Realistically, the addition of Jeremy Lin does not turn the Brooklyn Nets into a playoff contender in the Eastern Conference but it has enabled the Nets to start putting the right pieces together following inappropriate trades and player signings during the past years. The team was not doing well in the NBA draft too.
Jeremy Lin admits that he is not coming to the Nets as its next star player because he still thinks, like most critics and fans do, that the team’s main man is still big man Brook Lopez.
The 27-year-old Harvard graduate says that whatever the Nets lack in talent, they are to make up for it in teamwork and that he hopes to compliment the game of Brook Lopez to nurture their pick and roll play the way that John Stockton and Karl Malone had perfected it when they were still playing with the Utah Jazz.
Head coach Kenny Atkinson, who will be calling the shots from the Nets bench for the first time, is one of the reasons why Jeremy Lin was lured by the Nets from a spectacular season with the Charlotte Hornets.
Atkinson and Lin first worked together when they were still both with the New York Knicks and the new Nets head coach believes that the special bond between him and Lin can reap dividends for the team in the long run.