Lin hopes to make a rebound from his below expectations performance during the past NBA season while playing for the Los Angeles Lakers. He averaged a respectable 11.2 points and 4.6 assists in 74 games last season, but it was certainly below par vis-à-vis his $8.5 million per year contract.
In signing Jeremy Lin for the next two NBA seasons, the Charlotte Hornets is not actually making him as the team’s savior to lead them to the NBA championship.
While he is a good player, he is not a great one and certainly does not have the superstar talent to be consistent in leading his team to victory night in and night out.
Jeremy Lin has become very popular worldwide because of Linsanity and part of the reasons why teams have gotten his services is also to help them out in marketing.
But the Charlotte Hornets will reportedly not resort to theatrics when they acquired Jeremy Lin from the free agency. The team might be producing and selling more Jeremy Lin jerseys beginning next season but what the team needs from him is to score and also get the ball to other second-unit guys who can score as well.
Jeremy Lin is a nice guy and an “below-average-NBA player.” Believe $4.2mil for his services for 2 years is generous when you factor his turnover-assist numbers. Lin is a feel good story, a story of persevering and obtaining an opportunity. All of us love these feel good stories, but at the end of the day…. Charlotte will discover, like Houston and Los Angeles… that nice guy’s turn the ball over at the most inopportune times in the NBA.
He is a below average player if you don’t use him right… He needs to be the number 1 option with PnR up the wazzu
which no teams will give him that option…
In Houston they gave him that option his first 2 games… And when harden went down for a few games 1 year..
Other than that I saw it in his 17 games in NY and that’s it
It is a cheap deal for Hornets who has nothing to lose. However, it is a big risk and an impatient move for Lin. If he cannot produce again regardless of any reason, his NBA career will be finished. Lin should have waited a little bit longer for other strong teams instead of choosing a weak one to join. Lin should have signed for one year with Hornets and the second year should be optional for him to decide.
Jeremy has proved lots of people wrong. After being coached by old cats like McHale and Byron Scott, he is coming to Charlotte with the coach upholding playing styles like the Warriors, the Mike Antonio’s understanding of how the game should be played.
There are so many people who couldn’t wait to tell one another Jeremy is not a star. On the contrary, statistics have been telling us that he has been steadily improving every year even with the worst adversity; Jeremy Lin has been wasted by his head coach.
The journey to Charlotte will revive people’s memory that when Lin is used in the right way. Let the people who are so busy comforting one another that fact is not true, what they saw couldn’t happen again. They have been wrong about Jeremy Lin because they don’t watch games, they just cut and paste comments from the sports writers who are doing exactly what they are doing.
The fact is Jeremy has been improving to be an all around player. His weaknesses are all disappeared but yet people still believe in the past and outdated scouting report. Even with the weaknesses in the past, Linsanity broke loose and gave unbelievable performance when he was used properly. Now Lin even when not used properly is a solid player. When he is used at his strength, he will be a star. That is why Lin haters so busy spreading out the words that Lin couldn’t be a star. They have all been proved wrong before Linsanity. Now they will be proved wrong again.
Lin will be a solid contributor. Averaging 15 pts, 5 assists.
limited time on court proportion to his limited contribution,simple math.
Lin has made considerable money with one ridiculous contract. He looks comfortable coming off the bench, and in free agency teams were not running to LA to acquire him. Appreciate his fan base but have seen blind adoration on his skills and ability. Not hate just an obvious evaluation of his talent in a skilled NBA