Give me a break, this is definitely one of the craziest sports stories I've ever seen, can't wait to see how this develops.
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UndoneJin
United States438 Posts
Give me a break, this is definitely one of the craziest sports stories I've ever seen, can't wait to see how this develops. | ||
Contagious
United States1319 Posts
On February 15 2012 13:10 Jibba wrote: The iso was fine. Taking a three at the end of a tied game when your strength is driving to the basket isn't fine. Taking a three when you're a 17% 3pt shooter at the end of a tied game isn't fine. It's awesome, but it's the kind of thing that makes Larry Brown roll over in his grave. He doesn't need to get past him. He just needs some momentum and a foul. I think he'll learn to do it next time it comes up. Well, if you look at the end of the game, the play was actually set up for him to take the final shot. I'm sure they would have loved to go in and get an easy drive at with 5 seconds left, but you could see that Jose Calderon was playing relaxed defense, because he didn't want to give up an easy lay up. Seeing this Lin got a great shot off and was able to capitalize. Even if the shot was missed, I would say the play call was the correct call, because you have to ride the guy's confidence while he has it. | ||
Klogon
MURICA15980 Posts
On February 15 2012 13:10 Jibba wrote: The iso was fine. Taking a three at the end of a tied game when your strength is driving to the basket isn't fine. Taking a three when you're a 17% 3pt shooter at the end of a tied game isn't fine. It's awesome, but it's the kind of thing that makes Larry Brown roll over in his grave. He doesn't need to get past him. He just needs some momentum and a foul. I think he'll learn to do it next time it comes up. There is no arguing with that. But in my opinion, it makes it even better. It's just all around PURE MADNESS. | ||
Disregard
China10252 Posts
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Klogon
MURICA15980 Posts
On February 15 2012 13:22 UndoneJin wrote: Forget whether it was a good shot or not, this guy is legit and fun to watch. And he just won his team the game. And that's the 6th game in a row. Give me a break, this is definitely one of the craziest sports stories I've ever seen, can't wait to see how this develops. You need to rename to UndoneLin. | ||
sung_moon
United States10110 Posts
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Disregard
China10252 Posts
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zoLo
United States5896 Posts
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ig0tfish
United States345 Posts
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MilesTeg
France1271 Posts
On February 15 2012 13:02 buickskylark wrote: Can you guess who is in this picture? And check out the floor. Yes I can, do you know that the Chinese photographer was the one who told them to do this though? | ||
Zlasher
United States9129 Posts
Also that picture was the spanish national team, pau and marc gasol are in there, among other players, before the 08 olympics. There was a ton of shit involved about that lol On February 15 2012 13:09 vasculaR wrote: well he wasn't fantastic in FG (9-20 is solid but not stellar) but I bet he was still fired up from the previous 3 point play. Good clutch shot. How is 45% from a guard position not stellar lol? Theres nothing wrong with that at all... | ||
Jibba
United States22883 Posts
Amare on the other hand... | ||
aztrorisk
United States896 Posts
On February 15 2012 12:08 Zona wrote: Would the protagonist still remain a Lin is an Asian AMERICAN so I am sure that Hollywood would be able to find a loophole to emphasize the American part. | ||
drew-chan
Malaysia1517 Posts
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sung_moon
United States10110 Posts
On February 15 2012 13:55 Jibba wrote: Yeah, his shooting was good except a few forced shots but everyone does that. Amare on the other hand... was too busy studying to watch the game, but honestly i'd cut amare some slack, just coming back from an injury edit: oh damn im dumb. didn't know he was out cuz know his brother died, thought his back was acting up or something | ||
Zona
40426 Posts
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drew-chan
Malaysia1517 Posts
On February 15 2012 14:03 sung_moon wrote: was too busy studying to watch the game, but honestly i'd cut amare some slack, just coming back from an injury Im pretty sure he was out due to his brother's passing but yeah, cut the man some slack. | ||
Klogon
MURICA15980 Posts
On February 15 2012 14:03 sung_moon wrote: was too busy studying to watch the game, but honestly i'd cut amare some slack, just coming back from an injury Or the whole brother dying thing. | ||
Engore
United States1916 Posts
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Mithhaike
Singapore2759 Posts
On February 15 2012 13:23 Contagious wrote: Well, if you look at the end of the game, the play was actually set up for him to take the final shot. I'm sure they would have loved to go in and get an easy drive at with 5 seconds left, but you could see that Jose Calderon was playing relaxed defense, because he didn't want to give up an easy lay up. Seeing this Lin got a great shot off and was able to capitalize. Even if the shot was missed, I would say the play call was the correct call, because you have to ride the guy's confidence while he has it. Cant deny with what you said Jibba, but from what im seeing, they KNOW Lin prefers going right, calderon was backing off the 3 point line because he knew chances are, a drive to the right was the safer play. Calderon was also trying to push lin to the left. In that situation, getting a shot off is way better than driving up to the rim when the other team's expecting it. after all, he's not Kobe who's pretty much impossible to stop without a double/triple team. His decision to go for a 3pointer pretty nailed the game, he obviously had the feel & confidence that he would be able to get it in. And he did! the ending was amazing! a 3 point play with a layup evening out the score, and getting the final basket off at less than 1sec, and its a 3-pointer?! that dude has balls of steel. Lesser men would have chosen the safer route of doing the more confident play of driving up trying to get a foul. But Lin basically closed the game out with that 3pointer, everyone knew it. Awesome job Lin! However he's definitely getting exposed, teams are forcing him to go left all the time, and he's getting double teamed denying him the space to get shots off. This game was a classic example of my reasoning a few posts back. Lin has major weakness going to the left, and his turn over rate is way high. definitely needs improving :D | ||
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