He's done it again. The out-of-nowhere kid Jeremy Lin sunk Toronto 90-87 with a 3 point dagger at the buzzer. As the ball swished through, the crowd exploded as though the home team had won. That's the effect Lin has had on the basketball world. His sojourn north of the border drew over 20,000 to the Air Canada centre, only the second time this season Toronto has sold out a home game. There were numerous Chinese speaking media present to cover his exploits and he didn't disappoint. I can't imagine the buzz he created. Anyone else caught in the Lin-sanity?
When the season is over, then is the time to talk and readjust his salary. For now just enjoy the 6-game breakout streak for Lin. Basically, a Nash and Stoudemire/Lin and Stoudemire under the run and gun system of D'Antoni...where does it put Melo when he comes back? Mike D'Antoni's system is more of a one-two punch than a triple threat! Let's see how the adjustments works and how it can get over Melo's head.
We will see what happens when he goes down. This hype will not last long. Then we will know who his true fans are. He is a very good grounded player.
Of course he won't be able to maintain this level of play throughout the season. Lin will have his ups and downs but people shouldn't be down on him. As long as he carries on at a decent level (say 14 pts, 6 assists per game), I would deem him a success. We all should be glad he brought such joy to the sporting world. Couldn't happen to a better person.
When they figure him out, he's got to be able to play to his left as well. He is very good with his floater right in the middle and to his right most every time. I wish him the best.
Mayweather is just plain vanilla (with all the pun intentions) trying to be a chunky monkey at this point, as good as he is to say the least (of his unbeaten record).
About time! Just happened to catch that game against the Celtics where he got his first extensive playing time and they were still rotating PG's even throughout the game. Even then you kept wondering why amongst them he wasn't the starter . The Jeremy Lin Fan Club - http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mu...my.lin.fan.club/content.1.html?sct=nba_bf4_a5 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Point Guard Sidestory of interest (read it a few days ago): http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...my.lin.wataru.misaka/index.html?sct=nba_wr_a3
well he is america born chinese nothing fancy about he is asian dna this is a great example of albert bandura social learning theory. if i throw madbad to jamaica since he is baby,he can run well too hehe
the more u impressed on this its show the more u disbelief in urself(asian) or look down on asian(non-asian)
This guy is enjoying the perfect storm of being in a personal groove and being an unknown. Agree with Kings that it will take no time at all for the opposition to "study the films" and come up with ways to contain him. The real test is how well this young Harvard grad handles that change. Wishing him all the best.
The Non Sports Fan’s Guide to Jeremy Lin [Image by Jim Cooke, photo via Getty.] Correction for the below: the Nets game was Feb. 4th. Aforementioned Celtics game was Feb. 3rd. . (in which the ëxtensive playing time turns out to be only 6:36 total ) "By Emma Carmichael Feb 15, 2012 LINSANITY! is sweeping the nation, and you're still fairly certain that that's not even a word. That's OK; it's not, really. But every now and then, a figure from the sports world emerges, words are invented (remember Tebowing?), and the athlete in question very quickly becomes impossible to ignore—even for non sports fans. This month, the unavoidable sports guy is Jeremy Lin, a 23-year-old Harvard grad and NBA player. But Jeremy Lin is so much more than that. Oh, please. Who is Jeremy Lin? Jeremy Shu-How Lin is the starting point guard for the New York Knicks. Before that, he was playing the NBA's Development League; before that, he was sitting on the bench with the NBA's Golden State Warriors; before that, he was the starting point guard for the Harvard University basketball team; before that, he played high school basketball in Palo Alto, Calif., where he grew up. That is basically his entire life story. I feel like you're not telling me everything. Oh, right: He's pretty Christian and certain that his skills are god-given. Remember how everyone freaked out over Tim Tebow because he was so religious? Well, no one's doing that with Lin, and nobody can figure out why. Isn't it because there's something else to Jeremy Lin? Hmm... He did get an Economics degree from Harvard. Smart kid. No, I mean, like, something else. Something noticeable. Well, now that you mention it, it is extremely rare for a player from the Ivy League to succeed in the NBA. Geoff Petrie was great in the 1970s, and Bill Bradley is something of a New York legend. They were both Princeton guys. OK, really? C'mon. I mean, I'm talking about the fact that he's Asian. Ha ha, oh right! Jeremy Lin is also an Asian-American. This is notable because very few Asians play professional basketball in the United States! Lin's parents, Gie-Ming and Shirley, are Taiwanese immigrants; Lin and his two brothers are first-generation Americans. The Lins came to the U.S. in the 1970s to study at Purdue. Shirley adored Dr. J, and Gie-Ming taught his sons to shoot the basketball like Larry Bird. Jeremy grew to be 6-foot-3, and he helped his high school team win a state title in California. Cute story. So why is he suddenly the most famous guy in New York? Lin only became a very relevant NBA player about two weeks ago, when he came out of nowhere to score 25 points against the New Jersey Nets on Feb. 2. And by nowhere, I mean the bench: He'd only played in six of the Knicks' 19 games before that fateful day, and usually only for a few minutes. Since then, he has been kicking ass. It's almost superhuman. The NBA's very set in its franchise stars. You rarely see a player dominate games so suddenly and so completely—especially in that player's second year in the league. Lin's rise was especially unexpected: His contract with the Knicks only became guaranteed last week. Before that, his future in the NBA was so uncertain that he hadn't even found an apartment. He'd been crashing on his brother's couch on Manhattan's Lower East Side. (Naturally, everyone found that to be especially humble and endearing.) Lin's played the majority of the last six games for the Knicks, and he's been a member of the starting lineup for the past five. In that stretch, the Knicks are a perfect 6-0, even without two of their best players (Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire) on the floor for most of it. And in that stretch, Lin's averaged 26.8 points and 8.5 assists a game. Those are very, very good numbers for a point guard. Chris Paul of the L.A. Clippers is largely considered the NBA's best starting point, and he's currently averaging 18.5 points and 9 assists a game. Last night's win (let's just call it a Lin) was especially absurd. The Knicks played a pretty mediocre game against the Toronto Raptors, and everyone who's been fawning over Lin for the past two weeks was going on Twitter to say dramatic stuff like, "The dream is over," or "Told you it couldn't last." But then the Knicks held Toronto to just five points in the final five minutes. Lin scored eight of New York's final 14 points, including a game-winning three-pointer with 0.5 seconds to play. But let's be clear: Lin didn't just score a big basket. He toyed with his defender at the top of the key for a while, and then, cold-blooded as ever, pulled up for a three-pointer, and nailed it. The Knicks didn't even need a three-pointer for the win! But Jeremy Lin does not care, because he is Linsane in the membrane. D) Wow! That is LINSANE, even if I don't really know what those numbers mean, or fully understand that new popular phrase yet. So is this guy, like, an All-Star, or whatever? Well, not yet. There is a definite possibility that his numbers will regress a bit, and that the New York Post will find a new target for terrible puns. But he is very good, and both the NBA and the Knicks are currently reveling in their most favorable marketing opportunity since Yao Ming. Why is there so much hype, though? It has to die out at some point. Oh, you know how white people are. We're fairly certain that black people are physically gifted and Asian people are mentally gifted, and it's, like, so wild when those conceptions are shattered by a charming, capable young man who happens to be both! When that kind of thing happens, we're naturally compelled to tweet and write things on Facebook about it. (Yours truly included.) I guess it's only been 13 days since it started. The response to Jeremy probably hasn't gotten too stupid yet, right? Oh, it has. It has also doubled back on itself and eaten its own tail. And it can only get dumber from here. You should just join the bandwagon now and enjoy the Linning while you can, or close your eyes and continue to pretend it doesn't exist." http://gawker.com/5884978/the-non-sports-fans-guide-to-jeremy-lin
By Hannah Beech | February 15, 2012 "Linsanity Strikes China, But Could Chinese Basketball Ever Produce a Jeremy Lin? Just type the letters L and I on Baidu, and China’s top search engine sends out an automatic prompt: do you mean Lin Shuhao, the Taiwanese-American basketball breakout phenom whose English name is Jeremy Lin? (The California native prefers to render his given name as Shu-How.) On Wednesday morning Beijing time, after Lin led the New York Knicks to victory with a game-winning three-pointer and a total of 27 points and 11 assists, the 23-year-old was the hottest topic on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter-like microblog service.Unlike in the U.S., where Lin seemed to come out of nowhere, Chinese fans had been tracking the NBA’s fourth Asian-American player since he was signed last season by the Golden State Warriors after graduating from Harvard. “When he was drafted by the N.B.A., he caught my attention for two things,” says Yang Yuanqing, a Beijing-based lawyer. “He is Asian and he graduated from Harvard. Those are the two things that run against stereotype.” (The fact that Lin is also a fervent evangelical Christian has resonated in the U.S., where sports fans are still digesting the legacy of the N.F.L.’s Tim Tebow, but it has been rarely discussed in China, where persecution of Christians who do not worship at officially run churches remains common.) Lin fever in mainland China raises an interesting question. Could China, an Olympic powerhouse and homeland of Yao Ming, produce such a gifted, confident point guard? The answer for now is, most likely, no. In the U.S., Lin was underrated by pro and college scouts because he is Asian-American. Chinese fans are indignant about a stereotyping in the States that assumes Americans of Chinese descent can be good engineers or software designers, but not brash NBA stars. The criticism is absolutely fair. But in China, Lin may not have been picked for stardom either. Firstly, at a mere 6’3”—relatively short by basketball standards—Lin might not have registered with Chinese basketball scouts, who in their quest for suitable kids to funnel into the state sports system are obsessed with height over any individual passion for hoops. That’s why the Chinese basketball league has had a history of producing strong centers—big men like 7’6” Yao or 6’11” Mengke Bateer, the ethnic Mongolian who played briefly in the NBA—but does poorly when it comes to developing point guards like Lin. The problem is compounded by the Chinese sports system’s focus on endless drills and discipline over the kind of creative play needed for successful point guards. China dominates in formal sporting competitions like the Olympics. Even with Yao’s retirement, the NBA remains popular here, especially with Lin’s epic performances. But pick-up artists on Chinese courts have almost no chance of making it to the Chinese basketball league because they aren’t part of the official system. Top-flight athletic skill is considered something to be honed by the state, through government-run sports schools. Compare that to the public courts of the U.S., which nurture future NBA stars, even among broken backboards and cracked concrete. Or India, where any dusty stretch can serve as a cricket pitch for little boys dreaming of Tendulkar. Or Brazil, where kids in the favelas hone their football skills with nary a government grant in sight. Then they grow up to become a Pelé or a Ronaldinho. To their credit, China’s sports planning czars understand the problem and have been pushing to extend sports beyond an elite stratum of international-class athletes. You do see a lot of people exercising outdoors in China, whether it’s a morning tai-chi session in a park or pensioners availing themselves of street-corner training equipment provided by municipal governments. But team sports for fun among normal Chinese kids? It’s just not a tradition yet. (Pick-up hoops games in the big Chinese cities tend to be among people in their 20s.) In the meantime, the systemic failures of China’s sports machine are symbolized by the country’s Olympic basketball team, which consistently fails to meet the expectations of Chinese fans. Only one starter on China’s national hoops squad, it should be noted, is below 6’7”. Jeremy Lin? Even if his parents weren’t from Taiwan, China’s cross-strait rival, he wouldn’t measure up. —with reporting by Jessie Jiang/Beijing" http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/20...ce-a-jeremy-lin/?sct=nba_t11_a5#ixzz1mTrJIzFZ edit: I see he already got 20 minutes against the Rockets prior (to the Celts game) so we can blame the dutch commentator for that bit of misinformation or he was talking about the whole week .
Hmmm. I am always surprised when anyone makes a statement like this! This hype may or may not last long but that statement is your opinion and it should be prefixed with "In my opinion...."! It is my opinion that this hype WILL last long!
Yao Ming is ChinaBC and Lin is ABC, in my opinion, this hype will last a while in US. Lin is the first ABC in NBA,
Even the president of the United States and the NBA commissioner are "all-Lin." Commissioner David Stern called New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin's meteoric rise a "phenomenon," according to USA Today.
