Super Lintendo: The Jeremy Lin Thread

spaceballer · Post #1721 » by **spaceballer** » Sat Oct 24, 2015 8:06 pm

Hardworking bunch on the team. Staying late after practice.

Arsenium12 at JLinPortal.com wrote:This is AFTER practice ...
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anthoang · Post #1722 » by **anthoang** » Wed Oct 28, 2015 5:03 pm

Quiz: Name the 3 NBA players who took the biggest pay cuts from 2014-15 to 2015-16 season.

Post #1723 » by **yosemiteben** » Wed Oct 28, 2015 5:20 pm

Two of:

Josh Smith
Deron Williams
David West

Then also Jeremy Lin - actually wouldn't have included him but assume he has to be on the list given that this thread was bumped for the question. I don't actually know what his former salary was.

Vanderbilt_Grad · Post #1724 » by **Vanderbilt_Grad** » Wed Oct 28, 2015 5:47 pm

So you don't remember how Houston set up a "poison pill" contract for Lin so that they could get him out of NYC, yosemiteben? Long story short he had a balloon payment last year and made around $15 mil if my memory is correct. His cap hold was a lot less than that though due to the fact that is was based on the contract average rather than the single big year.

KM6 · Post #1725 » by **KM6** » Wed Oct 28, 2015 5:51 pm

yosemiteben wrote:Two of:

Josh Smith
Deron Williams
David West

Then also Jeremy Lin - actually wouldn't have included him but assume he has to be on the list given that this thread was bumped for the question. I don't actually know what his former salary was.

Jeremy Lin: 8.3 mil cap hold for last year, and 15 mil actual net pay.

Post #1726 » by **yosemiteben** » Wed Oct 28, 2015 6:08 pm

Vanderbilt_Grad wrote:So you don't remember how Houston set up a "poison pill" contract for Lin so that they could get him out of NYC, yosemiteben? Long story short he had a balloon payment last year and made around $15 mil if my memory is correct. His cap hold was a lot less than that though due to the fact that is was based on the contract average rather than the single big year.

Oh yeah, forgot about the post-Linsanity FA drama. I vaguely recall that occurring (I was living in NYC at the time), but I definitely haven't been tracking Lin as closely. I honestly thought he got cut by HOU and then signed as a FA in LA. Am I correct that HOU dumped Lin by trade to free up cap space to chase Melo?

Goes to show you how things have changed in the NBA with the salary cap increasing - if Lin has a nice season, not outside the realm of possibility that he could earn a contract with an annual salary that much as that balloon payment.

anthoang · Post #1727 » by **anthoang** » Wed Oct 28, 2015 6:17 pm

Correct, David West is one of the 3.

D.Williams and J.Smith are not the other 2.

AustinPowers · Post #1728 » by **AustinPowers** » Wed Oct 28, 2015 6:21 pm

AustinPowers wrote:I try not to be verbose on forums and won't start here. But these TOs by Lin where he gets too deep and ends up in no mans land, can be alleviated somewhat by the floater he said he worked on in the offseason OR by having your shooters move along the arc with the PG.

Football correlation: Jason Witten of the Cowboys is great at sneaking into the zone defense and finding the hole to provide a passing lane. As a PG probes into the interior, the wing shooters can either stand and wait for the pass or shuffle their feet along the arc and keep in a passing lane. It's all part of court awareness. I personally thought Steve Novak was great at this with Lin during Linsanity. Probe probe probe ..... shuffle shuffle shuffle .... kickout... nothing but net. This comes from awareness and familiarity IMO. I also think Wesley Johnson & Nick Young do not have this "shuffle the arc" awareness.

3/4 of the way down Goldsberry's elaborate article today on Westbrook's Assist Efficiency, Ibaka & Morrow talk about how important it is for the shooters to find the right spot & lanes.

http://grantland.com/features/russell-the-creator-westbrook-nba-oklahoma-city-thunder-western-conference-kevin-durant-serge-ibaka-kevin-love/?ex_cid=story-twitter

Roy Tarpley · Post #1729 » by **Roy Tarpley** » Wed Oct 28, 2015 6:44 pm

anthoang wrote:Correct, David West is one of the 3.

D.Williams and J.Smith are not the other 2.

Amare Stoudemire.

anthoang · Post #1730 » by **anthoang** » Wed Oct 28, 2015 9:48 pm

Roy Tarpley wrote:
anthoang wrote:Correct, David West is one of the 3.

D.Williams and J.Smith are not the other 2.

Amare Stoudemire.

Correct, Amare Stoudemire is the other one.

David West, Amare Stoudemire, ..???..

blueice · Post #1731 » by **blueice** » Wed Oct 28, 2015 10:57 pm

yosemiteben wrote:
Vanderbilt_Grad wrote:So you don't remember how Houston set up a "poison pill" contract for Lin so that they could get him out of NYC, yosemiteben? Long story short he had a balloon payment last year and made around $15 mil if my memory is correct. His cap hold was a lot less than that though due to the fact that is was based on the contract average rather than the single big year.

Oh yeah, forgot about the post-Linsanity FA drama. I vaguely recall that occurring (I was living in NYC at the time), but I definitely haven't been tracking Lin as closely. I honestly thought he got cut by HOU and then signed as a FA in LA. Am I correct that HOU dumped Lin by trade to free up cap space to chase Melo?

Goes to show you how things have changed in the NBA with the salary cap increasing - if Lin has a nice season, not outside the realm of possibility that he could earn a contract with an annual salary that much as that balloon payment.

Well, He didn't get cut by HOU. He got traded to Lakers along with a pick (2nd round I think, correct me but there is a pick) to free up cap space because HOU thought they were getting Chris Bosh for sure. But Chris Bosh never promised them anything and you know where he is now.

In regards to Melo, basically they they PSed MELO in Rocket's jersey with Lin's number when they invited MELO over. It's very disrespectful as Lin was still officially a Rocket at the time. In the end Rocket's ugly play didn't get them any of the star players they were going for.

BlackOutBuzz · Post #1732 » by **BlackOutBuzz** » Wed Oct 28, 2015 11:20 pm

anthoang wrote:
Roy Tarpley wrote:
anthoang wrote:Correct, David West is one of the 3.

D.Williams and J.Smith are not the other 2.

Amare Stoudemire.

Correct, Amare Stoudemire is the other one.

David West, Amare Stoudemire, ..???..

Jeremy......Lamb, maybe? No idea.

Vae Victus · Post #1733 » by **Vae Victus** » Thu Oct 29, 2015 1:08 am

Lin's handles still looks like ****. I thought they got tightened up a bit during Pre-season but the loose handles are back. At his shot looks better, so he needs to focus on looking for it a bit more which if he hits at agood clip will open up his driving game.

Same issues on D, gets screened too easy.

kastuul · Post #1734 » by **kastuul** » Thu Oct 29, 2015 2:31 am

It's totally different from the Pre-season.
The ball movement is gone.

The Hornets won the rebounds but lost the assists and 3pt.
That's not what I expected.

Vae Victus · Post #1735 » by **Vae Victus** » Thu Oct 29, 2015 4:32 am

I wonder how long til Clifford decides to let Lin play PG whenever he's in there instead of playing SG. Let Kemba and Roberts play SG and let em focus on scoring instead of facilitating. Regardless Lin will be guarding SGs since he's taller than them, so it's not like defensively they lose anything.

Lin looked a bit tentative with the ball when he was thinking of attacking, but i think that was mostly early on when he was in there with Al.

tonman · Post #1736 » by **tonman** » Thu Oct 29, 2015 5:40 am

kastuul wrote:It's totally different from the Pre-season.
The ball movement is gone.

The Hornets won the rebounds but lost the assists and 3pt.
That's not what I expected.

You can't have ball movement without player movement. That is why dumping it in to AL doesn't work unless you have movement.

BlackOutBuzz · Post #1737 » by **BlackOutBuzz** » Thu Oct 29, 2015 6:01 am

Vae Victus wrote:I wonder how long til Clifford decides to let Lin play PG whenever he's in there instead of playing SG.

Probably until Lamb gets healthy and knocks Roberts out of the rotation.

lin is ok · Post #1738 » by **lin is ok** » Thu Oct 29, 2015 6:10 am

hornets need to hit their 3s off the block.

Vae Victus · Post #1739 » by **Vae Victus** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 9:00 pm

I noticed Lin wasnt able to attack much off the PnR last game. I did notice the screens weren't very strongly set and the lanes were clogged, was there any particular reason for that? Even noticed it when Al was sitting so can't default to blaming him for the congestion.

Post #1740 » by **yosemiteben** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 9:22 pm

Vae Victus wrote:I noticed Lin wasnt able to attack much off the PnR last game. I did notice the screens weren't very strongly set and the lanes were clogged, was there any particular reason for that? Even noticed it when Al was sitting so can't default to blaming him for the congestion.

I noticed that too and I'm not sure if it's due to (a) weak screens, (b) poor angles by the ballhandler, or (c) very nice PNR coverage by MIA. I'm inclined to think it's a combination of all three.