<p>Not only them, but his classmates at Harvard as well - who either didn’t believe he was on the BB team or thought he was a “bench warmer.”</p>
<p>Also, Lin had to endure racist taunts during games and the worst were at road games against other Ivy League schools.</p>
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<p>It was Asian heritage night - which was planned way before Lin became a known entity.</p>
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<p>There is no comparison to Tebow aside from the religion angle.</p>
<p>Tebow has some of the worst stats as passer; Lin has scored more points in his 1st 5 games as a starter than anyone since the NBA/ABA merger.</p>
<p>Lin also is the better passer than Tebow and has a higher shooting % than Tebow does completion % (Tebow only completed more than 50% of his passes in 2 games and in one game went 2 for 8).</p>
<p>For there to be a comparison, Tebow would have had to pass for 300+ yds and run for 80+ yds in each of his 1st 5 starts.</p>
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<p>Mayweather is a known bigot, but still, that pales in comparison to what
Fox Sports columnist Jason Whitlock tweeted.</p>
<p>While it’s true that Asian heritage nights have been done in previous years to coincide with Chinese New Year, it has never resulted in as many attendees from our Asian community as it did on Tuesday. Three thousand tickets were sold in the few days leading up to the game this week, many of those to Asian groups throughout the city, resulting in a sell out for only the second or third time this season.</p>
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'NBA opponents might glean some valuable tips from past Ivy League players. Former Princeton forward Noah Savage, now in commercial real estate in Manhattan, recalled scouting reports saying to force Mr. Lin to dribble to his left, making it more difficult for him to employ his arsenal of moves.</p>
<p>Mr. Leffelman said his scouting report alleged that Mr. Lin could be rendered less effective with in-your-face defensive pressure. Mr. Leffelman said he was surprised that NBA defenders haven’t done much of that.</p>
<p>“He’s going up against a great caliber of players, but I haven’t seen them all into his personal space,” Mr. Leffelman said. “If you let him go full speed off a screen he’s going to be clever and creative.”'</p>
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<p>'Ivy athletes traditionally have few bragging rights. So investment banking analyst Garrett Leffelman was surprised to find himself surrounded by 10 colleagues the Monday morning after Mr. Lin’s big night against the Lakers.</p>
<p>Mr. Leffelman’s Wall Street pals wanted to hear how he defended against Mr. Lin when Mr. Leffelman was a Brown University guard. Mr. Leffelman didn’t choke. In March 2009, he told the rapt crowd, he held Mr. Lin to 10 points and, as the game clock ticked to zero, Mr. Leffelman launched a game-winning 3-pointer.</p>
<p>The story yielded this quick calculation from someone in the finance crowd: " ‘Jeremy Lin outscored Kobe Bryant, you’ve outscored Jeremy Lin, so by default that makes you better than Kobe Bryant,’ " Mr. Leffelman recounted. That, he said, led to next question: “So why’d you end up here?”"</p>
<p>One thing that has been totally ignored through all this wonder about college coaches who did not recruit him and pro teams that did not draft him, is the possibility that Jeremy Lin - a very hard worker - might have improved every year as a player. He didn’t start as a freshman at Harvard. He is not a rookie this year. He walked on to the Warriors team last season. NBA coaches and even most players are very familiar with the concept of scouting opponents weaknesses, and “not going to his left” is just about the most common weakness a basketball player can have. Maybe Lin has been working on that. I think 7 games is more than enough time for scouts to “figure him out.” I dont expect him to average 25 and 10 for the rest of the season, but I won’t be surprised if he continues to do well and make his team better. How long did it take opposing teams to “figure out” Steve Nash?</p>
<p>Also, “stopping” Lin now is a very different task from stopping him at Harvard. He has some great players to pass to now. At H he was the best player on a decent team; he was the go to guy.</p>
<p>Sure, he has improved and has better players to pass to, but he has much better players trying to stop him now too than he did back in the good ol’ Ivy League - in fact he has some of the most talented athletes and best defenders in the world guarding him now. You’d think they’d be able to contain Lin better than they’ve done up to this point.</p>
<p>(Not that I’m complaining. I’m on the Lin bandwagon.)</p>
<p>I read that article earlier also and it doesn’t mean anything today. Lin has improved a lot as a player, whatever tactics were used to stop him 2 or 3 years ago may not work now. College basketball is played differently than the NBA where in the former,defensive plays are more intense.</p>
<p>He’s got world-class coaching and world-class teammates now.</p>
<p>He has an econ degree so he’s probably studied game-theory too which may mean that he keeps coming up with more in his bag of tricks. Much like companies like Apple, Intel, Amazon, etc. have to continually innovate to survive.</p>
<p>As the OP, I can slightly hijack this thread by noting a very tenuous connection to Harvard basketball. My son, last year, along with his middle school acapella group sang the National Anthem before the Harvard at Yale basketball game. </p>
<p>In a few weeks, the two of us will travel to the Garden to see Linsanity up close and personal–from the nose bleed seats, actually–versus the now division leading Sixers. But the way ticket prices have been climbing I’d consider offers to finance his college education.</p>
<p>The other guard who often is on the floor with Lin is Landry Fields, who went to Stanford. They have developed their own celebratory “handshake” which end with the two of them pretending to put slide rules back into their pocket protectors. :D</p>
<p>Yes, a Harvard assistant coach was on a recruiting/scouting trip and managed to catch Lin in a summer league tournament (he had no idea about Lin prior to that) and pushed to recruit Lin.</p>
<p>Other Ivy League and even Div III schools passed on Lin.</p>
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<p>In his SR year, Lin was the focal point of Harvard’s team, so opposing defenses concentrated on stopping Lin.</p>
<p>In a 3 game stretch against UConn, BC and Georgetown, Lin scored 70 pts.</p>
<p>After lighting up UConn for 30 pts and 9 rbds and singlehandedly almost leading Harvard to an upset, Hall of Fame coach, Jim Calhoun stated this…</p>
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<p>I think he knows something about NBA caliber players.</p>
<p>Also, when Lin led Palo Alto to an upset over powerhouse Mater Dei, it was an upset of gigantic proportions.</p>
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<p>Look, this isn’t to say that Lin doesn’t have flaws in is game, but just about every NBA player does.</p>
<p>Heck, Jordan wasn’t exactly a great shooter until later on in his NBA career (not in any way comparing Lin to Jordan talent-wise).</p>