Linsanity Is What It Is: Insanity With An “L” At The Beginning

So uh… Jeremy Lin.  Maybe you’ve heard of him.  He’s a former Harvard student who went undrafted a few years back… he’s been cut by a few teams, buried on some benches, sent to the D-League… but now he’s gone and done sh!t like drop more points in his first four starts than anyone in the history of the NBA, and he’s  suddenly got the disappointing Knicks on a six-game Linning streak.

Enter last night’s Knicks game, any point in the first three quarters.  Lin appears to be rattled, contained… he’s got 8 turnovers, he and a rusty Amare Stoudemire are being abused in the pick and roll while failing to establish a successful one themselves, and Jose Calderon has realized that he can’t bounce the ball with his left hand.  He’s fucked, right?

Wrong.

Over the past 11 days, the Jeremy Lin story has gone from cool, to crazy, to unprecedented, to absolutely mind-bogglingly ridiculous.  They’re calling it Linsanity, and while I’ve quite honestly become sick of hearing the term a million times each day, it’s a perfect description of what’s going on.

In my attempt at breaking down exactly what the hell is happening with Jeremy Lin right now, I pointed to confidence.  When assessing what type of player I think he could become, I threw out a comparison to Raymond Felton–well, not so much Raymond Felton, but Raymond Felton’s time spent with the New York Knicks.  I haven’t even taken a stab at speculating on what’s going to happen with the Knicks as they start to get healthy, and as of right now… I don’t really plan to.

I’m just going to let Linsanity be exactly what it is: insanity with an “L” at the beginning.  Maybe some things don’t make sense simply because they are best enjoyed that way.  So, love it while it lasts… realize that it can’t possibly last forever… understand that the Knicks probably still suck… and don’t be a complete bonehead.  I guess that’s it.

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One Response to Linsanity Is What It Is: Insanity With An “L” At The Beginning

  1. niokulis says:

    I haven’t watched Lin yet, but there could be the only one answer – you said it also – confidence. Majority of NBA players are fit to do wonders physically, missing ingredient most of the time is mental.
    What I do not like is that all the fans make a show out of it, talking about this rise happening as kind of a joke. You have to respect player who’s playing up to his potential, right? But somehow nobody talks how his blood sweat and tears that are behind that. Why guys like Derrick Rose didn’t get this type of clowning? Because they were expected to be amazing from the begining? Maybe, but it’s not Lin’s problem that somebody else haven’t had high expectations for him. Just appreciate the talent, and be classy, please.

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