanity. Forget the hype. There is no precedent on so many levels that it makes your brain hurt. If it wasn't for the sheer joy of watching him get off the floor, or take responsibility for an error, or bust a game-winning three after a game tying three point play - dammit - my head is starting to ache.

A point guard who's got a head for the game, is accountable when he makes mistakes, is all about the team and not just himself and is driven to win.

How long has it been?

BIG TIME ONIONS!

efw wrote:

efw wrote:Watching those highlights, he reminds me a lot of a young Tony Parker more than Nash. I'm being greedy here, given a 6-game winning streak, but I'd love to see numbers more like 15 points, 14 assists per game.

10 points, 13 assists tonight by the final minutes of the 3rd.

Ask and ye shall receive!!!

The defensive effort will ramp up as guys are fresher with shorter minutes. Thank you Mike Woodson.

When Jared Jeffries is rolling to the rack and dunking it is a sure sign of the apocalypse.

Bill Walker is getting the same open looks that Carmelo will receive. At first, Carmelo will not know how to react with so much space. He is so used to being double teamed that he will feel awkward. Then he will discover the game suddenly has an easy button.

Stoudemire's next task is to make the extra pass.

Landry Fields is having more fun than ever as a pro. His feel for Lin's passes will only improve with reps.

Tyson Chandler is rid of any second thoughts about coming to New York.

In case of emergency break out Steve Novak.

Life am Lintastic

“As a point guard, my field-goal attempts have been really high,” Lin said, almost apologetically. “I don’t think that’s necessarily good. I think it’s more my job to distribute and get people in rhythm. Hopefully, especially when Melo comes back, another lethal scorer, my shots will go down and my assists will go up.”

SG: And that's been one of my favorite things about Linsanity. The Knicks were going to miss the playoffs; even worse, it was genuinely depressing to watch them. Offensively, they looked broken — two ball-stopping forwards, no point guard, no shooters — and their coach was sitting glumly on the sidelines with one of those vacant "please, fire me, I'm not man enough to quit" looks on his face. Their fans were slowly starting to panic about Carmelo's crappy season, especially with Danilo Gallinari (whom they loved last year) emerging as a star in Denver. If that wasn't bad enough, anyone who lived in New York couldn't watch the team because the MSG Network disappeared from their cable systems. There was just a general plague hanging over the team. You could feel it. Especially when you went to the games. Stuck at 8-15 without Carmelo and Amar'e, you could say they were — unequivocally — at the do-or-die portion of their regular season.

"Then, Lin starts playing at point guard … and within a week, they're acting like a 15-seed pulling off a March Madness upset (only game after game). And yeah, I know race is hanging over this story — sometimes that happens for phony reasons, sometimes it happens for real ones, and in this case, it's real and should hang over it a little. But if Lin happened to be white or black, I'd like to think this story would be 85 percent as fun — it's mostly about his style of play (wildly entertaining), the whole out-of-nowhere underdog thing (always our favorite type of story as sports fans), its effect on Knicks players and Knicks fans (basically, it's turned both groups delirious) and the fact that it's the Knicks (who have four generations of fans, play in our biggest market and needed a feel-good story more than just about any other team).

You know what's really amazing? That he saved the Knicks' playoff hopes AND saved his coach's job has almost been an afterthought."

NumberTwoPencil wrote:Whew, that Linsanity business is finally over. The Knicks just traded Lin for Monta Ellis:
http://www.theonion.com/video/knicks-trade-jeremy-lin-for-selfish-*******-who-pl,27394/

Here's the LINK :)

FoeDiddy wrote:Q. Is Lin Left Hand "That Bad"?

A. Jeremy Lin's left hand, by itself, is better than all the hands of Toney Douglas, Mike Bibby and JR Smith put together.

Just in case we lost track amid all the commotion, Friday will be Lin's landmark sixth career start.