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冰箱花了很大篇幅談小林，要求有很多，不是什麽壞事。說小林home run hitter那一段，我覺得他也認識到小林是一個很特別的球員，沒有貶義，理念上，最後可能小林和他會得到一個平衡。New York Daily News 記者無良，串改別人的話。
McHale said he has seen signs of improvement in a variety of areas but did not hesitate to produce a list of ways in which he believes Lin needs to grow.
“Decision making, moving the ball, playing with the ball, cutting without the ball, playing without the ball,” McHale said. “He’s got a lot of room to grow. Defensively, just being disciplined. There’s a lot of stuff. But you know what? They are all the stuff I would tell you all the young guys are doing. There’s no difference. He’s a young guy.
“He’s very typical of a young player. All the things you would think (would happen) are happening.”
If last February was enough to assure Lin a place in the NBA and pop culture and this February inevitably brings evaluations of him compared to that standard, the measure of his success will lie in the seasons to come, when he becomes whatever he will be as an NBA veteran.
“He’s had some really good games, and he’s had some tough games,” Denver Nuggets coach George Karl said. “I think he is in that process of finding consistency and finding a game that fits his team.
“I remember Steve Nash when he was a young player. People didn’t think he could play. People thought he was a bench player. And he’s going to be a Hall of Fame point guard and one of my favorites ever. You look at Chauncey Billups’ early career and how he bounced around, and he’ll be a Hall of Famer. Jeremy Lin is a talented kid. If he can find the talent and the consistency, I can see him having a great career.”
Back in the Bay Area, however, it is easy to see Lin for how far he has already come since he was unable to earn a scholarship offer from Stanford, the university across the street from his high school, or to stick with the hometown Warriors amid suggestions they had signed him only to cash in on his popularity within the community.
The Warriors released Lin to make room for an offer sheet given to DeAndre Jordan, then joined the Rockets in taking heat for letting Lin go when he took off in New York. However, Rockets general manager Daryl Morey said the Warriors deserve credit for landing Lin in the first place.
“We talked about potentially doing a deal,” Morey said of signing Lin when he went undrafted out of Harvard. “Golden State outbid us — a larger guarantee. They beat every team in the league to get him and did a great job signing him. I still think to this day they deserve the most credit of quote-unquote ‘finding’ Jeremy Lin. They were the highest on him early.”
Lin had grabbed attention by outplaying John Wall in a Las Vegas Summer League game with the Mavericks. When he joined the Warriors, he was still very much a project.
Smart saw potential
“Like all first-year guys trying to figure it out, he could not shoot like he shoots now,” said Sacramento Kings coach Keith Smart, Lin’s coach with the Warriors. “The kid did a great job of transforming his game. One thing he could do right away was … break someone down and take it to the basket. Now you can see him shoot floaters, and his passing game has opened up big-time. At that time at Golden State, you have Steph Curry and Monta Ellis. He was a rookie trying to learn how to play in the NBA.
“I’m so happy for him. He’s a worker. He’d come in early in the morning and start working by himself, before his coach would get there. Every single day the guy was a tremendous worker. He wasn’t Jeremy Lin yet. He wasn’t ready to play in the NBA yet. He had a lot of flaws in his game. The next year and a half, his game changed. Once the jump shot evolved, he had a great feel for finding people, making plays for teammates, and his game took off. Now he has a home.”
Lin can still get to the rim as he did last season, but he has been better leading a break and as a halfcourt playmaker than the Rockets might have expected. In the past two weeks, his assists have increased, his turnovers have decreased, and he has remained among the league leaders in steals.
By being in control more, he has been able to be more consistent, moving toward McHale’s long-term goal for him.
“He’s doing better defensively,” McHale said. “He has a way more concerted effort at keeping people in front of him. He’s throwing the ball ahead. He’s making simpler, easier plays on the offense end, not looking for home runs.
“Jeremy, by nature, is a home run hitter. Home run hitters strike out a lot. When you have the ball in your hand and you’re the point guard, you’re better off being a leadoff guy who gets a lot of walks and gets some singles and doubles. How many home run hitters are point guards in our league? Very few. But by nature, that’s who he is. But he’s a young kid, and he’s improving all the time.”
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