gunsnewing wrote:That explains the +10 in 30mins and Houston winning

SCOREBOARD will always be most important

gunsnewing wrote:right you can score 25pts with a -10 because your defense stinks. See Amare's stat lines

Wins and losses during pre-season are irrelevant.

callmened wrote:i agree NYKBocker. he's still able to attack the rim and get close...however, hes not finishing as well. I dont know if its cuz hes not getting the calls or he lacks the explosiveness in his knees. And youre right, his team blowing easy assists for him. He needs to get bigger though cuz his game is built on attacking the rim and getting pounded

I think you are right. His strength is not all the way back. His turnovers were all from driving to the basket where the hornet bigs were bumping him hard. His one other TO was when Kevin Martin did not continue his cut for an errant pass. His strength will come. The main thing is can he penetrate and he did that with ease. This against Anthony Davis

SupremeCommander wrote:Lin has some game but he's got some giant holes in his game. I'm willing to bet Brandon Jennings has a higher field goal percentage than Lin this season

This is all I ever said. Bad turnovers, poor left, bad defense, bad fg%. He can definitely score and pass although I don't know if he can consistently score if faced with double-teams and traps.

3G4G wrote:

NUPE wrote:

3G4G wrote:

gunsnewing wrote:That explains the +10 in 30mins and Houston winning

SCOREBOARD will always be most important

LoL at the pre-season scoreboard being most important!

Read it again so you'll get it this time.

It was a statement of principle not of the here and now

In the context and flow of the quote chain, my post certainly was proper in referencing pre-season. Perhaps you should say you aren't referring to pre-season when responding to post clearly referencing pre-season.

3G4G wrote:

Is Winning most important or are Stats?

Even on the neighborhood playgrounds this is so even getting mopped up in your driveway it's so even on a game console it's so.....

So people have gone from predicting 20 and 10 for Lin to saying all that matters is wins as if Lin should be given the lion's share of credit for these wins while shooting awful and turning the ball over .

For my purposes, I will be tracking the "Gift's" stats.

gunsnewing wrote:

NUPE wrote:

3G4G wrote:

Is Winning most important or are Stats?

Even on the neighborhood playgrounds this is so even getting mopped up in your driveway it's so even on a game console it's so.....

So people have gone from predicting 20 and 10 for Lin to saying all that matters is wins as if Lin should be given the lion's share of credit for these wins while shooting awful and turning the ball over .

For my purposes, I will be tracking the "Gift's" stats.

Why do you say people? I said Lin would average 20 & 10

You don't really think that, right?

I'm a big Lin fan but I'm not sure he'll ever get close to that. I predicted he'd get 13 & 6 for a couple years; stick around the league as a nice back up PG (after that "ridiculous" contract runs out)