On February 21 2012 03:07 Dizmaul wrote: Wow I always thought first gen meant first born in that country. Had no idea people called that 2nd. Also isn't your "generation" when you where born. So to me it makes more sense that 1st gen has to be born in that country.
That's not how the term is used widely by Asian Americans. I believe studies documenting immigrants don't use it that way, either. The first generation are always the people that moved.
we have not seen Knicks play without Lin for more than 3minutes each game in the past week. Most of Lin's turnover are live ball turnovers, which always leads to fast break points from the other team, mostly due to his handle through traffic being not so strong, and he likes to Jump to fake a shot and draw in the defense before he pass the ball off. Sometimes it works out and sometimes he has nowhere to go in mid air. I believe i read somewhere an article analyzed all Lin's turnovers and Assists, his turnovers lead to 60something points for opponent team in the past 2 weeks, and 50 or so of those points are fast break points. that prevented the Knicks from blowing out bad teams. It will only get better as the team gets more chemistry, Lin also needs dribble that ball lower in traffic + stop jump passing under basket.
On February 21 2012 03:59 m1rk3 wrote: too many turnovers in such a short period of time
That's pretty much what happens to even the best point guards when the rest of your offense is a bunch of useless statues. When you're forced to drive to the lane to open up anything for a stagnant offense it's pretty easy for teams to send 4 pairs of hands swatting at the ball.
That said, his handle on the ball needs to improve, but it's not like it's bad.
And all of that aside, definitely not too many turnovers. Too many turnovers would be like 20. That he just walked into the offense and picked up this fast this successfully with practically no experience is baffling.
I'm loving this story. It's exciting. The NBA needed something like this. We've had a lot of great stories out of the NFL and MLB lately, but not much in the NBA. His turnover rate will go down soon enough. He's still learning that when the defense crashes, you can't commit too deep or you'll turn it over. Hopefully he'll watch steve nash or some other amazing assist men to see how they do it.
I think Lin's aggressiveness driving to the net that's causing so many turnovers. Some of the things wrong with that is that the defense knows that he always drives to his right. Another is that he overly commits. He doesn't bob and weave around traffic like CP3 does. Once Lin is intent on going to the net he's going straight in and he either finishes or he dishes it out. It's just a matter of making better reads-something that he really has to work on.
well it's not just him getting gang up inside, sometimes he's being careless too, like when he turned his back toward the defender, he keeps dribbling the ball with the regular height as a result black dudes with long arms can reach over him and slap that ball away without him seeing the hand moving from behind him. He needed to do low dribble and keep his movement.
Also, his teammates looks for him to pass the ball to, even when he hand the ball off to someone, they will look for him to set up the pick and roll almost every position. Few exceptions I saw was from yesterday's game with JR Smith, that guy didn't look for Lin in few positions where he took his guy 1vs1.
It's funny the way Knicks runs the offense, Lin just run from one pick and roll to the next till something open up, get the shot up and crash the board. There were positions where the Marvs defended every single pick and roll perfectly, and Lin had to jack up 3pters over 7footers who switched during the pick and roll at the last second. I think what they should do is to have Lin do the pick and roll thing and if the other team defended it well, then drop the ball to one of their 1vs1 guys for isolation, they have 3 now, shouldn't be hard!
On February 21 2012 05:10 udgnim wrote: Lin eating with friends 3 days before he gets his chance versus the Nets
not just any friends! celebrities from Taiwan!
Can you tell us who they are? I thought the woman was too attractive to be just some random person. And who's the guy behind the camera? Seems like Chandler and Anthony knows him...maybe another baller?
On February 21 2012 03:07 Dizmaul wrote: Wow I always thought first gen meant first born in that country. Had no idea people called that 2nd. Also isn't your "generation" when you where born. So to me it makes more sense that 1st gen has to be born in that country.
That's not how the term is used widely by Asian Americans. I believe studies documenting immigrants don't use it that way, either. The first generation are always the people that moved.
I'm Asian American, 1st gen, means 1st generation born.
On February 21 2012 03:07 Dizmaul wrote: Wow I always thought first gen meant first born in that country. Had no idea people called that 2nd. Also isn't your "generation" when you where born. So to me it makes more sense that 1st gen has to be born in that country.
That's not how the term is used widely by Asian Americans. I believe studies documenting immigrants don't use it that way, either. The first generation are always the people that moved.
I'm Asian American, 1st gen, means 1st generation born.
lol, there really isn't any use in discussing this topic anymore since the use of first generation can be used in either way.