NBA · Jeremy Lin is a big reason Houston is doing so well (page 4)
He's on a team that's terrible for him fit wise since Harden does what he does but better, but he's adjusted well and not complained publicly once.
Wouldn't be surprised if he won 6th man if the Rockets keep playing at this level of basketball. It's very impressive.
Edit: And what's up with the comments above from Marcala?? Is race/sexuality prodding allowed on this board? 
machomet25 wrote:The bottom line is that at worst Lin is an inconsistent player. But in general he's an above average PG. Since leaving the Knicks he has improved on pretty much every facet of his game.He's on a team that's terrible for him fit wise since Harden does what he does but better, but he's adjusted well and not complained publicly once.
Wouldn't be surprised if he won 6th man if the Rockets keep playing at this level of basketball. It's very impressive.
Edit: And what's up with the comments above from Marcala?? Is race/sexuality prodding allowed on this board?
let's be human. Nothing i said would be taken offensively by anyone unless they were looking for material to take offensively. Being gay, being Asian = wonderful. no problem with any of that. I just don't see a reason why anyone would keep talking about Lin on a knicks board every time he has a good game unless they were Asian or gay for Lin. Seriously, that's the only way it would make sense to me. People root for their own kind, pretty sure the Olympics is an example of that. And people root for those they're infatuated with. There's nothing wrong with doing that and there is nothing wrong with being any race or sexual orientation, obviously. But to me, it is not a stretch to think that those distinguishable characteristics could impact whether or not someone would be so defensive about Lin on this board. Why is there anything wrong with making the observation that Asian Knicks fans are more likely to follow Lin's career outside of NY closely than Non-Asian fans would? We all know that's true, so what is wrong with saying it?
I hope you realize how ridiculous it is to keep making Lin threads, and to only make them when he has a good game. The guy is shooting 30% in the last 10 games; nobody made a thread about that. But he hit a game winner and bam, there's a multiple page thread. That kind of pheonomen merits a little analysis on why it keeps happening like this. I gave you my analysis, i don't see how you can argue with me about whether Asian knicks fans are more likely to root for lin, and i find it insane that you'd try to make that statement out to be racist in any way. To find racism or bigotry in my statement, shows the type of race baiting and over the top political correctness that most people don't want anywhere near this board. We certainly dealt with in the MArcus Smart thread; when people had the "even if he didn't say anything racist, he's still a racist" attitude about the fan.
Some people root for Lin extra hard because they're Asian, maybe a few do because they have a crush on him. IF you're a knicks fan and you follow Lin obsessively, and you don't fall into either of those categories, God bless you. But would you mind explaining to me why you feel the need to post about Lin on this board only when he has a good game, and never after he has a bad week or month?
SwishAndDish13 wrote:RonRon wrote:Fans like Jeremy Lin here because we played our best TEAM ball and it was exciting to watch
He was able to run a system, get players involved (affecting our OFF and DEF), initiate our offense, and get players in position to hit high % shotsWoodson should have found a way to work out the differences between Melo and Lin for the sake of the team, instead he chose to take Melo's side and have him initiate our offense but that isn't his game
Regardless of Lin's 3 year 24m deal, we were capped out anyway, it didn't make a difference on our ability to improve
Due to Amare, Melo, and Tyson making the entire cap themselves with a combined salary of over 60m
I don't care of his he was an alien and or greenFelton is a backup scoring guard and not a defender/facilitator
Neither is Pablo while he is able to facilitate and shoot 3pters, he cannot defend any PG's especially starters either
Lin by default would be our best starting PG, it is just that simple
While he is not a ALL STAR by any means, he is young and can still improve, and could be a piece to the puzzleWe need to keep in perspective that Lin did this in the worst regular season in NBA history. He did this against players that were dogging it and/or out of shape. Jason Kidd (everybody seem to find this guy as the main reason we won 53 games last year) flat out said he wanted to teach him how to "switch gears" throughout the season. A nice way of saying when to dog it. Once the players that are better than them had enough, the gig was up. I mean Mario Chalmers made this guy look like he needed to be in the D-League but for some reason people on the board wanna build a team around him (I am aware that you at least realize he is not an all-star).
I don't think Lin would help a ton because the Knicks score points. Their biggest problem is getting burned defensively in the backcourt (Felton/Prigs off the dribble or Shump cheating). Lin wouldn't help this at all. He is one of the worst defensive PGs in the league. Last year Felton was way better than him across the board, especially defensively so nobody said boo. Even now, grossly out of shape, Felton is about on par with Lin from a defensive stand point and that's not a good thing.
Very difficult to keep any kind of insanity in perspective.
Melohate, for example. 
Assist Quality, the hidden perspective, Lin and Rockets
2012 SportVU released an article on “Potential Assist Locations”, which shows Lin’s potential assists contain 36% at rim opportunities, the most among PG.
As you can see from the diagram, such passes make big difference for shots at rim, not so much for long 2 and 3. However we knew that most 3pt shots were only taking when you have a open look.Back then, there is no statistics publicly available for further quantitative analysis. Until this season NBA.com introduces SportVU passing tracking statistics.
2013-2014 season until ASB, among 100 most assisters, the median Assist Efficiency (AE) is 1.20.
Assist Efficiency (AE) = [Point created by assist per game] / [Assist Opportunities per game] (AO)
Assist Opportunity means passes result in shots, result in shooting foul not included.
Lin’s AE = 10.9/7.9 = 1.38, is 3rd among league, 1st among PGs, only 5 PGs ranked among TOP25 AE. ( Parson 1.28 Harden 1.17 Beverley 1.17)
No doubt Lin has high AE because of close to rim passes, which comes at a price: turnovers, was it worth the effort?
If we adjust Lin’s AE to 1.20, then
10.9/1.20 – 7.9 = 1.18 possessions saved (this value is 3rd among league)
In other words, Lin’s AE at 1.38 plus 1.18 TOs equals to AE at 1.20 （7.9+1.18). Call it AE compensation 1(AE_C1)
Then Lin’s AST/TO ratio is 4.5/(2.7-1.18), which is close to 3:1 with AE at 1.20, very decent.
However, for a player like Harden, many of his TOs come from aggressive scoring (euro step, ISO etc.), which reflects on FT shooting.
Harden makes 8.8 free throws per game at 85%, if we convert it to 56% TS, then
FT*FT%/0.56*2-FT/2 = 2.27 possessions
In other words, if Harden shots 8.8 free throws while TO 2.27 times, net result is decent 56% TS. Call it AE compensation 2 (AE_C2)
Combine AE_C1 and AE_C2, the highest among league are:
1st Durant AE_C1+C2 = 3.35, 2nd LBJ=2.45
3rd LIN=1.18+0.89=2.07, Harden at 4th = -0.3+2.27=1.97
Surprisingly, Lin's compensation value at 3rd despite far low usage rate, it shows Lin has rare combination of both aggressive assist and aggressive scoring. This might be added to the explanations why Lin could pull off wins despite 6 TOs per game during his Linsanity run.
Using C1,C2 to adjust AST/TO ratio,
For Lin, 4.5/(2.7-2.27)= 7.1, which is 3rd among PGs, only Chris Paul 12.98, Marshall 9.81 are higher.
Rondo’s stats is at small sample size this season, he was much better, however about one third of his assist always comes from long 2, probably the most among PG. This doesn't mean that he can’t adjust to Huston’s offense scheme. But it will come at a price.
Because current advance player rating formula such as PER has no reflection on passing efficiency, one can argue player has “high risk high reward” passing style like Lin and parson among others are undervalued, by 1.18 and 0.45 (AE_C1) respectively.
You telling me Lin can't help our team right now or last year?
NYKBocker wrote:and yes...I am asian. Filipino to be exact but most here already knew that.
Clearly we need to have a demographic poll to get everyone's information. Since it's obviously not possible for a person of the same race as a player (or, apparently, a gay person) to rationally discuss NBA players. Maybe Andre and Martin could put it under our names along with the rest of our information 