The Official Lin Net Thread

[fafan]

Jeremy is breaking the internet today lol

[tweet]https://twitter.com/complexmag/status/755900138678259712[/tweet]

omfg my eyes

[tweet]https://twitter.com/808hooper/status/755854731516325890[/tweet]

Maybe I am too old to like this hairstyle. Anyway, it's all cool if Lin will play like AI.

[jbeachboy]

which is your favorite lin hairstyle so far?

[fafan]

which is your favorite lin hairstyle so far?

The Mohawk is pretty cool. Just read a article "Ranking Jeremy Lin’s NBA Hairstyles, So Far" .

https://www.fanduel.com/insider/2016/07/20/ranking-jeremy-lins-nba-hairstyles-so-far/

[MakeItSplash]

Jeremy is breaking the internet today lol

[tweet]https://twitter.com/complexmag/status/755900138678259712[/tweet]

omfg my eyes

[tweet]https://twitter.com/808hooper/status/755854731516325890[/tweet]

Maybe I am too old to like this hairstyle. Anyway, it's all cool if Lin will play like AI.

His hair isn't full cornrows like AI. It's considered a man braid bun that hipsters have.

Spoiler:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idwmTQuHpIk[/youtube]

[bws94]

Lin played a minor role for the hornets. His numbers across the board were pretty pedestrian and uninspiring. He filled the backup role adequately.

I do believe he will be better in brooklyn with more consistent minutes but I think hsi ballhandling is going to be a huge issue. Hes used to having guys like harden, kemba, and kobe handle the primarily ballhandling role.

He doesn't have any help in Brooklyn besides the ability to dump it down to lopez. This situation would be tough for anyone to thrive. But a lead ballhandler like curry, paul, Irving, etc would certainly be more comfortable

A little obsessed to prove your point, are we. Didn't a mod say you were trolling Lin fans?

[Claud]

Really enjoying getting to know Lin. He seems like a down to earth type of dude with a good head on him.

I have a weird feeling he and this team will surprise a lot of people next season. Let's hope for an injury free season especially for our key guys Lopez + Lin.

He might end up being our best PG since JKidd days. Just a gut feeling. No, I didn't forget about Dwill and Harris.

[spaceballer]

(relocating from another thread since my response got long and talked a lot about Jeremy)

did lin start only with knicks and rockets?

He started 13 games last season for the Hornets due to injuries. Twelve as SG, and one as PG.

His FG% and 3pt% both went up when he was a starter compared to when he came off the bench for the Hornets. Showing that he's a rhythm player and that although he might be able to hack it as sixthman off the bench, he really under performs in that role since he plays worse as 6th man than he does as a Hornets starter. Despite the praise from everyone about how he's excelled in that role off the bench.

The Hornets also had a better winning ratio with him as a starter (8-5, 61.5% win ratio) than their overall season win ratio (48-34, 58.5% win ratio). Showing it wasn't just empty stat-padding but a better winning record for the Hornets when he starts.

His shooting splits coming off the bench vs. starting for the Hornets shows that the narrative that he's best used as a combo guard sixthman off the bench is wrong. He's much better both in terms of his own individual performance and the overal team's win record when he starts.

In the sole game that Kemba was out and Lin was starting PG instead of SG, he also raised his assists to a respectable level. Putting in 24pts/8asst on 7-13 from the field and 2-4 from 3pt in 32 minutes of playing time. Helping the Hornets beat Lebron and the Cavs.

Obviously this is a very small sample size of games last season and subject to other factors that may cause such variations. I really wouldn't read much into it. But it's probably another data point that helped Marks and Atkinson believe Jeremy can do the job as the starting PG for the Nets in this coming season, even though the team isn't expected to win much.

He also started some games for the Lakers, but that deliberate Byron Scott tank job in order to keep the Lakers pick was just such a terrible season all around for everyone in the franchise that there isn't much you can infer from it.

He did start all 82 games in his first year for the Rockets, so he's shown he's able to handle the grind of a full season as a starter of a playoff team. We know he can be the starting PG of a playoff team because he's already been one (not that the Nets will make the playoffs this year). And even after he was benched in the 2nd year with the Rockets so that they could stick Beverley's defense next to a defenseless Harden and because Beverley proved he was unable to run the offense for the bench unit, Jeremy still had games where he started due to injuries.

But I don't really think any of that discussion of the past is relevant right now. What matters is how he can help the Nets going forward. It'll be interesting to see how things get worked out in training camp and over the season.

Kenny is a rookie coach so we don't really know what the exact offensive/defensive schemes will be and how he'll want Jeremy to fit into it. But given all the roles and positions and systems that Jeremy has had to go through over the past few seasons, we know he's adaptable and versatile (by necessity, having to develop different facets of his game and adjust every time he changed teams or roles). When you have a brand new system with an unknown future shape, that versatility and adaptability that Jeremy had developed through his journeying days should come in useful to fit whatever Kenny Atkinson wants out of him.

I think that versatility and adaptability is something that hasn't been discussed as much. His past few season have forced him to grow as a player and develop new aspects of his game, because he keeps moving from one system to another. Even as recently as this past season with the Hornets, you saw new aspects of his game being honed such as the off-ball backdoor cuts in Charlotte.

The Nets are getting a very well-rounded player in many respects (though he does have some areas he can still work on). He's been forced to become one out of necessity because of all these different systems and roles. Old criticisms of "he can't go left", "he can't play off-ball", "he can't play defense", "he can't shoot 3's" (well assuming his new form struggles are over) no longer apply.

[bws94]

Lot of people are talking about Lin's hair. But the cornrows are a surprise to people.

[Lorenzomax7]

1 reason because Lin's mom manages his money. Hope Lin can keep some privacy.

Lin has professionals managing his money. He hasn't touched his NBA salary money. He's only spending money from his endorsement deals.

One thing we can be sure about is that he won't end up being like 'Toine

I heard he is still searching for a new home in BRK. so ... that apartment was just for like half a week.

[TinmanZBoy]

Lin has professionals managing his money. He hasn't touched his NBA salary money. He's only spending money from his endorsement deals.

One thing we can be sure about is that he won't end up being like 'Toine

I heard he is still searching for a new home in BRK. so ... that apartment was just for like half a week.

I heard Robert De Niro has an empty house at 86th street... not sure about De Niro's fandom of Lin though

[DartboardT]

Lot of people are talking about Lin's hair. But the cornrows are a surprise to people.

I don't think Lin's done trolling us all with his hair, so to speak. Hey, as long as he moves the Nets forward and "plays well enough", I can deal with whatever surprise hairstyle he'll throw at us next. The Nets ambassador stuff, he has down COLD. Nets fans are absolutely gonna love JLin as a person.

Personally, Mohawk and Playoff Ronin Hair were my "favorites" from last season. Doubt you'll see those ever again, though. It's not a hair rotation, it's a...strange trip...

[Manitoba]

[snipped out image containing Lin's statement]
It's a process. Start from zero, build something great, slowly but surely, I like it.

I like Jeremy's statement too, so I ran it through OCR in order to make it easier to handle. Could be some typos.

“The way I was thinking of free agency was like when you invest in a startup company. You don’t necessarily look at the product right then and there. That is a big part of it, but you’re kind of betting on the founder a lot of times. You’re betting on what that person is capable of doing, because sometimes as you go through the process, the final product is going to change a lot. That’s very common in startups and I feel like that’s the kind of how this is. I’m betting on certain people, I’m betting on Kenny, I’m betting on Sean, I’m betting on myself, I’m betting on Brook Lopez, I’m betting on the way I feel. If I didn’t feel like this has a chance to go where I want to go, then I wouldn’t have signed up for it. Yeah, right now, and last season if you look at last season, we weren’t where we wanted to be, but it’s a process and it’s a challenge. And I think the biggest thing I would say is I believe in this, I believe in what we’re capable of becoming. We’re not there right now, but we all know that, but that’s the thing."

I agree with Jeremy that the Nets are like a stock with upside.

EDIT: minor fixes

[JohnStockton]

Some of those tweets about Jeremy's braids are funny as hell

[tweet]https://twitter.com/RealKidInfamous/status/755871456991379456[/tweet]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/zekNcashe/status/755861809387536384[/tweet]

[DartboardT]

This isn't even his final form...which makes me nervous

(Btw, I don't think there IS a final form with this weird hair phenomenon.)

[ChokeFasncists]

NYTimes article on Jeremy after the press conference.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/nyregion/jeremy-lin-back-in-new-york-linsanity.html

“The definition of Linsanity may have evolved,” said K.P. Chan, 68, a retired banker who lives in Bayside, Queens. “That was just sheer madness, that was epiphany. All the stars were aligned and all of a sudden, he had this breakout out of nowhere. But he has become a much more well-rounded, more complete player.”

Well said!

[ChokeFasncists]

ESPN article following the press conference.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/17115164/brooklyn-nets-pg-jeremy-lin-ok-being-role-model-not-phenomenon

"Now I have that chance to take a much bigger role and be a much bigger part. It is no surprise to anybody if you look at the numbers my whole career, when I have the ball in my hands, when I play longer minutes, when I am more comfortable, when I am empowered, I play better. And I am hoping I can take that next step as a player and hoping that I can help this team grow. I want to make my teammates better and make the game easier for everybody. I guess that is what will define me as a player."

Nice. He's definitely more suitable to be and better as a starter than 6th man, he understands himself. He is at his best as a facilitating PG for capable scorers.

[ChokeFasncists]

Article from Andy Vasquez, Nets beat writer from The Record (NJ).

http://blogs.northjersey.com/nets-nation/jeremy-lin-likes-nets-potential-1.1632695

Lin says he still has a strong connection with New York fans, but now he’ll be trying to get them to root for a new uniform.

“Hey man, if anybody here needs a team to root for, feel free to join the Nets fan base and come root for us,” Lin said. “I would love to bring as many people as we can to this organization and hopefully we’ll be able to create that following and that momentum and that environment that we would love to have.”

BrookLin! BrookLin!

Melo's another year older, Noah and Rose aren't the same. They've got KP tho.

Extra motivation.

[DartboardT]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/JJRedick/status/755869471848423425[/tweet]
https://twitter.com/JJRedick/status/755869471848423425

A little surprised that JJ and JLin decided to have a chat. Was this in the works for a while, or is JLin finally joining "the club", so to speak?

What next? Lin writes something for The Players' Tribune?! Considering Kobe's supposedly one of the senior editor whatevers...one step at a time.

[DartboardT]

Nice. He's definitely more suitable to be and better as a starter than 6th man, he understands himself. He is at his best as a facilitating PG for capable scorers.

I assume Atkinson will sit JLin down (if he hasn't already) and tell him he's got the green light to be a first-tier, more-or-less-tied-with-Brook scoring option, even though JLin's own tendencies are more towards the Nash end of the spectrum (passing guard vs. a Kemba/Kyrie-type). And oh yeah, Lin will get Brook some QUALITY feeds in the post.

Get that ball actually moving around with some actual motion on offense and we could see some nice things this season. The impact on Lin's stats, not sure yet. Per-36ing the PPG (works out to about 16) and doubling the assists to 6, that's probably a very safe baseline (he exceeded 6 assists a game at NYK and HOU), though he certainly has the runway to go well beyond 16/6 at ~35+ minutes a game.

[ChokeFasncists]

That's definitely the right attitude. And they have a ton of cap space. But the problem is so does everyone else. And they don't have much talent to encourage fa to join them.

I really like levert I hope he has a big year. But lin is only on a 3 year deal. I'm not sure they can add enough talent to turn things around that quickly with no draft picks

Wherever lin goes, you follow. And you clearly not a fan. I admire your dedication.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIaYeD3SdQY[/youtube]
Another evidence that Lin is not a normal player.