Super Lintendo: The Jeremy Lin Thread

[Vanderbilt_Grad]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/JLin7/status/644668717230632961[/tweet]

I laughed pretty hard at this exchange.

[anthoang]

https://twitter.com/JLin7/status/644668717230632961

hahaha... so we finally found out who the security guard was.

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[tweet]https://twitter.com/TrainImpossible/status/645344185273462785[/tweet]

That's one way to keep your low dribble honest during workouts.

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WATCH: Jeremy Lin's defense under the microscope
By Doug Branson and David B. Walker on Sep 21, 2015, 12:00p

http://www.atthehive.com/2015/9/21/9362877/watch-jeremy-lins-defense-under-the-microscope
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[TinmanZBoy]

Lin's defense is underrated for years...

[red32]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/TrainImpossible/status/645344185273462785[/tweet]

That's one way to keep your low dribble honest during workouts.

His shooting form/posture is still crappy.

[JuanCesta]

Like I have mentioned several times in the PC board, Lin is a great defender. He is a much better defender than Curry . In fact besides Curry's superior shooting, Curry and Lin are almost equals with Lin being the better defender and more Clutch and that is why I refer to Curry as the rich man's Lin who was coddled by GSW at the expense of Lin

I am glad more unbiased writers without agendas are coming out and pointing to Lin's great defense. He is one of the best defenders at PG position no matter how much McHale props up Beverley or Scott propos up Ronnie Price.

[yosemiteben]

He is one of the best defenders at PG position no matter how much McHale props up Beverley or Scott propos up Ronnie Price.

Message to Lin fans generally - we don't care what Lin has done in the past, and honestly we don't know or care about the details of how Lin has been treated by former teammates or coaches.

He's got a pretty clean slate coming to Charlotte and we are thrilled to have him. These continued preemptive defenses just seem odd to me.

[TikiJJ]

He is one of the best defenders at PG position no matter how much McHale props up Beverley or Scott propos up Ronnie Price.

Message to Lin fans generally - we don't care what Lin has done in the past, and honestly we don't know or care about the details of how Lin has been treated by former teammates or coaches.

He's got a pretty clean slate coming to Charlotte and we are thrilled to have him. These continued preemptive defenses just seem odd to me.

Other than JuanCesta and quite frankly, I don't remember, but let's just assume a couple more, because I seriously don't remember another Lin fan crying foul about the past so much on this board that you had to address the general "Lin fans", I don't know how this message applies to the "Lin fans" who post on this board on a regular basis.

Please stop generalizing people for the sake of your argument, this is what starts unnecessary bickering. Address what you need to address to individual posters and don't try to put the same stereotype on all "Lin fans" for your convenience.

[Al Kidd-Walker]

Like I have mentioned several times in the PC board, Lin is a great defender. He is a much better defender than Curry . In fact besides Curry's superior shooting, Curry and Lin are almost equals with Lin being the better defender and more Clutch and that is why I refer to Curry as the rich man's Lin who was coddled by GSW at the expense of Lin

I am glad more unbiased writers without agendas are coming out and pointing to Lin's great defense. He is one of the best defenders at PG position no matter how much McHale props up Beverley or Scott propos up Ronnie Price.

[Al Kidd-Walker]

I wonder if Jeremy Lins fanbase will have that effect on all star voting where if there's a player on our team who's playing great but overlooked by the league yet gets a surprising amount of votes

I remember when my goat T Mac almost got voted into starting an all star game without playing during that season because of Yaos fanbase

[fatlever]

JuanCesta is being dealt with. Don't let him derail the thread. Thanks.

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[tweet]https://twitter.com/TrainImpossible/status/645344185273462785[/tweet]

That's one way to keep your low dribble honest during workouts.

His shooting form/posture is still crappy.

I believe this particular training session was aimed at forcing him to make awkward shots from crappy posture and positions to simulate in-game conditions. That clip had him dribbling low with one hand sliding the cones and touching med balls. So the shots were after recovering from one hand nearly touching the ground and from a low dribble. Not the same as his set-shot forms.

Here's another clip from the same trainers:

https://instagram.com/p/7vdHreDP3I/

Here, he has to intercept med balls in the air and then readjust mid shooting before he's allow to release the ball. Obviously these are not perfect shooting forms, but meant to simulate in-game conditions of absorbing contact and being jostled or being forced to quickly readjust his shots while leaping mid-air to avoid defenders or whatnot.

He's done a lot of these sorts of exercises and training types in the past to simulate non-ideal actual in-game conditions. I believe one off-season he was working with Green Room where they had a guy constantly tugging on a bungee cord to try to unbalance him while he dribbled, to simulate random forces on his body from defenders impacting his center of gravity and forcing him to maintain his dribble.

I like that he pro-actively seeks out these trainers to simulate in game conditions and doesn't just clock in and clock out with the standard team facilities in the off-season.

I believe the season before Linsanity, he paid to work with the Glove. The season after Linsanity, he's invested time and paid money to train with Green Room (with the bungee cords) and Sparta Science (force plates and computer modeling of his leg strength), and then the season after that he was working with the Gatorade Sports Institute (practicing improving his reaction time by touching lights on a electronic switchboard and working on lung capacity with oxygen monitor strapped to his face monitoring and pinching his nostrils to restrict airflow). He was also doing sand training on the California dunes last season, I think. He also did ball-handling drills using a bag over a basketball or gloves to simulate sweat and loss of control with Mo Williams at the Mo Williams Academy that Mo was trying to start up as a post-basketball career in training for Mo. And this off-season he paid to fly his shooting coach with him all over Asia so he could train every day that he traveled, and now doing these low dribble and awkward mid-air readjustment shooting drills with cones and med balls with TrainImPossible.

I guess that's why he hasn't been around the team's training facilities earlier, since he was paying for his own specialty trainers like he usually does every off-season to seek out cutting edge technological and esoteric training techniques, whether it's forceplates and graphing software or electronic reaction time switchboards or sliding rip cones or mid-air med balls. He always goes beyond what's offered by the team's training facilities in the off-season. Especially since a lot of these sessions are aimed at replicating non-ideal conditions that more closely approximate in-game conditions, like the random forces on his body while dribbling (bungee cords simulating absorbing contact with defenders) or these awkward shooting positions of having to readjust his shot mid-air after hitting a med-ball just like how he may have to learn to readjust shots if a defender leaps in the way and impacts the basketball with a glancing touch the way the med balls are hitting the basketball mid-shot and imparting momentum.

[TTNN]

He is one of the best defenders at PG position no matter how much McHale props up Beverley or Scott propos up Ronnie Price.

Message to Lin fans generally - we don't care what Lin has done in the past, and honestly we don't know or care about the details of how Lin has been treated by former teammates or coaches.

He's got a pretty clean slate coming to Charlotte and we are thrilled to have him. These continued preemptive defenses just seem odd to me.

Perfect example when troll is not disciplined, other people (Lin fans) got to share the blame.

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He is one of the best defenders at PG position no matter how much McHale props up Beverley or Scott propos up Ronnie Price.

Message to Lin fans generally - we don't care what Lin has done in the past, and honestly we don't know or care about the details of how Lin has been treated by former teammates or coaches.

He's got a pretty clean slate coming to Charlotte and we are thrilled to have him. These continued preemptive defenses just seem odd to me.

Perfect example when troll is not disciplined, other people (Lin fans) got to share the blame.

Which is exactly what that Lin Hater wanted in the first place when he came here from Clutchfans pretending to be a crazy Lin fan.

This Lin Hater pretended to be a crazy Lin fan to make others dislike Lin fans. Then when the Mods came down on him, he played the victim and tried to make it seem like the Mods didn't like Lin fans to try to get Lin fans to not like the Mods. Basically trolling and playing people against each other to try to stir the pot for the fun of him and his friends on Clutchfans rooting for the both Lin and the Hornets to fail.

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So we know that Lin started to dabble in cooking (assuming grilling gourmet buffalo burgers counts) as a hobby last season in California. And he claims he may want to check out some cooking courses in Charlotte this season.

Well...it seems someone decided to make Lin Hornets aprons

https://instagram.com/p/7teECNNwa-/

Something for the Hornets fans who like to cook, I guess. Apron with Lin's name and a Hornets logo. The "i" in the center and the symmetrical spacing of Lin's name does lend itself to the Hornets image on top. The picture seems a bit washed out, so I think the apron might even be in Hornets colors.

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Line at TWC Arena for JLin autographs (pics filched from JLinPortal).





That is one dedicated Hornets fan standing in line on a pair of crutches to get JLin's signature.

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From the team's official twitter account:

[tweet]https://twitter.com/hornets/status/646464628080418816[/tweet]

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That Harvard connection

[tweet]https://twitter.com/delaneypierce97/status/646471090374635520[/tweet]

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Fans even brought their own banners to the event.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/occaaf/status/646441752778383360[/tweet]