Lin has less turnovers per game than most PG’s in the league including rondo, deron, jennings, westbrook, and parker. Not sure if he’s a disaster in Houston averaging 7 assists and 2.5 turnovers a game, but whatever.

Whatever, indeed. He’s averaging 6.1 assists, btw, and shooting a stellar .353. Who wouldn’t want an $8 million/year guard who can’t buy a hoop?

Have you watched any Houston games? Lin’s turnovers are down because the coaches make sure he doesn’t handle the ball much. He’s getting paid to essentially bring the ball up and hand it to Harden.

Given the expectations for this season, and his contract, I’d say his Houston tenure has been a debacle.

Um, no.

I think that ship sailed a long, long, long, long, long, LONG time ago.

Lin has less turnovers per game than most PG’s in the league including rondo, deron, jennings, westbrook, and parker. Not sure if he’s a disaster in Houston averaging 7 assists and 2.5 turnovers a game, but whatever.

so based on your statement, is your conclusion that Jeremy Lin is better than those players? Are the Spurs willing to take a call from Houston in which they take Lin for Parker? Is Boston willing to take that call just because Lin has fewer turnovers per game?

I’ll defend JMac here. He’s an Asian-American and a Knicks fan, hard to not let emotions rule the day sometimes. We give black writers a pass for openly cheering for Tiger Woods.

one of them is one of the very best to ever play in his sport. The other is a one armed bandit who had 15 minutes of fame, and is being exposed in his sport at the very moment. He was also let go by the Knicks and replaced by a superior player.

Melo (three baskets, two turnovers, nine points),

doubled and tripled the entire night, no forced shots (as evidenced by the 12 shot attempts), 12 rebounds, 3 assists, and a bunch of hockey assists as a result of not forcing those shots that had Sean Elliott raving. Just to set it straight.

I’ll defend JMac here. He’s an Asian-American and a Knicks fan, hard to not let emotions rule the day sometimes. We give black writers a pass for openly cheering for Tiger Woods.

Understood, but isn’t Tiger a Cablinasian?

Its a debacle that people keep bringing up the “Jeremy Lin debacle” in reference to the Knicks.

I’ll defend JMac here. He’s an Asian-American and a Knicks fan, hard to not let emotions rule the day sometimes. We give black writers a pass for openly cheering for Tiger Woods.

I see it in Reilly/Simmons, and some people who have been here longer probably see it in TBL et al. When you have that many people who take time to seek out you/your opinion, you start to think YOU are the story, not the story itself. What turned me off of Simmons was he stopped writing about the sports as much as just started to fit everything into his own world, revolving around his paradigm for sports, etc.

No way the Knicks are 6-0 with him constantly turning the ball over, along with the Tebow-like circus that follows him.

Its a debacle that people keep bringing up the “Jeremy Lin debacle” in reference to the Knicks. It should only be applied to the Rockets.

No it isn’t. Album doesn’t even go to pressboxes. He got in serious shit for sending in a story pretending to be at a game he left before it started. In pressboxes, you have columnists that show up and make a big stink and engage everybody and blabber the whole time, bitch about the courtesy food/coffee. These guys are hated. Then there are columnists who show up rarely but still enough to keep contacts and show they respect the beat guys. Press areas have their own pecking order and culture and guys like Albom are the worst.

Ah very true. Fuck him. That was the MSU Final Four story if I’m not mistaken.

Note: if you’re interested, I’d be more than willing to discuss your paper at greater length during my office hours. How are Tuesdays for you?

(Reply)Tuesdays, he’s with Morrie.

(Reply, Reply) MORRIE DIED

That cracked me up. This definitely falls under my policy of I dont want to hear from any DET or LAA fans about the MVP vote.

If Albom wrote for the OC Register (I think that’s a real paper?) or whatever LAA paper there is, would he have written exactly the opposite? There is an argument to be made for each, but the argument has to be consistent.

If I say Cabrera > Trout, I have to say playoffs matter, Sep matters more than other months etc, while acknowledging Trout had better WAR or whatever stats there are. I can’t say “WAR is crap, Cabrera wins” if I’d say “Trout should win b/c higher WAR” if I lived in Anaheim.

/if that makes any sense at all
//it doesn’t

No it isn’t. Album doesn’t even go to pressboxes. He got in serious shit for sending in a story pretending to be at a game he left before it started. In pressboxes, you have columnists that show up and make a big stink and engage everybody and blabber the whole time, bitch about the courtesy food/coffee. These guys are hated. Then there are columnists who show up rarely but still enough to keep contacts and show they respect the beat guys. Press areas have their own pecking order and culture and guys like Albom are the worst.

Well this is just good stuff.

Note: if you’re interested, I’d be more than willing to discuss your paper at greater length during my office hours. How are Tuesdays for you?

Tuesdays, he’s with Morrie.

MORRIE DIED

it kills me that Mitch Albom earnestly throws around terms like “geek” or “nerd,” as though he’s some paragon of coolness or manliness. it’s not like he’s an Army Ranger or a logger or something. he hangs out in press boxes and writes soft-focus Lifetime shit like Tuesdays With Morrie.

That is absolutely spot on. Same goes for Shaughnessy that ugly ass fuck