MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:

EnySpree wrote:I went hard about Lin in my last blog....

It angers me that people use words like raw to describe him. Like what is Toney Douglas and Shumpert at point guard. Those guys are raw prospects at point cuz neittyher are very good at it.

Lin got shipped to the d-league and had a legendary game 28/12/11.....triple ****ing double. That is not raw. Its not a joke either. This guy is better than any point guard Cleveland played last night including the rookie from duke. He damn sure is better than Bibby and he has pure point guard skill and natural instincts. His handle is top notch as well. He's a legit 6'3" too.

Its complete bull**** that this guy is not playing. I personally think this kid can start for us and be the point guard for the future wit Shump at his side at shooting guard for the next 10 years

TD is a student of MDA's very complicated system and he trusts him to run it as designed.

I am not sure if Jeremy Lin has the brains to pick up this syastem.

Hahhahahahahhahaah.

I can't even bring myself to laugh....i won't even type the angry post I have in my mind

EnySpree wrote:you can't tell me that Lin isn't destroying our guards in practice

Hahahaha, I can't. You're right. I don't know why they don't just start Lin, can it be any worse than this??

EnySpree wrote:I went hard about Lin in my last blog....

It angers me that people use words like raw to describe him. Like what is Toney Douglas and Shumpert at point guard. Those guys are raw prospects at point cuz neittyher are very good at it.

Lin got shipped to the d-league and had a legendary game 28/12/11.....triple ****ing double. That is not raw. Its not a joke either. This guy is better than any point guard Cleveland played last night including the rookie from duke. He damn sure is better than Bibby and he has pure point guard skill and natural instincts. His handle is top notch as well. He's a legit 6'3" too.

Its complete bull**** that this guy is not playing. I personally think this kid can start for us and be the point guard for the future wit Shump at his side at shooting guard for the next 10 years

I see you asked Alan Hahn also about Lin. Did he reply back?

NYKBocker wrote:

EnySpree wrote:I went hard about Lin in my last blog....

It angers me that people use words like raw to describe him. Like what is Toney Douglas and Shumpert at point guard. Those guys are raw prospects at point cuz neittyher are very good at it.

Lin got shipped to the d-league and had a legendary game 28/12/11.....triple ****ing double. That is not raw. Its not a joke either. This guy is better than any point guard Cleveland played last night including the rookie from duke. He damn sure is better than Bibby and he has pure point guard skill and natural instincts. His handle is top notch as well. He's a legit 6'3" too.

Its complete bull**** that this guy is not playing. I personally think this kid can start for us and be the point guard for the future wit Shump at his side at shooting guard for the next 10 years

I see you asked Alan Hahn also about Lin. Did he reply back?

Nope....its like the big Lin conspiracy out this mofo!!!!

ramtour420 wrote:It's sad. If they are "hiding " him that is just wrong on so many levels and would be enough reason to cause a revolution. Once it was obvious that TD is not adequate to run this team( about 10 games ago) that's when Lin should start getting playing time. MDA sucks, plain and simple. We don't have Donnie to go with us on a road trip anymore. . .

Why would a coach who's job is on the line hide someone on the bench? Why would anyone conclude that this is the case? It doesn't even make sense to me. we are hiding a backup to avoid paying him? If he left couldn't we just get another back up?

During TD's rookie year people were making these exact same arguments about him. D'antoni is afraid to play him. D'Antoni is sleeping with Duhon(and other conspiracy theories) He should be starting. He's clearly better then Duhon, he should be starting. Based on what we see now, he clearly wasn't ready for signifcant minutes at the point back then, just liek he isn't now. When Lin is ready he will play. This staff has constantly shown a willingness to thrust rookies in to the line-up if they are ready to play. Why would Lin be different?

s3231 wrote:D'Antoni hates young players.

I mean, it's not like he started 2 rookies last season and then inserted another rookie in the lineup this season....oh wait a minute....

Seriously, we don't see the practices and the coaching staff has clearly shown a willingness to play guys that are ready to play, no matter what the age is. It's kind of ridiculous how bad the hate for has gotten.

I never understood where that comes from. Phoenix trades away a couple draft picks becuase they are competing for a championship and what veterans instead. Somehow after that D'Antoni gets labelled a rookie hater. Doesn't matter how many Barbosa's or Field's or Shumperts or Mozgovs' we see, he's still a guy that has an agenda against young guys. If we are criticizing the guy can we just stick to the real stuff instead of the invented conspiracies.

nixluva wrote:

Bippity10 wrote:

s3231 wrote:D'Antoni hates young players.

I mean, it's not like he started 2 rookies last season and then inserted another rookie in the lineup this season....oh wait a minute....

Seriously, we don't see the practices and the coaching staff has clearly shown a willingness to play guys that are ready to play, no matter what the age is. It's kind of ridiculous how bad the hate for has gotten.

I never understood where that comes from. Phoenix trades away a couple draft picks becuase they are competing for a championship and what veterans instead. Somehow after that D'Antoni gets labelled a rookie hater. Doesn't matter how many Barbosa's or Field's or Shumperts or Mozgovs' we see, he's still a guy that has an agenda against young guys. If we are criticizing the guy can we just stick to the real stuff instead of the invented conspiracies.

Bip your logic is wasted here on this forum. I too find it funny that a Former PG, who played and coached in Europe, then coached in the NBA and has seen arguably the HIGHEST level of PG play you can imagine, all of a sudden can't tell if a PG can run his system or not! The level of disrespect that MDA gets is unreal at times. ALL these guys know better than the coach who actually designed the system and has coached it to great success. It took a MONTH for Duhon, Felton and CB to get the hang of it. I'm not talking master it, just get to the point where they can play at a decent level. Felton had a full camp and eventually got the hang of it. HE wasn't perfect, but he did pretty good for his talent level.

Lin could be close to getting in there. We don't know how he's looked in practice. They obviously wanted him to get some run when they sent him to the D League. I still have hope that Lin can get in there soon and show us something good. Thing is we don't know what MDA is seeing from this kid in practice. Maybe he's good and maybe he's not. Maybe he gets a shot this weekend.

I agree. For all we know Lin is a game away from playing. But D'Antoni has given every indication in his career that he will play guys when they are ready to play. And for arguments sake, let's say that D'antoni hates Lin and is hiding him. How would any of us know this if we aren't in practice?

Lastly, great point about Felton. The guy was awful for the first month and he was a vet by the time he got to us. Let's give Lin some time. Not sure how we blast a coach without having real facts as to why we are bashing him. Bash him for offense/defense etc. But how can we blast him for somethign that is occuring in practice that none of us see.