G34 IND @ LAL PreGame Thread+Poll

HI all, Go Lin. Looking for a good game from you with the Indiana Pacers…

Haha I was thinking about maybe we should just dwell in a good post game thread…..lol jk

Jeremy said there are better days ahead :>
#GreedyMode

Lin knows exactly what he needs to do.

Thanks for sharing Clarkson story. Pray that with God’s help and JLin at his side to give him encouragement is able to help him thru this.

I would bet that Lin has kept in contact with Randle and Roscoe Brown. I also saw that Boose was with Randle, Clarkson and Jabari Brown on New Years eve. I think that Booze has been a great influence on Lin as far as his thought processes about his game. lin had that relationship with Jared Jefferies and Tyson Chandler. I don’t think Lin has anyone since then to encourage or mentor about his game. I like that fact the Boozer is all about his family off court.

Joyce, you’re hot!

Last night’s loss to the Grizzlies was the start of a very grueling part of the Lakers’s schedule: a whole month of games separated by only one or no days off in between. This will be tough for all the Lakers but especially for Kobe’s sore, fatigued and aged body. Kobe will have no choice but to continue his new “balanced” style of play and there will almost certainly be more Kobe-free games, especially on the BTBs. Games without Kobe or at least balanced Kobe means much more opportunity for Lin to play to his potential so Lin’s return to the starting lineup by game #40 seems likely. However, the approaching Feb. 19 trade deadline may also come into play. Kobe may get so fed up with Lin’s perseverance that he will ask the FO to just get rid of Jeremy in a trade.

I can see Lin as a 20-6 player if his shooting becomes more consistent
right now his shot comes and goes PFV said it takes a couple to years to develop so well see
20-6 as a starter 18-4 coming off the bench as a 6th man with 30+mins he can do it in 30mins I believe
He’s the only asian standing whos not a scrub
i guess he wont be out of the league anytime soon
if not hes most likely a 13- 6/7 player as a starter
the fact is his shot is still pretty inconsistent hes still a very streaky shooter and you cant get to the rim at will every game
hes still young he should shoot the lights out if anything thats how u learn

Jeremy in 3 of the top 10 plays.
#10 (buzzer beater), #4 (alley oop), and #2 (pass to NY)
https://twitter.com/LakersTV/status/551643577718423553

OK, I visited a couple of Laker sites and they seem to think that the Lakers will keep Lin/Boozer to come off the bench. They also think that Lakers don’t really need to pay for a high priced PG, just somebody that can share the rock with lin.

Actually Boozer has had consistent double double almost every game after being benched with Lin! I’d say the main reason why Boozer played poorly is the same reason why most of the starters play poorly, Kobe. When Lin is the PG and leader of the 2nd unit he holds teammate accountable and makes sure they are in the right position and doing the right things on defense!

Just wondering, does Byron have that thing called the Internet?

https://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/defense/help-positioning.html

I really don’t want JLin to stay in Lakers with KB and BS. However, I’m also skeptical with NBA. Not sure there is any green pasture for JLin. So much of hope after Lakers was traded to Lakers and now the similar thing happened. I’m really 一旦被蛇咬, 十年怕草绳.

I was taught ㄧ朝被蛇咬.

This tool (chart) is fun to play with – find Where’s Waldo Lin:

http://bballbreakdown.com/2015/01/03/role-nba-point-guard-nuggets-pg-ty-lawson/

online comments after denver beating memphis 114 to 85:

“The Lakers tired out Memphis last night therefore Denver is blowing out memphis. Grizzles running on tired legs.”

“Either that or Byron and Kobe are tanking Lakers’ games.”

I still can’t get over Jeremy’s game against the Grizzlies. I put it on loop in my VLC media player 🙂

One of his threes (4th Q, 5:50) caught my attention, that one with a screen from Ed Davis. I kinda like how that play went. I’m not really sure how the play is but Ed Davis decided to pass the ball to a moving Jeremy rather than Kobe hounded by Pondexter (I think) OR there is a really a play for these 3 guys – Ed to fake a pass to Kobe then screen Conley for Jeremy to shoot a 3. For sure if it’s indeed a play, BS is not the one who draw it.

Definitely, not BS drawn play.

Hello, IJ. Happy New Year! 🙂

Share the rock with Lin? or Kobe?

Hey yah, you’re finally here @disqus_rNTS9PSN6x:disqus..

Happy New Year!

with Lin

Man…RIP Stuart Scott!! Ill never forget his support of the @jlinfoundation and his inspiring determination to fight cancer!— Jeremy Lin (@JLin7) January 4, 2015

Boozer was amnestied by the Chicago Bulls. I’d forgotten how much he was being paid for this season ; $16.8 million. The Lakers are picking up $3.25 million of that and the Bulls are paying the rest.

See : http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/11229606/carlos-boozer-join-los-angeles-lakers

https://twitter.com/MisterCBooz/status/551787602597412864

even so. the law of averages…

he even had a 0 point game this season. would need a 40 pt game to make that one up.

Good post.

I fully agree.

Last game Lin’s shot looked great. But I don’t know if Lin will regress to his standard form.

good eyes.lol

haha It was also because of Conley kind of brain locked. Kobe should have just ran to the corner after his cut. Instead, he sealed at low post asking to ISO. So Lin did not really have a driving lane…yet Conley still went under the screen. LOL Lin can shoot that all day…

If Lin keeps on shooting with that flawless old school form with his body turned to the left and his right toe and elbow and finger all lined up, then Lin’s going to hit most of his shots no matter how badly Kobe hogs the ball.

Lin’s the only player I can think of in today’s NBA who can consistently break traps by himself without a play being run for him. Lin with that clean jump shooting form can become UNSTOPPABLE.

Julius Randle and his new headphones. [Randle’s jersey number is 30.]

https://twitter.com/Librafree/status/551749432677367810

Those numbers are possible if Jeremy was the main man of the team.

That probably means lin needs to be exceptionally efficient to score 12+points tonight, I expect him to take only 5-7 fga tonight.

https://twitter.com/CNM_JLin_Vids/status/551820158776668162

Has Kobe apologize to his teammates yet? Be a man, Kobe! Go take it up with your own coach!

https://twitter.com/Pacers/status/551834632426385409

not on this team
if his shots are falling he will take lots of shots

Maybe John wall too

Thx!

Why is PFV talking so many shots at Lin lately?

I don’t get why he said Lin didnt adapt to BScotts system
First, what byron wants from Li changes everytime he gets interviewed
and Lin should not play like he wants price to play just swing the ball and take a back seat
thats what scrubs(lack of vocabulary) do. not for Lin Lin is too good to be doing that stuff
besides, BS was determined to start Price from the get go nothing would change that even if Lin does what Price does perfectly.
will never be enough
what we do know is that Lin gets more mins when hes scoring well he should do that and pad his stats for his next contract instead of trying to please Byron Scott

2nd, lin has a strong game
he can score from any where on the court and dish some nice assists
hes a scoring guard hes at his best when hes scoring and attacking the rim getting guys involved
why should he change that instead of developing
thats the future of NBA
why on earth would Lin try to do what Byron wants him to d, which is pretty out dated and wont do him any good in a long run?

lastly, Lin has been passing the ball pretty well taking a back seat letting other guys do their thing
most of the time Lins just setting picks for young/eglinton or just standing at the corner

really dont understand the diss from PFV
respect the guy but i dont know about this one and the lateral quickness stuff

The Cavs lost again to the Dallas Mavericks. Kevin Love doing his thing now because LBJ is out.. I really do believe that the Lakers will go after Kevin Love.

He’s not. He is just saying that sometimes Lin gets frustrated( lin said that himself).

Anyone but Hill for me….lol

He’s not taking shots. He’s trying to give an objective analysis of what Lin needs to do going forward to succeed and playing on the highest level he can play. The more adaptive and flexible and effective he is even in systems that don’t favor his game, and that’s happening to him and maybe that’s his test, the better he has a chance to be a point guard getting big minutes whether starting or coming off of the bench.

According to the highlight. Lin’s FGs were mostly done by him attack off catch and shoot, the best way to attack in bball. He made two off the dribble in traffic, very good shot selection. If Scott is a better coach, he would have let lin to create for others. Young, Ellington and Kobe can score a lot if someone can creat for them.

Look who you are talking about here. Not the brightest bulb in the place.LOL

Huh?

I know, I know lol #gettingtoogreedy

I just feel lin is always having to compete with some backup pg…..even dwill was starting b4, he is a back up now…lol.

yes, and and and, Wes Coast was left guarding 2 guys and a pass could have been made to the elbow 3 or again to corner 3.

Jared Jack is a lot better than Beverley or Price though. I’m not sure why Hollins has him playing off the bench but if he’s getting similar minutes as before and closing, then at least he isn’t being yo-yo’d and marginalized like Lin is.

https://twitter.com/jonsnowglobe/status/551423803981848577

Since Dec 1:
Jeremy: 357mins, 21 min/g, 136 pts, 0.38p/min
Deron: 409 mins, 23min/g, 165 pts, 0.40p/min (5% better)

Jeremy has been more efficient if you factor in assists, steals, reb, blocks and negate TOVs. About 5% more efficient.

So, you can see Jeremy plays better as a whole game, even with the turmoil on him from Kobe and BSc. He focuses less on scoring and it suffers.

No sense in comparing these two to Chris Paul, but might be worth it to compare to Dragic or somebody else who is starting and loved by fans. Like Brent implies, these comparisons seem tired. ASG and these comparisons don’t matter this year because most of Lin’s game is trapped in politics, so it’s just a grind it out year for faithful fans who know that Lin is in grind mode too. We’re on the DLeague bus with him, finally, and now we know how he felt in his rookie year under Keith Smart.

Kobe’s relax comment wasn’t about the foul, it was just playing in general.

No, John Wall isn’t anywhere close to Lin’s class when it comes to creating off the dribble.

A healthy Lin easily outplays a healthy John Wall.

Try not to overanalyze the thoughts of JOURNALISTS.

They usually don’t know the game, and as a result they post seemingly contradictory stuff.

https://twitter.com/TWCSportsNet/status/551875799532331008

Good to see!!! Thanks for sharing

PFV is more an analyst and a super fan of Lin. His videos are very long and detailed.

Scott is clueless. What a donkey

PFV is a goodie. He’s just downplaying some aspects of Lin’s situation/game to gain credibility against the hate narratives. It’s judo. Not really something that hurts us or Lin, just a feint.

kobe bryant fun facts:
kobe is leading the league in shots per game (tho his coach wants him to shoot more). he also has the lowest shooting % of any one in the top 112 players in the nba listed by “efficiency” rating. and the second lowest 3 pt. % of any player in the nba period who takes at least 5 3’s per game (d. rose is worse).

I am just saying that he might have. The remark where really smart people take themselves too seriously…was Kobe talking about himself.

He would have heard it, given how drama ridden LAL is with all its people whispering stuff to each actor for their own ends.

You are probably right.

I just love them. They remind me of the friendship lin had with Jared Jefferies.

it does seem eerily similar to the lin situation: like lin dwill was having a solid season putting up double digit scoring most nites but nets were not winning; suddenly he was on the bench and not playing much at all (lopez demoted at the same time paralleling boozer/lin demotion). as with lin and understandably dwill did not take to his new situation very well. however (as with lin) he seems to have adjusted scoring in double digits last nite and leading the team off the bench in scoring tonite thus far….the justification for the changes the same as with lakers: tho both lin and dwill were performing well their teams were not winning and teams have won a higher % since the changes.

(no consideration made of who the opponents were however).

Kobe don’t care. Just keep shooting, Kobe says. #kobelogic

Kobe just wants them to relax, pass him the ball and let him take all the shots. That’s what he must have ment by “relaaaaxx”. #kobelogic

I was reading through some of the many tributes written today about Stuart Scott, and came across one on MTV’s site. It may be a generational thing, but I found it interesting that Jeremy Lin’s was the first athlete MTV mentioned in the article — out of potentially hundreds of possible alternative athletes who tweeted about Stuart Scott’s death.

While some of basketball’s older generation (coaches, players, fans) have showed little interest in encouraging JLin’s ongoing development and showcasing his talents, I find it encouraging that MTV’s choice of athlete identification gives some validation to Jeremy’s ongoing importance to his generation — in spite of the attempts to marginalize his ability to contribute to his team.

Sports organizations are not immune to the risks of aging fan populations and dwindling revenues and interests as fans age and burn out — and the old guard in basketball is allowed to distain and marginalize younger talent which would refresh the fan base. Front offices would be wise to pay notice.
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LeBron James, Lil Wayne And More Celebrities Pay Tribute To The Legendary Stuart Scott

The sportscaster is mourned and honored by countless celebrities, actors, musicians and athletes.

by Caitlin White

Today we lost Stuart Scott to cancer. The 21 year SportsCenter veteran was an unstoppable force in the sports media world, singlehandedly setting the tone for what SportsCenter would become, and becoming a legend in his own right during his decade-spanning career. Scott was diagnosed with cancer in 2007 and fought the disease with all his might.

But his legacy is remembered today by people from all corners of the country, including world-class athletes like Jeremy Lin, LeBron James, Richard Sherman and even rappers like Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne, and prominent members of Hollywood like Keifer Sutherland. …

http://www.mtv.com/news/2039211/stuart-scott-celebrity-tributes/

To foul or not to foul, that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to obey BS,
The slings and arrows of outrageous KB,
Or to disarm one’s opposing PG nonetheless,
Can be easily determined by degree from Harvard .
Take charge Ivy Leaguer I’d say
For your fortune and (lin)sanity.

If you notice in that clip, kobe thought lin was openly defying him, when lin had his eye on Scott the whole time and lin even pointed to the clock, but Scott kept saying no. Yep this backfired on kobe big time.This gave the fans an inside view of what is really going on behind the scenes. Some laker site i visited hoped that kobe apologized, but we all know he didn’t.

Psalm, I refuse to vote until you declare
WHO (*wink wink*）is the poll winner for THAT game～! (￣▽￣)

Did you see the look on lin’s face when Kobe made the move, lin just shook his head.LOL.. BTW, I think that thye might be setting up ED Davis for trade bait. Notice how Hill has completely shutdown.jmo

If you do not vote, you are not gonna be a winner,,,,LOL

I think Hill has some sort of clause of no trade.So we will see what happens.

https://twitter.com/MarkG_Medina/status/551903605096058881

IND Game Thread is now open!

Let’s go, JLin!

http://www.jlinportal.com/g34-ind-lal-game-thread/

Oh Brent, you are absolutely correct!!! 真是一语惊醒梦中人！I can not fall behind!