Disqus Hangout Sept 2014

1st

Hopefully, I am not the last…:P

Gotta be Chris Rock fan. He tweeted Lin’s birthday and he defended Lin getting HOU contract in 2012.

https://twitter.com/chrisrock/status/503684555237519360

2012 Chris Rock defended JLin
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chris-rock-tweets-jeremy-lin-knicks-351180

Maybe the ranks can accord with the stages of his career. Lowest would be Vikings and highest could be Lakers.

Or according to linsanity moments. Lowest rank would be vipers d-league, Vikings, and the highest would be linsanity.

And scroll over for one sentence description of the ranking like CF

Good suggestion, @wilsc. Perhaps we can get more input in a separate post on what’s the best User Ranking and how to progress. I’ll create it later.

No JLin appearance in this Taiwan Promo video but it’s very well made with beautiful pictures.
And it makes me hungry now 🙂

The 5 Reasons Why You Should Visit TAIWAN !! foreigners not to come to Taiwan’s five reasons │A Laowai’s View of Taiwan

Indeed this really promotes Taiwan well. Make me want to visit Taiwan now:o))

LOL We are still in August and yet September new thread has created. You are really in way advance!

yup, can’t wait for Preseason Game to start in Oct 6 🙂

It’s a little weird indeed having McDonald’s color

I know you love me, Brent and posted this for me. I’ve always hated Parson’s stupid, uncoordinated pumping iron fake. Ha ha. Thanks man, you made my summer.

“None of this Chandler Parsons’ stuff who take too long to get back down and attack” lol

We should just Fast Forward to OCT with a OCT thread then….lol

Some of his fans are fooled by confirmation bias relative to people who look good. Ah, human foibles that I also have ha ha …

Classy Lin wished Happy Birthday to Harden the cornerstone.

https://twitter.com/JLin7/status/504373181818609664

Brent: skilled-limited and skill-limited player both. I’d add for Parsons another skill-limit in the Harry Reid “sometimes I say the wrong things” vein. What a fun month, heh heh.

sadly yes…..I can not say I do not have bias, but some ppl really offseted toooomuch

He definitely deserved pie in the face from Mama Lin. I still shudder every time I watch that instagram vid. LOL.

I saw that tweeted pic a few days ago on the fan site, and anyway, finally took a look at the lady’s site. Not much there except a go getter pushing her ‘stuff’. Fancy cares, foods, lifestyle, etc. Then I looked in Linked In and she’s actually been with the same engineering construction company for a long time, doing bus dev. She’s an IEOR grad our of Michigan, which is a v nice engineering discipline for project management etc. Cal used to have a great IEOR department. Nowadays, they call it different things and it’s sort of a pre-MBA thing. Back the, people did it because they loved manufacturing and logistics. Cool … you learn from all kids of people as a Lin fan. Hope she does well with her work hopes.

Good one 🙂 Why don’t you create a post to predict the first 10-20 games?
I’ll help you fix things if necessary.

It looks like Team USA has a need for a playmaker who can really move the ball.
Drive-and-kick to find open shooters…. Hm, this reminds us of someone. It’s on the tip of my tongue… :}

https://twitter.com/SamSmithHoops/status/504350041172357122

True, John Wall would be a more capable passer. I got a bad feeling about this Team USA performance.
It’s basically putting Harden’s style of play for the world to see how far it can go.

I worry about team basketball not being played. Too many shooting and not enough passing.

That’s a brilliant idea, @blubell. We can keep track of member’s prediction and show leaderboard 🙂
There might be a plugin for it already. I’ll look later

ok, @brentyen:disqus and @disqus_3ojL2FVU9I:disqus, I managed to complete Goal 1 to modify ‘HOT TOPICS’ tab to show the latest posts with recent comments 🙂
I just need to show the latest poster and perhaps date to resemble a Forum layout.

This way, we’ll always get to see Hot Topics on the top.

Looks good to me!!!! good job!!

The starting unit has been decided? I would have thought Rose would be in the starting line up?

So Lakers is working out Beasley and 7 other FAs.
– big men Dexter Pittman, Greg Stiemsma, and Daniel Orton;
– and guards Bobby Brown, Toney Douglas, Ben Hansbrough and Malcolm Lee

Beasley would be a nice talent but not sure is his head is on basketball.
A season with LeBron and DWade didn’t make much difference.

I like Toney Douglas and perhaps Pittman/Stiemsma as a big body

https://twitter.com/goldlakerss/status/504842938934112256

That’s true. Not sure why he didn’t think of Rose to be in the starting lineup.

Watching Jeremy Lin defensive possessions in isolation. Like how he slides his feet & anticipates when squared up with his man.— Darius Soriano (@forumbluegold) August 28, 2014

Does a good job of cutting off angles which leads to a fair amount of step back jumpers by his man. B/c Lin has good size, he contests well.— Darius Soriano (@forumbluegold) August 28, 2014

Where he's not as good is when he shades his man to go in a certain direction. Leaves the gate open too wide & can gets beat too much.— Darius Soriano (@forumbluegold) August 28, 2014

Now watching his work off the ball. Shows good awareness and smarts in where he should be, so far.— Darius Soriano (@forumbluegold) August 28, 2014

Having bigs who can defend the rim helps, but he's quick to recover back to the perimeter and contest shots at the arc.— Darius Soriano (@forumbluegold) August 28, 2014

Liking how he can run at a shooter, break down enough into a stance and slide with his man for at least a couple of dribbles towards help.— Darius Soriano (@forumbluegold) August 28, 2014

In the D Byron will want to run, Lin's ability to help middle & then chase to the arc & either contest or slide w/ a dribbler is important.— Darius Soriano (@forumbluegold) August 28, 2014

Lakers have been awful in making a rotation back to the wing & then sliding with the ball after a show + go. So far, Lin is doing okay there— Darius Soriano (@forumbluegold) August 28, 2014

LOL at Harden in some of these clips…— Darius Soriano (@forumbluegold) August 28, 2014

No…..I had the same observation b4. When He ICE a ball handler from PnR (meaning forcing them to the side lines.) He angled himself too much (meaning he deviate from the line between the line of the ball handler and the rim) that although the ball handler indeed went for the sideline drive, it was too wide open and too hard for the rim protector to help. FWIW, I think that was HOU’s problem that they think they could trap every sideline drive with D12 and TJ.

psalm234, the king of coding!

There are so many CS students now a day….will that not hurting their job market situations?

LOL, if Parsons don improve, he is not going anywhere, including USA team….He did get a big k tho, good for him….

hm, interesting. Perhaps that’s by design in HOU to funnel the guards to D12/TJ in the middle?

more like hacking in this case lol :]

Nice graphics of Lakers stars+Grandpa Steve 🙂
Nash looks … old in the pic 🙂

https://twitter.com/jain0517/status/505086834737569792

Well…he is………old….

I don’t think so, that CS is on the wane in the US. The move to India and China has come back to the US. A wise investor told me once … if people there are just as smart as people here, why would they take lower wages for a long time? The businesses will take their 100% markup, so it’s a fad. And so it was … offshoring software dev for web 1.0 lasted about 5 years, and then the prices got to high people starting to move the best engineers here on visas, for more live interaction. That of course doesn’t apply to big companies who have entire operations in China and India, but more for the smaller teams that are doing innovation.

My friend with a CS PhD from MIT went back to Taiwan mid-career, and he’s doing great. He didn’t need to stay here or there – CS for him is how he’s a free man, and now his kids are growing up with real bilingual skills. Sometimes I wish I was a CS major.

Didn’t he just get cut a couple of days ago? I love it when hubris comes home to roost … like Jack Nicholson said in A Few Good Men: “you can’t handle the truth” (I’m sayin’ it Parsons-LOH fans)

It’s funny but it’s really the other cornerstone :]

https://twitter.com/HtOwNzOuTLaW713/statuses/505141634816692224

Hm, it’s a little unusual for Latin Post to project Nick Young to start at Small Forward.

I think Mike Trudell projected him to come off the bench in 3 lineups.

But this line on Lin was really true:
Lin has only started more than 35 games in a season one time, so this will be his best opportunity to showcase his talents.

Thanks to McHale’s incompetence to create a real team and Harden’s ego, Lin only started >35 games ONCE in his first year with Houston. Lin needs take the most of his opportunity this year to show what he can do if used properly. Go Byron Scott!

WOW….just found out that TWC SPORT NET is added to my cable line up in Dallas……..

Does this mean you can watch the Lakers games?

LOL Not good in predicting any of those as I didn’t watch enough games in participating. Just want JLin to do well and flourish from now on:o))

I like this format much better than the other website. This one is easier to follow. Strange. Anyhow, Psalm you have done a great job in improving the site.

Ballstreams, baby!

Good catch 🙂
I deleted the Sept one.

I’m working to add the Traning camp dates and Media day

it’s okay, everyone can do it for fun 🙂
Yeah, let’s hope Byron Scott really believes in Lin and make him flourish!

Definitely getting it this year.

their stream was excellent last year. I can get the HD no problem 95% of the time.
Much better than NBA League Pass before which had stream bug and unsynchronized audio/video plus too many blackouts. I believe Ballstreams has preseasons too.

hahaha probably better than the sane real JR Smith 🙂

Simply put, Lin has a more athletic brain…

BAM! If only there’s a standard measurement of brain athleticism :]

yeah, that wouldn’t make sense either.
Rondo has a too volatile personality and he might not resign with the team.
He could be a very expensive headache for 1 yr rental and his health is still doubtful.

It is a more affordable route nonetheless. I wasn’t satisfied with LP’s performance last year so I’m taking a chance on Ballstream this year.
Now that Jeremy’s is in LA, I can actually watch the whole game most of the time. When he was with NY, games would be over by the time I get home from work and only catch the second half of the games when he was with HOU. So having LP was a bit of waste. Although I can access the archives, watching it live is more fun.

I thought it Adidas related event too but then I saw Parsons name…
It is a great opportunity and I like the fact that I don’t see superstars with big egos. Jeremy is really working hard this summer! Can’t wait!

Scott is still on probation to me…LOL we will see

http://instagram.com/p/saL_xnu0ph/
Agility trainning, If Lin can steal some foot works from Nash…..he will be upgraded significantly.

And that coach was checking Lin very carefully….haha almost like he thinks something is wrong with what Lin did there.

Coach Nick on how to beat USA, and yes, Harden plays a big part of it…
https://www.youtube.com/user/bballbreakdown/videos

Probably they are bored as well?! 🙂

I believe Lin would have that opportunity for the Lakers and he needs to show that he can always be counted to score if needed.

At times, I felt like Lin intentionally wanted to just set up his teammates last season since he wasn’t clear about what his role should be. Since the playoff, he’s been comfortable to attack everytime he’s on the court.

I can’t wait for Oct 🙂

Lookin’ good!

@blubell and IsabeliJane*7 should be very happy 🙂

https://twitter.com/alexandriahsu/status/506664541556465664

That’s right. Psalm is definitely working very hard on this. I’m lost with all these IT. Feel like a “dinosaur” in this fast moving world:o))

Just returned from my second last treatment. Treatment goes as well as it can be under the circumstances. Will have my last one done tomorrow. Had my discharge today. Doc said that the radiation site would most likely get worse before it got better. That isn’t a great news. Right now it is so itchy and discomfort at times. Fatigue will continue for at least few more weeks….Oh well. At least thank God that tomorrow is the last session of the treatment and then I can move on my life.

You’re welcome! 🙂 Stay strong over there!

You need more rest and peace of mind!! not job!!! 😛 hope the best for you.

I like the jacket… and the dude wearing the jacket.

I still find it awkward when he’s talking about fashion.

wait, what happens in 3 days? 😀
I lost track of days.

Thanks but I prefer him smiling 😀

Hahaha I’m referring to a video of him talking about that red jacket.

Would be cool if you guys there can organize a fan get-together to watch J’s games and wear that Adidas red jacket.

he can’t. He caught a glimpse of Harden’s D on Team USA on TV
lol

BTW, this could be the “Christian Assassin” look as Randall Park said in the YT vid :]

Christian murderer

That’s definitely Adidas promo talk :] The guy still felt a bit uncomfortable “selling” the jacket.

Yeah, maybe if we can find cheap tickets for playoff games ;}

unfortunately “cheap tickets” and “playoff” seems to be allergic to each other… “*sigh*

looks like Lin is the most balanced and quickest to me :]

I’d say the trainer was giving extra attention to the star pupil. Showoff! haha

Thanks Brent. Job has never been too far off from my mind since I was “forced terminated” in the middle of November last year. Still try to figure out what I want to do and what kind of job I can find here in Australia. I know in due time God will prepare one that I can still utilize what I have learned, done and studied in the past. Not too worry about it at the moment.

meant thirty something days….

But still you got chances to win…….I think fatigue is the main problem in that game. Almost won…..too bad…

He had excellent PER beginning of last season. He should be able to maintain it this time around and get it done offensively with 12 fga.

Thanks for the good work!

Yes I like this much better. Know what’s new and update and where to go to look for things that I would like to look at.

I want to visit the night market.

Glad you like it 🙂 You’re helping to shape the site to be user-friendly

LOL Glad to be a help even though it isn’t my intention. Not very good in learning new stuffs. Only can comment on what I know and how to use it:o))

Don’t sell yourself short 🙂
That’s a skill indeed. Many people comment on what they don’t know. LOL

Love this,….watch it so many times….

Well, at least there is no troll here, psalm. Wish maybe the other site has more action Jackson!

Do you like the counter on the Top right on homepage?
25 days before Media Day! Only 3.5 weeks before the festivities start!

I’ve created multiple accounts and trolled Jlin.net to steer everyone to this site 😛

lol .. in this case, it’s a good troll 🙂

http://38.media.tumblr.com/412a9ff275183c4a20f82aea0d32e282/tumblr_mz9hrw1m6V1ricgg0o2_r1_250.gif

yup, you can just sense the desire to play ball out there! :}

I can’t see the counter and it might be my ad blockers or something like that (I use ghostery too). But yeah, soon I will be losing time to Lin games and it’ll be Linteresting, to balance it all.

He’s not smiling but I love his expression here. Very confident.

https://twitter.com/jain0517/status/507401379803983873

I just decoded what Lin’s mindset in describing his life in the 3-course meal. A bit slow 🙂

Stephanie Diong Describe your life as a 3 course meal!
Jeremy Lin Breakfast: bratty arrogant kid
Brunch: the hibernation process (Harvard, D-league, lockout)
Lunch: the breakout (NY)
Dinner: hibernation process part 2 (Houston)
Dessert: thats next on the menu

It’s clear what follows after Hibernation Process part 1 -> the breakout (NY)

So that’s what Lin hopes to achieve after Hibernation part 2!

Great to see that Lin’s full of confidence in thinking of another breakout!

my favorite animal-> polar bear!!! love it

it’s on the Top Right on homepage.
Time is not lost if we balance our passion and work 🙂
Everything good and worthwhile doing, right?

Yeah agree, maybe the the font color in gold (dark) would better.

As for the count down, if you could a digital clock widget, that would be great

thanks, I tried to change it to gold text but it’s still a little hard to see over the banner.
I might have to try to put it over or under the banner

I’m not sure what goes on during a period of hibernation, but I would describe Lin’s “hibernations” as periods of, perhaps, confusion, questioning, reflection, and struggle. In any case, as a result of them, he emerges better and stronger. One thing that impresses me about Lin is that he makes sense of his experiences and gains more from them because of it.

That’s a good description of Lin’s struggle and learning process in his hibernating years in GSW and Houston.
Resilience is certainly Lin’s strength throughout the years of being underestimated and deprived of opportunities simply because he didn’t fit into the prototypical baller (just like Nash).

What intrigued me is how his state-of-mind presently thinks of the current situation.
He could have gone the safe route of “play my best to help the team, help Kobe win” but he didn’t. He didn’t shy away from laying the ground for another potential breakout.

IMO he intentionally used the ‘hibernation’ term to refer to a period of being under-the-radar where he had to learn and develop in many areas:
1. attack-the-rim w/o turning the ball over in D-League years, revamped shooting mechanics and transformed his body during lockout
2. playing off-the-ball in Houston, how to play the offensive spark role ala Manu, playing w/o having the ball much on his hand, playing with star teammates with huge ego

But he clearly has the high confidence to expect another breakout following the recent hibernation. At least, internally. Call it a chip-on-the-shoulder, playing all out to his best, etc. It’s still very good nonetheless.

He would need this extreme confidence to play next to Kobe wearing his Linsanity emotion on his sleeves. Only then Kobe will respect him and perhaps see him as a potential star.

yeah, a little better now.. onto finding the next cool countdown clock 🙂

Check-out these Star-Wars theme timer! The gold C3-PO version might work

http://plugins.twinpictures.de/plugins/t-minus-countdown/screenshots/

WOW! You are very efficient Psalm. Much much much better now. I like the changes. Oops, where is the count down clock gone????!!!! Not here:o)) Must be still in the home page.

Psalm, if you can do that, that will be even better. Thanks for making it even friendlier to use.

Are you still going to put the scoreboard (banner form) on top and stats on the side bar?

It’s a little difficult to do but that’s really the ideal place to be.
I’ll keep testing to do so. Thanks

No biggie. The color is gold like the little robot R2D2 from Star Wars movies 🙂

JLin.net just posted a new doc interview, go check it out

Great to hear Doc’s positive assessment about Lin’s shooter mentality.
He touched upon that issue in the previous interview when Lin needed to believe he’s a shooter in his head.

Loved the description of the a shooter’s mentality (“fearless and cunning”) :]

Lin got the full credit turning a less-than-ideal position in Houston to develop the shooting guard mentality. We all can learn to turn lemon to lemonade in life 🙂

They’re just appetizers. Main course is yet to come!

Say it… hahaha

sure thing. You created the banner so it should be displayed well 🙂

You mean in the banner? I’m using Chrome and it’s still in the middle.
I haven’t quite figured out how to put it below the banner yet.
It’s more the WordPress theme and the CSS coding that needs manual tweak

Here are all of the training videos from Lin’s Mo academy experience: enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqIi-W20-ADMHaeYjnGHgg

Lin looks really good in his all around game at Mo Williams academy. He seemed to be well liked by the players that were there. Go Lin:)

Portal looks great! I’ll be checking in everyday! Thanks for all your hard work.

And the plot thickens… 🙂

Thanks, Tttt.
Brent, bluebell, IJ and many others helped to make it happen!

Don’t hesitate to give ideas/suggestions to make this site the best positively Lin fans 🙂

LOL

AND the plot thickens… LOL.

Great to see you, @Je Ballew!
You have some excellent writing. If you’d like to be a post contributor, just let me or @brentyen:disqus know 🙂

Welcome! Je Ballew..

🙂 so true..

BTW, please PM me your Disqus email address so I can make you the Disqus admin.
It’s a separate process from the Forum mod.

ok

You’re still here… 😛

no worries.
We like good trolls 🙂

Hey, I like the new home page – v clean.

Well, y’all know I didn’t do anything except post a few times, so thanks for your + nature. This season is going to be fun. You and KHuang will meet I’m sure because he’s got the tix.

Guys who will watch games live, ALL of you must turn in your in-game reports.

😉

this site getting better. good job.

Seems like USA’s big guys are the difference. I have a hard time watching all the commercials and foul interruptions even the games Lin is playing. That’s one thing about basketball I don’t like.

You would have to be real mean guy not to like Lin as a person; yeah, Lin looked pretty good. I hope he will kill it this year and get the Staples Center rocking.

I feel bad for D Rose because I think he will never be that good anymore due to his injury.

Now Psalm can get those interviews.

All hail Psalm!!!!!

Hail fellow well met

This new Avatar did spook me out!!!

Yes, it’s the biggies carrying Team USA – Faried, Davis, and Cousins. Their interior defense is the main reason why they’re still winning now. If one of these guys go down, Team USA can kiss the FIBA trophy goodbye.

Spain’s Gasol bros is a threat though. Not sure about the Lithuanian team.

Let’s hope that chat box can handle game chat!!! will be fun….

LMAO……

Uh, uh, I am in trouble. 🙂

no hail pls 🙂 .. now I just need to be the guy fixing up stuff like chat box haha

I will hold my hail until you fix the countdown clock… seems to be going very sloooow 😛

haha, I thought the new default picture (Om-Nom) will spice things up 🙂

It’s my son’s favorite character haha..

I have the same excitement and sense of anticipation, too 🙂

It’s like the Israelites getting ready to enter the Promised Land after wandering in the desert for 40 years. God has used the bad experience to strengthen Lin’s character so he’s ready to break out for the 2nd time.

We just need to pray for his health and good team environment to welcome him and not have any jealousy in Lakers team.

lol .. I got shot down the last time w/ Moses.

Joshua is better here since even Lin quoted the “Be strong and courageous” verse on Joshua 1:9

ok, that might be even more accurate 🙂

JLin is not the de facto leader like Joshua yet to lead to enter the Promised Land (playoff/championship) but he needs to fight many battles first. The only thing that doesn’t fit is imagining Kobe as Moses, the old leader. lol

LOL That’s why I didn’t put JLin nor anyone down as the main leader(s). The story of just Israelites needed to help each other to fight for their designated land is sufficient in the mean time:o))

Hahaha. Same as youtube and Twitter. I have tried to change Disques’s avator a few times but was never been able to until now. This is one of the Brisbane scenes that I took from a high rise bldg. Comparatively this is the best representation of being fan from Brisbane:o))

there is a lot of frustration by many posters there.
I’m not sure if the mods are busy but it’s very easy to blacklist someone who clearly violates the family-friendly rules.

Here I set up a rule if a post is flagged 5 times, then it disappears. It’s actually very easy to do.
Brent and I have tried to JL mods but perhaps they’re just too busy.

It’s very sad to see but a lot of us have tried to offer our help to be mods there 🙁
oh well, we did our best

closing things might be too harsh since they do a lot of good coverage like the interview.
But they should get help to moderate since no moderation is the death of many forums.

I’m a proponent of a forum with differing opinions but with mutual respect.
I have no problem banning disrespectful people at all.

We don’t let guests come to our house and disrespect us, why shouldn’t we do the same for a forum? I truly don’t understand.

By any chance, does anyone know who are the mods of jeremylindotnet? Wonder about the relationships to JLin.

I don’t know all their names.
Paul Okada is one of co-founder as he was interviewed during Linsanity.

What have I done with the Chat Box. Gone from the site when I “played” with it:o((

That’s exactly what we aspire to do, @real_dsb:disqus

So far we have a group of 8 mods (@brentyen:disqus, @disqus_3ojL2FVU9I:disqus, @awarde:disqus, @ij7:disqus, @maknusia:disqus,@joeteam:disqus, @disqus_dVLDET9zJ7:disqus and me). And we might need more mods in Asia/Europe time. They all have the power to delete comments and blacklist users/IP address. Please let me know if you’d like to be one.

All I ask is to keep the forum be respectful and be positive. Differing opinions are welcomed with mutual respect.
Insults, name-calling, personal attacks will not be tolerated here. I will put this in an FAQ page.

Interesting, that there is auto delete. That means mods want the controversy. You can sense lots of views with lots of extra page views from one little troll, esp one who keeps the same obviously trolling thread going for days. When you get chugging along, I bet if you let a troll play on for 2 days, you’ll see tons of extra page views given it sort of piles on.

I dunno, it’s easy to get a hold of doc or other famous folks in JLin’s life. Many avenues in.

Hey, a thought – Psalm, can you get a hold of PFV and give him some featured role here? His venue is youtube, and I don’t use twitter, but maybe you can help him and he can help you?

Brisbane is the SE corner of Qld, 1.5 hours from New South Wales border. Cairns is at far north Qld. Will take at least 20 hours for driving if no traffic. Flying is about 2 hrs if my memory serves me right. Visited there in Dec 2000.

Because of work, have lived in major cities. Over the years had chances to drive thru all coastal areas except 2.5 hrs north from Perth to the far far north of Qld. That is my way of coping to move so much:o))

Compare to US, Australia is still quite racism. Don’t like it but learn to accept it. No perfect place to live.

Glad to see you guys all working together. Thanks for all the effort!

I need instructions too. 🙂

I said the same thing at cf and got banned for it. That site is a full functioning forum and hardisty is getting the ad revenues. I don’t know about a discus site though???

page views do get you $$ if you are set up with ads. Although my site has ads I do not get revenue from it. The site is free and Proboards puts the ads there and thy get the revenue. I would have to pay a monthly fee to have the ads removed. I simply use ad blocker and encourage others to do so. I do not know about discus. is it a free service that places ads and discus gets the revenue? or is the ad revenue going to t he JL site???

is there a set of rules/guidelines somewhere on the site?

I’d love to have PFV here. I talked to him once a while back.

I understand he’s busy and mainly write on RealGM but we can definitely provide a special CNM gallery of video/posts for him if he has the time

Interesting (long) comment from Ido Amir on an article posted at http://www.lakeshowlife.com, regarding Jeremy Lin.

https://twitter.com/IdoAmir/status/508662877025091585

They can bring more rosters into preseason games……….every team will try to get as many players as possible to increase the quality of their final few roster spots tru competition

Ido is very good in highlighting with stats how Lin is already better than Dragic on career average and 1st 4 year career average. The point is Dragic has probably close to his peak in his 8th-9th year while Lin’s not at his peak yet. But Lin’s arguably better in his 4th year comparison even with diminished role in Houston.

This coming season could be a statement year by Lin to prove the point if he’s in the contention for Most Improved Player by playing his natural PG position for the Lakers.

I would ask Ido he’d like to contribute as a poster here.

According to this LakersNation article, BScott just added one more coach assistant (Igor Kokoskov) next to Mark Madsen and Jim Eyen. And Gary Payton has not been officially named assistant yet. A possibility to join JKidd in Milwaukee.

That’s not very good. I wonder what took so long to recruit GP. He’ll be very valuable assistant coach for defensive purpose.

https://twitter.com/LakersNation/status/508776141243416576

As it always tends to do in Los Angeles, the rumors have run rampant about who could be added to Scott’s coaching staff before next season. One former Laker that has been mentioned as a potential candidate is Gary Payton, but there hasn’t been much traction on that front since the rumor surfaced a few weeks ago. Payton has also been linked to an assistant position under Jason Kidd with the Milwaukee Bucks.

Ok, Team Psalm, here so go …

This is not the stuff that Coach K would approve regarding respecting other cultures.

https://twitter.com/Talk_NBA_/status/507337421969584128

IC … thx.

I’m not sure if that’s being intentionally used to intimidate other teams or FIBA allowed them to perform the dance before every game to showcase the culture. Perhaps both?

IMO Even if it’s true, it’s not wise to diss them on social media. The beatdown on the court probably spoke volume already. It just reminds me of bad reps in the past that Coach K had to deal with a while back regarding the perception Team USA didn’t respect other countries.

You know, this recent trend about ‘naturalized’ citizen (i.e. Ibaka for Spain, Blatche for Philippines) playing for countries made me wonder. Would Lin ever consider doing it for China/Taiwan?

My guess is no due to the Taiwan/China controversy. But it Lin can do well exhibiting skills against quality opponents, it might give more venue to showcase what he can do for a system fully tailored for his strength. A string of 30pts/10asts games would certainly open a lot of eyes in the NBA.

I agree. All are good reasons. He still has hope to play for the USAB team and needs to secure long-term contract first.

Quick search in wiki says that war haka used to show strength and prowress to intimidate opponent.

Imo nz basketball does it more for culture and tradition, rather than actually believe it would intimidate opponents.

Seems to me that US player igoudala felt disrespected.

No, now a day just a culture thing.

Your search gets it right. Any NZ will always show haka dance whenever they play any team sport (saw it often here). It becomes a cultural statement for Kiwis. I enjoy it whenever I see NZ team does it. Everyone needs to be more respected of different cultures and practices.

Tennis: I felt so sure that Kei will lose to Cilic that I put money on sports betting site. 🙂 My sentimental pick is Kei, but I just don’t see him beating Cilic. I also tried to bet on Serena but the odd was too lopsided in her favor.

whoa.. 18 kids from 5 women averaging 6’9″ for the boys!
I wonder how tall the dad was or what stuff they put in New Zealand water :]

he already had a girl. first boy.. no idea if same mother. I do not think he is married.

My daughter!!! https://t.co/dbZsS48zbk— Patrick Beverley (@patbev21) June 5, 2013

There’s been a lot of discussion in Lakers forums about Scott managing Kobe’s game minutes. But I really didn’t think much about managing Kobe’s practice and team workouts until I’d read the Soriano blog [link].

Does anyone here have any ideas how that might work in practical terms? Would Kobe do less than the rest of the team in individual exercises? Would he be involved less in practice scrimmages?

I also wonder about the psychological effects on Kobe and the rest of the team members if he isn’t asked to do the same as his team mates.

The practice sessions may be the first occurrences of Scott limiting Kobe’s physical involvement with team activities. I think you’re right about it not affecting the team members’ respect for Kobe. It may be harder on Kobe to be told that he no longer will be allowed to fully participate in team preparations.

Why not, especially when other “Stars” seem more and more reluctant to join…

The latest SI article touched upon the coach possibility. “Only if he has patience” is the summary 🙂

The article did a great job describing Kobe’s various interest from cold-calling Apple execs, trying new business brands, etc. I think he would be able to take up new challenges (i.e. player/coach, businessman, future NBA owner, etc.)

The funny line was when Kobe saw a 5-yr old son of the writer (or his friends) and he said, “I want to create one of that”! since he has 2 daughters.

No, I feel I know how to judge tennis, so I should benefit from my knowledge. Why not.

WT………where is the open speech……

It’s hard to say either way. Lin’s great performance this year will go a long way though.

I am hopeful that Kobe will practice with full intensity, just with lesser minutes……All his teammates will understand if he can not practice as much as he wants….Half of them probably can not beat Kobe at all with fully healthy bodies…

OK I’ll change it…

Ha no….no need…..it is a nice avatar…

The Ido response I copied is attached to lakeshowlife.com’s Dallas training camp article. Somehow, the passionate comments there just don’t seem to fit the rather bland training camp article.

I do know that the lakeshowlife people changed the content of their original “pandering” article. Is it possible that they also mixed up the articles and the comments at the same time?

NIce avatar you got there 😉

Is that Doc?

Jeremy Lin getting ready before training camp starts pic.twitter.com/PnobqKAltx— Lakers Facts (@LakerFacts) September 9, 2014

Just a note …

The Lakers’ training facility is in the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo, California. The facility includes three public ice rinks, a basketball court, and restaurant. It is also used by the LA Kings.

See : http://www.toyotasportscenter.com/

Again, that’s ignorant of the facts.
I guess that makes Mitch Kupchak a Jeremy Lin fan for attempting to get Lin for 3 times.

At this point, we’ll let Lin’s game play out on the court. They can swallow their words later.

Kobe would be Kobe! 🙂

just saw this one in his Triple-Double game 🙂

http://youtu.be/Va07knm9MNk?t=5m30s

Sept 9 Update:
I made 3 changes to the Homepage layout to see if it improves the website:
1. Moved Slideshow down and replaced it with a list of “Latest Posts and Topics” so users immediately know what are the latest topics to join discussion
2. Add “New Posts or Topics” button so Approved Contributors can create topics.
Note: We can automate this process to make users contributors when they achieve Junior level (100pts)

@real-dsb, I will create a separate post for Site Feedback so we can discuss the most desired features there.
@disqus_dVLDET9zJ7:disqus, I created the New Post button based on your feedback. Contributors need to be able to easily create Posts/Topics. Thank you!

thanks to you, too!

Hey, what if you try the New Post button to discuss a good article?
I would also suggest @arsenium12:disqus to try to do so for the BScott extensive interview.

is very busy recently……I think number of posts will explode when we hit the season opening…

Mark Medina has tweeted that Byron Scott’s staff will be Jim Eyen, Paul Pressey, Mark Madsen as assts; Larry Lewis & Thomas Scott as assts/player development. One position is vacant.

Here is an extended interview with Larry Lewis, done by Mike Trudell, when Lewis joined Mike D’Antoni’s staff in July, 2013.

http://www.nba.com/lakers/news/130812_larrylewis

Here are some excerpts :

MT: You’ve played basketball all over the world, observing a plethora of skill sets and systems. What’s the first priority for you in trying to develop players?

Lewis: Of course I have my own ideas, but my ideas have to be secondary. I have to first learn the mission of upper management, what Mike D’Antoni wants to accomplish. That’s the top priority and objective that I have to buy into. Once I learn that, now I’m a part of the team. But I can’t come into a situation like this and have my own ideas and try to implement them. I have to implement their ideas into what I’m trying to do.

**********

MT: How does that process go from you talking to D’Antoni and his staff, and implementing things for the players to work on?

Lewis: You have to study, previously, what’s going on in that system and how certain players get theirs in that system. Mike’s been running this system for a while now, and you can go back and look at how players got their shots, for example, in Phoenix or New York, or in certain actions last season in L.A.

**********

MT: So you can pull up Joe Johnson or Raja Bell film from the Suns to see where they got their three-point looks, and use that to inform Nick Young or Wesley Johnson?

Lewis: Exactly. That type of preparation has to happen first so that when we get on the court with a player, we have a clear understanding of the system and the language of that system.

You’re welcome. As you can see I’m also experimenting with the logo and banner so it won’t clash with menu items.
I’ll try again late night.

*sigh* lucky girls…

This is one of the best videos ever! :]
Loved watching the expression of people getting pranked. LOL
And Mama Lin wanted to poke Lin’s shoulder to see how real it is.

And the best part is watching the reaction of jealous Lin girls. hahahaha…
What would you do if Lin pranked you?

Melt like wax 😛
Or prank him back… yes… revenge…

@psalm234:disqus the site looks cleaner. I’ll try to make a banner with navigation buttons.

I granted you ‘Contributor’ role.

Try to click the ‘Create a new Post/Topic’ green button on Homepage.

Lakers’ Byron Scott believes he can hold firm on limiting Kobe Bryant’s minutes

This a longish article with video interview. It also includes some comments on Steve Nash’s playing time.

See : http://www.insidesocal.com/lakers/

Excerpt :
Scott reported Bryant as fully healthy from his left knee injury and looked impressed with his offseason workouts. Yet, Scott said he will have to limit Bryant. He will probably sit out in the second practice of the three two-a-day sessions Scott tentatively has scheduled once training camp begins in three weeks. Bryant will likely skip select regular-season practices so he can receive additional rest and treatment. Scott also conceded the possibility that Bryant will either miss the second night of back-to-back games, or face reduced minutes the first game so he can play the following night.

I like the cleaner look of the banner but a little bit too ordinary:o)) Thanks both of u are working hard on this.

New update of JLin Chinese FB:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/%E6%9E%97%E6%9B%B8%E8%B1%AA/224098244270448

Thanks. The button seems to work. I’m not sure how to use it to create a new, named topic in a specific forum. I assume the categories are the key to specifying location. But no hurry in figuring that out. I’ll learn as we go along.

Bill Oram @bill_oramFollow
Byron on Steve Nash: He’s in the gym every morning, says he feels better than he’s ever felt over the last two years. Unsure if Nash starts
4:22 PM – 10 Sep 2014

My only concern about Jeremy’s hair is that it not be long enough for opposing guards to pull. His hair was yanked (was it by Kidd?) when Jeremy was a Knick and was attacking the basket. He was yanked backwards by the hair, and many fans at the time thought that was what caused his knee injury.

Nice article!

LOL, he copied me!!!

Remember, many of us said, he came back way too soon, and this might come back and haunt him! CF’s was bragging about him being wolverine!

yeah, they forgot it was a movie. I kinda feel bad for Bev. He’s a great backup PG with that kind of defense but it’s impossible to play 48min with that defensive intensity and dangerous style.

I hope they won’t just dump in July 2015 if he can’t play much. But it could happen with “It’s just math” principle. Very sad indeed.

I too like PB, he worked hard to be where he is now. If anyone to be blamed, it would be the Coach and FO.

They really screwed up the entire Team lineups, chemistry and accountability.

I’m pretty sure with a different coach, they would have easily been the WC finalist.

yes, that would be an understatement.

The facts do not lie. Morey’s record of only 1 time going to the 2nd round of playoff in 7 years doesn’t exactly scream ‘championships’

With someone like Rick Carlisle, players would be more disciplined and play their roles to contend in the WCF. McHale is not a great tactician at all. I tried to look for stats where he was last in the rank of coaches for allowing points after Time-Out but couldn’t find it again. Maybe wu kong has it.

Apparently Paul George didn’t think twice about condoning Ray Rice’s domestic abuse.
Then Larry Bird hammered on him properly.

His ‘hit-back-if-your-woman-hits-you-first’ message is so dangerous.
We can have kids fighting everyday at school (PG approved message)

https://twitter.com/Ballislife/status/510067483714551808

https://twitter.com/JeffZillgitt/status/510093234404880384

Hi Psalm. I was able to create the thread (Basketball_Insiders season previews 2014/15). However, the URLs that were abbreviated in my Disqus Hangout post were not copied in their entirety when I “copied and pasted” the message into the thread. I don’t know how to edit the thread to add the complete URLs. I’m quite busy today so I can’t spend more time on this. Thanks.

Jeremy visiting with a venture capitalist …

https://twitter.com/SteveWestly/status/510134571254292480

Another article mentioned how Bev is the 4th worst starting PG in the West:
http://spacecityscoop.com/2014/09/04/rockets-patrick-beverley-realistically-fourth-worst-starting-pg-west/

It further speculates that Morey is eyeing a starting-caliber PG (i.e. Lowry,Rondo, Dragic rumor)

The fact that the Rockets had been linked to Kyle Lowry over free agency—and both Rajon Rondo and Goran Dragic most recently—is illustrative of the fact that Rockets GM Daryl Morey is seeking to upgrade the point guard position in a major way. The Rockets will continue to actively pursue trades for a starting caliber point guard.

It’s funny that after Lin is traded, they just “realized” Bev is a great backup PG material, not a starting one.
Even when Lin shutdown Parker, Holiday, Conley, he didn’t get the high praise from HOU media that he can outperform those starting PGs.

Perhaps they will use Bev’s knee injury as:
1. justification to get another starting PG (after heavily promoting him as a starting PG last season over Lin)
2. advertisement of Morey’s advanced analytics that can be used to help athlete’s recovery.

One thing for sure, they know Bev is not the answer as a starting PG. They gave Lin away for nothing and they will get exposed in the PG department next season. Bev/Jason Terry is not the answer.

Anyway, I choose to let them be. When people make bad decisions, they will reap bad consequences. It’s not Bev’s fault. It’s the GM and Coach who chose to let Harden be the king over them.

Maybe they want to make an excuse up front to avoid face burn when Lin lights them up?

Honestly I don’t care about PBev’s knee. I just care about Jeremy, and their first face off this Lakers opener. If this dude injures Jeremy by using his tactics…

Anyway, I get a feeling he won’t guard Jeremy lol. More like, Dwight’s gonna be guarding him.

MC Jin working his magic with Jeremy Lin… http://fb.me/3PjADFBSf

The final sentence of Luol Deng’s statement regarding the Danny Ferry incident states : “Ultimately, I’m thankful to be with an organization that appreciates me for who I am and has gone out of its way to make me feel welcome.” I’d say that’s what Jeremy Lin is looking for, too. Hope he’s found it with the Lakers.

See : http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11496412/miami-heat-forward-luol-deng-saddened-comments-atlanta-hawks-call

For those eagerly awaiting the start of the preseason, here’s a video showing some of the scrimmages during the first few days of the Lakers’ training camp for the 2012/13 season. The camp was held at the Lakers’ facility in El Segundo, California. It’s part of the Toyota Sports Center.

See : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elDnVLF1VPg

..and we can’t wait to see him back on the court!

@real_dsb:disqus HI!! just FYI, Psalm and some of us decided to use blog posts plus their Disqus commenting section for discussion. The objective is trying to make this site a easier and cleaner place to use. Please feel free to start a new blog post about this video so we all can discuss there? Forum will be a back up place for some data/stats/events for now…..

I’ve no idea who Pooh Jeter is but I want him to make it to TC just so we can hear, “Lin to Pooh for a three!” 🙂

must be neighbors with Winnie the Pooh and Derek Jeter :p

Morey is a fox. He used Lin 2 years for $10m. Lakers picks up Jeremy’s last year for $15m. Morey surely reports to Alex that he has saved his boss lots of money in his deals with Asik and Lin. Now Lin is gone, Beverley’s days are limited. In addition, Beverley’s knee might need an operation. It seems that Houston is such an organization that no player should play for them. Perhaps they would give up on Beverley any time soon.

I think it is interesting that Team USA is playing for the gold, but of the fans in US are focused on NFL games happening today.

Haha. Now that is settled… we have to decide who is Tigger and Eeyore.

Harden is getting recognition, too.

https://twitter.com/sportando/status/511247460396961792

pooh jeter is one of my favorite stories from fiba tournament. he had one shot one time in the nba then went on to be a top player in china. he was one of the top scorers in the fiba tournament. his sister carmaleta (sp) jeter is billed as the worlds fastest woman because of her prowess in the 100 meters.

according to espn pres season rating lin is. beverely rated 29th best point guard and lin right behind him at #30

Wow, we got so many mods in here the trolls won’t last more than a few seconds!

Positive criticism should be okay 🙂
You’re a great husband so if you use some of wife-communication technique to mention lots of positives before 1 negative, it should come out well. Well, better than the wife’s reaction for sure LOL

I noticed a lot of exposure of National Media of Harden’s ineptitude in defense.

Once people figure out ways to stick aggressive defender to him consistently to be ineffective on offense (without Parsons/Lin threat), Harden will get lambasted in the national media.

The paragraph on JLin.
Really, now Bev has a better offensive rating than Lin?

Jeremy Lin, Lakers

Guard | Age: 26 | Last year: Unranked

2013-14: 12.5 PPG, 4.1 APG, 2.6 RPG, 1.0 SPG, 44.6 FG%, 35.8 3P%

Advanced: 14.3 PER, 4.4 Win Shares, -0.8 RAPM

Can a ball-dominant point guard with an international following and outsized expectations that surpass his ability ever catch a break? in the post-Linsanity era, Lin has been paired with A-lister after A-lister who require the undrafted Harvard floor leader to cede control and shots. First, Lin was in a short-lived, ill-advised partnership/power struggle with Carmelo Anthony, one that culminated with Lin’s being dumped in favor of the gun-toting, flab-sporting Raymond Felton. Then, Lin had to accommodate James Harden’s arrival in Houston and was relegated to the bench by the emergence of Patrick Beverley, who posted a better offensive rating, defensive rating and RAPM than Lin last year.
Now, Lin must find a way to coexist with Kobe Bryant, who is surely eager to hoist after watching the Lakers struggle through a miserable 2013-14 season mostly without him.
The good news for Lin is three-fold:
1) Lakers fans should embrace his competency and star power,
2) Lin is in a contract year and the post-Jerry Buss Lakers have made a habit of handing out ludicrous deals, and
3) he can always bounce next summer if things don’t work out with Bryant and new coach Byron Scott.
— B.G.

So this guy is going to put Jeremy about sixth or seventh in the Lakers he gets around to analyzing?
There are a lot of excuses available to diminish Jeremy’s importance to the team, I guess. If Medina wanted to, he could have listed the team members by salary — without hiding behind some unconfirmed starters excuse.

I want to see which reports/stats show Lin has worse offensive rating. and who published it? It’s a head-scratcher to me.

I think it is ok for a coach to simply just having a player as starter in mind. Kind of just like a starting point for building identity for a team at very beginning….It will change from there….I have hope.

I think we just need to be patient.

BScott as a coach has to smooth out any egos. To consider 2-time MVP in Nash a tentative starter is one way to do it to get Nash to feel appreciated. In reality, Byron Scott followed up with comments of Nash playing even fewer minutes than Kobe.

We’ll see how Training Camp plays out. It’s important for Lin fans to discuss common goal with Laker fans of reaching playoff and preserving Nash/Kobe’s health.

If it takes a few token start to make Nash feel good in his last season and be happy to mentor Lin under his wings, it will provide a greater ROI in the long-term investment.

I realize as fans we can’t demand a coach to start a player or not but we can present good facts and common goal for the common good.

I know what you mean. It has been a tough 2 years in Houston already 🙁

Jeremy’s journey has not been easy for sure. But I’m confident with his work ethic and Nash’s uncertain healthy, Byron Scott’s logic will prevail in the end :]

BScott is definitely no McHale 🙂 so I would base my personal 70% BScott confidence level on his triple-threat comments on Lin and the hard reality that Nash only played 15 games last season.

Among Lakers players, I think Jeremy has the least to prove. The team has two vets who are over 35 and who have been injured and off the court for most of the last couple of years. There have been a lot of brave words flung around about how good they both look. But there seems to be some undercurrent of trepidation about how it will all go down once Scott pulls out the trash cans, runs them ragged, and starts the 5-on-5 body-banging tests. There are going to be some scary reality tests. I they hope both pass.

Scott seems to know (and is content with) what he has in Lin and Boozer. OTOH, he sic’ed Kobe on a couple of returning team members (like Swaggy) for a reason, and they’re going to be under Scott’s microscope to see if the lessons “took”.

Lin’s been training hard this off-season. He’s just moved to a new city and is settling in. He and the team are going to have a brutally hard October, by all the tales told. I don’t know what sort of rest and recovery times Lin’s experts have built into the cycles he’s done where he pushes his body to new levels. But whatever he’s going to be doing in the next couple of weeks, I’m sure it’s being done with what’s going to best serve his mind and body — and ultimately, the Lakers.

Psalm, seem like the banner above this page is incomplete. It cut off at about 75% of the banner.

Well said, I personally does not like ppl saying Lin need to prove XXXX…….. He is proven to me.

Our JLin showed up early AM to put in work and lookin’ sharp.
Hope we see some pics & videos today! 🙂

Joseph Verdi ‏@JMelodic 1h
Getting to watch @JLin7 put in work this morning at the Lakers practice facility… Pretty amazing! Look good J!

Joseph Verdi ‏@JMelodic 24m
@BluntWitIt_ @JLin7 lookin’ sharp… Been putting in work since early am. can’t wait to see him on the court in #purpleandgold

good question. not sure if he’s a lucky fan or he’s there as in artist/actor capacity as his profile says.

Did anyone see or heard jlin working on his midrange jumper?
I.really think that’s his missing weapon..

curious… has this site been banned from posting at Jeremylin.net? if you post a link does it get deleted?

oh well… that makes me very sad.

If he thinks floater is important, then…..mid-J must be important too

I think at this stage….collaboration is harder….JL.net is an established site…maybe later?

BTW, I can not use chatbox…..whatever I typed do not show…..

The ONE thing I really don’t like jlin.net is they don’t post enough new thread.each week. I mean I am not asking every day, but at least 2~3 times/ week is not asking too much is it?

One of the reasons why Vincent, Jp2313 and Psalm all try to have a better site for Lin fans….

from what i can see of him on line hes sort of a d list hollywood type; would be actor/model who has some family connections in la. to more sucessfull hollywood types.

someone want to start a new post on this??

Pat Bev on SiriusXMNBA today saying he's no friend w/ @JLin7 & CP now they're on other teams. https://t.co/rOpseKwPsf— Jenny (@Jen2Jenny) September 18, 2014

ido’s comment I found interesting…

@32001OCC @thesuitedmonk88 @Jen2Jenny @JLin7 @ChandlerParsons Yo, @patbev21 , THIS is how you treat your teammates: http://t.co/Q8d9i0snnX— Ido Amir (@IdoAmir) September 18, 2014

This Korean drama site is certainly fishing for clicks. Just a typical gossip site we can ignore, I think

yes it looked suspect but I had never heard of it before… thought someone might know for certain that this is just a ‘rag mag’…

@wu kong, why don’t you try to create a new post using the green button on homepage?
Just simply copy and paste this post. The twitter post should show up automatically using the ‘Detail’/Timestamp URL address

I’m curious to see if you can easily do that. I can help fix things or add featured image later if necessary

True, it’s a bait-and-switch.
The title made it sound like a done-deal and it’s one big lie.

All about habit!

ok tried to do it… not sure if it worked.. ok I see it now … will you move stuff from here of should I?

I think it looks good 🙂

Just a minor typo on the title. It should be “Beverley”

I always felt PBev wasn’t a true friend! This just confirms it! He’s more like a brown noser to Har_en and wants attention

Very reasonable prediction on Laker PGs.

It’s also interesting to note that a different “Jeremy Lin’s moment” writer has the skewed vew of Lin as an offensive player and “good, but unspectacular passing ability” (mostly due to playing behind Harden’s ball-hogging ways and Houston shoot-first-ask-questions-later system but national media is not aware of it).

Lin is a limited shooter, is turnover-prone (but getting much better) and just had his best defensive season…playing in front of Dwight Howard. However, he’s a deadly slasher who can get to the rim with efficiency and make free throws, with a nice handle and a good, but unspectacular, passing ability.

But that’s the view most national medias has if they don’t follow Lin and Houston closely. Lin is about to surprise a lot of people this season.

http://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2014/9/16/6150161/la-lakers-jeremy-lin-season-preview

sorry, there was a pending one. I thought it’s a duplicate

I predict this will be a one-horse race soon.

Let’s cast our votes with endless ‘retweet’!

https://twitter.com/nBa_MaTcHupss/status/512661276950925312

Don’t sell yourself short 🙂
While you learn more about BB, you contribute a lot in reporting Lin’s whereabouts.
Even Jeremy can use it to remember where he has been!

Hahahaha Am good in stalking JLin from afar and retain info/facts.

It’s part of influencing social media perception any chance we get 🙂

69-18 LOL

just check on the # of retweets vs favorites in the tweet above 🙂
It gets refreshed every time

That implies he was just friends because they were on his team. So, just a teammate and not a friend. The truth is now out, which we all knew anyway. He’s a friend if you can help his career.

wu kong, your efforts were appreciated. I went there to browse facts sometimes. I use links you have to tell people basics, just so we can have a decent dinner-lin convo. So I thank you.

there was a pic yesterday of him in an empty gym shooting a mrange.

Enough talk. Let’s retweet. 🙂

I don’t really resort much to those team medias. I find that they lack research fundamentals. I only check them out when there are Jeremy videos or pictures I can capture.

Randle is a rookie for goodness sake. I think they might just try to create controversies so at least they can get rating and claim they’re right at some of the guesses 🙂

Princeton is like a constant PNR…..in repeate mode….plus always move the ball from side to side. I think it is a good set in general for good ball handlers….which LAL have only three in Lin, Kobe and Nash….

as i mentioned on my comment above, the only thing i fear is not that Lin can’t play well. it is that the princeton offense may not best utilize Lin’s strength and not able to shine in this offense. but i think he has improved on his off the ball movement, which should be good for this offense.

I retweeted twice and wished for more :]

The way I see NBA offense. Unlike ncaa or some national teams, it is usually custom made for the roasters on the team. To run a general Princeton offense, you need all five players to be triple threat players, which is unlikely to happen in NBA level. Therefore, no matter what offense you run, the ball will always go to your play makers more….samething can not be said to ncaa games because most of this games are over coached so players have less freedom to actually create. Jmo

Reading how Byron Scott described in Cleveland how the system revolves around guard/forwards/center w/o distinguishing PG and SG, it’s clear that Byron wants to have constant motion to exploit defensive mismatch in maybe 3 tries in a single possession (6-second/try in 24-shot clock).

That means Kobe/Nash/Lin/Swaggy can be the guards to start probing the defense. I see the concern if it will give enough time to let Lin set up PnR. But Kyrie and CP3 still had the majority of ball-handling in Cleveland and NO under Scott. So it might not completely be pure Princeton offense where everyone has equal amount in touching the ball.

It will be interesting to see how pure the Princeton offense he’s going to employ considering Kobe and Nash won’t be as mobile. Plus who’s the center who can pass very well in this Princeton offense?

I would want to listen more to how Byron Scott describes his offense with current players once Training Camp starts.

http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2010/10/the_princeton_way_with_more_pl.html

dont know if this will be of any use u 2 but re yer issues with getting moderated/deleted with site name in comments on j lin net. ever since that happened any time i log on there. that initial block of deleted posts with the replie to those posts still visible show up in “new” comments just below anything that has appeared since last i was there and above everything else; like yer haunting the site! anyway may be just my computer or lack of tech knowledge. but wondered if anyone else had experienced something similar.

btw know there are philippine fans on these sites; my friends there are under flood from typhoon mario woke me up this morning to let me know they are evacuating people but they’re staying put cause evac centers are too crowded, northern luzon appears to be the worst hit and more coming all 2day i think.

some site had of newcomers who will most likely to be positive impact long term i think was what they meant for lakers; randle was 1 and lin 2. (of 5) so pretty good cause a lot of people think randle will be big star future for them.

thanks for the article. i think it really does show how his style might still be beneficial to Lin.

the offseason is too long and I forgot about the past discussions about how he did had those PG that excelled under his coaching.

this guy will be great to read. looking forward to more from him.

just promoted this site and http://jeremylinforum.net/ as places he should collaborate. been following him all summer great guy knows his stuff.

He is sometimes hard to communicate too….:P

haha it is a program on TWCSN. Bill is one of the analysts..

I’ve got tickets for Oct 28th!!!! opening night LAL vs HOU whoo hoo!!! OK who is from LA give me some tips on what to do there… I’ve never been to LA.

Congrats wu kong. Would like to see your report!!! WOW!

Not from LA but have been to LA few times. How many days are you going to be in LA??? Depending on what you enjoy, tons of things you can do. Believe Joyce and others will give u a better idea than me:o))

Well, as for Asian food, my cousin and friends did bring me to numbers places to enjoy authentic Chinese, Korea…. food. Enjoyed them very much. If you need assistance on that area, I can ask them for you if you can’t find the help.

Ok. Will find out for you. They are more in Arcadia, Anaheim and Monterey Park area.

No prob. Will pass the info once I receive the info.

@EricPincus You're doing the salary cap stuff for Basketball Insiders, right? I think that's what I recall.— Paul Villarreal (@CNM_JLin_Vids) September 19, 2014

Congrats! Enjoy the Rockets roadkill 😉

If you like nature… beaches are beautiful along the PCH (pacific coast highway) from Orange County’s Laguna Beach up to Malibu. Griffith Observatory, Hollywood sign, amusement parks, etc.
I would recommend below website and order a visitor’s guide/road trip book (free)… also available in PDF.
http://www.visitcalifornia.com/Visitors-Guide/Step-1/
I actually use it when I go on road trips with friends in the spring/summer.

If you like museums…
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#q=museum+in+los+angeles
Getty is my favorite.

pretty good seats, wukong!

Wonder whether anyone knows where they are having the workout at? Have been wondered about this since learning that JLin is back to LA.

The Lakers training facility is in El Segundo but this might be at another gym, perhaps close to Kobe’s house.

Why a private work out tho?

Newport I think. I once saw Kobe in Coffee Bean near South Coast Plaza (Newport). He was also seen working out at UC Irvine (my school)!

it’s a very good sign that Kobe wants to have a private workout with Lin.
What Kobe wants, Kobe gets in LA :]

Newport and Irvine are affluent neighborhood in Orange County. They’re pretty much right next to each other.

Wonder about the stat provides in jeremylindotnet is different from http://jlinarticlesandfacts.proboards.com/thread/321/jlin-comparison-bledsoe. Please help me to understand the whys. Thanks! Sorry, didn’t dare to ask over that site

Thanks!! will look through the visitor’s guide and start making itinerary. I’m so excited. I’ve been all over the world but never LA so this will be a lot of fun.

HAHA. so Jl.net is trying to be active now. good for him. I hope he keeps it up Jlin fans deserve a better site.

Looks like he used the per 36 numbers and Dallasjack was using straight up game numbers.

The per 36 and per 48 numbers are supposed to project what a player would do given that amount of time on the floor. It is a simple ratio scale up of box score values:

10pts/12 mins = x pts/36 mins or x pts/48 mins

Gets used often to try to compare player x to player y. If player x only plays 20 minutes but player y averages 40 minutes a game ( a la parsons, harden) Player y raw stats will look much better because the coach played them long minutes and they had more opportunity to score etc..

Problem with per 36 and per 48 is that they are straight scale ups and you just don’t know if a player would play/perform that same way if you scale up 20 mins average play to 48 minutes… could that player actually keep up the same pace and intensity ( a la Pbev)??? or is it possible that the player would ‘warmup’ given more minutes and play even better (a la Jlin)

The site http://www.basketball-reference.com has a handy facility you can use to compare players’ statistics. You can compare up to 6 players at a time; over their careers or for individual seasons. If you put your cursor over the column headings you can find out what they mean.

Here is a comparison of the 4th seasons for Jeremy Lin, Eric Bledsoe, and Goran Dragic : http://bkref.com/tiny/AwlCU

Yes, you’re right. Numbers have to be put in context.

I am not sure whether Lin is doing better than Bledsoe or vice versa. This year should provide further evidence. Can Lin play better than Bledsoe? Sure.

From same area. do you think if you have 4.0 weighted gpa from Irvine area high school and 2000 sat score, you can get into UCI?

I have been to that Blade Runner building. Go visit Gettys Museum and do jet ski at Balboa. I have done many things in Southern CA.

i think his comment b4 the game is just an honest comment in that he doesn’t know much about Lin and what is going on in NY. Like Not sure if u watched any of Kobe’s videos or interviews, he has crazy work ethics. He trains hard on his games knowing what he needs to do all the time. He probably doesn’t watch any tv and it sounds like he may be a loner so nobody would probably be telling him. and he probably really don’t care if it doesn’t help his own game.

gotta agree with these guys i never get inside the pch when in so cal. and the upper poster has it right all the way from laguna beach to malibu is cool; it goes like this from south to north; laguna beach–nice little arts and crafts beach town; you can actually walk the whole place from beach to community be aware parking is very expenseive and lifmited.

next newport beach balboa beach as noted elsewhere once the most affluent community in america, the tv show “the oc.” allegedly took place there tho as there is no actual beach community like what is shown on tv so they have to take select shots from various places;

moving on north huntington beach “surf city usa” miles and miles of easily public accessible by car (rare in so cal) beach and more surfers per square inch than anywhere.

then its a long drive on up past the forgetable oil refinery town of long beach to what is commonly called “south bay” three continuous beaches (you could probably walk almost all the way from one to another along the beach) redondo, manhattan, hermosa (i always confuse the later two)–redondo is heavily asian/hispanic/ and strait out from lin birthplace and my usual stay area torrance–dont think there a plaque yet commemorating but if you go north from torrance just a little there is one in hawthorne for the birthplace of the beachboys.

hermosa is i think where jay leno maybe still plays at a little comedy club every month (at least he did while he was still on tv)–and manhattan is the upscale white community beach; hermosa a little ragged for my tastes –manhattan a little stiff.

then again you skip el segundo and on up to lax; so coming in to lax all this described is south; from here on north

north of lax its on up to in order: marina del ray (boats in harbor as name indicates) venice beach (tacky but considered quaint, depends on your sensibilities first day i was there i was a. mugged b. cell phone stolen (by staff where i was staying and later returned when i complained to managemnet) c. had identity hacked (email from shared public computer)– adjoining to

santa monica; zillions of tv shows use the ferris wheel and pier there and my son the photographer/filmmaker has done lots of shooting under neath the pier cause the light and shadow there are amazing.
the promenade and shops there cool upscale but not as starchy as manhattan;

then its another distnace up to malibu which is hard to get down to the beachs there cause tho technically public only have small access lanes thru private property and locals would like to keep it private.

when you get to the end of malibu yer somewhere on yer way to the getty i think

and then zuma beach is the end.

thats my travel report enjoy.

It was just medias seeking blood……

Exactly….I am an eye test guy myself….lol. Stats only show you WHAT has happened, but it does not show you HOW/WHY it happens that way.

That’s good to see JL.net mod is more involved 🙂

And great points on the per36 projected stats showing ‘What-If-they-can-play-36’ scenario. I like DallasJack’s stats breakdown on how the stats differed in playing 15/20/30/35 min because it tells us if there is different level of performance in when players play long min.

And it’s important to note that it’s an average of 4 year stats so it’s good to answer the question how the perform roughly in 4 years. But it doesn’t answer the question what the trend of development yet. (Who’s improving a lot or degrading in 3P%, 2P%,TO%, etc.)

It’s probably good to write a primer on how to interpret the stats numbers and understand their limitation for casual bb. @jlin_fan_from_australia:disqus, do you think this will be helpful?

Haha. Well, I didn’t have 2000 sat score 😉
However, nowadays, you have to do better than that to get into any UCs.

Excellent travel report!

Jeremy was right when he said West Coast Best Coast 😉
But then again… I’ve never been to the east coast… hmmm ;P

Great minds think alike … that and outland with Sean Connery.

Every time I see another fan pic of Jeremy, I can’t help noticing how much more relaxed he seems. That first picture of him with a Laker hat making the L.A. sign with his fingers seemed to show a face of pure joy and relief.

We all have noticed a difference in the support of the Laker organization vs. the Houston group. However, in L.A. there also seems to be an external local network who will have his back if push ever comes to shove. He’s exploring the local community, making contacts, and occasionally taking time to smell the flowers.

I don’t think for one second that he’s slacking off on his training regimen. But he also seems to weave decompression time into the work. He seems very ready, very balanced.

Good post. I would bet that Jeremy is working harder (actually more efficiently, with greater spirit) because he takes time to socialize. He seems relaxed and ready to go. I hope the team surprises people and he has a great season.

UCI Admissions rep said the average admitted UCi students had a SAT score of only around 1870 which surprised me. That was a lot lower than UCLA and UC Berkeley.

Just drive from San Diego/Temecula area to SF and stop here and there; that’s the best way to get the feel of Southern and Northern CA.

You can’t beat the Chinese foods at the China Town in NY City. Cheap and the best.

I did pretty much all the stuff in Southern CA, so I am trying to find different things to do.

Hahaha I spent tons of time to organize them including my May trip to Europe. Combined with 3 cameras I ended up to have almost 14,000 pics. This isn’t included the ones that I have deleted. Guess I have seen over 20,000 for just that trip along. Took me about a month to get them sorted. Not only put them in a country album but subfolder to place and organized them in sequence of events (all 3 cameras) as well. Some subfolder one has over 1000’s like Paris cruise. Then I download all these pics to my FB. Have so many albums there. For you info, very few people can see them. Only closed closed fam members and friends can see them.

Yeah, transferring from CC to UC is not a bad option at all. What major is he considering?

I enjoyed hiking, swimming in the evenings, doing jet ski or snow skiing at Arrowhead area and visiting museums. Balloon ride in Temecula was fun. Also, you can drive from here to Sedona, Arizona and then keep going to Utah and Colorado. Took some cruises at Long Beach area. Oh, visited Catalina Island which is worth doing once. Wouldn’t want to live there though.

Also, when you travel across the USA, you see how much USA was influenced by Native Indian and Spanish cultures. You also learn some dumb things like what “Colorado” actually means. It means “Color of Red” because the ground and mountains in Colorado are often red.

90% of my friends were bio majors but most of them end up as psych majors after being burnt out from bio classes… very competitive.
Business and computer science are also very good.
They really lack in arts which was unfortunate for me.
I know you want the best for you kids but don’t feel too guilty… they will understand eventually. Ivy league is nice but it isn’t be-all and end-all.

I love nature and art museums.
I camp near Arrowhead/Big Bear once a year.
I saw Groupon deals for the Balloon ride… I should check it out.
Catalina was nice once, I wasn’t too wowed by it and the ferry ride is expensive.
I’ve backpacked in Yosemite and the views were breathtaking. I’m hoping I can climb the Half Dome one of these days.
In college, I took a road trip along the PCH and got as fars the the Redwoods. I wish we went further to Oregon at least. I hear it is beautiful.
I went to Zion Canyon last Memorial weekend and I wouldn’t mind going back to explore more. If you go there, do the Angels Landing hike and a water hike through the Narrows.
Canada sounds wonderful but I would also like to visit Alaska.
Europe was great with plethora of museums/cathedrals but if I ever go back there, my focus will definitely be nature.
My best friend and I are considering Latin America (Mexico, Peru) as our next destination. We’ll see.

That would be ideal but unfortunately she only has few days.

How is your progress so far? 🙂
My parents went to Alaska few year ago and they loved it.
I want to do the Coast Starlight train ride from LA all the way to Seattle.

I just heard their business school is one of the best but don’t know the details. sorry.

There is one commercial where as soon as their kid leaves for college, his parents are so happy and they go off on a long trip right away. I empathize with the parents.

And turn their kids room into a gym?

Makes sense 🙂

LOL Opposite to you. I love taking pics. Anything but me (will take a couple of me in one place). That’s about it. The rest is scenery. That’s my passion–going places preferably self driving and taking pics.

Have been to 28 countries thus far and 25 states of USA. Did lots more of sightseeing type of traveling in the past few years. Wish I can afford more.

Next time when I make my traveling should consult JLin fans:o))

So…seems like from now to the camp….it will be just some regular conditioning plus some shooting drills IMO. Aiming to join the camp with the best shape possible.

Just read Baidu’s Lin fans posts. Since there were many sighting pics of JLin in Santa Monica lately, their guess is JLin may end up living in the area. What do you think? (just out of my curiosity)

he doesn’t. he was forced to tag along when young.

agree with everything. been to all beaches. i go to redondo to eat korean seafood sometimes.

go to Korea Plaza food court because cheap and pretty good. u don’t have to go expensive to get good food. For good Mexican food at cheap price, go to Taco Factory at Santa Ana. For cheap breakfast, go to Norms at Santa Ana. For cheap seafood, go to Long Beach Hispanic part of town. If u go where Hispanics go, u will get good food at cheap prices.

Psalm, you should create a blog titled “Which players would you like to see on Lin’s team?” I would like to see either Faried, Davis, Jimmer, Klay Thompson, Batum, Diaw, Leonard, Green play with Lin. Of course, Duncan too, but he will be retiring soon.

A few days ago, looking at a photograph of Jeremy Lin eating in a fast-food restaurant, I wondered what his approach to nutrition / diet was. Here’s his answer to the question : “What is a typical daily diet for an NBA player during the season?”

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My diet consists of healthy carbs, proteins, veggies and fruits. For carbs I like to eat pasta, couscous, and rice. All the meats I eat have to be lean and healthy like fish, chicken, and steak. Every once in a while I’ll treat myself to a very unhealthy meal which usually consists of going to multiple fast food places in one night.

My biggest no-no’s are fried food, candy, and soda. I’m a big snacker so it’s hard to give up my normal snacking habits. If I could pick, I would always drink soda, eat gummy candies and devour huge bags of chips. My snacking habits have been changed to yogurt, trail mix, granola and veggie platters…it’s the worst.

See : http://www.quora.com/National-Basketball-Association-NBA-1/What-is-a-typical-daily-diet-for-an-NBA-player-during-the-season

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In December, 2013, Ken Berger wrote a series of articles on nutrition in the NBA. The first one focused on the Lakers and their efforts to guide / improve the players’ eating habits. The second focused on players on other teams (e.g. Blake Griffin and Ray Allen). The third dealt with personal trainers. Here are the links:

See : http://www.cbssports.com/nba/writer/ken-berger/24370416/nutrition-in-the-nba-part-i-lessons-learned-in-la-help-howards-career

See : http://www.cbssports.com/nba/writer/ken-berger/24373097/nutrition-in-the-nba-part-ii-paleo-diet-takes-hold-for-variety-of-reasons

See : http://www.cbssports.com/nba/writer/ken-berger/24374232/nutrition-in-the-nba-part-iii-the-role-of-the-personal-trainer

Korean seafood are the best with Korean spicy chili sauce.

That’s a great topic to have. Why don’t you try to create a new Blog Post yourself since you’re a Contributor?
Try to use the green ‘Create New Post/Thread’ button on homepage (above ‘Sticky Posts’ section)

I can help to find a featured image to make it look nice 🙂

Shump would be perfect as a lock-down SG next to Lin.
Landry might have some hope if he fixes his shooting mechanic.
Jared has retired and Tyson will soon follow.
Novak might find his way to LA if Lin does well this year.

well I am not totally sure… for sure the night of the game we are staying right there by the game have not made hotel reservations yet… is it bad to say I will follow the food. ‘-) Wherever the best food is… I will go there and stay close by. I should be ashamed of myself for thinking that way but food glorious food will make me decision for me. if there were say 3-5 places they could go … top of their list I will stay somewhere near those…

oh my can I say ALL.. ha ha I am being food greedy… ok if I have to choose Malay would be the one I just can’t get here… probably next good DimSum then…Korean

Ok I have passed the info to my niece. Ask her to recommend suburbs to live for those foods:o))

Many are saying Klay is the best SG right now because he can play both ends of the floor unlike Harden who is an offensive threat but plays no D whatsoever. I actually think Klay and Jeremy would be a very formidable backcourt duo. They compliment each other nicely as Jeremy is not always on scoring mode like Curry. Also, Klay seems humble like Jeremy.

Oh stop it, you had me at “I can eat a small jar of kimchi on my own” and “spicier the better” LOL.
Koreatown is place to be for cheap authentic Korean food for sure. They’re cheap not because they’re lacking in quality but due to competition. I’ll ask around first and give you the top recommendations.

awesome thanks!!!

you hungry?

Go to Korea Plaza in Koreatown LA; they have good cheap Korean foods. Many choices.

I created a new category of ‘Discussion’.
That would be good to find all posts categorized as Fan Discussion.
Let’s try that for now

very

“JLin Fan from Australia” uploaded this photograph of Jeremy Lin studying video (it’s in the “JLin Latest Sighting” post). The photograph appeared on Lin’s Chinese Facebook site.

It’s just another occasion where Lin’s strong educational background will stand him in good stead. As a Harvard student and athlete, he’d get a lot of practice in priority setting, time management, meeting deadlines, and learning how to learn. These skills would make it easier for him to analyze and understand new offensive and defensive schemes, and play effectively under a new coach.

so that is why he studying up. for today’s 5 on 5. studying defense to guard kobe. and be the coach

he might lack the foot speed to do so but it seems he prefers launching deep-range 3s because he’s good in it.

Getting more excited that Media Day will be less than a week away now:o)) I know it’s crazy of me to be so eager for the new season begins:o))

Another note: Official I have requested for JLin Lakers jersey or something as my Christmas gift:o)) Let’s hope I will get one and then take a pic with something:o))

lol Crazy old woman!!!! Actually my nieces asked me about JLin’s jersey last year. I said no way. I disliked R that much. But this year, thought that my nieces always gave me something that I didn’t need. Why don’t I request one that I can do with a pic. I did show them the world JLin’s fans map to them and about this website, etc. Also showed quite a number of JLin’s vid and pics to my younger sis who finally returned from Melbourne:o))

Hahahaha This recuperation from my cancer treatments turn me into crazy JLin fan monster:o))

You should be able to find these places on google.
Olympic Noodles – Their chicken noodle soup has so much chicken 🙂
Ma Dan Gook Soo – cold noodles
Park’s BBQ – not inexpensive but don’t settle for cheap korean bbq 🙂 plus many celebrities stopped there (see pic on their wall – no Jeremy… yet)
OB Bear – best Korean fried chicken in town
As webbatorney said, lots of options in Korea Plaza. I would recommend trying the bibimbap here. For me, best best bibimbap comes in hot stone bowl (dolsot).
Good luck with parking in LA 🙁

wow.. you couldn’t watch games but relied on PFV broadcast. That’s quite a dedication :]
I can imagine the look from your family when you caught the Linsanity bug lol

So have you influenced some of them? Maybe through the funny videos (Tussaud, Papa Lin, etc.)?

Has nobody mentioned Disneyland/California Adventure? Or Universal Studios Hollywood? Or Sea World in San Diego?
Those are the fun ones. There’s also Knotts Berry Farm, Legoland and Six Flags Magic Mountain (although not sure if it’s open after a roller coaster caught on fire).
I go visit LA every other year but I mostly just stay in Orange County, and eat ‘In n Out’ and ‘Chick Fil A’. And if you don’t have those restaurants where you live, then you should try.

Oh yeah, for Malaysian Food, I usually eat at a place called ‘Balacan Grill’. For a really good Asian Bakery for your bun needs, there’s 85 degrees Bakery. Chinese food is everywhere, so just try your luck?

Thanks, Andy 🙂 We’re trying to add more things with Video Gallery and Stats page soon.
Just let us know if you have any suggestions

Not surprised! If I had a choice between the two, I’ll definitely get the 85 degrees coffee over Starbucks.

I just received my Los Angeles Linsanity shirt . It was only $20.00 and with this shirt there was a 20% discount code (GIVETHANKS) Here’s the link…

https://www.etsy.com/shop/LAKnows/search?search_query=jeremy+lin&order=date_desc&view_type=gallery&ref=shop_search

Cool, nice feature! I don’t know if we’re supposed to comment here or there but the vids on the slider I can’t seem to get to load and play. No problem with the one already in the big window. Are you hosting all these vids on your server?

Set up so I can watch Ball** on TV using Raku stick. Seems to be working very well for recorded games. Hope it works just as well for LIVE games. Should create a section titled “Various ways you can watch Lakers games on TV or Internet” section.

Yeah, that one. Canceled cable and got Roku instead because I was hardly watching cable. Saves $70 per month for me. As I get older, I want to simplify my life. The only thing I don’t like about watching games live on TV is all that commercial and a long half time break.

This year is for me a “Make it or break it year” in the sense that if Lin doesn’t play above certain level, I am done watching his games LIVE. I will always follow his saga time to time, but I don’t get that much enjoyment from watching him play so-so. I followed him this long believing that Houston system didn’t allow him to shine. Instead, I will spend making plans for travels and a business project. 15/6 is the minimum line for me.

Sounds like a good plan! I watch a lot of TV. Not sure how good Lin will do, let’s hope he can get over 15/6

and all good food connoisseurs. that stuff is like crack. makes my mouth water just thinking about it.

Balacan grill!!! yum… http://www.belacangrill.com/home.php on the list….

I thought it was close to 13 and 4.5, no? Even 13/8 would be good enough for me, to be frank. I am not looking for some insane numbers like 18/8.

11.1/3.8 as a bench and 14.2/4.5 as a starter. So……….

IF he will be featured…. I think 17/6 is possible.

I think 17 is a magic number for box score watchers….once you get over 17…it feels completely different.

Unlikely. I mean even when PB was fully supported last yr….he just can not squeeze numbers close to Parsons.

That’s about right. If He wants to be successful in NBA. I think he need to become a Fisher-like player. up his 3 %age to above 41%. Well if he can not, he will still get an OK contract….

Lin is a 38% shooter to me. If PB can not do 41%, he is too limited. Keep in mind that most PB’s shot will be catch and shoot, unlike Lin…

He is ok…..he has his own career to worry about….now…:P Darn…we should try using chat…

See, all those years of chemicals desensitized you. 😛

I haven’t built up my tolerance for it yet. However, I CAN handle durian smoothies. Those are good and not much smell. You lose out on the texture of eating the fruit though.

Yes, pretty muc so…

My 1st attempt at “It’s Happening!” #LinsanityinLA :]

https://twitter.com/JLinPortal/status/514864613910130688

good, you probably will be great to set up business meetings with Lin team 🙂
I’m actually not much into getting signatures and taking pics with celebs. But if I get a chance to take family pics with Lin to inspire my boys, I’ll do it in a heartbeat :]

We’ll just hear from @Blubell to see if it’s also too far from her. That’s one thing that drives me crazy in LA, too much time driving on the freeway. I felt like I go out of town everyday but in-town. haha..

who would that be? Don’t tell me it’s Bieber …

Taylor Swift is better than Bieber for sure. Maybe your son would need Linsanity in LA to start watching Lakers games. For now, Spurs certainly is good, no-ego team worth rooting for 🙂

Taylor swift is 1000000x better

Congratulations! Please take a pic and post it on JLin’s fans world map:o))

LA! Tomorrow I’ll be at Culver City @Footlocker from 430-6pm pst come by and say whats up!#purpleandgold #teamadidas

pic.twitter.com/NU8LfwBIwj

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/judge-s-claims-about-paul-george-s-parenting-the-latest-in-unfortunate-offseason-180201487.html

The sucker will have to make a lot of money to pay for all his children. It literally pays to be responsible like Lin in this sense. 🙂

Congrats! I know Lily would get you close to Jeremy, @disqus_dVLDET9zJ7:disqus 🙂
Now you get Jeanie Buss to like her.

What if … you bring her to the opener to meet Jeanie and Jeremy!!
That would be epic! Then we’ll have a “Chronicle of Lily4Lin” corner here 😀

Understanding that Joyce Ward and Lisa Tarng are going. Please bring us some great pics and news about JLin for those that are too far to go:o))

for those fluent in marginal nba players of the 6 camp fodder players on lakers roster: ellington, price, appling, brown, smith, tyler which if any mite get the last 2 roster spots and be of any use?

Unfortunately, I have to be a responsible adult and work during that time especially with all the deadlines we have…sigh… You are right about the driving in LA. It is about 20 min from where I work but it would probably take me 40 minutes due to rush hour. I’m sure there will be lot more opportunities in the future.

Honestly, they are fresh bodies for TC purpose. Ellington has the best chance to make it since he played for BScott before, can shoot high 3PT% at 42%, and has partially guaranteed contract.

For marginal NBA players, they have to have special skills (i.e. 3pt shooter, shutdown defender, shotblockers, etc.) that can give a little spark off the bench. That’s why someone like JR Smith and Nick Young are valued since they’re good streaky shooters even with dubious shot selection.

Here are a couple of videos from yesterday’s Laker practice; one with Jeremy Lin (first one) and one with Byron Scott. Jeremy looks and talks like a veteran now. He’s been around for a while and knows what he’s talking about. I hope he stays healthy and has a great season. These videos seem to stall at times for a few seconds, even though the content is downloading properly.

See : http://www.twcsportsnet.com/videos/2014/09/24/jeremy-lin-feeling-good-ahead-of-training-camp

See : http://www.twcsportsnet.com/videos/2014/09/24/byron-scott-anxious-to-start-training-camp-with-the-lakers

i think the “deadbeat dad” story is not new.

Mark Medina provides a cautiously positive appraisal of Jeremy Lin. This was the ninth in the series “previewing the story lines surrounding each player on the Lakers’ roster for the 2014-15 season.

See : http://www.insidesocal.com/lakers/2014/09/25/lakers-depth-chart-breakdown-jeremy-lin/

it’s hard to envision a big trade involving marginal players. perhaps it would be exchange of backup 3pt shooters and backup center that Lakers want from another team.

I still think they’re short of athletic big man for defense purpose so it’s curious why they invite many guards.
Unless the want to find solid backup guards in case teams are interested in Clarkson+fillers.

– 18 pts/8 assts/5 rbs/ 2 stls – not bad.
– All Star – not impossible
– Most Improved Player – I think he’s more likely one of the top candidates for this year’s recognition. Not bad if he gets it, not bad if he doesn’t.
– 6th Man of the Year (if not starter) – I’m not really sure if he’ll be treated as a 6th man. Nick Young is more likely to be Laker’s 6th man.
– $80 million/5 years contract in Summer 2015 – not bad, although I think even if he has a rookie’s salary, this guy will not go broke. He’s spending his money wisely (compounding interest, honey!)

It’s “honey money” for future Mrs. Lin 🙂 This is a girl with a plan!

Ballmer says no to Apple policy for entire Clippers team and stuff. Wow, talk about being petty.

https://twitter.com/OnlyTheNBA/status/515206797389758464

Thanks! Works now. You’re so smart!

I guess they’ll replace iPads with Microsoft Surface tablets as some kind of advertisement.
I wonder if they have to replace iPhones with MS Nokia phones. That will be interesting

Came back from Laguna Beach and had one of the best lunches ever at some Italian restaurant there. I won’t tell, so it won’t be too crowed the next time I go there. 🙂 I guess they have to stand for two hours to wait in the line.

Haha, you recognized…even with the beard.

.@JLin7's internet career is taking off faster than ever, and now @TheWhistle wants a piece! http://t.co/PcEF4D2clj pic.twitter.com/XEK6scQzfR— New Media Rockstars (@NewRockstars) September 25, 2014

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ByapUylCYAAelEI.jpg:large

All I know is Lin is one of the best PGs in NBA in transition: He gets out quickly, he almost always makes the right decision with the ball in transition and he awards those who hustle. That’s where Lin is clearly head and shoulders above Nash. Lin comes closest to doing it like Magic in transition.

Very good and balance article about JLin from the interview that he has done today prior to Adidas interacting with fans today.

Los Angeles Lakers’ Jeremy Lin hopes to morph into complete player
http://www.dailynews.com/sports/20140925/los-angeles-lakers-jeremy-lin-hopes-to-morph-into-complete-player

A quote from Jeremy Lin about his YouTube videos :

“When people think Harvard or Asian American or they see my demeanor on the court, they automatically come up with certain preconceptions about who I am or what my demeanor is and I think one thing that was really missing was my off-the-court personality,” he told For The Win. “So a friend had suggested I start making YouTube videos awhile back when I was with Golden State and so that’s how it all began.

“And after I made my first one I was like ‘wow this is really fun’ and since then we’ve just been having fun with it. I love it because
it’s an opportunity to have … you know … you push your own message … you control the content from start to finish, it’s very pure and authentic it’s not muddled with anything else. You don’t have to do things a certain way or push certain things. I can be who I want to be and say what I want to say through the YouTubes.”

See : http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/09/jeremy-lin-is-trying-his-best-to-be-a-youtube-sensation

Hmm, I don’t see any conflict of interest in that. Really petty indeed.

Yes. please post there or I can if you are not interested.

On TWC SportsNet, Coach Dave Miller says Jeremy Lin has “everything you want in a passer” and loves his ability to attack the rim.

See : http://www.twcsportsnet.com/videos/2014/09/25/access-360-coach-miller-likes-court-awarenesss-of-jeremy-lin

Hear, hear!

Kudos to
– @arsenium12:disqus who provides excellent news/link summary,
– @wu kong who does a great job with stats and archiving and
– @jlin_fan_from_australia:disqus (Melody) provides us with a great gallery of JLin pics,
– @brentyen:disqus , @disqus_rxPxLxqBMt:disqus ,@Blubell, Melody who keep churning out great ideas for the site
– plus many others (IJ, webattorney, Spot, @real_dsb:disqus ) with great thoughts and analysis!

Even minions approve your great job! :]
http://24.media.tumblr.com/a765325d4a8e460c367a04206c4e5dc6/tumblr_mqotj6a7Ok1sd1ws4o1_500.gif

Thank you all!

Hear, hear!

Kudos to

– @arsenium12:disqus who provides excellent news/link summary,

– @wu kong who does a great job with stats and archiving and

– @jlin_fan_from_australia:disqus (Melody) provides us with a great gallery of JLin pics,

– @brentyen:disqus , @disqus_rxPxLxqBMt:disqus ,@Blubell, Melody who keep churning out great ideas for the site

– plus many others (IJ, webattorney, Spot, @real_dsb:disqus ) with great thoughts and analysis!

Thank you all for your great jobs :]

The Cavs are having their Media Day today. Here’s a picture of Kyrie Irving standing on a cardboard box so he’s as tall as Kevin Love and Lebron.

Here is how now-Lakers-coach, Mark Madsen explained why Jeremy Lin was dominating during Linsanity:

10. Defensive Play
9. System and Minutes
8. Athleticism
7. Pick and Roll
6. Confidence, Emotion, and Aggressiveness
5. Lin can shoot
4. Excellent Finisher
3. Chemistry (team)
2. Ability to get into the paint
1. Talent and Toughness

See : http://markmadsen.com/top-ten-reasons-why-jeremy-lin-is-dominating/

Hmmm. Madsen wrote that the day after Lin dropped that 3-pt, game-winning bomb on the Raptors during Linsanity.

Thanks Brent and Psalm for creating this site for us. Psalm is really the mastermind of this site. Sure glad that I can help to maintain the pics gallery:o)) This is my 2 cent contribution to this site:o))

Psalm what about the vid link of Paul’s vid?? Have you done anything about it? Sorry haven’t checked the site more in the past 2 days. Too much JLin’s activities/info have been going on in the past 2 days:o))

I’ve never used Surface other than browsing at MS store when it was still with Windows CE. Is it that much better? How about the App Store compared to Apple Store?

http://china.nba.com/like/ Take a look at this page: it is updated daily.

If I were a betting man, I would put my money that Nash will be the starting PG for the 1st game UNLESS he himself specifically tells Scott to start Lin. I do think, however, that Scott might end up reversing his decision less than 10 games into the season.

That’s a good scenario very likely to happen. Nash gets his last hurrah to start a few games in his last season then ‘chose’ to ask Byron Scott to make Lin the starter for the betterment of his team and preserve his health.

Win-Win. Everyone looks good in the end. Nash will be hailed as the selfless hero who puts team first. Kupchak already praised Lin as a team-first guy who doesn’t care for starter/bench status. Lakers will look great an organization.

Adidas has awesome running shoes, but their b-ball shoe designs need a lot more work.

It’s a little different in this case. The Clippers employees do not directly sell Microsoft products so using Apple products is not a conflict of interest.

But Ballmer as MS owner can ‘force’ his hand a bit to force a MS subsidiary (Clippers) to quicken and promote the adoption of Microsoft tablets/phones/spreadsheets 🙂

But it can backfire if MS Surface tablet/phone is not up to par to iPad/iPhone quality and high-profile athletes complain about it. So Ballmer better makes sure the CP3 and teammates are happy about it 🙂

If I’m part of the Apple marketing team, I’d like to bring in Jeremy as an athlete endorser, to answer to Samsung’s Lebron and Lenovo’s Kobe 😀

Jeremy Lin’s meet-and-greet at Foot Locker (Westfield Mall) helped to mark the opening of a special adidas “boutique” within that store, offering the best of adidas’ performance and style collections.

See : http://www.footlocker.com/The-a-Standard

The best scenario.

very interesting to know. I need to read more review on latest Surface Pro. Also there’ll be more hybrid laptop/tablets coming out for the holiday season.

I think LAL FO is setting up to let NASH having a good ending. They did their part, now it is all up to NASH.

Thanks, Psalm.

Seriously?!!! LOL this is too funny!!! Let me tweet it…

Yep. I almost choked on my coffee when I saw it.

saw that, meh came here to tall youz that this site home page has come a long way and you’re ready for the season!. Chat box is a bit odd, opening up on a convo weeks ago. Maybe you can default for that box to be closed? Alles gutes guys and gals.

I’ve joined most of the Laker forums. But in the very few posts I’ve made, I’ve provided rather innocuous information, not opinion. I just wanted to get my name seen occasionally and have a non-confrontational record if/when I decide to assert an opinion — and some of the established members want to look at my history to see if I’m a troublemaker.

Mostly, I’ve found that all Laker forums are rather tense right now — because they really don’t know whether their long-time star is going to be able to make a decent showing or not. For that reason alone, many of them aren’t receptive to any “isn’t Lin wonderful” type posts … at least until Lin shows them his “wonderfulness” as a Laker.

Monday’s media day might be the source of more angst. Who are the reporters going to give the most attention? Whose picture will be featured with which team mate in the local and national press? I have a feeling that if Kupchak’s presser put a couple of our Lin fans up a wall, media day might do the same.

Posters on JL.net

I found it almost ridiculous to judge a poster by how many post he did…Just see what he say…and counter if disagree.

Arsenium, there is a thread specifically for JLin’s vid. You can find it in Home page. Please make use of that thread. Check it out. Have posted most of the ones I’ve found there.

Hey thanks for the style tips … I never joined CF because I didn’t trust the leadership style there, but I might a LAL forum. Which one do you like the best? I’ll try your style. It’s right, to respect the incumbents before engaging in good discussions, thanks.

lakersground

It is not about the facts he provided. I get a feeling he is just using correct facts (sometimes just opinions) as a chance to call ppl delusional or blind. I don think ppl were agitated by his “Facts”, more of his tone.

hm, do you still have that the bottom chat-box open, @joeteam:disqus?
I thought I disabled it already. Does anyone else have problems with chatbox on bottom right corner?

That’s how this society works in general I guess….PPL care about status more, credibility less.

I confirmed the bottom chat has been disabled.

If you have open private chat window, I believe you can click on top right or bottom right corner to close that chat window. Let me know if you can do so.
If not, I’ll try to recreate the scenario and take a snapshot.

i agreed with yer bazzar assesment of the parent source of this portal (tho sometimes i find it bizarre as well) but unlike the it seems primary creator behind this site i dont lament the abscence of a lakersground format there. i dont have the patience or time for having to wade thru a massive block of posts just to get to the 1 that hasn’t been posted like 10 days ago. on each “thread”. the lakersground format that (wu kong) was wishing for on “the other” site (if i understand what shes requesting correctly) is not something i enjoy. i like the idea with disqus i can pop in as you say and see whats on now. i dont care what was posted 20 hours ago. so i wouldn’t recommend lakersground at all. also the comments there tend to be really long and dry as no person to person interchange is permitted (ie. no etane-esque behaviour)–its almost academic and fairly dreary. to my sensibilities.

lakersnation has the disqus format but not a lot of activity; still because of disqus format i do comment there sometimes. and i think its the best “light” quick check format.

there is another barely active laker(no s)nation not worth checking.

of course nba lakers and espn la and bleacher report lakers and lakeshowlife are big sites mostly articles and less comments and tend to attract short burst limited intelligence whining and swearing in whatever comments appear.

to sum: if you have a comfort level with the format of lakersground yes. i dont.

if you prefer the disqus format and dont require a lot of activity lakersnation.

that is for active interaction.

the other sites i mention are more for information and articles than interactive commenting.

and for quick and updated league info i like the “rumors” page of “hoopshype”

I visit Lakers sites mainly to get a feel for how the community is reacting to certain events. I joined mainly to have the ability to respond quickly in isolated cases. But the Lakers fans have their own PTSD angst going on, and I don’t think the time is right for any “spirited” discussion on those sites with a new guy’s fans. It could hurt more than help.

LakerNation (not be to be confused with LakersNation) and LakersGround have the most active forum-style participants, and LG has a JLin media thread. A less active forum is the Lakers Discussion in clublakers.com, but they have a JLin thread going.

Silver Screen and Roll is a blog site as is forumblueandgold.com. So subject matter is dictated by the bloggers and readers then respond.

I’ve also been a member of RealGM forums since Linsanity. The Knicks board was very active back then. It still is one of the more active team boards on RealGM. The Lakers board isn’t very active. However, I do check in on the basketball general board there (and the WireTap headlines at the top). If there’s a Lin thread on the general board (and there occasionally is), I might venture in once in a while.

Jeremy Lin on working with Adidas:

“They made it clear from the start that they really believed in me. They made me a partner and made me part of the process and that they wanted to grow with me. They showed me that they want me to take part in the creative process,” Lin said. “That’s something I love doing. I My first few years wasn’t necessarily like that, so I’m happy to now.”

See : http://solecollector.com/news/jeremy-lin-shares-some-info-about-joining-team-adidas/#ixzz3Edca7Qzk

Thanks, I’ve bookmarked these!

I call those stylized facts, from a marketing guy I heard once.

OK, thanks, I just went to the gear icon and logged out of the private chat and it should go away now. I thought it was tied to the site login. It’ll be good if you tie the 2 together, but dunno if it’s an obsolete feature. You can’t click close on it for it to go away next time you log in – it comes back. So, I had to log out of the chat.

It seems Jeremy will be an integral part of the unit, whichever it is.

IMO, people became unnecessarily agitated by his tone. I can think of many others there whose tones are worse.

From what I had seen……there. Mostly it was when some rox fans firing cheap shots on Lin 1st..

And to contrast CF mod’s non-action with how LG mods quickly closed threads between Lin fans and Lin haters, it’s clear that CF mods could have put a stop to Lin fans bashing or even “Lin is a joke” thread but they didn’t.

It’s in the past but there’s nothing we can do when the forum mods clearly made their preference known. It shows the importance of having our own media outlets to send our message. I personally think JCF left because of many injustice he witnessed as the NBA reporter.

That’s why I like Lin’s awareness to reach out to his fans and non-bb fans through the recent Whistle Sports Network deal.

Here is an overview of the first week of training camp for the Lakers:

Tuesday : a single three-hour session is scheduled for the first day of camp, as the players and coaches expect to discuss philosophy and get in a work out.

Wednesday : … Scott has scheduled two sessions … . The Lakers will be doing two-a-days for the majority of the first week at camp … .

Thursday : the team will again have a double session. An early afternoon session lasting two hours … then, another two-hour session at dinner time.

Friday : the team will only hold one early session and hope to skip the late afternoon Friday traffic.

Saturday and Sunday : Scott has the team running two-a-days again.

014-15 LA Lakers Training Camp Roster : Nick Young, Jordan Clarkson, Jeremy Lin , Keith Appling, Xavier Henry, Ed Davis, Wayne Ellington, Ronnie Price, Kobe Bryant, Jeremy Tyler, Steve Nash, Jordan Hill, Ryan Kelly, Wesley Johnson, Julius Randle, Carlos Boozer, Roscoe Smith, Robert Sacre, Jabari Brown

See : http://www.nbclosangeles.com/blogs/triple-threat/LA-Lakers-Media-Day-2014-277410421.html

agreed.

I think so too….in that case, it will be repeated this yr too at some point.

that’s correct. Some overzealous fans (and some were disguised trolls) who were new to bball didn’t do any favor to Lin and other Lin fans by putting him first before the team. Let’s hope that these fans learned this time to focus on how Lin can help the Lakers win so it’s a win-win for Lakers/Lin.

No doubt it will be repeated at some Lakers forum, which is a pity because Lin deserves better thought-out comments from his fans, not that CF posts were high up on the intelligence.

If Marcus brothers are worth 8 Mill, Lin certainly should be worth more than that. I hope after this season, Lin’s minimum salary floor gets to 10 Mill per year. 10 Mill for Lin is really around 7 Mill per year due to additional revenues he can generate.

Woj reported interesting Morey vs Cuban war. Morey fighting back saying with the money being equal players will choose HOU over Dallas

https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/516599822326185984

Morey still doesn’t get it why undermining “role players” such as Parsons and Lin won’t ever bring him championships. His Math IQ is really high but his people EQ (Emotional Quotient) to treat role players respectfully and make them feel wanted is on the other side of the spectrum. Good luck trying to win a ring with only 2 cornerstones.

How did it differ from Dallas’ model.

“We’re no different than other teams,” Morey told Yahoo Sports. “We have a core of two players – Dwight Howard and James Harden – who we are going to build around and never trade. San Antonio has had three core guys who they’ve done an unbelievable job of building around, making a lot of changes around that core. We had Tracy McGrady and Yao [Ming] and we made changes around them. And Mark’s had a core of one [Nowitzki], who was there since before he bought the team.”

Someone just felt what Lin fans was feeling for 2 yrs…LOL

You don’t have to believe something. Just say it in the media enough times and it will become the reality. So that’s what he did.— RedNinetyFour (@RedNinetyFour) September 29, 2014

I agree…but I guess that just me…..lol not those ppl who hand out the salary

yup .. The funny thing is Morey just confirmed that Cuban is right. He’s into Math of keeping Howard+Harden and not so much into Chemistry with other role players.

At least he admits Cuban has a ring and he doesn’t.

That’s not an admission but a fact.

Nothing if not direct …

https://twitter.com/LakerNation/status/516735248076636160

keeping D12 and Harden happy is math because it equals $ to Morey.

yes, and it’s sad that Morey doesn’t build a team but he builds a playground for 2 stars.

Here is an article from Eric Pincus, of the LA Times, on the salary status of the Laker players with non-guaranteed contracts. It’s an uncertain life but even the partial rewards can be substantial. For example:

Guard Ronnie Price has no guarantees on his $1,316,809 salary, not until two weeks into the season. If Price is still on the roster on Nov. 15, his deal will lock in for $329,202. If he hasn’t been waived by Dec. 15, Price’s guarantee increases to $658,405. All non-guaranteed contracts are firmed up for players who are still on NBA rosters as of Jan. 10.

See : http://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/lakersnow/la-sp-ln-only-13-lakers-guaranteed-training-camp-20140925-story.html

what?

Looking good for Lin to get 30+ mins and 17/8. I think the positive team vibe so far is very conducive to less injuries … when you have a hateful org, people make big mental mistakes. Fingers crossed.

Yeah, but it looks like jp123 all got deleted for posting his link. I don’t know if he was banned, though. It was like in minutes …

Was pleasantly surprised that Lin used the word “pissed off” several times. Good job. 🙂