G1 CHA @MIA Game Thread

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME BASKETBALL?

Well then you best be prepared for some Lin-san-i-tee! HaHa-HaHaHa

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lol .. been wondering where you are
welcome back. Ready for the season, I see 🙂

We still don’t know for sure whether Zeller starting or coming off bench?

https://twitter.com/rick_bonnell/status/659468072722571265

Not what I want to see but it’s what it’s. GO JLin!!!!
https://twitter.com/HornetsPR/status/659491083064352768

https://twitter.com/Librafree/status/659491323846619136

Good thing is Zeller & Hawes with JLin off the bench.

Thanks psalm! I’ve been a good boy working hard at my day job AND avoiding excessive exposure to the PTSD if only to keep my own symptoms in check. Apparently the P in PTSD stands for preseason 🙂

LETS GO!!!!!!!!

If he’s not first he wouldn’t post.

Morning everyone!!! So excited! Let’s go Jeremy!!

I hope so. Don’t like thought police. Thanks.

I only found 1 normal post yesterday in Pending that I just approved.
Sometimes Disqus automated filter can do weird things

https://twitter.com/rick_bonnell/status/659495155045658624

Getting very excited! Can’t wait:-)

As Psalm explained, Disqus is doing its things sometimes. Even my own post sometimes went to moderate. Not much I can do at all:-(

You are really quick in moving things from Twitter. Good on you:-)

thanks.

Rick BonnellVerified account
‏@rick_bonnell
And so it begins in Miami….
https://twitter.com/rick_bonnell/status/659498107013591040

you cheated. you did Ctrl+C and then Ctrl+V…

article on Coach Clifford:

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/head-coach-steve-clifford-working-to-put-sting-back-in-hornets-211122395.html

Depends on how far Clifford lets the hole form if it happens.

https://twitter.com/zukovka/status/659484872445206529

Around the 2 min 20 second mark Clifford is speaking in a very complimentary fashion about one of the Hornets. It’s hard to hear the question but I think he’s talking about Lin … . Says he can be a “complete” player …
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https://twitter.com/hornets/status/659500820891869184

Hey Rick, can you do a test for me? Post a comment called “test”, then delete it yourself.

He needs Lin…. Hornets wants to win the key person it’s Lin.

Which post was it? I looked in your Deleted posts and saw 2 deleted posts. Both did not have content that was worthy to be deleted. So it was most likely a mistake by mods.

Our apologies, we do not do “thought police”. All we enforce are the forum rules of being respectful and not insulting/name calling, which you have never done. If you tell me the post, I will undelete it.

FYI, the most common issue that people see is Disqus’ automoderation, which automatically puts posts into “pending/automoderated” mode until a mod approves it. It is based on unknown formula that tries to detect spam or other keywords. You would see a message like “Message is awaiting moderation”. (That wasn’t the case here, but just informing you for future).

Great!

My feeling is he intends on playing Lin a lot of minutes and is pleased with him. He also may use Lin is many different line-ups. I think we got hung up on the LIn can start at 2 now that MKG is down and that disappointment has some of us feeling like, oh here we go again. But it just doesn’t feel like that, at least right now, to me.

Hehh, hopefully he doesn’t drop like nine 3’s like he did against Philly.. might have to call off work tomorrow lol

Thanks for the info and explanation. I’m a beginner at postings. I now saw two removed: one post removed 6 days during last game of preseason and one 12 days one was about an article not mentioning Lin. As long as I know there’s freedom of thought and exchange on this forum I’m fine w/it now. Maybe it’s Disqus error. Thanks again.

Yes, want Hairsanity in the 4th!

I’m looking forward to reading live updates since I can’t watch the game ?. Thanks mates! ?

I undeleted your 2 posts, hopefully I got the ones you mentioned.

why

Probably stuck at work like me… down side of being in the west coast 🙁

I know, some commercial wouldn’t hurt them too,

I hope you can watch the game… you provide great live updates 🙂

Let’s go! Hairsanity!

Yes please, I want a frame by frame real time analysis. Thanks in advance.

ah, finally, Hornets game active on LP

i watching on ballstreams. charlotte feed.

nice tribute to Flip Saunders

im tempted to watch on miami feed tho. i like their annoncers.

Big Al likes to comment in forums too? LOL

Blue has to make a living to pay for all the fries.

let’s go JLin….

LOL. Hope he doesn’t post here…

charlotte feed has been praising al jefferson nonstop as the star of the team and best player.

Sweet, I’ll keep my eyes on the tv companion too ?

They try to trade him.

yeah this announcing crew looks really bad even from beginning hehehe

I was just wondering if she knows something we don’t, or she just got it wrong

uh….no comment

it does not work on my pc, but show on pc. not sure why

Have no choice but watch Miami feed. Going to be interesting to listen to their announcers:-)

doh, that sucks. working on my PC just fine.

well, you’ll be able to tell us how the Miami announcers are

hopefully it’ll work the next game.

official lineup:
huh, they listed both Hairston and Batum as SF!

Maybe. Most of time I turn off my ears if they go overboard:-)

Who will shoot if they don’t have a shooting guard? lol.

Kinda sad it came to this. Hopefully, Charlotte announcers are nothing like the previous ones.

miami toasted cha for easy layup

matchups:
kemba on dragic

batum on deng
hairston on wade
williams on bosh
al on whiteside

dragic another slicing through defense for layup.

Shooting Center.

Hornets looking awful

no lin in starting line up thats why…

Miami getting extremely easy buckets

Time for the second unit yet?

I know where is D? PJ? In fact, everyone?

Too much Jefferson

Nope, Cliff has to let the starters dig a bigger hole. smh

whiteside trying iso post up… fail LOL

Rookie?

1q900 no shot attempts for hairston yet, I’m impressed

Al showing the youngster how the game is played!

AL shooting the 2 at 50% is ok but they need some 3’s soon.

big Al doing work..

his defense is bad too

miami bad turnovers

Batum & Kemba are no show so far? I think they really try to trade Al…

Team responded well after Clifford’s TO.

Al is doing fine so far

No, he’s a post-up center and not a guard trying to do everything.

Live updates on the announcers… thanks! lol.

This is a good game to go to Al cause Whiteside cannot handle him without help.

no, its someone trying to sound smart and failing badly at big words

Announcer said that Clifford said that he wants Hairston to guard the opponents best player. o.O

wade got bailout call but hairston kept moving into him. so fair call.

>_<

At least the Coach has a good sense of humor.

i’m actually impressed with hairston not forcing anything on offense

1q545 zeller in for marv

That was a nice defensive play by Hair

I have no short term memory = =.

put Lin in with Zeller please

Al Jefferson doing well this game.

Lin in! q1 503

Tears would flow if they heard that 😛

GO LIN!

YES

My feed froze the second Lin was in.

Gotta make those shots bro!

great bk from kb

Bandwidth spiking like his hair.

1q400 Green missed 3. Lin closed out

1q340 love how Lin’s teammates pass it back to him

damn almost wide open and missed. jeremy had 3 defenders on him.

The magnet.

roberts hasn’t shot the ball yet. =p

1q215 Lin defended Green well! forced into difficult turnaround

WTF is that phantom foul….

ref with the hater foul call

roberts and 1!

hopefully Roberts will play like Hairston.. nothing like preseason jacking shots

Lin 3!

NICe lin for 3!

looks like he did preseason. 2 for 2.

my league pass is slow.. no 3 yet LOL

Lin does not hesitate!

I love this analyst!

Miami announcers just said Lin is like Nash!

Hornets on an 8-0 run

Zeller on the look out to whom to pass the ball.Looks for Jeremy.Smart decision,Cody!

1q030 not a good look there for Lin

Great D by WInslow. Don’t like Lin in the hold the ball situation but he’ll have to get comfortable with them.

It was Bosh knocking the ball away.

Great start for Lin. A phantom BS foul but two great buckets and lots of sharing by Kemba and Roberts.

Hawes!

5 pts, 1 Ast, end Q1

Wow pretty sneaky. Didn’t even see him get it off to Hawes.

EPIC PASS.

Should have been a foul but Lin made it work. EAT THAT REFS.

How did Lin get that pass? Wow!

yeap,…first thought was JLin fell over…

Lin has improved a lot. Once his nerves settle down, I think he will do something to increase the score in Q2 unless the refs cheat him.

Looks like he passed it in the midst of falling.

very obvious….JLin is getting phantom foul calls too

i thought he was fault. but turns out great.

Which would explain why Al is so clear.

Lin’s biggest obstacle this season is REFS. I’m actually scared every time he plays good man-to-man defense. Refs will call any light contact that 99% of other players get away with.

Yes, interchangeable at the 1.

i can watch league pass through phone but not computer. nothing shows on computer.. Do you guys know why?

enable pop-ups maybe

Can watch game perfectly here:
http://www.thefeed2all.eu/watch/382715/1/watch-miami-heat-vs-charlotte-hornets.html

it pop-ups but black screen

I’m surprised Roberts is in the rotation already..I had thought that thing will have to not be going well before we see Roberts.

That certainly takes PG minutes away from Lin in that position.

lin with the lucky bounce.. his bounces are on point this season lol

Good TO save by Zeller for Lin whew!

Looked like he was going to hit the floor with the ball but had the presence of mind and court vision to get the pass to Hawes.

dirty refs… know they’re getting paid

They’re ZelLin

Bosh is killing Hawes

25 sec later, Lin 3-4, Green 0-3

Lin playing great defense on Green… and schooling him on the other end

after lin’s layup, its been bad .

Many are but i think this is just racial bias. Everyone has biases, but this is ridiculous.

Dumb frustration foul by Lin.

2q955 Kaminsky in

Lin has to slow down a bit. They are putting pressure on him as they usually do.

bad possession. that length is really bothering lin

back to Green on Lin

Yeah he’s trying to do too much. I think the coach will let him know.

he is pushing it.

Heat is guarding Lin well and traps him up high and giving him trouble. Hornets need to solve it.

slow down lin

That’s respect.

need Hansbrough and Lamb

hope so.
the wing player beside lin needs to cut diagonally to basket sometimes instead of just camping at 3.

MIA putting their typical trapping pressure on Lin. Time for his teammates to start knocking down 3s. So far, Lin 1-1, other Hornets 0-7.

Not really. Phantom 1st foul and 1-2 mistakes to 4-5 great plays.

go hawes!

I think they may need him for Q 4

hronets showing spurs passing

NIce marvin williams!

hornets bigs are great

That one foul when he knocked over Dragic was dumb. 🙂

only 2, but they put pressure on him

And he could have had more assists. And FTs.

Dragic has only scored on uncontested garbage buckets anyone could have made.

theyve been emphasizing lin’s positives and ignoring his mistakes. never seen that before.

8 minutes LOL. “Lin will get 35+!”

Jeremy will figure it out. He’s too pumped up.

ballstream gets both. u can pick which u want.

yeah league pass has a free trial right now so sign up!

Impossible for him to get more than 25MPG the way I see things…specially with Robert in the rotation now.

Lin needs play with tempo . it is okey, it is first time he can play freely since Knicks. Maybe he is excited. a break will help him

Lin is coming back in

He will come back

2q630 yikes alley fail

Agree.

and with a little run, the heat are right back in it

2q555 dragic sliced through defense again. tell me if you heard that one before

I heard that one before…

He doesn’t look totally comfortable facilitating,

for 2 or 3 minutes. ON pace for 20 minutes then. Lin will not finish this game tonight. Book it.

Lin began playing badly because the second unit was horrible with the changes of coach.

batum’s playmaking abilities have been touted, but we havent really seen it shine.

That’s the shortest rest I’ve ever seen Lin have after subbing out in the 2nd quarter.

Unbelievable.

2q 530 Lin in

Clifford already gaining my trust!

Talk and not yell at him. Good.

Missed dimes…

the team is a bit discombobulated. they need to settle down.

Kemba seriously needs to step up his game

No transition D. Only Lin gets back.

2q350 nobody had Winslow on transition

Well on previous teams Lin = Transition D so….

2q250 wow, impressive finish by kemba. that had poster block by green all over it.

not lookin good…

I think its best for Lin to protect the baseline…Not looking good defensively

Hornets plays bad…

definitely need a timeout to regroup

They don’t have good ball movement today.

Were they missing a big on the baseline trap?

It wasn’t any worst that some of Batum’s. As long as he doesn’t go into a bundle.

4Q will be all-attack Lin, right now he’s setting up guys who can’t finish.

Right or wrong, it’s what the coach wants so…

This is what happens when you can’t make you open 3s

2q217 Lin out for Hairston

hairston on green

Lin will be blamed for Green scoring too. BS

At least Green didn’t score those on Lin.

Getting ugly fast.

Lin leaves and Green goes off…

Walk it off Kemba.

2q002 LOL kemba with some crazy power dribbles between the legs, hits the 3.

tempo helps

Not really, Green was dunking left and right while Lin was guarding him. Lin has 2 fouls and didn’t play aggressive D and no help inside.

hes too amped. he needs to settle down.

This is not a good matchup for Lin.. Gerald Green is much bigger than him

halftime stats:

Lin: 10 min, 7 pts, 3-4 fg, 1-1 3pt, 1 reb, 1ast, 2 tov, 2pf, -5

2nd highest scorer on team despite being 8th in minutes played.
Rest of team 1-12 from 3pt.

and than took him out when they didnt do anything

Playing well, but he needs help. Guys not finishing at all. Lin’s TOs were unselfish passes that were intercepted.

Lin was doing great against Green. Shut him down in 1st quarter.

Green only had 1 basket on Lin. Then when Hairston started guarding Green, Green started getting hot.

Why the pessimism from you so much? If he doesn’t finish it may be because of the matchups and defensive schemes. So far, Clifford is trying to put the right guys in at the right time and Lin was brought back in after a short break. I want him to calm down in the 2nd half.

You know you are just hanging yourself. Lin will make halftime adjustments and then win. Doesn’t matter how good Green looks now.

but green is an unusual specimen. there is no one with his pure jumping ability and length that is really comparable.

Couldn’t tell by all these posts. Sounds like he’s falling big time.

Batum with only 2 points?

Lots of Tiger fans and trolls, ha.

Lin already held Green in check in first half.

Guess you’re not watching. Charlotte commentators noting that Lin is one who is playing well but needs help.

Heat still stops Lin well, since Linsanity!

lin lost the ball several times that didnt end up as turnovers. so stats have been prettier than actuality

anyway, the heat are making lin get rid of the ball, and the hornets offense hasnt yet found a good outlet for lin to pass off to when heat swarm on him.

I think Miami in general is a tough matchup. They have athleticism, length, reach and a coach that likes to shut down impact point guards.

Lin gets special treatment from Heat, whenever he touches the ball, he gets doubled to prevent him taking off. Not much high screens for Lin either, which is essential for JLin to be effective.

You have to relax. First game of the year. He has 2 fouls. Miami is an aggressive defensive team.

indeed/ they know how good he could be

They are giving him mad respect…

Coach needs to exploit that and make Heat pay.

Lin had outstanding 1st quarter.

2nd quarter Miami remembered to trap and double Lin. Problem was that the rest of the Hornets couldn’t hit from 3pt (1-12). So that allowed MIA to continue.

If the other Hornets can find their stroke in second half, Lin will make them pay for doubling.

it’s okey. first real game in the season and in new team

Spo puts at the minimum 4 Heat against Jer… Other Hornets need hit outside shots

Coach need to deploy Hansbrough. Heat takes advantage of Hornet’s no rim protection

That’s what I’m seeing too. Miami doesn’t play Lin like most teams do. They swarm him. He needs to play more off-ball against them. Lin tries to challenge them and that’s when he gets in trouble.

Problem so far is poor 3pt shooting and poor transition defense.

No one but Lin has made a 3, so the spacing is poor. No one but Lin is getting back so Dragic has 3 easy breakaway layups.

what cult chants that? lol

Should’ve in 2nd quarter. Lead would not be as big

it has magical powers!

Start Lin and get a Klay Thompson play Nic at 3 with Hawes and Zeller. All of a sudden way better.

The troll in me wants to join the anti-jinx chant.

he got 30 minutes that game. Limited?

he needs to pass faster and move without the ball

batum playing meh

i personally don’t think batum is much of a facilitator

Not starters’ minutes and those minutes were 1st half light, 4Q heavy.

thats how he has been advertised tho.

i think he is a good passer for a forward but he can’t penetrate inside to pass like a guard.

patrick ewing has vomit for a suit

Starting backcourt combined 27 min 5 pts on 2/10 shooting, Jeremy 10 min 7 pts on 3/4 shooting. Just saying.

if that’s how you really look at it, i am at a loss.

lol

offense cant get anything right now

smh at the 3 pt misses =(

Marvin is good. Some people here said he is a scrub. SMH

tough non-call for kemba

Wade is so good.

I think
batum is 15pt 4 assts 6 rebounds player
good passer as a forward but not really good penetrator
can play well as SF not SG in both ends floor
he should be 3rd or 4th option in offense

damn kemba should have gotten a foul on that!

3q840 another nice bounce ast by kemba, but marv was fouled on the dunk attempt

Get Novak on this team to make some 3s…just 2-15 so far.

starters are so pathetic

3 for Hairston.

Yes! 3 by PJ

3q8m finally wide open corner 3 for hairston

3q740 what??? offensive on PJ 3 pt?

pretty biased calls from refs today

Batum 2 pts 1/7 2 ast in 19 min. Sure let’s cater to Batum.

Kemba needs to keep attacking if his outside shots aren’t falling.

true

Lin is the best PG on this team. Of that I am certain. It’s a damn shame he is just not empowered to be free and play and win a lot of games.

Hornets 1st unit is not getting any easy shots.

Charlotte falling apart…

cliff needs to change lineup NOW

Time to sub Lin.

Zero offense

Jefferson plays no defense and all he wants to do is shoot…and the ball just stops when he gets it…he never tries to pass out of double team or anything….No rim protection from him…how can you be 7 foot and never make an attempt to block shots.

dont care jlin just needs to put some stats

Lin is playing 30 min? Lol. Let’s hope that he can Crack 20

Once again…Cliff relying too much on ‘star’ ball.

yup.. Hansbrough will be an ENFORCER.
Heat is just abusing Hornets inside

he will have to play like the rest of the game to break 30

announcer said just, Haven’t seen Jeremy Lin yet in second half

Yikes 23% Hornets FG in the 3rd quarter

They need to put JLIN in

every game is do or die for Lin. These next 10 games define his NBA future. He has to DOMINATE. This is it. This is the season.

Your lips to Clifford’s ears.

I have enough with this starting lineup.

lin back in 3q445

Starting backcourt update combined 40 min 9 pts 3/15 shooting, Jeremy 10 min 7 pts 3/4 shooting.

I’m beginning to think Clifford is stinking it up ON PURPOSE to prove a point to SOMEONE who insisted on current starting lineup.

Conspiracy theory is fun, especially when the game’s not.

kemba

NICE play by Kemba

Hope you are right

Nobody setting a screen for Lin or Kemba. What’s going on?

no he is not.

sweet lookaway and drive by kemba

3q3m Lin stuck with Green, Green didn’t even touch the ball

3q300 great stepback look, didn’t fall

Get Handsbrough in to get some rebounds.

That’s the shot he needs to take. He’s been making most of them. Good shot.

the timing with the screener isnt right

they didnt stop but they not timing it well. its lagging by a few beats.

Needs a Tyson Chandler too.

starters fg% so poor except AL

Gotta understand.. the refs have rigged this game, there is no way charlotte will win.

Marvin Williams OK except on 3s.

a lot of calls are suspect

that was embarrassing as heck

3q220 Lin did a great job of following Green on screens. Green could not get open.

3q140 Green made 3 over Lin, Lin was all over him. Just a tremendous shot.

terrible play…I think hornet should just go for 3pt shootings

nothing to do this game if lin cannot hit his jumpers. thats game over

3q117 bloody nose again. time for super saiyan

Can’t believe the starters are so bad this game

Was that on the jumper? Or after?

3q100 good aggressive drive by zeller to pick up foul

When you have a SG shooting 1 out of 8 and 3 TOs playing 22 minutes, it’s going to hurt.
The experiment of Batum as SG should end.

these players are soft and need to drive. Zeller needs to create a free throw parade.

Tyler Handborough would do well in this game with 15 free throws.

wow cody got murdered goign to hoop

Record holder of bloody nose ….

aside from going through al too much, the major difference is that hornets starters dug a hole and the 2nd unit lost composure in trying to make comeback, playing uphill

Lin getting love from the Miami announcers.

what they say

Sometimes FTs get a player’s jumper going. We’ll see!

3q005 Lin lost a shoe LOL

that was hardenesque collision

LOL HOLY CRAP HE PLAYED WITHOUT HIS SHOE!

LOL

Lin needs MJ shores LOL

This announcer is very unlike other jerks.

Lin needs MJ shoes

Miami hammering Lin so hard he lost his blood and his shoe!

well if Clifford wants to win….. you know

lin doing a good job advertising for adidas.

Saying Lin is tough…

Batum should be blamed as SG. This is not working.
I’m surprised that the game is still close with that kind of shooting all around.
The Hornets shot @ such low %!

The whole team is just off today …

Lins stats pretty good except the assist/tov

Only Hairsanity can save this game…not sure he has room to work w/o guys making shots.

4q1120 yikes Lin misses deep 3 badly

Yes, Al and Jeremy doing better than most

ITs not him offense not going no where

I like the confidence. He’s 1/2 from deep, whatever.

Good shooters have “no conscience.” Even Curry misses 3-4 in a row…and then hits 3-4 in a row.

this is the kind of experience lin lacked cuz hes been underused.

he needs more chances with end of clock heaves.

The Hornets are not moving the ball. It is sticking to Roberts like glue

mia too hot from 3

This is why Lin has to start. You can’t “save Lin for the 2nd unit.”

Starting Lin gives everyone space…Kemba, Lin, Al, Batum.

Well, this one is over..Hornets down by 20…..Lin does too much help defense..his man is getting wide open 3’s everytime he goes to help….The big men should be helping whenever someone drive.

yup…they are killing us on 3s

Batum in as SF.

Guess I can back to work now……don’t wanna get caught watching games in office

JLin has the right idea to keep attacking the rim

yup…but the lead is kinda big now….lets see

I’ll take it. 11 points. He’ll play way better in the next game. It’s as I thought. Miami is a tough matchup for Lin and remains so.

now it is supposed the best lineup

He’s hesitating on his shots. No quick release tonight.

Nice Kemba-Lin-Batum3 connection!

gees, SOOOOOOO much faster with Lin and Kemba and NIC in there. It’s not ideal but dam better than before. Lin at PG is ideal but dam I’ll take Lin in with Nic and Kemba.

4q900 ast from Lin

the bad weather is causing my feed to drop

The death of the experiment with Batum as SG.
He’s a natural SF.

there’s no time to figure it out. season will be over.

This is why Kemba/Lin/Batum need to start. Faster offense
I hope Coach Clifford gets it soon

Finally we agree! Lin starting helps everyone…but MJ is in love with “his guys.”

good shot from Batum

After this. the starters killed all momentum

Yeah, it’s a wishful thinking by the FO and the player himself. It’s going to cost some jobs.

Live or die; this is the best lineup for Hornets.

Me neither.

4q900 Zell Marv Batum Lin Kemba

hopefully this can be the right combo to claw back in the game

It won’t mean much if they keep feeding Jefferson

4q840. Green midrange jumper. got very friendly bounce

Batum makes the difference!

Yes!!! batum is getting in the game.

33333333333333333

back to back 3s for batum, Hornets making a comeback!

LIN 3333

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS LIN FOR 3 DOWN TOWN!

YES

well look no BIG AL! NO BIG AL. CLIFFORD KNOW WHAT UP. HE IS JUST BOUND. BUT HE KNOWS>

4q7 Zeller monster jam!!! things are clicking when 3s falling

Woo…Nice feed from Batum to Zeller for that two handed dunk!

best lineup

it would have been enough to win. Clifford is bound by front office politics. He will go down and lose his job for it if he doesn’t challenge the status quo

exactly. Batum can play a natural SF and gets easy shots off Kemba/Lin

Everything is easier

Lin is afraid to shoot his mid range quick tonight like in pre season.

lin takes shots!!!!

Lin smiLin like MJ

If you don’t start Lin, it makes it much easier to guard the starters. And then the other team just swarms Lin when he plays with the weaker 2nd unit.

4qt fast pace. they do not need AL

Kemba-Jer-Batum-Zeller-get some better center…. I’m good.

Hehe, I don’t care about that stuff. I like the gamesmanship!

Great D Lin.

still a 10pts game…need defensive stops

with lin and kemba, they should have mnore fs pts

this game will have a close final score.

GREAT D

To be honest, if Clifford trusts Lin to finish the game, might as well just start him

Still a chance…Lin’s gotta go to the rim. TO or not, get those sweet FTs.

That just tells you how important Batum is in this team!!!!!

my feed just came back.

lin shouldve went straight to hoop instead of settling for jumper. smh. he needs to get to line and also stop the clock

he’s not playing great tonight. Passable but not great.

Lin passing up open shots.

LIN needs to shot

Lin should’ve shot that :/

Eh. Protect his %s.

Agreed, he should have went for it…

so who was guarding the rim when lin had possible drive? was he a shotblocker? cuz i dont understand why he didnt take it in.

Game is over. Lin should protect his stats.

They won’t start him for selfish reasons? Let Lin be selfish too.

Heats PNR defense is really good

If that’s his thought, then there is no hope for him

dude i want to WIN this game.

Pretty sure Lin wants the win more than shooting percentage %

True, Kemba/Batum is a combined 7/25 shooting while Lin is 4/9 shooting

Cant play bad 3 quarters and win

Bemba just trying to get points now.

Lin missed 1st FT.

Damn he needs to make it…

green has been a no-show besides his pump fake into dunk

he is almost there…but missed his FT

it ll come with time. the teammates with time will learn to reset the poessession better when lin probes.

im loving kemba drives

Charlotte announcers named Jeremy player of the game!

Kemba is smart. Knows he needs to beat Lin in points and lead team in the ESPN boxscore. It’s just stat filling time now.

haha thats so unfair

dont be a hater heh

wow kemba is a fighter

not if they are open shots. then I’d say he’d need to work harder in the summer on the jumper

Sprite player of the game..Jeremy lin

5-15 with weak 2st half defense…he’d better score.

He was best of the worst.

This is the true starting 5!

Lin needs more minutes!!!

MVP….

thats bcoz…someone was shouting Lin sucks….lol

Who in their “right” mind decided to play Batum as SG?When I heard that it’s similar to hearing Lillard will be played as power forward.

omg dagger 3

If Lin plays longer min, the game is a W for sure!

3s won the game for Miami.

im glad cliff had flexibility to close with proper lineup.
but he really messed up by waiting too long.

Game over…

wow how did i miss the 5 threes by green

Lin is a freaking small SG and it’s showing tonight. I wish he was 2 inches taller. Green is way too huge. Lin did a good job on him but size matters.

nice post i agree

yup…pretty much…first regular season game….which is fine..I like the 4thQ

Lin Fans gets a dunk from LIN!!!!

This is best possible result for us fans.

Close loss with Lin playing well and the starters being weak (until they play with Lin).

This is just a road game.

Even though the Hornets will lose this game, there are a ton of positives for Lin. I think he will get more playing time next few games. The best unit is clearly Lin/Kemba/Batum

Did you guys see Mayweather talking crap about Jeremy to Gerald Green on the inbounds play?

i want team to win. but i will accept a loss if it means it empowers cliff to play the correct lineups.

Lin is best as a SG…on this team. No one can score off his passes and he just gets TOs.

As a starting SG, he’s in “selfish” attack mode all game.

Floyd is such a Lin troll. he follows Lin to every game just to troll on him. lol

And a painful lesson for MJ and Cho. START LIN OR LOSE.

I agree when Lin’s PG he worries too much about passing to teammates.

Nothing better to do with his life

lol…that would only make CH better

Just need to start Lin!! Enough with the politics! Bench Al Jeff already!

i was watching the heat feed when did they say this

Lin talking to Wade: “Nice win…lucky I didn’t start.”

5/10

At the end yea way too much dribble dribble shoot.

looking good stats 17pts hahahahahahhaha

ok with the FTs, thats still good TS% overall.

LOL It must be in your mind:-)

If Lin had 32 mins, you know….

let’s see if Clifford will start Lin after Game 10 or sooner.
When losses mount, he’ll be forced to do so

30 – 32 is a good number for lin.

if refs didnt call phantom fouls on him….

u know thats impossible right? haha

No lineup is going to improve Hornets from their sorry status from last season unless Lin is playing an important role in it.

LOL

obviously not…as some of us were saying…preseason is PRE-season…not much correlation with games win/loss

There is hope.

Unless Lin’s a starter! Coach needs to tell Al Jeff he needs to come off the bench. It’s obvious Lin, Batum, and Walker are the big 3 of this team.

to me.. Kemba played well in Q4…there is nothing to knock on him

wow, that was some ugly basketball today. but the team showed fight, and cliff has the balls to put in correct lineup to close the game. i hope the organization can see whats up and not continue down stupid road.
good game, good stats for our boy.
and he got good experience dealing with (difficulties) of shot creation. its rare to get that kind of experience unless u are groomed as teh ‘star’ of the team.

Starting line up needs to be Lin Kemba Batum Cody and Jefferson

The main reason the Hornets lost this game was because there was no spacing. Jefferson, Hairston, and Williams should not be on floor at the same time ever. Give us more Batum, Walker, and Lin.

That’s good. Lin is beginning to earn respect in this league. BTW DWade’s wife Gabriel Union had a major crush on lin during Linsanity. LOL

You know too much…

replace al with kaminsky

Love your new name haha

I meant Lin should’ve played more in 3rd quarter before lead got out of hand.

Yellow kept calling me out, need to change so boss doesn’t spot me. 😉

I am happy even they lose the game.. I wish they could win but … this was more ISO like last season not Lin’s team ball…

Big Al should be traded ASAP. I do think they may be trying to boost his value to trade him.

Lin, Kemba, Batum, Cody, Hawes is by far the best lineup and a guaranteed playoff team.

i guess its too late now…the rabbit is out

This game shows why Lin should start.
Kemba, Lin, Batum, Marvin and Cody is best line up but i dont think Hornets will bench AI.
So Kemba, Lin Batum Cody AI starting line up?

Playing Walker at PG and Batum at SG is just going to destroy their stats and the playoff hope. The coach/FO should get this wishful thinking out of their minds ASAP!

Lin and Harden were at least shared 70/30 pg duty, Kemba and Lin 100/0

Coach going to lose his job for it. IT’s up to coach if he has the freedom to do it.

u not seeing it right. lin is awesome getting fed the ball in triple threat position as SG. this is exceptionally good situation.

LOLOLOL it was more watchable second half of the game. It was real real ugly toward the end of second quarter to third quarter. Until JLin was in, it was real real ugly. JLin definitely hates to lose. It was almost a turnaround game toward the end:-) Good enough to me with JLin was a huge of coming back:-)

Didn’t watch this but didn’t Al have a good game?

No it needs to mix and match.

Yep, it is

Better late than never. Also made my Disqus private.

Not yet atleast

this would be the reality if MKG was there! It would NEVER change and Clifford would just lose his job. He may lose it anyways if he doesn’t make some tough calls soon.

LOL we’ll see. Lin’s boxscore looks good despite the fact I didn’t think he actually played that well. Boxscores can lie.

What is used today to close the game should be what’s used to start the game, as simple as that ! Batum isn’t the magic floor general who can up Hornets’ game(though he is a decent SF), Lin is.

agreed

Lin in there really frees up Kemba. I can see why Kemab likes it. I cannot imagine Clifford doesn’t want to start Lin. I must assume he was told he was not allowed to do it. Or he just hates small 2’s

Boxscore dont tell the whole story

wtf dev vs houston

are my eyes seeing what im seeing? or am i turning into derrick rose?

Best player in NBA~

https://twitter.com/HiveTalkLive/status/659554421253115904

If only they had another ballhandler to add to Kemba and Batum…

haha youre so silly

hes partly talking about lin i think.

https://twitter.com/Librafree/status/659551610377363457

Not throwing players under the bus. Good.

Lin is couple “ball sticking” . he will learn fast. great performance overall

Spoelstra has had a knack of defending the pick and roll well. lins passing lanes were few and far between

memphis got destroyed

https://twitter.com/rick_bonnell/status/659555322697265152

AL my suspicions are confirmed.

Lin seems to have too much energy left. He needs 36 mins

He’s getting there. He fought tonight, wasn’t letting himself get rattled by them. They want to intimidate and Lin said I’ll fight. That’s good. He’ll watch tape and get more informed for his mathematical mind.

LALin
‏@RockLinRoll
@JLin7 Sprite player of the game, 17pts 5/10FG with 27mins and closing out the game! Awesome season opener for @hornets! ?

https://twitter.com/RockLinRoll/status/659554410012381185

He’s a rhythm player. He can “stink” for 5 minutes and then be Space Jam MJ for the next 10.

Against blitzing defenses they need to run pick and pop

Lin play most in 1 and 4

Such dummies. Funny thing is that Okafor would be great even in a crappy BS offense.

I agree, Lin gets more shooting chances as SG with teammates like Walker and Batum willing to pass to him.

ouch, that really stings. Jim Buss needs to stop.

Would give him even more credit if he tells Al he needs to come off the bench and start Lin!

Forgive me for using this word but the ball did get “sticky” sometimes with Lin in the first half. Miami’s defense throws him off.

I predicted before the preseason started that Rox were going to fight for the 8th spot.

W that the best player in the league (2-12 for 3P) they sure need to fight hard…. LOL!

Lin should be the starting SG.

Harden got that Kardashian curse. LOL

is it a STD?

I just saw that Mudiay made 11 TOs…and still kicked the crap outta the Rox.