His line of While it has only been nine games, a sample size too small to make any concrete judgements, questions have already started to arise. Will Lin still maintain his status as a cultural icon if he settles into a role as an average NBA point guard? While the Houston Rockets were a much better team in than they are in , Rockets executives must have been expecting better attendance not only due to the acquisition of Jeremy Lin but James Harden as well.
Will fans be able to accept Lin as a ordinary NBA point guard, or will they always hold him to the lofty expectations he set for himself with his spectacular performance last season?
Enjoy our content? He scored 27 points and tallied 11 assists in the game. A few games later, he had 28 points and 14 assists in another win against the Dallas Mavericks. Jeremy Lin tore his meniscus in April of , putting an end to Linsanity for good. He sat out the rest of the season and was cut by the Knicks afterward.
Since then, Lin played seven more NBA seasons with six different franchises. Lin started in Houston with the Rockets, where he started all 82 games and averaged A year later, he moved to more of a bench role and his minutes diminished. He did, however, record the best shooting numbers of his career so far in for the Rockets.
Lin signed with the Lakers in the offseason and went on to shoot a career-high Because of a quirky NBPA ruling the Knicks were allowed to keep their early Bird rights on Lin, meaning they'd be able to match any free-agent offer sheet he signed with another team. In typical Rockets fashion, the signing was deviously clever. The deal was backloaded, which would have forced the Knicks to pay a hefty tax bill in the contract's final year. Suddenly, New York was weighing its options after shouting from the mountaintop that it would match any offer for its world-famous point guard.
Anthony chimed in with his two cents , calling the offer sheet "ridiculous. Lin didn't wow anyone with his preseason play in Houston, but then again, it's hard to do anything significant in games that don't matter. Still, perhaps Rockets fans were hoping for more than 28 percent from the field in six exhibition games. October statistics don't typically matter, but for a player with such high expectations, it would have been nice if Lin had done something to prove that his game cameo in New York was for real.
The Rockets traded for James Harden just days before the season began, bringing on a ball-dominant star though nobody was sure of it at the time that would essentially relegate Lin to a supporting role. It's hard to know if anyone in the Rockets organization was ever really serious about handing Lin the keys to the offense for a full season, but with Harden on board, it became clear immediately that Lin was going to take a back seat.
You'll note we've skipped over a full six weeks to get to one of Lin's best games of the season. Don't worry, we didn't miss anything important during that time. In those 19 games, Lin never once eclipsed the point mark and registered double-digit assists just three times. But on Dec. Naturally, he did it with Harden out of the lineup, proving once again that Lin simply isn't as useful unless he's the team's No.
Houston lost the game, but Lin was terrific. He attacked aggressively, working his way to the foul line a dozen times and generally putting pressure on the Spurs defense all night long. Unfortunately, Lin's performance in this particular game was the exception, not the rule, during his first year with the Rockets. Lin scored 22 points, handed out 9 assists and snagged four rebounds in a win over the Knicks in his first return to Madison Square Garden. It had to have been satisfying for Lin to stick it to the team that decided it no longer had any use for him.
The Rockets won the first four games of their calendar year, but then lost seven in a row. Lin hit just He finished the game against the Lakers with a career-high 38 points and brought yet another victory to the Knicks. It was clear now to people that Lin had serious skills, and would no longer be underrated.
Another amazing game from Lin game as the Knicks went up against the Raptors. With the game tied, Lin had the ball with just over ten seconds remaining. Lin hung onto the ball for as long as he dared and released a three-point effort with no time remaining for the Raptors to come back. The hot went straight in, and Lin was immediately surrounded by his teammates after scoring the game-winning shot.
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