THEONE723 wrote:The one thing about lin is that he needs a little of an edge on the court. I mean we all know he is a humble guy but weve seen him get hit with intentional elbows and he just accepts it as Bip was saying

Your right...he should start fights and get technicals.

That black bandage around his knee could be cause for concern. Bad knees already?

And I was told it was normal for guys to wear those and that it wasn't cause for concern.

http://www.ultimateknicks.com/forum/topic.asp?t=40838

gunsnewing wrote:Amare played a lot of minutes early last year he was already declining a few weeks before the Melo trade. I remember fans and the commentators saying how he didn't have the same lift and explosiveness as he had during the 30pt streak

NYKBocker wrote:Do you guys think that Lin's knee troubles stems from all the hits he has been taking from the opposition?

i think that's part of it. he's taken a lot of hits where he hasn't always landed evenly on both feet—plus all the jumping he does when he penetrates. my main concern is how he's going to bounce back mentally. a lot of players always play a bit tentative post surgery.

another concern is if the knicks miraculously get to the 2nd rd of the playoffs and he comes back, he's not going to be in game shape let alone playoff game shape. he's going to have to come off the bench i'm assuming.

franco12 wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:

Bippity10 wrote:Taking away the games where he was just getting garbage time Lin played 36 minutes per game under D'Antoni. Taht would put him aroudn 20th in the league. There are about 10 starting PG's playing very similar minutes. In summary there was nothing out of the ordinary about the minutes he played. It's okay to dislike D'Antoni. But I can't stand the falsehoods.

Amare adn Carmelo are averaging around 33 minutes per game. That puts them around 50th. This is the least amount of minutes Carmelo has ever averaged.

Amare last year
October 36.6 minutes, 24.3 points, 52%
November 39.5 minutes, 29.8 points, 54%
December 36.1 minutes, 25.7 points, 45%
January 35.4 minutes, 24.3 points 54%
February 37.2 minutes, 24.3 points 50%

its the excessive pounding and lack of respect from the refs that is the issue - not minutes. That's insane. He did play excessive minutes during Linsanity but we had no choice - who else was gonna play?

if he was top 10 for PG in terms of minutes, it was excessive because without looking at who they were, I bet all of them have been starters and logged big minutes in this league, and none of them came out of nowhere.

1.) It was for 10 games. If he can't play 36 minutes over 10 games he has no shot to last in this league. He can't be taht fragile can he?
2.) This injury appears not to be related to the 36 minutes per game he played over those two games
3.) Because we constantly fire our coaches and D'Antoni is on the hot seat at that time, with all the injuries we had, there is no way he is resting the one guy that is leading us to wins. This is why we need stability. We need to support our coaches so they can coach for now and the future. Not just to save their jobs. They coach very differently when that is the case

BRIGGS wrote:One thing that kind of stood out to me was his slam dunking ability--even from the beginning of his play with the Knicks. One thing that you took away from his college play was his hops--he's ot JR Smith but frankly he could throw down way better than what we have seen with the Knicks; When he dunked from the side on that brake away a few weeks ago I was like what? Like one of the articles mentioned--he was probably hurt along--remember he wore a knee sleeve quite quickly. I think it would be in the teams and Jeremy Lins best interst to shut him down for this season-- and rehab it perfect.

+1 to that. The voice of reason says be glad we got our PG of the future and don't worry about winning it this year. If BDiddy, Melo, Tyson and Sweet Strokin' Steve can get us to the second round, good for us. We don't need anything more than that this year. Besides, chances are we pull an 8th seed and lose to one of the badass teams this year.