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Post by elevationvb on Feb 15, 2012 15:46:34 GMT -5
longterm, Lin's biggest obstacle is journalists, fans and the general public building up their heroes and then tearing them down when a flaw / mistake happens.
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 15, 2012 15:51:27 GMT -5
longterm, Lin's biggest obstacle is journalists, fans and the general public building up their heroes and then tearing them down when a flaw / mistake happens. +1
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Post by elevationvb on Feb 15, 2012 15:57:47 GMT -5
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Post by elevationvb on Feb 15, 2012 16:08:09 GMT -5
His parents are 5' 6". Crazy. The Wikipedia report is very good. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_LinKobe's quote is right on imo. "Players playing that well don't usually come out of nowhere. It seems like they come out of nowhere, but if you can go back and take a look, his skill level was probably there from the beginning. It probably just went unnoticed." —Kobe Bryant, after Lin scored 38 points on February 10, 2012.
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Post by jgrout on Feb 15, 2012 18:12:09 GMT -5
[Pardon me for focusing on it being too soon to be insane about any player at Lin's current stage... regardless of race or creed or ethnicity... rather than on how Lin's race and ethnicity might or might not be involved in how he is received so far.]
How many people are red hot for a brief period in the NBA and then fade away once they regress to their own mean (all players have a performance mean) and opponents figure out how best to defend them? Quite a few... and that can include people who are very skilled, too. In the long run, being the wrong height or having not enough foot speed or enough quickness... or not having enough game on one side to keep opponents from cheating toward the other side... can be deadly in the NBA even if you are absolutely first rate otherwise.
Every so often, someone like Sammy Sosa will plug a hole in their game (in his case, in his swing and pitch selection) and make a significant improvement to their mean performance (SS almost certainly used PEDs, but the breakout season I'm talking about was years before that, and that came after years of patient coaching that tried to wean him off swinging at pitcher's pitches).
Baseball Prospectus and its offspring, Basketball Prospectus, call a season that reflects such a development a "breakout" season and try to predict how likely such a development is for each player by comparing their advanced statistics with those of earlier professional players. At this point, it is too soon to tell whether Lin is having a "breakout" season. He certainly could be, and he's doing well enough to keep playing even if he does regress somewhat.
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Post by elevationvb on Feb 16, 2012 11:56:56 GMT -5
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Post by greenpier on Feb 16, 2012 12:30:45 GMT -5
[ How many people are red hot for a brief period in the NBA and then fade away once they regress to their own mean (all players have a performance mean) and opponents figure out how best to defend them? Quite a few................ Lin has played himself into a contract of around for 5 million a year/4 years if New York wants to keep him. He will be a restricted free agent and someone will offer him this type of deal in the off season.
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Post by rockhopper on Feb 17, 2012 12:00:04 GMT -5
Did Cal recruiters really call him "Ron Jeremy" on a visit? Did that really happen?
Oh Lord that's funny.
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Post by BearClause on Feb 17, 2012 18:56:07 GMT -5
Did Cal recruiters really call him "Ron Jeremy" on a visit? Did that really happen? Oh Lord that's funny. No - they called him Ron. It might have just been one of the staffers showing him around, who had a list of names and whiffed on who was who. Of course there is that subtle connection. Maybe a Freudien slip? Again - if he came to Cal it would have been as a walk-on. He would have sat on the bench (probably next to Thomas Fang) behind three All Pac-10 players.
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Post by coachtrex on Feb 18, 2012 23:28:47 GMT -5
He's no Rubio!!
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Post by elevationvb on Feb 19, 2012 13:00:40 GMT -5
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Post by elevationvb on Feb 23, 2012 14:41:29 GMT -5
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