MattBonnerExperience
02-15-2012, 06:21 PM
Back in January things where looking BAD, New York was 7-15 and Jeremy Lin was stuck in the D-league after being cut by two teams. But as you all know, then linsanity happend.
The crazy thing is that one man has single handedly has changed the knicks and made them so much better, some without even trying. He's made them better by giving them energy again and playing true D'Antoni basketball.
Jeremy Lin can't keep up this play, let's get that out in the open. Right now he's playing better than Derrick Rose in his MVP season and that won't keep up either by Melo's return, or the scouting report catching up.
This is where the domino effect takes place, Lin has pumped up the intensity and as a result, everybody is playing with the energy you need for Antoni ball. The good thing is that his turnovers , one of his biggest faults are only going to go down as he gets more comfortable with his teammates and the system.
He's also fixed New Yorks backcourt issue. Iman Shumpert is not a point guard, When he started he took as much shoots as Amar'e and Melo, made about 30% of them ,and only had 3 assists a game. He was one of the main reasons they where losing but with Lin taking up most of the linutes (I'm sorry) Shump gets to move back to his native 2 guard spot and continue his being a black hole of everything good on offense.
Lin could never go above 10 points a game for the rest of the year but he's so aggressive and smart he will find a way for the knicks to keep winning, he's not going to be taking game winning shots from the iso but the knicks now have a shot at the title which is a lot more than they could say 3 weeks ago.
Mabye that's why linsanity's getting to everyone, he's a true diamond in the rough.
The crazy thing is that one man has single handedly has changed the knicks and made them so much better, some without even trying. He's made them better by giving them energy again and playing true D'Antoni basketball.
Jeremy Lin can't keep up this play, let's get that out in the open. Right now he's playing better than Derrick Rose in his MVP season and that won't keep up either by Melo's return, or the scouting report catching up.
This is where the domino effect takes place, Lin has pumped up the intensity and as a result, everybody is playing with the energy you need for Antoni ball. The good thing is that his turnovers , one of his biggest faults are only going to go down as he gets more comfortable with his teammates and the system.
He's also fixed New Yorks backcourt issue. Iman Shumpert is not a point guard, When he started he took as much shoots as Amar'e and Melo, made about 30% of them ,and only had 3 assists a game. He was one of the main reasons they where losing but with Lin taking up most of the linutes (I'm sorry) Shump gets to move back to his native 2 guard spot and continue his being a black hole of everything good on offense.
Lin could never go above 10 points a game for the rest of the year but he's so aggressive and smart he will find a way for the knicks to keep winning, he's not going to be taking game winning shots from the iso but the knicks now have a shot at the title which is a lot more than they could say 3 weeks ago.
Mabye that's why linsanity's getting to everyone, he's a true diamond in the rough.