Jeremy Lin To Model His Game After Manu Ginobili

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Originally Posted by Kidd K

Is he really? I don't know the details of that; how marketable is he over there?

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Really? China-connection following Yao footsteps. They already had the whole China-marketing built up, they just needed somebody close to being Chinese. Lin fits the bill.

He should try to be more like Steven Nash considering he has as much athletic ability as Nash. Nash was a very crafty player with a lot of great offensive moves for a guy who had no leaping abilities.

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Originally Posted by Skull-1

My bad. I only watch the Spurs. Can't stand any other team... The preening streetball style annoys me.

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I don't watch much regular season basketball besides Spurs games, either, but I do watch most playoff games. Or most Western Conference playoff games, at least. Eastern Conference games are mostly unwatchable. :lol

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Originally Posted by JohnnyMax

Harden plays same style as Ginobli

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On one end of the court. Manu actually tries on D (even when he whiffs)

Lin is making $5 mil this year but the last year back load will kick in next year at $14.8 million.....Yes $14.8 mill. I would expect
anyone on my team who makes $14 mill to show up hard and finish every night.....he will be very tradeable with that contract.

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Originally Posted by ElNono

Yeah, I'm actually in the NE, so watched that shit firsthand. NY media doing work, tbh

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No shit? My dad's from Mass' tbh. NY media has always irritated me with the overrating. John Starks, Derek Jeter, etc. The Knicks coverage always has most of all. The act like they're royalty, but they historically have barely won a damn thing.

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Originally Posted by ElNono

Really? China-connection following Yao footsteps. They already had the whole China-marketing built up, they just needed somebody close to being Chinese. Lin fits the bill.

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I thought they didn't give a shit since he wasn't born and raised in China? Shows how much I pay attention to Asian culture. :lol

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Originally Posted by Kidd K

No shit? My dad's from Mass' tbh. NY media has always irritated me with the overrating. John Starks, Derek Jeter, etc. The Knicks coverage always has most of all. The act like they're royalty, but they historically have barely won a damn thing.

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I'm in NJ. 40 mins away from the big apple.

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Originally Posted by Kidd K

I thought they didn't give a shit since he wasn't born and raised in China? Shows how much I pay attention to Asian culture. :lol

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Nah, actually the NY media started to milk him for the same reason.

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Originally Posted by Kidd K

Is he really? I don't know the details of that; how marketable is he over there?

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Clutchfans probably only represents about 5% of his actual fanbase, so it is downright scary. Even though Yao's countrymen would irrationally defend him, Lin fans are a type of cult I have never seen before. Let me put it this way, if they had the option to use a Lin HIV needle, they would do so without thinking twice. Additionally, they actually openly call themselves LOFs (Lin only Fans), even though the "xOF" term was meant to be derogatory towards a group of people that only care about "x" player while not giving two shits about the team

Clutch can be a nazi, but he actually wrote a good article because it gets so out of hand on his site. Good read imo:

http://rockets.clutchfans.net/6592/j...om-jeremy-lin/ (read the specific quotes too)

Lin is a little sentive these days ...Lin tweeted out as he cleaned out his locker Guess where he would have his
first meal at when he gets to Palo Alto.....Chandler Parsons Tweeted back "Panda Express". Lin didn't
think is was funny and Tweeted him LOL Chandler Sterling Parsons.......

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/05/jere...onald-sterling

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Originally Posted by Biernutz

Lin is a little sentive these days ...Lin tweeted out as he cleaned out his locker Guess where he would have his
first meal at when he gets to Palo Alto.....Chandler Parsons Tweeted back "Panda Express". Lin didn't
think is was funny and Tweeted him LOL Chandler Sterling Parsons.......

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/05/jere...onald-sterling

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Believe me...I'm not a fan of Lin, but both were just messing around.

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Originally Posted by D-rob fan

If you are trying to make fun of chinese people having difficulty pronouncing Lin by calling him Rin, you are doing it wrong. Chinese people have no difficulty with words beginning with the letter "L", the sound is pretty prevalent in chinese language. "R" is the sound that is rare and most likely pronounced like "w". Think about it, why would his last name be spelled Lin if it didn't sound like that in chinese language? Either way, I find it offensive.

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As do I. It's pretty dumb and childish and with this new breed of message board, these fucknuts know not what they do.

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Originally Posted by sook

Clutchfans probably only represents about 5% of his actual fanbase, so it is downright scary. Even though Yao's countrymen would irrationally defend him, Lin fans are a type of cult I have never seen before. Let me put it this way, if they had the option to use a Lin HIV needle, they would do so without thinking twice. Additionally, they actually openly call themselves LOFs (Lin only Fans), even though the "xOF" term was meant to be derogatory towards a group of people that only care about "x" player while not giving two shits about the team

Clutch can be a nazi, but he actually wrote a good article because it gets so out of hand on his site. Good read imo:

http://rockets.clutchfans.net/6592/j...om-jeremy-lin/ (read the specific quotes too)

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As a fellow Chinese, I can actually explain why. Yao Ming came from the home country of China, and during the time Yao was in the NBA, he was pretty much representing the Asian race of the NBA.

The Jeremy Lin "cult" following is through two streams of fans:

1. The Asian-American fanboys who are avid basketball fans and idolizing Jeremy Lin and looking to Jeremy Lin as a role model to follow.

2. Taiwanese people - mainly through a political separation... Jeremy Lin has stated many times to the media that he was Chinese, but emphasized his Taiwanese ethnicity numerous times. If you are unaware, there's always been a discourse between China and Taiwan, more importantly Taiwan's heritage stemming from China. However, Taiwanese people tend to have a big ego and tout Jeremy Lin as a Taiwanese NBA player rather than Asian. Essentially it's almost using Lin as a political crutch to show China that Taiwan is better.

Yall bout some racist motherfuckers on here.

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Originally Posted by sook

Clutchfans probably only represents about 5% of his actual fanbase, so it is downright scary. Even though Yao's countrymen would irrationally defend him, Lin fans are a type of cult I have never seen before. Let me put it this way, if they had the option to use a Lin HIV needle, they would do so without thinking twice. Additionally, they actually openly call themselves LOFs (Lin only Fans), even though the "xOF" term was meant to be derogatory towards a group of people that only care about "x" player while not giving two shits about the team

Clutch can be a nazi, but he actually wrote a good article because it gets so out of hand on his site. Good read imo:

http://rockets.clutchfans.net/6592/j...om-jeremy-lin/ (read the specific quotes too)

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Kobe-esque cult following back when he was still good? Or like even worse?

Is Lin even left handed? Can he even palm a basketball? Probably not.

Lin might as well have said he'll model his game aftef Jordan and it would have been the same difference :lmao

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Originally Posted by hater

Is Lin even left handed? Can he even palm a basketball? Probably not.

Lin might as well have said he'll model his game aftef Jordan and it would have been the same difference :lmao

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MJ? Kobe says hi

Lin is probably closer to Manu than most guards and maybe even than Harden... Like Manu he gets some great blocks once in a while and well both are turnover machines...

http://youtu.be/h8NllCPbl3s

Doubt you find the same kind of defensive highlights for Harden...

Lin needs to work on his flopping tho.

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Originally Posted by D-rob fan

If you are trying to make fun of chinese people having difficulty pronouncing Lin by calling him Rin, you are doing it wrong. Chinese people have no difficulty with words beginning with the letter "L", the sound is pretty prevalent in chinese language. "R" is the sound that is rare and most likely pronounced like "w". Think about it, why would his last name be spelled Lin if it didn't sound like that in chinese language? Either way, I find it offensive.

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It's probably because in Japanese, the pronunciation for 'r' actually is midway between an r and an l. If you listen to Japanese speakers who have little English experience (like those saying a random English word in an anime or something), you'll hear the merger in words beginning with either letter ("ready" sounding like "leady" or "la-la-la" sounding like "ra-ra-ra").

I guess people just assume that all Asian languages have that same merger, but that is rather silly as various European languages have completely different mergers (like most English speakers not being able to distinguish s with ts. Hell, we even have different merger patterns in the US English depending on region and upbringing.

he has almost perfected turning the ball over.

Lin's ceiling is Manu on a bad night. He turns the ball over a lot but doesn't do other things well enough to cancel it out.

Also

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Originally Posted by DMC

Yall bout some racist motherfuckers on here.

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Here's some more useless information: He was born in Los Angeles, California and is an Evangelical Christian. So, yes..its not lost on me that this American born, Harvard grad pronounces his "R's" just fine. What's surprising is that this message board seems to be infested with uber-sensitive, hipster cupcakes who like to throw around the word "racist".

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Originally Posted by Biernutz

Lin is a little sentive these days ...Lin tweeted out as he cleaned out his locker Guess where he would have his
first meal at when he gets to Palo Alto.....Chandler Parsons Tweeted back "Panda Express". Lin didn't
think is was funny and Tweeted him LOL Chandler Sterling Parsons.......

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/05/jere...onald-sterling

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Just a chink in the armor, tbh....

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2012/2/1...ine-jeremy-lin

People are too hypersensitive about race issues these days.

When I hear a black comedian make fun of the way white people talk, I find it hilarious. It's such an exaggerated version of a stereotype -- that's why it's funny. If you can't laugh at yourself -- that's on you.

Reminds me of the time Asian-Americans got so upset about something Stephen Colbert tweeted. Don't they realize that his entire persona is satire???

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Originally Posted by Chinook

It's probably because in Japanese, the pronunciation for 'r' actually is midway between an r and an l. If you listen to Japanese speakers who have little English experience (like those saying a random English word in an anime or something), you'll hear the merger in words beginning with either letter ("ready" sounding like "leady" or "la-la-la" sounding like "ra-ra-ra").

I guess people just assume that all Asian languages have that same merger, but that is rather silly as various European languages have completely different mergers (like most English speakers not being able to distinguish s with ts. Hell, we even have different merger patterns in the US English depending on region and upbringing.

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Solid take.

I think for the majority of people speaking Chinese (Mandarin), they have no problem distinguishing between ‘r’ and ‘l’. In Cantonese, which I am speaking, there is no ‘r’, only ‘l’.

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Originally Posted by tmtcsc

Right...just like Klay Thompson.

Rin's delusional. You can't learn tough. Ginobili is like our last President George Bush. What you see is what you get with no apologies or second thoughts.

Is Rin ready to take a clutch shot and live with the consequences? Is he ready to make a bone-headed pass with low chances of succeeding but high payoff? Is he ready to go in to traffic and sacrifice his body...and get back up? Ginobili isn't what he once was and his poor play cost us a ring last year but he also won us a ring and contributed to 2 others.

Rin should look to someone else to model his game after. Maybe aim a little lower - Luke Ridenour or Kirk Heinrich? Do enough to get your check and hope everyone forgets the stupid $$ you made because of a lucky streak in NY.

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He already plays like Ginobili. He dribbles into traffic, jumps up when there is nowhere to go and passes to the other team's player. He can get into the lane at will and has copied Harden's Eurostep. He will throw up shots that make you cringe but it's all high risk high reward plays. He has cut down on his turnovers since New York.