Fans and supporters of Lin should have more faith in him

We all want Lin to succeed, and he's been doing better every year. We really need to curb our enthusiasm a little bit, not in the sense of supporting him, but rather in the worry department. He's a grown up, and has overcome all the adversities thrown at him. Jeremy Lin is now the starting point guard of Houston Rockets with a pretty big guaranteed contract.

When Lin was benched in favor of TD for some minutes here and there, I saw some were jittering about what if Lin loses his starting role to TD. Now that Lin is hurt, Beverley played some good minutes, we are seeing similar reactions again. It's really not necessary. Backups work hard every single day to gain minutes, and their ultimate goals are to take starter's jobs. But that is only beneficial to starters. If your backup is serviceable, you won't be running to death. If your backup provides some competition to you, you are surely pushed to improve and become more consistent. But if your backup is clearly better than you are, well, you don't deserve that job anyways.

Now, let's ask ourselves, as much hope as we have put on Lin's shoulders (square ones, not great for tailors:)), how much faith do we really have in him and his ability? Do we believe that he can work on his weakness in the off-season and come back better and stronger? If we don't, why do we even support him? If we do have faith in him, that he will be better next season - meaning average or above average starting point guard, depends on standards, why would we ever worry about his job? If he can play consistently, why would we worry about ANY 3rd string backups?

Take it easy and enjoy the game.

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• 沒時間看全文，看標題就錯不了。頂了再說。 -緩衝- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 14:43:32

• 你說的都是常理，但這常理似乎不適用於冰箱的執教和用人原則 -plateau- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 14:44:09

• 是啊，還有stereotype -soccermom- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 14:46:48

• Rockets refused to pay? McHale didn't start Lin? I don't get it. -Warsteiner- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 14:51:40

• 隻要首發，加球權。輸球沒關係，可以懶別人。開個玩笑總可以吧，嘻嘻。 -talkatwxc- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 15:00:00

• 自娛自樂? -雪花無聲- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 15:14:23

• 你也太在乎人家講些什麽，其實有些明顯過分的話，玩笑而已即使是嘲諷，一笑了之多好。 -talkatwxc- ♂ (6 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 15:29:18

• 就準你在乎啊？你不在乎你諷刺人家幹嗎啊？ -雪花無聲- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 18:19:37

• 頂！ -求自己- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 14:46:02

• 說的在理，隻是關心則亂，這樣的正能量是急需的。 -toosad- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 14:49:54

• 說一點不擔心有點假。是個正常人在這種情況下都會有所擔心。但再擔心，對小林的信心是不會變的 -tscb- ♀ (6 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 14:59:56

• 女人跟男人不一樣。女人擔心是正常狀態， -雪花無聲- ♀ (50 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 15:06:45

• 我希望看到林有兩點變化： -Net-A-Porter- ♀ (106 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 15:07:56

• 這就是傳說中的獨孤九球， 手上無球， 心中有球 -鋼絲.- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 15:16:57

• 同意。 -萬綠叢中- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 15:40:42

• 一上場就是鬥士。像活塞的耶賽亞， 腿瘸了也玩命。 -求自己- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 15:42:28

• 我對小林隻有一個期望，夏天減少去大陸台灣活動，請各種專業教練 -萬綠叢中- ♀ (234 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 15:46:47

• 請對教練也很重要。 -tscb- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 16:07:57

• 小林在選人方麵很念舊，也很固執。 -新林迷- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 18:15:50