Theotherheath wrote:Lin is a surprise to everyone... Before he played LA Kobe admitted he'd never even heard of him... What happens when teams can actually prepare for him, and everyone knows his game... Are you all truly expecting someone that was cut by countless teams to still perform when teams know what's coming? I pray that Lin can rise to the occasion and be consistent, but I don't want to put my hopes on a guy that was barely a twelfth man before last week.
Defenses have already been adjusting to what Lin does. It's more a function of Lin and this system creating a very hard to stop offensive attack. It's not impossible to take away a PG's penetration but you will sacrifice something in the process and that's why it's so hard to stop this offense when you have a PG that can read it and make a smart counter to what they're doing.
Also MDA keeps adding more twists to what Lin can do out there. Now that MDA has a PG that can learn and run his plays. He doesn't have to hold back. We haven't seen ANYTHING yet. There are over 100 plays in his system and we've only seen rudimentary stuff cuz we didn't have a PG!!! Remember when TD forgot the play coming at the end of a game off a time out. Then compare that to what Lin did getting the ball to Novak for the 3 in the last game!!!
Theotherheath wrote:Also, everyone seems to be missing the other pieces we'd be able to add without Melo. Namely JR Smith and Wilson Chandler (who never should've traded in the first place). ALSO how is no one holding Melo accountable for ripping the Knicks apart when he knew he was coming here anyway!!! See his wife's reality show negotiations prior to the trade if you don't believe it.
This is really not important anymore. The deal is done and this is the team we have. The Knicks have drafted well and our young players are getting better. The guys we gave up are not as good as Melo. Melo is here to give us a proven Closer. No one is better at closing a game than Melo. This is a fact!!!
Theotherheath wrote:If he can prove himself a team player... Great!! Otherwise the only other way Melo, stat, and Lin can co-exist is if you bring in Phil Jackson and put those three in the triangle. Melo is a one trick pony... Great offense, average rebounder, and poor defender. If you disagree you should check your mancrush at the door.
This is a difficult thing for me to refute since we haven't really had them play together much. Still when they did play together, it looked pretty good!!! They haven't had a chance to practice together, but that will happen and you have no idea how that will develop since you haven't seen what they look like after working on it together either!!! So let's see how they mesh over time. We've got a good amount of game left to see them work together.
Their one game together against the Nets with Lin off the bench.
STARTERS MIN FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A REB AST STL BLK +/- PTS
C Anthony, SF 35 3-15 1-3 4-4 3 3 1 1 -2 11
A Stoudemire, PF 25 6-11 0-0 5-5 5 0 0 1 +11 17
T Chandler, C 36 7-9 0-0 3-4 9 2 0 1 -1 17
L Fields, G 22 3-8 0-2 0-0 5 1 1 0 -13 6
I Shumpert, G 25 1-5 0-0 0-0 5 2 0 0 +5 2Jared Jeffries, PF 31 4-10 0-1 1-1 10 2 0 1 +6 9
Renaldo Balkman, PF 2 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 0 -1 0
Toney Douglas, PG 13 2-5 0-3 1-1 4 2 0 0 +9 5
Jeremy Lin, PG 36 10-19 0-4 5-7 5 7 2 0 +13 25
Bill Walker, SG 15 1-1 1-1 4-4 1 1 1 1 +8 7
2/13/2012 9:41 AM
