fishmike wrote:Has anyone noticed that when Lin gets hit in the next 90 seconds you can bank on one of the other players getting hit. Ive seen JJ do it. Chandler MUGGED Zaza blatently after Zaza hit Lin. These guys protect their little general. Its making this fish all warm and fuzzy!

fish.mike - there is nothing more heart warming than the photographs of Lin sitting between his big brothers on the sidelines. Sandwiched between Carmelo on one side - Stoudemire on the other, the feeling (take THAT Marburyand1Cross) is one of casual comfort. Big brothers can be exceptionally protective if they feel little brother needs some assistance. Not that little brother NEEDS help. But it is nice to know that big brother is there - just in case bullies get personal.

But the BEST BESTEST part of ALL?

Jeremy Lin makes the expensive, and much-discussed, Carmelo Anthony trade look good.

Let the court record reflect that at 6:05 of the second quarter, Jeremy Lin hit Carmelo Anthony with a perfect bounce pass from the free throw line for an emphatic driving dunk in perfect rhythm.

It was the precise moment people starting thinking, "hey, this Lin + Anthony thing may not suck that bad."

Historic.

misterearl wrote:If you think The Answer Man is jumping ship you crazy.

Lin gets some rest after the break and comes back stronger.

Miami threw everything they had at him. First tour of the league and Miami is very, very good.

I agree. Fans just suck!!

Was a learning experience for him and he will come out for the better.

Maybe his rookie card is now only worth 12,000?

Miami threw everything they had at Lin. In his eighth NBA start, Jeremy Lin was defended like Magic Johnson and Julius Erving combined.

To his credit, he did not back down. He took some ferocious charges and did not retreat.

Losing to the Heat is the best thing that could happen. With a win, the hype would have been unbearable.

As it stands, there is work to be done and the roster is reminded that winning never comes easy.

The Knicks season starts after the break.

misterearl wrote:Now Lin at least has some idea of what that is going to take if and when the Knicks get (to the playoffs).

- Harvey Araton, NYT

Long Live The BBC

mrKnickShot wrote:misterearl, Landry is starting to get really jealous about your Lin Love. I hope there is enough of you to go around.

The Brainy Backcourt gets to hang out in Orlando a few days. If they can jump line, Universal has some cool attractions.

The Answer Man has enough love for all Knicks, although Toney Douglas was testing my patience.

Though he plays heady basketball he is turning into the worst outside shooting - starting shooting guard that I've seen in many years.

Lin came into this season having hit one three-pointer—one!—in his NBA career. He wasn’t a good long-distance shooter, even against Ivy League competition. And yet fully four of his five signature highlight moments have been threes: his tongue-wag shot against Utah, his nails in the coffins of Los Angeles and Dallas, and of course his brain-melting isolation game-winner in Toronto. - Will Leitch

There is an element of serendipity/ good fortune, for the stars to align perfectly for Jeremy Lin to be in the right place at the right time. There is also alternate theory which plays into why no franchise stuck with Lin - despite his potential and the need for roster spots.

The Knicks caught Lin just as his initial pro learning curve was reaching a first peak. After being cut three times, Jeremy Lin made the decision to play on his terms and without fear of failure. The fact that Lin is a student of the game and has leveraged state-of-the-art digital training is good news for Knicks fans. With his passion to fulfill a lifelong dream, Lin will only improve with experience.

Bring on Cleveland.

This paragraph stood out:

Even during a rare splurge, Jeremy’s modesty showed through. Nathan Lui, a high school friend of Jeremy’s, recalled going to an Audi dealership with Jeremy and Shirley shortly after Jeremy had signed with his hometown Golden State Warriors. After years of riding around in a Taurus, he was ready for an upgrade.

While out on a test drive, Lui said, the salesman asked Jeremy if he was a basketball player. Jeremy said, “Yes.” The salesman pressed on. “Did you play in high school? College?” he said, and Lui remembered smiling from the back seat.

“Jeremy had just been signed by an N.B.A. team that played like 10 minutes away from there,” he said. “Anyone else would have been shouting it out, telling everyone.”

But that was not how Shirley and Gie-Ming had raised their son.

“Well,” Jeremy told the salesman, “I used to play in college.”

Fast Forward to Getting Better

"Against a great team like this, you may not get something off your first pick-and- roll, or off your first look, and so it has to be putting them in rotation, making them work for 24 seconds and then having the ball come back. I think we have the weapons to do that, and I need to be able to deliver the ball where it needs to be when it needs to be there. That's just on me."

A Linsanity tshirt is forever

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/28/magazine/linsanity-new-look.html