G69 LAL @OKC Game Thread

congratulations and kudos for not announcing yourself as “first”.

continuing the ryan kelly theme ive been trying to hammer home and tying it into your game summary above: davis has been the best player on the lakers since the asg; so of course he doens’t get to play.
(already since the asg he’s been getting fewer minutes than for the season overall).

kelly has been the worst player on the lakers; arguably the worst player in the league getting any playing time; shooting 26% 26% 26% and 23% on 3’s since the asg;

and so he gets to start. tank ambitions reverse traditional assumptions.

Steve Nash said that he wanted to be remembered as a great competitor and grat teammate.

Does anyone know how much cap space Lakers have to sign 2 major star atheletes?

good to hear that. He was very nice in person.
When I asked him to sign the card for JLin, he was very accommodating and smiling for Jeremy =)
Very humble and approachable. I personally want him to succeed.

its complicated but that is essentially correct; or more correctly if kobe were to retire they would have space 2 sign 2 or even 3.

however after next nba season; that is in 2016 cap space is expected to increase by as much as 30 mil.(with failure of owner proposed “smoothing” of new tv money. so not in the coming f.a. class but the next there will be a lot more space to work with.

hehe..that’s still a lot of confidence though
Kelly to be better than Hill
Let’s hope Kelly can bring it!

Hope this helps. Just click on the graphic to enlarge …
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https://twitter.com/ajrafael/status/580493504218021888

I don’t even think kobe was there. They had former players and coaches from Phoenix,Denver and LA. AC green was there. Nobody mentioned kobe.

that’s the thing :] Kelly needs to hit the gym with JLin to be tough

https://twitter.com/MarkG_Medina/status/580500069750837249

I see Joyce has more Asian in herself than Clarkson has in himself.

https://twitter.com/Gadgetomi/status/580516339959365633

So when is Ed Davis starting? JLin needs his big man

when lin doesn’t start or when pigs fly whichever comes first.

I think there is a situation where Lin has to use a floater rather than pick up his dribble in the paint.

LAL sure playing fast. a lot of running.

I kept saying because that is not a good shot in almost any situation

first one was his fault to throw rite under opponent’s basket.

Agree, the second one was more bad communication. If that’s E.D., it doesn’t happen.

I think he got the TO with black and wes johnson

Brown in Clarkson out, thank goodness!

Go Lin Go! 7 pts and 2 asst already

yeah he’s playing well but he’s a hit frustrated by his teammates.

no davis is bad. no hill is good lol.

Tarik black really struggled not used to Lin yet. Also okc big was handling him and kelly

Great start by Lin but poor coaching, bad team defense, no Ed Davis, Clarkson chucking. Somehow Lin keeping them within striking range.

Sacre in and fouls, eww….

Davis is in right now!

Thanks for reporting

haha!

Can’t say for the others.

lets just say if it wasn’t for him, they would be around 20 points down. lol

bigs on the bench.

How’s Lin’s defence so far?

yep leading the team in about everything; this is a good compromise, lin gets to excel team still gets 2 tank with this lineup. and leaving all other possible actual scorers out.

works for me.

Davis in. Lin out. Sigh…

for who? not for the lakers.

No rebounds =(

Who needs to tank purposely when you have Clarkson who shoots every time he gets the ball?

Nice shot ed davis.

They should try putting in Hill and Davis or Black and Davis.

Well at least Davis was in for a few minutes. Coach did say Lin and Clarkson minutes will be staggered and he need his rest. Just hope Lin comes back soon and bench unit can hold on.

With how the rebound going, that is unlikely LOL

would slow down the tank.

well the actual best bigs are on the bench most of the time.

You sure bigs are in the game

This game will be a blow out very quick if Lin doesn’t come back in soon.

Lin back in.

who said anything about rebounds? I’m talking blocks!

Davis out too, 🙁

Lin in. Davis out. More sighs…

Bad game to play Kelly as OKC has too much size inside.

E are getting zero rebounds

Kanter taller than their bigs.

Lin with the 3 pointer! Still can’t miss!! He really needs to shoot more for Lakers to have a chance of winning. His teammates are playing like crap.

HE was not given enough minutes…

Lin is playing Westbrook pretty well. He won’t stop him but he cut him off and forced him to miss at the rim.

Lin and clarkson playing great but the rest of the guys are awful

agreed that was a great defensive move.

whoa lin is balling out. very exciting to see..

If the Lakers game plan is to LOSE then why not simply call ahead and forfeit the game.

5th assist for lin. good stuff.

Kelly surprising playing well with Lin and scoring!

Well offensively

He is on OKC? Didn’t know that

damn jeremy looked like he got pushed hard.

Thunder broadcasters just said that Lin and Westbrook have a rivalry dating back to Lin’s Houston days. Cool!

superstar calls. i hate the nba.

Definitely a superstar call. But you’d like those calls if Lin was getting them ;).

He made a long jumper right in Lin’s face. Haha!

I hate the NBA refs man that is a foul right there on Lin.

GOT THAT RIGHT lOL!

Homecourt advantage, they also called a tacky foul on Lin for Westbrook at the end!

Lin is back in the staring lineup and Kelly is balling may be ppls can stop hating him for now.

What? LOL Not really, Lin’s rivalry is with John Wall since summer league. Thunder rivalry is mainly against Harden.

Haha. Hating on how he has been playing not him. But Brent may have called it.

The only one in the “staring lineup” is Kobe… 🙂

LAL’s rebounds were short and their bench had no assists !

But against the cocky Isocentric OKC team, I’d want Lakers and Lin to win!

You are right!
Now that’s LA Tanker Basketball!
Unique!

Bench lead by Clarkson, who just cares about scoring for himself that’s expected.

feels like a century ago…lol

Some time after ASG?

nah. most likely front office telling lantz to cool it cause the lakers gotta sell out the last 10 plus games and try to salvage some ratings

Lin and Clarkson taking turns initiating the offense at halfcourt. Lin’s assists are coming mostly from drives and kick outs, because there aren’t a lot of pick n rolls (surprise).

Lin and Westbrook ARE guarding each other. Lin doing a decent job.

Kanter is killing the Lakers bigs. Sacre/Kelly/T. Black aren’t slowing him down at all.

Clarkson brings the ball up then passes to Lin right away so Lin still gets to be PG but lets Clarkson do his thing too.

I think this is a must lose game anyway? OW, BS will be looked very bad.

16pts/5asts/1reb/2to

They can still keep it close, will be more exciting if Lakers can tie the game.

Against a brand name mvp matters

He looks bad either way.

how many steal Lin lost here? I was listening to Thunder radio, and it says lin steal multiple times, but I don’t see any one on score board,why?

Yeah, but those could not exactly be said tho…just saying

It did look like Lin stole the ball but i’m not sure (my quality is crappy), it needs to be reviewed, i hope they don’t rob him of his stats.

Oh the irony. Jeremy getting his steals stolen from him.

LOL!

nop, LAL way behind, they are going to play their best now and that’s when lin is best.

His Stats are great. Everything else is icing on the cake

Not saying Booze and Hill are defensive stoppers, but I think we kinda need them in this game. Wonder why they weren’t in the first half.

Haha Lin got another foul on Westbrook!

Lakers come back! Lin owning Westbrook this game on OKC turf! XD

Clarkson is having a great game. He’s getting a lot of easy buckets like a putback and that last play.

Bc Lin is on court w him. OKC put all the attention on Lin not JC.

Clarkson finally slowed down mentally, to speed up physically.

Yes Lin and teammates are figuring out the double team after playing together for months.

exactly. terrible break by Clarkson. Of course it leads to an easy two for Westbrook.

That transition O just showed how much more Clarkson has to learn. Jeremy is probably one of the best in the game

just think of it as the asian american dual leading the pack.

When will they let lin play PG…

Bad pass by Clarkson.

Clarkson is the player of the game.. he’s got 3 blocks…more than the bigs.

OKC is keying on Lin and making someone else beat them. They want to slow him down.

2 TOs as well. =)

I wouldn’t mind he got better numbers, but he is playing out of himself now, which is no good. I think he start to get bigger head now

Lin will play the whole fourth

or just not play at all?

Clarkson has height and long arms as advantage.

Don’t bring that over here…smh

Down 20 points this game is already loss =/

if they trail >20?

down 20 already, go lakers!

Tanking perfertion

Don’t care. You see other rookie in the league not doing this crap.Clarkson will soon learn that they are not preparing him for anything except to be traded. He is not the Lakers future. He is anybody other than lin.

He played the most minutes.
He shouldn’t be given that role.
It’s mind boogling to give only 8 minutes to Big Ed .Davis.
That’s tanking by coaching.

no worry about that yet, Lin will put up at least 5/2 I think.

why are you worried about that. Lin got his points and played his best game against Westbrook.smh

I do think the Lakers will keep Clarkson around probably as a second string guard. Unless he can be packaged in a big trade of course.

smh…..

what’s wrong with you? you want Lin beat every one?

JC simply gave up back to back points and was selfish running fast breaks.

I wish the experiment was to get down by 15-20 points and give Lin & Ed the last quarter to see how good they are together to cut the deficit and try to win under extreme circumstances.

Pressley and Byron is so afraid of the Lin and Davis connection.

I noticed nobody on this site can get poor Paul’s name right.

He imitates people, that is not fast learner…smh

Who care about them? We don’t like them anyway.

LOL

Now that ed davis is playing well, Lin is out of the game.

They just wanted to loss the game when Byron wasn’t here.

Damn… clarkson is doing really well.

I would like to see Lin play wtih Ed Davis and Boozer and finish this game.

Of course, the players are respectable and the coaCHES ARE DESPICABLE.

Why are some people insecure about clarkon. Let him do him and lin will do lin lol

He lost himself in the game.

Nobody is insecure about Clarkson, he is just stat padding. So how well he is doing is in the eye of the beholder.

Boozer and Hill not in at all… resting them??

They both need to perform to win anyway.

The flow of game was totally destroyed by his trigger happy offense. His defense doesn’t blend into the team.

OOOOH the potential lineup is ok. Lakers have chance if Wayne Ellington doesn’t go selfish and passes to Lin.

There you go. Nobody is insecure about lin, maybe not a fan of Clarkson because I see he has gotten the Big Head,

There you go with the mini westbrook tandem…smh

Davis and Lin connection … finally 😉

OKC announcer said Lin is the focus of the defense…

missed the 1st one, 🙁

What?!!!!

thats when coaching comes in. what a player believes in what’s best doesn’t always mean the best for the team. but you can tell he’s working and playing hard. it’s a coach’s job to tell him what’s the right thing to do.

When Clarkson ran the offense, Lakers was in chaos. Now they are in control.

It’s streetball time out there. Hopefully Lin can pad his stats.

Ellington missed layup badly.

Lin got blocked by singler

this liineup is a joke. How can you not fine the Lakers.

Ellington is a good back up but not at the same level of Lin.

Ellington doesn’t defend well.

JC knows what he is doing, like not passing the ball for 6 minutes in the last quarter or giving the lin the ball at fast brake to only TO for Westbrook to score. He is not a team player.

some kids are taught when in doubt shoot. Clarkson has been trained that way so it’s what he knows.

bad defense and bad LAKER offense

Both. jeremy’s at -20 and clarkson at -9. clarkson really outplayed lin today.

It wasnt a foul

game over..
this game is lost on the lack of rebounds on lakers.

hitover 20 and it’s ok

Steve Adams in foul trouble; thanks to Jeremy!

OKC announcer: "Lin's been focal point of OKC's D" #jeremylin— Jack Nieto (@JackNieto3) March 25, 2015

Lin played a lot with Kelly as 4/5, no inside D at all.

Why Boozer and Hill not used?

where is linaj

Lin out

Lin out =/

As I suspected Lin is out. I thought he might not play much in the 4th. I guess 6 minutes is all he gets.

Very clear especailly with out boozer or hill

It’s fine that Lin is out. It is just garbage time. Don’t wanna get hurt trying to fight back from this lost case.

Thank goodness lin not playing garbage time

B2b tomorrow night.

This is a way to tank. get him out of the 4th quarter

I’m just complaining because Clarkson played better than Lin.

Good that Lin is out. Garbage time

Yea. He did well for an away game. No complaints.

I like how he came out in the 1st quarter and did well. It shows he was mentally ready to play today.

but -20, his RPM will take a hit next week.

No he did not. OKC D was more focused on Lin, who played without Pnr partner.

I think somebody said that the lakers can win two more games and still keep their pick. I think those two games will be against the Clippers. The Lakers play them twice when they come off the road. Lin/davis pick and roll will be in full effect.

was lin hurt from that slide..isthat why he is not in

10pts.. image lakers came back…

Nothing he could do about that, OKC was just hitting a lot of 3s when he was in.

Ed only played 16min he was 5 for 5. Great Laker coaching!

good piont

Damn that was a nice airball.

it is a win win. Lin gets his linsanity prime and BS gets his tank

No Scott hates the Clippers. He will make it a point to win in the Staples Center.

We know that Lakers are a better team than what Their record shows.

And to be the only Lakers player to score 30 besides Kobe. Lin could’ve done that last game with 4 minutes left but he just had to be unselfish.

No, the coaches are fixing the game and stats to take the ball away from Lin. Lin is playing patiently even he knows that he can’t win all by himself.. The coaches keep on rotating players around Lin to make sure he’s not productive but Lin still manages to hold his own.

Stats are deceiving.
The Lakers breaks up their best players for the sake of stats padding for Clarkson.

game is lost on rebounds

Tankers get rid of the Pick and Roll plays from Lin and Davis

The best rebounders are on the bench.

JLin will leave Lakers with this coaching staff.

He knows the Lakers are tanking and he’s not 100% so why even bother? He still has 1 year left with Lakers unless they’re forcing him to retire early, why come back for just 2 more games? Just going to make himself look bad.

coach knows that they are losing in rebounds and the opponent is shooting 60 pts in the paint and they made the line up small with Lin playing surely BS told them what to do

Jordon Clarkson in no time takes control of the game like what Lin has done.
The coaching staff just stinks.
How long can Laker fans put up with these despicable coaches.

No Lakers announcers sounded serious just like they were serious when they said Clarkson will come back during 4th quarter for sure.

JLin scored 29 and the game was under his control.
Clarkson scored 30 and the team lost in the worst way. The opposition outdid Lakers in all possible ways.

Wow, now they replaced it with a Westbrook to Kanter highlight.

Maybe they didn’t specify just that he would return for 2 games towards the end. If he’s just watching on the bench I don’t think they needed to announce that we’ll see.

Jc does not have the toughness of Lin. We all know it. It is obvious in the interview.

I think so bc right now he didn’t show up on the bench for the game bc he said it’s hard for him to watch the game now. smh!

What toughness? The one thing I can’t stand is when a rookie gets the biog head. We all saw the game. Now they are putting up Clarkson’s stats against Westbrook when we know lin guarded Westbrook…smh

Well, guess he is too afraid that his fans will leave him behind for good.

Carlos Boozer didn’t play.
Ed Davis was underused.
They gave Sacre almost 19 minutes; even more time than big Ed. Sacre scored no point, made 2TOs, 3 fouls, 2 rebounds and 2 assists.
Davis made 5 of 5, 1 block shot, scored 12 points, 3 rebound, 1 steal.

If I were Davis, Boozer or Lin, I would certainly leave this team for dust. That’s purple and gold tradition; you can see this in Byron Scott’s coaching.

Kinda feel bad for this guy.

Rockets guard Pat Beverly could have a season-ending wrist injury as a final analysis is expected in the morning, sources told Yahoo Sports.— Marc J. Spears (@SpearsNBAYahoo) March 25, 2015

Only Lin haters would compare Lin to Clarkson. Clarkson still have a lot to work on his games.

https://twitter.com/Librafree/status/580557941994045440

Ya! I think it’s either showcase him or tried to tell FO that no need to sign Lin?! smh!

LOL, no heater here. Lin’s PER is going up again.

Clarkson is fools gold. The thing that he appears to be humble, but he is not.

Really not his fault, LAL bigs got beat all night.

You know what, they took away all of lin’s playing utensils and lin had to go it on his own. Besides I really don’t care about Clarkson. Never have liked Clarkson’s game when you really look at it. BTW this was a tank job from the beginning to sit the Boozer/Hill. That alone should get the Lakers fined for the tank job…smh

Thanks! footwearfoot is fast!

Go create a fan site for JC!

https://twitter.com/CNM_JLin_Vids/status/580560387847921666

Hope he feels better soon!
https://twitter.com/kianainhi808/status/580561095804481536

Marc J. Spears ✔@SpearsNBAYahoo
Rockets expected to learn in the morning whether Patrick Beverly can play with his wrist injury or risk further
ligament damage, source said

******
It’s his non-shooting hand, no big deal I think, ?

https://twitter.com/SerenaWinters/status/580562485209616384

yes, i saw a run where he went for it when he should have dumped to lin … he bricked.

OK lin fans unite and send it to the NBA.

JC reminds me Karter-Williams in 76ers last season.

Lin beat WB many times and I liked that one Lin denying WB on a layup..

https://twitter.com/kianainhi808/status/580564140252622848

post game interview

this i half a tank.

That’s good news. Bc I thought it’s Lakers said something to him during that time… so it’s another team then… Ya! Hope he will not stay.

Nah, definitely a full tank.
“Boozer said he was told by Byron he’d sit out “four or five games” along with Jordan Hill so the Lakers can evaluate young guys.”

What??? What he did to stop RW tonight was NOTHING. RW was fouled by Lin 3 times tonight, Lin let RW couldn’t do what he wanted to do.

Mindboggling indeed. It’s like the coach is not for the team, and the players are pawns being sacrificed, for tanking.

Lie just for tanking… I think to most of the players, they sure hate this coach… hope none of them will stay w Lakers next season.

https://twitter.com/ODorff/status/580570458359201792

Hmmm… He is growing his hair out like Linsanity days 🙂

BS is bs.

Yes but still mostly about “me”
https://twitter.com/kianainhi808/status/580572229148282882

The harden ‘we’?

lol

lol. Kidd is not around to pull it.

I missed the game but listen to it on the way home. At half time, Mychel Thompson said Westbrook is not getting a triple double tonight because Jeremy is outplaying him.

https://twitter.com/Librafree/status/580573794202447872

A lot of it has to do with him being a rookie and coaching staff giving him tons of confidence. He does need to learn about humility tho.

Sort of feel the same way today… in fact, in some road games they kept talking how good he was too before… weird feeling.

I believe this might be an option for slick-back long-hair!

http://cdn.papermag.com/uploaded_images/rag%26bone-jeremy-lin.jpg

And hopefully teach him about humility 🙂

Clarkson is truly blessed to have Jeremy as his mentor

Yeah, hopefully. I think Clarkson was untruthful tonight when he gave the impression like he was guarding westbrook, which clearly wasn’t the case most of the game.

hey, this is the best of all those 4 fashion :>
nothing is wrong with this European look

porcupiny..

We know what happened. He got time to figure it out and he did. It was good that Kobe was out but it has a lot to do with a season that doesn’t matter and he can figure it out. Being on the lakers is a hidden blessing. Even so, I don’t like how Lin has been treated all year but it is what it is.

hehe .. Nice TrolLin to make Lin look good is OK :]

Mychal Thompson said the Linconvenient truth in LA that Lin’s defense is good enough to contain Westbrook!

https://twitter.com/gadgetomi/status/580577284807086081

https://twitter.com/zukovka/status/580578725533769730

Big Ed isn’t there!!!!

https://twitter.com/gadgetomi/status/580572140786810880

https://twitter.com/CNM_JLin_Vids/status/580579192246534144

Don’t fall into the trap set by those in power to argue over artificial limits. The Lakers tanking is such a case in point. It’s so obvious that the coaches and FO wants to lose when you separate a team like Lin and Davis. So now we argue about who’s to blame for a loss by dissecting an artificial limit.

A long time ago, I was put into a role playing game in college that got me so mad and upset. We were divided into groups of seven and told to pretend that we are in a nuclear bomb shelter with room for one or two. The arguments were very heated and emotional. Guess what, this game became a made for TV “reality show”.

I actually called out my prof on this game for the psychological impact it had on us because we turned into little ugly monsters deciding the fate of people outside of bomb shelter for what benefits they would have for us! I told the prof that the real answer would have been for all of us to give up our spots to the team of humans that could best survive the nuclear fallout later.

Clarkson, JBrown or Lin were put into a no win situation where the game was such that the only way for the team to win is if all the players decided before the game who should be best together as the starters to have a chance to win as a team. They are basically powerless to do anything but be angry like I was at the absurd no win situation they were put into.

BTW, this is exactly the same way governments divide and conquer the masses by allocation of limited tax dollars to multiple needs of society. They throw crumbs at the programs while calling them hand outs and belittling the people in need. Don’t let people manipulate your emotions in this way into nasty fights of no win arguments.

https://twitter.com/LakersReporter/status/580580461430329348

I believe deep down, JC is still selfish looking for his. It will take a couple of years to develop JC. Don’t think J.Buss/Kupchak can sacrifice his development time.

I wouldn’t be surprise if he gets traded. The scenario fits for trade bait.

Anybody noticing that Lin has been getting a lot of call for him lately being fouled.?

Ya! Compare to the past… Do you think bc NBA gave him more credit now? Or can FO do something about it? Like Harden didn’t get that many FT when he was in OKC but w Rox… he got tons of….

But it was OKC homecourt so for Lin to actually get FTs and on their star and MVP candidate is huge! I hope NBA looked into the mistreatment and are giving him more credit now.

LOL gotta love Lin’s hastags of #asianinvasion #halfasiancounts

Be careful what you are wish for…lol

LOL, what do you want to buy from him?

Hmmm… I think more than these… no?
https://twitter.com/JackNieto3/status/580585209290219521

Poor harden. He has to do everything all by himself.

So many highlights since ASB….great!

You can tell Lin had a single-mind to attack decisively throughout the game.
Let’s hope he has enough in the tank tomorrow in the B2B game (pun not Lintended)

Tag Heuer watch like this LOL

I think he will. I think he actually likes the fact that Clarkson can share some of the burden with him. I think he will put Clarkson on the right path.

yes, it certainly makes his job easier. Let’s hope the 2-guard attack will free up Lin more and make defense think twice to double-team

Few weeks ago…
https://twitter.com/MarkG_Medina/status/572155081631514624

https://twitter.com/Librafree/status/580526109382545408

I thought it’s PG for Lin not SG?

Ball handler does not equal to ball hog, yet…lol

Also this one… So many good comments on Lin tonight. OKC announcer said “Lin’s been focal point of OKC’s D”

It will sicker in June, when the draft news are around. It will feel like all 60 drafts are future HOFer…

That won’t work when Clarkson stops fouling up fastbreaks and missing easy layups.

Per SportVU, POST ASB, 43.5%, 29.8% 12.4% 9.3% 3.7% of Lin’s shots were shots
less than 10ft, pullup 2s, pullup 3s, C&S 3s and C&S 2s,
where he hits those at 48.6%, 45.8%, 20%, 66.7% and 66.7% respectively.

His pull up 3s suffered the most, will be his summer workout list I think.

PFV’s comment

Meant someone.

Man Brent, you really a Trekkie….like me! Too often we are subjected to outside forces that forces us into mouse traps of running wheels that exhaust our energies. The trick is to know and recognize it and get off it.

The Kobayashi Maru was a no win situation as was the end world scenario I faced in that bomb shelter. The questions we needed to answer went much deeper than our lives. The test asked us about duty, responsibility, bravery and sacrifice. The question was not about how to live or survive, the question was about how to die for the sake of others to come.

So when we look at LIN’S game within this no win scenario of a game he’s in, we have to understand the multiple levels of the answers he’s answering about the meaning of his life, of duty, responsibility, bravery and sacrifice. Haha, this means that Lin’s not on the Lakers ship of fools but in the spaceship Kobayashi Maru! Lol.

Yes sir! Capt Kirk!

He says the “right” things in interviews but what he said during the Behind the Lakers video showing the team playing tag, I didn’t like. A little bit of ego coming through. It was like he was all that. needs to learn some humility from Lin.

https://twitter.com/linspiredinca/status/580601501883711488

I heard something similar too. They said the D were focused on Lin.

See like I said… Lin w JC, only will free JC not Lin bc JC is not Harden. In fact, when Lin was in HOU, they would rather let Harden to score but lock up on Lin. smh!

16.02

That’s cause they are tanking on purpose, the entire team knows. At least Lin’s able to play his game and score.

Scott Brooks definitely made the right half-time adjustment to respect Lin’s ability to wreak havoc with his driving

If Davis was in there, I bet Lin would’ve made them pay for double-teaming him just like the 76ers game.
More reason for Lin/Davis to bloom somewhere else together in July FA.

his hair is ugly as h***. but he is playing damn well.

http://espn.go.com/nba/player/gamelog/_/id/4299/jeremy-lin

And it was even more impressive since against a good OKC team, not the sixers!

A better team….

i could care less about Clarkson. He is being used by Lakers organization,as anybody but lin. Clarkson is a selfish rookie who is looking out for himself. I am a very good judge of people, and Clarkson is all about himself. When leaves this dysfunctional organisation,Clarkson will be in for a very rude awakening,in which I am sure lin is trying to tell him, but Clarkson is to caught up. He will see once lin is gone.

He is like that, and lakers is encourage him doing it….very bad for the rook. But like u said, it does not matter, lin is gone…

Thanks for the highlights and the discussion…Iam so busy nowadays…

no you are wrong. He is top 5!

Well I did not make those numbers…

What I long realized and what I think the NBA is now finally realizing is that Jlin is just DAMN GOOD. Like scary good. He does NOTHING that looks insane, and he just hits boring mid range jumpers with devastating effect. And when his 3 pointer falls, it’s like deflating for the other team.

Then Lin drives on you and puts pressure on you and then when you finally stop him, he passes it off to some guy near the rim or keeps feeding some 3 point guy wide open.

Lin does his damage so effortlessly when he is on and his speed and quickness is his NBA gift.

I disagree, Clarkson knows exactly what he is doing. For instance during his post game interview, he acted like he guarded westbrook, which he clearly didn’t. He was disgenious during that interview. If he was a stndup guy, he would have spoken the truth. I have Clarkson’s number. You can hide behind that he is a rookie, but manners and good taste is not learned, it is how you were raised. BTW as I stated before. I really am not feeling Clarkson because he is all about the phony.

hm, I haven’t watched his interview but I’ll do so tomorrow to see if he’s disingenuous
Thanks for the tip

Very good game by Lin. Let’s hope he can keep that up for the rest of his career and play like an All-Star from this point on.

In the name of Jesus Christ, Jeremy Lin will have another great game later tonight against the Minnesota Timberwolves. 20+points/7+assist/5+rebounds/3+steals/2+blocks/1-turn-overs.

Actually, he did guard Westbrook for a couple of possessions,………and got lit up everytime

Why wouldn’t he jkeep that up?lin knows that he is fending for himself, he goit it. so what is this rederick , i hope lin keeps this up? I am so sick of the so called lin fans doubting him with these just in case alibis…smh

it’s okay =) we do need to hope and pray for uncontrollable things like health in the NBA and finding the team/coach who really believe in him.
nothing is really guaranteed in life, but I have faith Lin will keep rising in the last 13 games

LOL at the last question. Is JLin growing his hair to honor Steve Nash?
I’ll say yes for the last 13 games =)

J is too humble for sure hehe

Kobayashi Maru.

yeah! before the game, he predicted that lin will outplay westbrook, and i thought he was making fun. but throughout the game, he kept mentioning that his prediction was true, and that lin was outplaying westbrook

LOLLL

“Only because Ed Davis was separated from Jeremy that OKC didn’t pay much for their double-team tonight.” Last night, the 76er’s saw the Lin Davis connection and was punished for the double teaming Lin. Tonight would have been really interesting to see ED start with Lin.

a thousand thumps up! 🙂

Jeremy Lin Prayer Requests
Hey guys,

First off, thank you guys so much for praying for me. I’m constantly surprised at how many prayer warriors are out there and how selfless you guys are to take the time to pray for me. I wish I could return the favor for each of you individually as well!

Here’s my upcoming prayer list:
-Praise God for a pretty strong stretch (from a basketball standpoint) since the All-Star break. Also prayer that I would learn to give thanks and praise God more often. Often times, I pray hard for certain things, but I struggle to spend extended time in praise even though I know it’s important.

-Prayer for the right mindset to finish the season strong. Sometimes, it feels like there’s less to play for because we’re not in playoff contention, but God calls me to play every game and live everyday to bring Him the glory He deserves. In other words, my mindset and my work ethic shouldn’t waver because I’m playing for God, not for the playoffs.

-Prayer for humility to surrender the results of each basketball game to God. I am naturally a perfectionist, so I always want to play a great game and get the win, but God is humbling me and teaching me to focus on the process and trust Him with the results.

-Praise God for our new Youtube video and for a chance to interact and build relationships with a few homeless people in the LA area. Prayer that these individuals would have open hearts to truly know Jesus Christ! Also prayer that God would provide for their physical needs, whether it’s for housing, a job or stability in general.

-Prayer for my teammates and coaches. This season has had its fair share of discouragement, disappointment and brokenness. Please pray that their vulnerability from a tough season would allow them to seek and see Christ, whether through joining chapel, Bible study, daily devotionals or a church.

-Prayer for spiritual revival within the city of LA, the US, Asia and the world. Often times, I’m afraid to pray big prayers because they seem so intangible or too unrealistic, but I have to remind myself that God is bigger than anything I will ever face or encounter and my biggest dreams are nothing compared to the power He possesses. So prayer for global revival!

Thanks again for your prayers and support…much love!!
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yer right this time they’re wrong. never liked clarkson from the beginning; boxscore will look like clarkson had a big game but if you actually watched the game you saw that the game got out of hand only when clarkson “took it over”.

people give him way too much credit because he’s “a rookie”. and as i have pointed out before no way the kobe is going to allow clarkson the backcourt freedom that hes given as a cover for “development” for tanking purposes and to keep linsanity suppressed.

a possible back up shooting guard somewhere but by trade deadline i would imagine next year he’ll be gone and forgotten.

90% of the time lin is stopped by tanking desires of his own team and the individual agendas of his teammates; not the other teams “adjustments”.

lin got the last game and the first half of this one. then they let clarkson take over for the tank and his own #s.

but hey i can live with that. lins’ post asg #s keep going up and two years from now the lakers will still be nursing kobe along to one more time and clarkson as forgotten as acie law, toney douglas, ronnie price, p.bev, and all the other abl’s.

this seems a nice compromise for everyone and probably as some have suggested something worked out behind the scenes.

as for harden; well its all about the free throws. they take away his fta’s in the playoffs again rockets will fail again.

and yep when lin had free range lin in motion in the first half he out dueled the masked marvel.

I agree with you, Imtoldman, but was it the game in which his Linsanity DVD’s were handed out at the gate? Also, I understood a group from Taiwan came to see him. He was just showing his true professionalism.

Way too much Clarkson in this video.

https://twitter.com/Librafree/status/580705932235169792

I am w you. I think he tried to take any chance to make himself as the guy… just like the article from Mike to say Lakers should keep JC instead of Lin bc he can score & cheap… and he got all the support from BS & Kobe… He knew it he also took the chance… something like that…. I really think he is just another tool from BS & Kobe to stop Lin to stay in Lakers only. Once Lin is out he will be just like PB to forget about it. At that time, Kobe will say JC needs to learn PG’s duty. LOL!

Can we take anything that release on 4/1 seriously?

well, you have to understand.. they are rookies and rookies knows THEY HAVE to make a name for themselves..and in this nba leagues, gms and others look at stats (look at reggie jackson.. he over shoots to get to 20points and they say oh wow he is good..blah) over efficiency. They hyave to prove they are at least nba material.. so they don’t have any regrets. He eventually might learn to play unselfishly (maybe) after he is in.. but for anoyone who is on the border, they have to make a case for them self so they can stay in the nba. Lin said the same thing.. he sayd he doesn’t care and have to play his game else he will regret it and if he play his last game, at least he will have no regrets..and guess what… linsanity happened. During lisnaity or after melo or amare came back, he was still the focal point with mda..but some and including me was thinking he starting to ball hog a bit because I saw amare was wide open and he didn’t pass to him. So maybe he was learning.

At 0.53 Lin take W-Brook 1vs1 and oh boy, Lin is fast.

Pretty sure some of them knew but BS is their buddy so.

Dunks are less effective than layups because it’s more predictable.

It takes this bright coach so long to say that.
Byrone thought the otherwise and his mistake was irrevocable and I am almost certain Lin won’t come back and play for him next year.

What changed? Since ASG, Lin played like a total different player.

1. Changed from passive to aggressive in terms of scoring. (Lin took the first shot in the game vs OKC, scored a 3 pointer. This never happened in this season.)
2. TO reduced down to a level that even doubters were quiet.
3. More favorite fouls calls from refs.
4. Before ASG, Lin struggled from time to time, lost in the games. After ASG, Lin played in the flow of the games.
5. Moved and dribbled in more controlled tempo, knowing where he was going.
6. Played more confidently (at least to the eye test), more assertive, less hesitant. (Just looked at his eyes.)

During ASG, something MUST happened. My takes:

1. He reviewed and studied the films THOROUGHLY with trainers, coaches (not Lakers), friends, and getting all the advises and absorbed them.
2. Some aphorisms might lighten him up, turning on his switch. This changed his mindset from being passive to aggressive.

He has the talents and skills. Fans, just wait thru this training ground in Lakers to sharp and arm his mental power and a new NBA chapter shall begin.

I really think someone talked to him during ASG break that’s why he changed his game so much.

docky?

I was floored and so excited when lakers signed lin…

That was not said. I will always pray for lin no matter what,

I hope he will not stay either. This team will continue to tank as long as Kobe & BS are still on the team. smh!

I just gave the benefit of the doubt and extended grace since he also wished well for another great game in the next day. IMO no evil Lintention =)

Some more highlights from Jay910221
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Lin has talked a lot about spiritual readiness. What exactly does he mean and how does it help a player to perform?

A young rookie like Clarkson goes wild or rogue is a sign of mental chaos. Often coaches would reign that energy in to maintain a team discipline. On the Lakers, this type of behavior is allowed to happen for the sake of tanking. It isn’t much different than when KOBE does his thing and ices everyone else out. It’s just that LA is so used to it that the don’t understand how it negatively affects team play.

Spiritual readiness is a higher order of self. One of the best sports psychology books is “the Inner Game of Tennis”. It talks at great lengths about how all of us have 2 voices within us, a king of “ego vs id” kind of dichotomy that can negatively affect our inner balance. There is often an inner voice from our ego to judge everything we do as good or bad. Sometimes it’s a reflection of how others have judge us that triggers the self hate within us. It takes very little to push us down this path of self defeat.

It takes incredible self control to silence that inner voice. Spiritual readiness is that ability to have the strength to overcome the dark forces that can overtake our actions.

Some coaches mistake mental toughness and “will to win” with spiritual readiness. There’s no denying that KOBE is mentally tough or have massive will to win, what he lacks is spiritual readiness to separate his own need to win for the greater good of the team. That’s something he has never been able to do. Winning a battle is not the same as winning a war. A soldier who goes rogue for what he believes is the best for himself can easily threaten the long term strategy of winning the war. This is the situation that faces the Lakers franchise.

An athlete that allows his mental chaos to power up their desire to win can make things worst. This is much easier to see in an individual sport like tennis where team dynamics can hide the faults. A tennis player who loses his cool and blindly powers up will likely start to go for winners too early and start to lose many points on unforced errors. In BBall it’s in making bad passes, bad shots, ball hogging, going for bad steals, fouling, technicals and picking up flagrant 1/2s. A player who is spiritual ready can be calm under pressure to see how to maintain control of his personal centre will applying the correct changes to help the team. The team or you may lose anyways, but you can learn positively from the experience to build towards the next encounter.

Spiritual readiness for an athlete is the ability to see the big picture under stress and to calmly adapt to the pressure in such a way that sets the course towards defining ways to improve.

As a coach, we often see students work so hard off court to better themselves but can never redefine themselves mentally until they are put into these situations. Believing in ones greatness isn’t the same as owning it. Spiritual readiness opens the mind and soul to that experience of ownership of their own talents. Coaches that don’t put their players into situations to test themselves are limiting their abilities to grow. At the same time however, they also need to recognize when a player has pushed themselves into mental chaos and pull them back into spiritual readiness.

Great!…thanks for the update…..Lin is really focused now…to close the season strong…his determination is really mind blowing…Go Lin

hahaha…good one!

its ok…got it…sinus/flu

yep, they count on youthful exuberance to destroy all seasoned runs and responses. You know as a coach how devastating that can be for a team effort, the inkling of individualism either for glory or an individual suffering alone. The leader (Lin) uplifts everyone, and that is why he looks average some days. He’s giving out energy to get the team total up. The numbers are clear, second unit ruled this year. May real sports and life fans continue to see and learn from that. Inspirational!

did anyone see lin say hi to novakaineo

What I am loving is JLin following the seams that open up for him when he’s doubled and people overplay a coverage. You can see in your mind’s eye his zigzagging, and with the low TOV to Assists ratio, I think his handles are mighty fine. Yet another narrative put to rest. Only here can I get respite from that crude oil most days.

BTW, I notice others zigzagging fine through coverage too, but JLin has one more potent set of choices – he has vision so he can nail a wicked no-look pass, or he can go in above the rim for an easy score, or he can draw contact that FT awards have shown lately.

Just goes to show, it’s there if they will let him play competitive bball. We almost lost faith, but it was there always.

When Clarkson decided to takeover the game in the 3rd Q without some effort of playing defense was when the Lakers had no chance to come back.

Clarkson reminded me of Kobe in the beginning of the season when he only cared about chasing MJordan all time scoring.

try 27 by monte who got 38 points.

what I feel last night the game at 4th Q, it started with Ed and Lin on the court together and it went well for 3 min, and then Ed was pulled, and Lakers put in a insane small line up with Kelly at center, that really killed everything, that Laker had no rebounding, no defense, everyone help inside and give up tons of 3s, and I see Lin was looking back to the bench and talking to coach about something, and sure enough, he is out right after. Not sure whether Lin asked to go out there or he was complaining so they take him out, but right there, when Clarkson comes back in, he is back together with Black, a real center, then the game is a bit more watchable though still bad. But that is a really secret tank move for a solid 3 min.

guess not..
thought they are close friends.

he has been like that from the beginning. I think he really benefited by playing together with Lin.

The second half he started to dominate the ball, and he basically get all his teammates out of the game, include Lin. And towards the end of the game, I think all his teammates is rooting him to break his scoring record, and pass everything for him to shoot, he missed his last shot otherwise he will go to 32.

I seriously think he got the MCW treatment in Lakers, and he team might look for drive up his stock price and sell him. He is a mini-more selfish version of Lin, drive and no kick, there is no way he could play well with Kobe, if Kobe could not stand Lin to play with him.

it’s not really secret at this point. It’s been obvious for the last 25 games now.

so if jc is a sg when lin is in and jc took that much shots, you are saying it’s ok?.

Yes, thanks … Lin will resolve the puzzle, and I noticed he is admonishing JBrown with a smile on his face now. In the PHI game, he was really directive and even stabbed his finger to the corner place for JB, and JB leaned back and went away intense. But it was no harm no foul as JB kicked out to Lin on the next play.

If I were in competitive ball, I would love to have a teammate like Lin. The really best player, but always working toward team play. I knew a guy like that on college soccer. This guy was on full scholarship and yet, he spend 1 hr one day feeding me headers and shots to get my game going.

but that’s not what some people here will say.. they will say jc is a ballhog and complains he shoots too much..but when lin shoots 10-16 last game everyone was alright with 16 fgas.. heck if lin gets 19 shot attempts.. and gets 30 points that ok?
I don’t get the hypocrisy of some people.

If Lin was the pg, Clarkson would not have 19 attempts because Lin only looked for the open guy first.

Wai Lai: It was reported that Thunder keyed its D in on Lin. He was a marked man, Clarkson didn’t get the Thunder’s full attention & had more freedom. That was also my impression watching the Game.

Ok, I get that this is a lin fan site.. that I forgot. But so you are saying that on this site, lin is 100% right all the time and should think of all the reason why he is not doing well if he is not doing well? Doesn’t that invalidates any really good basketball discussions? At least to be a proud lin fan, we should be consistent. If lin got 19 fga and 26 points, that’s fine, but jc gets 19 fga and 30 points, that’s not fine? What if lin gets 26 points on 20 fga AND jc gets 30 points on 19 fga. Is that fine? To me, either way is fine. no one has to agree with me, but I personally dislike inconsistency. Same with the plus and minus.. lin has a -20, but jc has 0.. last time lin has +15 and jc has -20 or soemthing and everyone start bashing on jc. I was appall at the inconsistency of lin fans. Lin fans suppose to be classy and in my opinion consistent and if someone does well give credits when they are due.. (like wb and his 9 td).

So I am just curious, given there are 20 shots to take, you want Lin take it or Clarkson?

I think you got a point. Being objective and fair. But again we need to look at the game dynamic, not just the stats. Only people watching the game closed-up would know what happened on the court.

JC ballhog a bit last game. IMO, he just tried his best for his future, with the back of the coaches. No matter what, it is ALL on the coaches.

The Heat won championship because of an ultra rare breed of human LBJ who can play point better than anyone. Clarkson can drive, shoot but his floor general showed otherwise. He looks for his own shot first just like Kobe this season.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/lakersnow/la-sp-ln-preview-lakers-timberwolves-20150324-story.html

I agree that jc did ballhog a bit, but that is a separate issue. He ballhog because it might be that he is not yet polished..and plus he wants to stayinto the nba… to prove that he belongs.. that’s the same with everyone including lin during linsanity.. in fact, a few fans even start to call him a hogger. But they are trying to stay in. it’s really competitive, the nba.

good one. I totally expect Lin with Nash hair on 4/1 then LOL

I only agree maybe 2 3 4 and 5. lol

You got it right, @kpchan:disqus :]
I was waiting if anyone got the hint hehe..
#TooSharp

This is the same old script. I don’t even know why they bother to write these articles, because we all know they are bogus. As I posted last night, I think Lakers still can win 2 mores games and not interfere with their draft pick. I think those two games will be with the Clippers. They will play the Clippers twice in Staples Center. That is when Scott will pull out the Lin/ED pick and roll. LOL

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/237173/Patrick-Beverley-Could-Be-Out-For-Season-With-Wrist-Injury

the thing that i liked the most about this game was that , he just flew by Westbrook a couple of times 🙂

Good post. Made me think.

I don’t know if you notice this, the TWC reporter Mike Trudell asked the same question to Coach Pressey, Lin, and Clarkson, which is what reason to cause them got out-rebounded besides Boozer and Hill did not play yesterday. Pressey said they (Lakers) didn’t create some space and their effort is good but not good enough. Lin said their weak side was not there, probably means they are not in position to rebound. Clarkson said guards need to step in and help out.

I think only Lin pointed out their main problem of defense and gave the best answer. No wonder he is Coach Lin.

You have expensive taste, so it’s pocket change? A Harvard econ major knows the value of a sugar mama.

Excellent observation of little things that Byron did in every game to ensure the Tank, @disqus_Qw9GaYTag0:disqus

This is definitely the #TankPlay of the Game.
TWCSN should give award this like they do “Sub Of the Game”

I can assure you blubell is no sugar mama.
She’s got game as a real contender =)
#BluBellsanity

Rockets did the math and they lost a boatload of money w/o Lin =)

Man, Morey must be so misguided that Lin will be tempted to play for McHale and behind Harden again hehe

The guy believes his own #MythInMath

and designated as a Center

LOL that well even be too much for Jeremy Lin.

I am as sharp as the magical Green Destiny, legendary Master Li Mu Bai’s treasured sword. Lol!

When there’s nothin’ to say other than tank tank tank, they still have to try to make a living. Drag out old stuff, or make stuff up….

That’s a great way to put it…”following the seams”. It’s so thrilling and magical when he sees those and plunges through like a hot knife through butter. I’m thinking where the heck is he going…into that crowd…and then OMG there’s a seam there! How did he see that in the split second it showed its possibility? and rocket through it before it could close up again!

My bro is a rock climber. He told me some rock faces seem impossible. But if you sit and flop your mind completely open and just look, you start to see a tiny toe-hold here, and then a hand hold, and a line starts to reveal itself. Like something magically appearing out of nothing. Lin has that vision. He knows if your heart is open to anything (especially not limited by me me me), you’re free to see the seams flowing around you. Of course a whole lot faster than in rock climbing 🙂

That’s so cool, life has paths forward if we are calm.

What I think Lin is doing now is a more sophisticated move of following the big man in (if they turn their back to you on D). What he seems to be doing is to make a fake to cause one or 2 double team guys to commit, and then he makes the move that forces them to turn and adjust, and a big part of that move is facing their back. In that split second, he can go anywhere. It’s been really fun that last 2 games to see him do this, to totally use the double against the double and triple. I can’t break it down for you, I’m just seeing it in memory so watch for it next few games!