loweyecue wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:As far as the stats go, you have to factor in the minutes Lin has played this season as a starter. He's averaging 38. That's a lot to say the least. I understand the rationale for this, we're shorthanded, and Davis should help in that department. When Duhon was starter he was leading the league in minutes (or damned close) and near the top in assists, so his minutes inflated his stats.

No, I'm not comparing the two as far as skill set, just a reminder that when his minutes go down I doubt that he is going to be putting up amazing numbers like this, especially with Melo coming back and more offense recently added to the mix in Smith. I still expect some good numbers assist wise.

You may wanna moniter is minutes for sure, but the way he's playing, you'll be hard press to sit him..
You'll be hard press to sit any player playing at this level and winning..

You do if you don't want to ride him until the wheels come off. That's what happened to Duhon. As I said, I understand the rationale for playing him so much but its a condensed season and we want him relatively fresh for the playoffs. Hopefully Davis will help in that department soon enough and a healthy BD (or close to it) is nothing to sneeze at.

I was hoping to see him today. Maybe against NJ which is the weaker opponenet he can get some burn.

Me too, that would be the way to go.

knicks1248 wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:As far as the stats go, you have to factor in the minutes Lin has played this season as a starter. He's averaging 38. That's a lot to say the least. I understand the rationale for this, we're shorthanded, and Davis should help in that department. When Duhon was starter he was leading the league in minutes (or damned close) and near the top in assists, so his minutes inflated his stats.

No, I'm not comparing the two as far as skill set, just a reminder that when his minutes go down I doubt that he is going to be putting up amazing numbers like this, especially with Melo coming back and more offense recently added to the mix in Smith. I still expect some good numbers assist wise.

You may wanna moniter is minutes for sure, but the way he's playing, you'll be hard press to sit him..
You'll be hard press to sit any player playing at this level and winning..

would you tell Jordan to play 30 minutes? No.

You play a guy as much as he can handle. That's a basic rule.

MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:As far as the stats go, you have to factor in the minutes Lin has played this season as a starter. He's averaging 38. That's a lot to say the least. I understand the rationale for this, we're shorthanded, and Davis should help in that department. When Duhon was starter he was leading the league in minutes (or damned close) and near the top in assists, so his minutes inflated his stats.

No, I'm not comparing the two as far as skill set, just a reminder that when his minutes go down I doubt that he is going to be putting up amazing numbers like this, especially with Melo coming back and more offense recently added to the mix in Smith. I still expect some good numbers assist wise.

You may wanna moniter is minutes for sure, but the way he's playing, you'll be hard press to sit him..
You'll be hard press to sit any player playing at this level and winning..

would you tell Jordan to play 30 minutes? No.

You play a guy as much as he can handle. That's a basic rule.

Tell that to Duhon. We want the kid to have something left in the tank for the playoffs. He's also dealing with all this pressure that even Jordan didn't have to deal with when he entered the league.

Its taxing and if Lin has to play 38 minutes a game with all the talent on this squad now we have problems.

GustavBahler wrote:

MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:As far as the stats go, you have to factor in the minutes Lin has played this season as a starter. He's averaging 38. That's a lot to say the least. I understand the rationale for this, we're shorthanded, and Davis should help in that department. When Duhon was starter he was leading the league in minutes (or damned close) and near the top in assists, so his minutes inflated his stats.

No, I'm not comparing the two as far as skill set, just a reminder that when his minutes go down I doubt that he is going to be putting up amazing numbers like this, especially with Melo coming back and more offense recently added to the mix in Smith. I still expect some good numbers assist wise.

You may wanna moniter is minutes for sure, but the way he's playing, you'll be hard press to sit him..
You'll be hard press to sit any player playing at this level and winning..

would you tell Jordan to play 30 minutes? No.

You play a guy as much as he can handle. That's a basic rule.

Tell that to Duhon. We want the kid to have something left in the tank for the playoffs. He's also dealing with all this pressure that even Jordan didn't have to deal with when he entered the league.

Its taxing and if Lin has to play 38 minutes a game with all the talent on this squad now we have problems.

Help is coming. We don't have to worry about Lin playing too many minutes after 9 games!!! This is just being overstated right now. Baron is getting closer and should be able to help cut down Lin's minutes the rest of the way.

GustavBahler wrote:As far as the stats go, you have to factor in the minutes Lin has played this season as a starter. He's averaging 38. That's a lot to say the least. I understand the rationale for this, we're shorthanded, and Davis should help in that department. When Duhon was starter he was leading the league in minutes (or damned close) and near the top in assists, so his minutes inflated his stats.

No, I'm not comparing the two as far as skill set, just a reminder that when his minutes go down I doubt that he is going to be putting up amazing numbers like this, especially with Melo coming back and more offense recently added to the mix in Smith. I still expect some good numbers assist wise.

Goes both ways. He is prone to exhaustion, turning the ball over more, for his shot to go, etc from playing more minutes. IT's not as LINear as you think.

Baron needs to start playing.

And I hope NJ doesn't play dirty, so far things have been relatively good.

Dudes act like Lin is playing with a D League team. Some forget this guy is feeding Amare and Chandler.

STATS	                MIN	FG%	REB	AST	BLK	STL	PF	PTS
This Game	        46	.550	4	14	1	5	0	28
Previous 10 Games	34.6	.493	3.6	7.8	0.1	1.7	2.0	22.1

AnubisADL wrote:Top 5 PG.

Dudes act like Lin is playing with a D League team. Some forget this guy is feeding Amare and Chandler.

CP# is feeding Griffin and Jordan
Westbrook Feeds Durant
Deron feeds Lopez and he looks ordinary
What's your point?

loweyecue wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:Top 5 PG.

Dudes act like Lin is playing with a D League team. Some forget this guy is feeding Amare and Chandler.

CP# is feeding Griffin and Jordan
Westbrook Feeds Durant
Deron feeds Lopez and he looks ordinary
What's your point?

Yeah, what IS your point? A player has to be the only decent player on the team to be a top 5 Point guard?
AND he WAS playing with a bunch of D-Leaguers plus Chandler. Do you recall that the this team's two max players were out
for most of this run? Amare still looks out, and Melo still is.

I think its early yet to be saying he's top 5, but your rationale is just silly.