Comments on: Warriors front office takes heat because Jeremy Lin got away

By: africanballer

africanballer — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:24:19 +0000

What is happening to Jeremy Lin is fate. No one should be blamed for whatever reason. The boy is just a humble asian guy walking through his destiny and it’s fun to watch him.

By: anhdazman

anhdazman — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:17:27 +0000

As well as the blame should be placed on their management, scouting team, coaches prior and Mark Jackson. You need to do your homework. You had Lin on your team for the whole year. You should have seen his talent, his work ethic, and projection. This is the NBA, you can’t make this kind of mistake on players and have success running your organization. Mark Jackson took the Warriors job, he should have done a much better job of learning his roster and knowing what he had. Don’t tell me, oh I never saw him play before. You took the head coach position, do your job.

By: kappy32

kappy32 — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:16:37 +0000

I’m happy for Lin, but why do we need this kind of story in this economy? The two do not correlate with one another. This guy is from Harvard; since when do we view Harvard Grads as “underdogs”? Maybe in sports there aren’t many Harvard Grads who make it, but if basketball didn’t work out for him, I’m sure he would have a $250k/year job somewhere because of his Harvard degree.

By: anhdazman

anhdazman — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:42:32 +0000

That’s not the point, the point is Warriors management made another bone headed player decision and lost a good player for absolutely nothing.

By: cmbailey7384

cmbailey7384 — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:24:40 +0000

There’s a HUGE Asian community in the Bay Area too, GS could have racked up huge amounts of money of the merchandising alone, even with Steph and Monta, just having this kid coming off the bench for 20 minutes a game would have done enough to motivate the Asian community to come out and support the team!

By: glink123

glink123 — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:17:44 +0000

A system PG?? So then what does that say about the slew of guards the Knicks trotted out at PG this season prior to Lin? If its such a “system”, why did everyone else totally s u c k?

By: idontevenwannaknow

idontevenwannaknow — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:29:04 +0000

Agreed kinggw,

the guy has talent, but, truth is, almost any pg you plug into D’antoni’s system produces well. I will still reserve judgement until after a few weeks playing alongside ‘Melo. If he (Lin) can succeed, while also giving ‘melo all those shots that ‘melo needs, I will refrain from having any more skepticism regarding Lin.

By: kinggw

kinggw — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:21:46 +0000

Because he is a product of D’Antoni’s system. Go back and look at Nate Robinson’s numbers in his first year with D’Antoni. They aren’t far off from Lin’s. Lin is a great story, but I think its pretty clear he is a system pg. Its the same reason why Ray Felton went from averaging 17/9 with the Knicks to averaging 12/7 with the Nuggets and 10/7 with the Blazers.

By: dolphins4

dolphins4 — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:44:54 +0000

That is why Golden State will never win an NBA championship.

By: goforthanddie

goforthanddie — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:31:25 +0000

Can’t pick on GS, every team in the league screwed this one up. Time to start scouting the Ivy League maybe?

By: cadub49er

cadub49er — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:24:34 +0000

Nice article, Kurt. What is also helping Lin is NY has the guys who can complement on the pick and roll.
I wonder if Curry and Ellis are putting in the same time off the court as Lin does.

By: glink123

glink123 — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:18:40 +0000

So apparently, because they already have Curry, they don’t need a $600k backup PG who can get them 28 ppg and 8 asst.

By: losangelasbasketball

losangelasbasketball — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:09:39 +0000

How did he not at least make 2nd string for gs or la?

By: AlohaMrHand

AlohaMrHand — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:45:30 +0000

Step CuRry is also hurt once again and has a history of ankle trouble.

By: steelerswin6

steelerswin6 — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:44:01 +0000

Way too soon to conclude anything

By: drunkenjunk

drunkenjunk — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:28:11 +0000

yup, and where were the minutes gonna come from in the backcourt? If he was still there he would be behind Curry, Ellis, Thompson, and Robinson for any play. I’m happy for Lin but i’ll be happy for all this to go away.

By: raidmagic

raidmagic — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:18:22 +0000

Steph Curry is a better player so GS fans shouldn’t feel too bad for themselves about thier starting point guard situation.

By: bearsstillsuck

bearsstillsuck — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:51:35 +0000

Yes, thank you for reminding us that’ll well never get his opportunity, and well never make as much money as he will. Stories like this just make me feel so warm and fuzzy inside. But I am happy for him and hope he keeps it up.