Transcript Linsanity

Linsanity
The Begin
• 2/4 vs New Jersey Nets
– 25 points, 5 rebounds, 7 assists
– 2/4_nets
• After that
–Linsanity
Before
• Palo Alto High School
– 2005–2006, 32–1 record
– Northern California Division II
• Player of the Year
• College Recruiting
– Sent resume to all Ivy League schools, Berkeley,
Stanford, UCLA
– Pac-10 wanted him to walk-on
– Harvard and Brown guaranteed a spot
Collage
• Junior
– All-Ivy League First Team
– Only NCAA Division I player who ranked top ten
• scoring , rebounding , assists , steals, blocked
shots, field goal percentage, free throw percentage ,
and three-point shot
• Senior
– All-Ivy League First Team
– Beat 12th ranked Connecticut Huskies
Undrafted
• Undrafted in the 2010 NBA Draft
– 吃了40隻雞翅
• Joined the Dallas Mavericks NBA Summer
League team
– Donnie Nelson was the only General Manager that
offered invitation
– Outplayed first overall pick John Wall in a game
Golden State Warriors (2010–2011)
• Two-year deal
– Partially guaranteed for 2010–11
• First American of Chinese or Taiwanese descent
to play in the NBA
– Received lots of attention
• Little playing time during the season
• Assigned to the Warriors' D-League 3 times
• Waived by the Warriors
– On the first day of training camp (December 9, 2011)
New York Knicks
• (December 12, 2011), claimed off waivers by
the Houston Rockets
– Played seven minutes in two preseason games
– December 24, waived by Rockets
• December 27, claimed off waivers by New
York Knicks
– A backup behind Toney Douglas, Mike
Bibby , Iman Shumpert, Baron Davis
Early In Knicks
• “Competing for a backup spot, and people see
me as the 12th to 15th guy on the roster”
• “Continued to arrive first at practice, leave last,
intensely study game film, and work with
coaches to improve his footwork and
judgement”
• January 17, 2012, sent to D-League
– had a triple-double game
– recalled by the Knicks three days later
• Played only 55 minutes in first 23 games
Before The Breakout Game
• Early 2012, slept on his brother's couch
• Before the game, slept on the couch of teammate
Landry Fields
• February 10, deadline of his contract
• Just called up from D-League
• “Can you pray I don’t get cut?”
• Status of Knicks
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Baron Davis injured
Toney Douglas, Iman Shumpert don’t fit
Mike Bibby too old
Knick played back to back to back
Squandered a fourth quarter lead in a February 3
Coach Mike D'Antoni close to loss his job
Linsanity
• Give him a chance to play due to "desperation"
– "He got lucky because we were playing so bad," said D'Antoni
• 7W-0L Record
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2/4 vs Nets: 25 points, 7 assists
2/6 vs Jazz: 28 points, 8 assists
2/8 vs Wizards: 23 points, 10 assists
2/10 vs Lakers: 38 points, 7 assists
• Before the game: Kobe said
• After the game: Kobe said
– 2/11 vs Timberwolves: 20 points, 8 assists
– 2/14 vs Raptors: 27 points, 11 assists
• Game winning shot
– 2/15 vs Kings: 10 points, 13 assists
• 2/19 vs Dallas Mavericks: 28 points, 14 assists, 5 steals
– USA Today wrote, "No matter what Dallas threw at Lin – double-teams,
traps, blitzes, tall defenders ... smaller defenders ... stocky, thin – Lin
found a way ... to a victory against the defending NBA champions."
7 Winning Straight
• Carmelo Anthony missed 7 games
• Amar’e Stoudemire missed 3 games
• The first NBA player to score at least 20 points
and have seven assists in each of his first five
starts
• Scored 89, 109, and 136 points in his first three,
four, and five career starts
– The most by any player since the merger between ABA
and NBA in 1976
• Eastern Conference Player of the Week
Public Image
• The most exciting underdog story
• Associated Press called Lin "the most surprising story in the
NBA“
• Time Magazine's 2012 list of the "Top 100 Most Influential
People in the World.“
• A second consecutive Sports Illustrated cover
– First New York-based team athlete
– The third NBA player (Jordan and Nowitzki)
• Magic Johnson said, "The excitement [Lin] has caused
in [Madison Square] Garden, man, I hadn't seen that in a
long time."
• "I haven't done a computation, but it's fair to say that no
player has created the interest and the frenzy in this short
period of time, in any sport, that I'm aware of like Jeremy
Lin has," said NBA commissioner David Stern.
The Reality
• 45 turnovers in first seven career starts
– The most since 1977–78
• Hit the wall at 2/23 vs Heat
– 34 minutes, 8 points, 3 assists, 8 turnovers
– Field goal: 1-11 (0.091%)
• 0W-6L after All-Star break
– Coach D'Antoni resigned
• 3/24 sore knee
– 3/31 knee surgery
– Miss the rest of the season
Future
• Most likely stay in Knicks
• I think
– Can be a qualified starting point guard
– All-Star point guard
• Not yet
• We will see how he improve