Last but not least, we’ve seen some minor, but worrying comments from Marks and Atkinson. The two seem to have a bit of a longer-term vision for the team, claiming that they are going to build a solid future for it, but according to some fans, this may hold some negative implications for the current season.
Is it possible that the team’s leaders are going to compromise this season in order to have a more successful next one? This will definitely raise some eyebrows among their fans, and at the same time it will affect the career of Jeremy Lin in a pretty bad way.
While the player will recover eventually, we’re not sure if we can say the same for the Nets themselves. Having a good long-term vision for the team is important of course, but there are plenty of examples in the history of sports where a team ended up more or less destroyed by an attempt to sacrifice its current performance in the name of its future survival.
All in all, Jeremy Lin has a lot of attention focused on himself right now, but the player still makes a good impression on his fans. Part of that seems to be due to his charm and the pleasant attitude he usually has to those around him, so it’s not actually so surprising that Lin has reached the state of his career he’s in now.