NSR: Basketball 2.0

Missed it, but heard it was bad.

But I guess its a good thing if he is expected to perform against the Heat now. Shows how far the Knicks have come in 2 weeks

 

Chalmers did a great job on him.

 

I should have said Asian-American. Basically my belief--and I've talked to a few Asian friends about this--is that most Asians here in the States couldn't really identify with Yao that much because he was such a genetic rarity. And there have been a couple of other guys as well like Wang and guy who was drafted by New Jersey a couple of years ago, but these guys were both above 6"9 if I'm not mistaken. I mean what's the average height for an Asian male in the states, like 5"7?

So with Lin it's different because he speaks fluent English with an American accent, went to school in the States, and isn't that much taller than your average guy. Asians across the world can identify more with Lin's story in my opinion, and that may be a large part of the mania.

Yeah the Asian population in San Jose is just incredible. You walk into a Costco by the SJ Airport, and 80% of the customers are Asian and speaking Vietnamese, Tagalog or Chinese. A couple of years ago some relatives from Utah visited my family in Cali for the first time, and they were just totally blown away by the diversity.

 

It was all fun and games until they got on the road...

 

Mario Chalmers D-ed him the 'f' up.

Lin is the total antithesis of the way I played PG, and thus I don't really like watching him. Freaking turnover machine, shoot first player, ZERO floor command.

He'll be fine through regular season. Once the playoffs start (provided the Knicks get in), and teams actually start playing D, hes going to totally vanish.

 

Hey that sounds like how I played basketball, add in Shaq like free throw ability and I guess I could play in the NBA.

 

Completely agree. The guy has terrible decision making and average vision.

 

Lin is also just a 2nd year player.

I agree that hype on him was unrealistic, but I still think he will be a good NBA PG.

 

To me Lin looks like a small SG that brings the ball up for the lack of a true PG.

 

If Lin is going to really make it in the league, its going to be as a 6th man combo-guard.

He lacks the vision and distribution instinct to be a #1 PG, and he isn't a true SG. He could, provided he improves, be a player like Kirk Hinrich.

 

Watched some of the Warriors at Atlanta last night and that was certainly some of the worst NBA basketball I've seen in a long time. I expect the Warriors to be bad, but Joe Johnson was the furthest thing from a star last night.

 

nice bag Lebron

 

Clearly he's been hanging out with all the Russians in South Beach.

Milevsky might have bought him that.

 

Wade looks like he lost a bet and is carrying LeBron's bag.

 

Footy, Pacers got Barbosa.

I don't know what to think. They didn't give up a lot for him, but does this team need another scorer?

 

Warriors traded Monta Ellis to Milwaukee as well to get Andrew Bogut. Not really sure what to think of it to be honest.

 

Anyone watching March Madness? Not a huge college B-Ball fan myself, but still fun to see a few upsets like Duke and Missouri.

 

Footy, the issue with the Pacers isn't depth, it's defensive intensity.

I hope they turn it on for the playoffs, because they've been very inconsistant with it during the regular season.

And they seem to have capable individual defenders at every position, but something doesn't always click. Perhaps it's coaching.

 

I may have told the story here, or maybe most have heard it.

When Fosenko was going through the draft workouts one scout asked him to, "put the ball on the floor and drive to the rim." So Fosenko did what was told and placed the ball on the floor and sprinted to the rim.

Anyway, Potepenko is a cool dude. When he was riding the bench in Sacto with Sergey Monya a few years back, me and a few buddies came out, snapped some picks, chatted it up before the game and gave em a good heckling after warm-ups and during the game. I remember when I went back to Ukraine in '99, everyone thought that Potepenko was the sh*t, lol.

 

Potapenko did have a few starts in Cleveland, I think.

 

You and your awesome memorable stories...