What do you to a player lacking the consistent confidence and chemistry with a team? Send him to the bench. :slow clap:...but not really.
What do you to a player lacking the consistent confidence and chemistry with a team? Send him to the bench. :slow clap:...but not really.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2293397-hopeful-he-had-found-a-home-in-la-jeremy-lin-left-searching-for-answers-again
Its not so much as he can or can't do something, Lin is a good basketball player, it's just that this team is a mess. There is no sense of direction or purpose for this team to be honest. The system, or lack there of, is rather poor as well as the talent. The team lacks the personnel and just doesn't seem to fit each other. You have a bunch of decent post players but no spacing, you have a guard that excels at driving to the basket but there is no room for him, theres no rim protector to back up the mediocre perimeter defense, the list can go on and on. Lin is tough though, he has gone through the highest of highs and the lowest of lows and I hope he sticks around and find a place on the team for years to come.
I want to see him back with the starters, period. Yes, he had a couple bad games in a row. Yes, this might be a message to him to be more aggressive in the future. Sure, maybe Lin is better poised to be a backup PG to go uptempo with the bench. But on this squad Price doesn't cut it as a starter at all. I want to see Lin run some pick and roll with Davis in the starting lineup. That's what I've been hoping for all season long basically. The best guys on the floor to start and end the games: Lin, Kobe, Hill, Davis. Wes even looks better when Davis plays with him.
Wow this is one mentally fragile kid. Put him back in the starting lineup, but somebody has to find a way to reach him, man. He's so deep in his own head he's coming out his rear end. Get it together kid! Nobody has time for a philosophy lesson on your own psyche!
I agree with this. I think Lin's main problem is a lack of confidence. It must be tough to be confident playing guard next to Kobe, but when he finds the confidence, I think he'll flourish. Anyone who thinks he isn't starter material is just lacking confidence in him because he lacks confidence in himself. I hope he will come around and end up being a bright spot for this season.
Something definitely isn't right with him mentally. Talent isn't an issue. He has starting PG talent. He for whatever reason lacks confidence. He may need to see Ron's sports psychologist. I'm not kidding either.
I agree completely. Nobody has to feel sorry for Jeremy Lin. If the coach doesn't see sense, make him see by your play and attitude. Scot intimated that this benching was a 15 game experiment. It will be even less if you do something. Kobe can't advise you, he has never gone through this tentative self doubting phase. Even when he aged or was injured he had the rings and accolades to fall back on knowing who he was. Kobe me be an a@@hole, but he will respect you if you man up to him and do your best. Go to war. You have already had one super chance that was part luck and hype and the other part hard work and talent. You seized an opportunity and got established. Now here and in Houston it looks like you are letting this chance go. Lin can and should be a starter based on the talent level of this team. Fight for it or be doomed to be a trivial pursuit question. Come on bring that Lintensity. Tank or not I can't support a team and cheer for missed baskets and wasting of talent.
We need to see more Lintensity for sure. But I would prefer Lin kept the starting gig and they worked in some P and R with Davis into the sets. It makes no sense to NOT do that when you have both of those players and we NEED more offense. Price gives us absolutely nothing on O.
We are like Dallas now with Lin being Odom. It was the Rockets that took his swag. We are just picking up the pieces. Bring on the Linrationality. I know Lin can contribute as a starter if he just stops trying to be something he is not ( an evergreen all star)
I disagree. That's what a coach has to do. And if he doesn't, your vets have to. And if they don't, the GM has to do it.
I was being flippant. I agree somebody needs to, I'm just saying he's really mentally fragile. Ding put it all in context and I'm more understanding of it than not, but he really does need to pick himself up by the bootstraps and just do work. Go out there and just be Jeremy Lin and stop stressing out about it so damn much.
I like that he's candid, and I think this leads to some over-analysis. that said, you shouldn't be in despair mode, you should be back in prove it mode. kobe was still in prove-it mode after 3 rings and a slew of all-nba selections. if you don't have it in you to fight like that, get used to being demoted. and that may be the case with lin. in truth, I've said since day one that I thought he was a backup. the lakers clearly feel this way (as Houston did). why not embrace it and be a badass backup pg? because you like losing and putting up numbers/being on the floor for the tip? I'm over it/him. if he wants to put on the big boy pants and play, I'd be glad to have him as a long term backup 1/2. if he thinks he's being undersold, feel free to seek your fortune in FA. you'll find the market bare, I think.
Maybe he's realizing that playing basketball doesn't help the world as much as he wants to be doing so, since he's so smart.
Bipolar or not, I still feel Lin deserves to start as long as Davis is. Lin and Davis play so well together.
This times one million. Price isn't a starter by any stretch of the imagination. Unless Byron is completely tanking on purpose, he needs to switch that around. Just for the sake of seeing some better basketball win or lose.
