TripleThreat wrote:Swishfm3 wrote:Young pulled Lin and Jordan Clarkson aside after practice and talked to them about standing up for themselves when Bryant comes at them during practice and to not allow him to walk all over them......"[/i]
I remember reading an article about the success of Aaron Rodgers in the NFL, how he was thought of as potential first overall pick and then watched his stock freefall into the first round, bottoming out, sitting alone because he fell into the late first round, and then how Brett Favre would basically terrorize him for years ( he spent three years as the backup first) and Rodgers could do nothing about it. Steve Young IIRC came out and said that even sitting behind Montana, that he thought what Rodgers went through was even worse than he went through.
I still, to this day, have no idea why so many NBA fans and even Knick fans have such an ax to grind against Jeremy Lin.
The kid was undrafted, basically had to scrap and fight to stay on an NBA roster, when given just little bit of daylight, he lead his team to wins, then got immediately railroaded by Carmelo Anthony, using CAA and Stephen A Smith and leaking stuff to the press to attack him. ( Nothing was more surreal than seeing SAS on ESPN First Take with his tirade of why can't Jeremy Lin give the Knicks just fifteen minutes and come back from injury)
Then he signs the only offer sheet in front of him, the only sheet he can sign, then gets treated like trash by Dolan and the Knicks on the way out, like he was some leper and criminal, again have Melo's media pull hammering him. Only to end up having to play with two of the biggest douchebags in the league in Harden and Howard, who would routinely scream at him because he couldn't stop attacking guards who Harden let by him and when Howard wasn't in the right position. Only on his way out the door, having Melo in giant pictures wearing his number all around his home arena before he got traded.
Then he gets traded to play alongside one of the greatest point guards in NBA history, who clearly respects Lin, only to have Nash break down, and has to pair in the backcourt with an even worse version of Melo, in Kobe Bryant, full of narcissism and maybe the most anti team ball player in the league. An out of control shotjacking rapist sanctioned by his franchise who has giant MJ23 penis envy.
I mean will the basketball gods give Lin a break?
TT most people like Lin. What rubs ppl the wrong way are the lunatic fans that trash everyone around Lin in order to propel him into something he isn't.
Linsanity happens because there was no scouting report or information on Lin for opponents. Also MDAs system gave him the platform to excel. After teams started getting that info on him he struggled. Pretty much an early sophmore wall.
