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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• 没时间看全文，看标题就错不了。顶了再说。 -缓冲- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 14:43:32

• 你说的都是常理，但这常理似乎不适用于冰箱的执教和用人原则 -plateau- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 14:44:09

• 是啊，还有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

• 只要首发，加球权。输球没关系，可以懒别人。开个玩笑总可以吧，嘻嘻。 -talkatwxc- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 15:00:00

• 自娱自乐? -雪花无声- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 15:14:23

• 你也太在乎人家讲些什么，其实有些明显过分的话，玩笑而已即使是嘲讽，一笑了之多好。 -talkatwxc- ♂ (6 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 15:29:18

• 就准你在乎啊？你不在乎你讽刺人家干吗啊？ -雪花无声- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 18:19:37

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

• 说的在理，只是关心则乱，这样的正能量是急需的。 -toosad- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 14:49:54

• 说一点不担心有点假。是个正常人在这种情况下都会有所担心。但再担心，对小林的信心是不会变的 -tscb- ♀ (6 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 14:59:56

• 女人跟男人不一样。女人担心是正常状态， -雪花无声- ♀ (50 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 15:06:45

• 我希望看到林有两点变化： -Net-A-Porter- ♀ (106 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 15:07:56

• 这就是传说中的独孤九球， 手上无球， 心中有球 -钢丝.- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 15:16:57

• 同意。 -万绿丛中- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 15:40:42

• 一上场就是斗士。像活塞的耶赛亚， 腿瘸了也玩命。 -求自己- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 15:42:28

• 我对小林只有一个期望，夏天减少去大陆台湾活动，请各种专业教练 -万绿丛中- ♀ (234 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 15:46:47

• 请对教练也很重要。 -tscb- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 16:07:57

• 小林在选人方面很念旧，也很固执。 -新林迷- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/30/2013 postreply 18:15:50