據說佩頓來任助教，他和小林關係也不錯，在2010年就私下鍛煉過小林

Jeremy Lin's Summer of Glove

February 24, 2012

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203918304577241710317187398


He sees the jumper and remembers that jumper. Saw it in his own backyard. Same with the pretty spin move. Worked on that one, too. "That's what I did," he recalled. Push your body right up against the defender, and when you feel him leaning forward…whoosh, spin, gone, goodbye.

But he sees something else, too—a detail that's gotten lost in the global "Linsanity" over Jeremy Lin. Something that doesn't agree with the modest narrative of the overlooked point guard sleeping on couches and beguiling New York.


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"He's cocky," Gary Payton said. "The cockiness in him, it reminds me of myself. The way he puts his tongue out and laughs and smiles? That's a cocky arrogance, and that's the way he has to play—and the way he should play."

It's been almost two years since Lin showed up at Payton's house in Las Vegas, an awestruck unknown from the Ivy League. Payton, of course, was the Bay Area legend, should-be-a-cinch Hall-of Famer who brought a defensive ferocity to the point guard position, and raised on-court chatter to performance art.

Payton got a call from Lin's agent, Roger Montgomery, asking if he'd work out with Lin before the 2010 NBA Summer League. As the world now knows, Lin had completed his Harvard career with impressive statistics, but had been overlooked by pro clubs, and not selected in the draft.

Not long after, the former Palo Alto High School star was behind the Seattle SuperSonics icon's home, running on his outdoor court.

"I don't work out with a lot of guys," Payton said. "It was just me, Jeremy, and my trainer."

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Payton, now 43, put Lin through a string of intense drills that tested his ball-handling, his shooting and ability to roll off screens. Lin did a fast-break drill in which he ran back and forth between the baskets.

"He could handle the ball very well," Payton said. "He had size and jumping ability. I said, 'This kid could be good.'"

Payton said he tutored Lin on the spin technique he mastered over 17 seasons en route to 21,813 career points. He also encouraged Lin—already known for his attacking style—to develop a long-range jumper. "When people back up off you, you pull up and make them pay," Payton said. He'd seen Lin take this shot in recent Knicks games. "He's pulling up with confidence and hitting that three."


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When their first training session was over, Payton and Lin sat in Payton's living room and watched tape from Harvard games. Payton said Lin was frustrated by the poor decisions he sometimes made under pressure. "He always said, 'I get into trouble when I get into the air,'" Payton recalled. He noted that Lin was getting into similar trouble for New York, one reason he'd accrued so many turnovers.

"He gets in the air and gets stuck," Payton said. "He's not learned to control his game yet. Control means when you get to the bucket at 100 mph—you can slow it down, read the defense and expose it with a hesitation. He doesn't have that in his game yet."

Payton and Lin worked together two more times, at a Las Vegas gym. Lin went on to be a surprise breakout in the Summer League, playing well against competition like No. 1 pick John Wall, and eventually landing a contract with Golden State. But Lin wound up getting dumped by the Warriors, then the Houston Rockets, before opportunity struck in New York.

Amid the mania, Payton is measured in assessing Lin's long-term potential. "He can be a good point guard," he said. "He's not going to be a Chris Paul. He's not going to be a Deron Williams. I think he can be like a John Stockton where he can facilitate a lot of things—make a lot of passes, hit the open shot when he has to, and make people around him better." Payton was quick to add that he meant that Lin's playing style resembled Stockton's—not that Lin was destined to have a career like the Jazz Hall of Famer's.

And Lin's defense? "Lot to learn," said the man who was so tenacious on defense they nicknamed him The Glove. "He doesn't play defense. That's straight, period. But nobody plays defense anyway. That's not the NBA, it's not in defensive mode. The only teams that play defense are Chicago and Miami."

Jeremy Lin recalled his sessions with Payton after Wednesday night's Knicks rout over Atlanta, in which he scored 17 points as the team moved to 8-2 in games he has started. "It was good, it was interesting," he told the Journal's Kevin Clark. Of Payton, Lin said: "He's a character."

This weekend, Payton is in Orlando for the NBA All-Star Game. Lately he has been active in Seattle's effort to return NBA basketball to that city. The Oregonian newspaper reported that Payton will follow his teaching of Lin by working with Jared Cunningham, currently at Oregon State University, where Payton starred in the late '80s.

Payton said he and Lin still exchange text messages, but never truly went head-to-head on the court in their training sessions. "He basically just wanted to play me all the time," Payton said. "That was his dream. I told him: You're not ready to do that. I'm not going to give you the opportunity until you prove it."

Jeremy Lin has proven a lot over the past few weeks. The mentor has noticed.

"This is how fate goes," Gary Payton said. "Everybody gets hurt, he gets off the bench, and he does what he does.…He's showing he can play basketball. They just didn't know it."

所有跟帖： 

• 佩頓很cocky的，適合不適合難說。 -talkatwxc- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/27/2014 postreply 09:34:06

• 聽說手套要來，就不知道有用不，很懷疑。 -LakersFan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/27/2014 postreply 10:08:18