Should we go after Eremy Lin?

i have to say that article is complete horseshit.

i went to jeremy lin’s first game minutes last year. the guy sucked. there were low expectations for him because uh… he might have been one of the worst guards in the nba while with goldenstate.

He’s turned it around now, but I really don’t agree with that article. This time last year warrior fans were talking about how the guaranteed contract he got to sell tickets, was hurting the warriors because the warriors didnt have anyone to cut becuase they had lin and charlie bell on guaranteed deals and both of them were god awful when curry went down with this ankle issues.

Lin was so bad, that they turned to reggie williams playing point guard. I watched a TON of warrior games and lin looked completely overmatched in the nba last year. his first minutes were actually against our very own eric bledsoe. probably 3rd game of the year and at that point you were thinking “how the hell is that guy even in the league” compared to bledsoe. he could barely get the ball past half court while the entire asian population of oracle arena cheered him just because he was asian and the warriors management signed him just to sell tickets ( it was asian american heritage night too, and people KNEW he wouldnt get down to the d-league untli after that because that was half of why they signed him)

Now I don’t know what it is now, and its nice to see he’s having some success and at least prooving he belongs in the nba. but call a spade a spade. people had low expectations of him because uh in his last nba stint he sucked a fat one. its not like he’d never played in the league before.

And I have a different point about these asian leagues so let me put this out there. I’m a chinese american. In the bay area they have a league called “dream league” which is mostly asian (i think its the one Erik O is talking about).

I’ve never played in it, because I don’t like the idea of these racial leagues. While I lived up there though I played at the oakland magic johnson 24. there are a lot of black people in oakland. I was a semi regular in oakland and this was an extremely tough place to play pickup sometimes physically, but whatever. So sometimes you’d get groups of these asian league guys come in and get their asses kicked or they thought they were hot shit and just started chucking and missing against much better athletes. Now the reason black guys in oakland don’t pick your ass is because you never play on their teams and they dont know you. you make up leagues for your own race and then the few times you come out you get your ass handed to you since you think you are kobe. Its the same in socal with all the japanese american leagues. if you win you stay thats all. if you dont even try to play there and play in your own league well you are a stranger. you wont get picked no one knows you.

China wins tons of Gold Medals every Olympics…the whole “Asian guys are unathletic” stereotypes don’t hold water. You can perhaps apply that to Asian Americans, but Michelle Kwan broke that long ago. Since this is Bball, American Whites, Euros, Asians will always face a few stereotypes in the US. That’s the just way it goes. It comes with the territory.

Yao Ming and Wang Zhi Zhi already showed Asians can be viable in the NBA. Lin’s a guard and Asian-American, so that’s the next step.

If there are Low Expectations, you have to take advantage of them. Asian-Americans have HIGHER expectations than everyone else. The author is nonsense.

but I think if both guys wide open and they shoot 100 each, i would take novak up against anyone

Novak has amazing form and shoots and makes em like lay ups

Made a clutch one again tonight to tie the game for NY.