From February 4, 2012 to February 15, 2012, Jeremy Lin played seven games for the Knicks, where he had 25 points, seven assists, 28 points, eight assists, 23 points, 10 assists, 38 points, seven assists, 20 points, eight assists, 27 points, 11 assists, and 10 points and 13 assists.
He averaged 24.8 points, four rebounds, nine assists and 1.2 steals per game, shooting 54 percent from the field, leading the injured Knicks to seven straight wins. Before that, he was just an NBA fringe, losing the draft, being cut by the Warriors and Rockets, being sent to the development league by the Knicks, sitting on the cold bench, about to be cut, and all the unsatisfactory things happened to Jeremy Lin.
When the Knicks had no one to use because of injuries, D'Antoni was a live horse doctor, sending Jeremy Lin to play, and Jeremy Lin seized the opportunity to forcibly change his life. In just seven games, Jeremy Lin went from an obscure bench player to the world-known "Lin Crazy".
In the Knicks's game against the Lakers, Bryant scored 34 points, but the limelight was stolen by Jeremy Lin , who scored 38 points on 13-of-23 shooting and delivered seven assists to lead the Knicks to a 92-85 victory over the Lakers.
After the game, the reporter asked Kobe what advice he had for Jeremy Lin, and Kobe directly replied: "He swept down nearly 40 points on our heads, what advice can I give him?" Lakers' small forward Artest, who was subdued by Jeremy Lin, said: "He's a great player, it's that simple, it's really that simple." ”
That period of time was jeremy Lin's most beautiful moment, but then he failed to go further, but gradually went downhill, and never played the performance of "Lin Crazy", why was he suddenly not strong? I personally feel that the reasons are as follows:
First, it has been thoroughly studied
The best player knows what he's going to do, but he just can't stop him. Before each game starts, the opponent will study you thoroughly, and your offensive habits, passing habits, defensive habits and other aspects of the opponent are well known, in this case, the players who can perform well are really good.
Jeremy Lin's sudden explosion has a lot to do with the opponent's unfamiliarity with him, before he was an NBA fringe, basically will not be sent to the court, the opponent will not study him, and even many people do not know that the NBA has such a player. When he was sent to the field on the verge of being sent to the field, the opponent had no idea what he would do next, and his determination to fight backwaters when he was about to be cut gave him a brief explosion, and he was very efficient, shooting 54% of the time during his seven-game winning streak.
But as he played well in several consecutive games, opponents paid more and more attention to him, and his research became more and more in-depth, and his offensive efficiency was greatly reduced after he was thoroughly studied, and the shooting rate dropped to 42%, which was no longer related to efficiency.
2. Injuries and illnesses
Although Jeremy Lin's efficiency has dropped a lot after being thoroughly studied, he still has bright spots, he is still a qualified starting point guard, and he has also played a good performance of 28 points, 14 assists and 5 steals in a single game, but he suffered a major injury to a meniscus tear and was reimbursed for the post-surgery season.
The sudden injury made him fall quickly in the ascending period, the long absence made him decline in form, and most importantly, the injury made him rely on a sharp decline in explosive power, which made his breakthrough threat much smaller, his shooting was not stable, by breaking through the attack basket or breaking through the score to help the team, injury affected his breakthrough speed, his threat on the court was much smaller.
Injuries are the biggest enemy of Jeremy Lin's NBA career, and in addition to suffering a meniscus torn in 2012, he also suffered a rupture of the patellar ligament in 2017, leaving him with no speed advantage (he used to be as fast as Wall), which led to him getting worse and worse, and eventually being abandoned by the NBA. His performance in the CBA this season is not good, injuries and age have made his pace slower and slower, now he is more difficult to break through the CBA guard, if he has not experienced these two major injuries, his breakthrough speed can be played with ease in the CBA, maybe he is still playing in the NBA, but unfortunately there is no if.
Third, the playing style is single
Some players can still play well after being thoroughly studied by their opponents, because their playing style is very rich, the opponent does not know which method he will use next to attack, it is not easy to make a defensive strategy, and Jeremy Lin's playing style is relatively single, and his two favorite offensive methods are right-side breakthrough and blocking and dismantling cooperation.
Jeremy Lin likes to cut in from the right when breaking through, accounting for up to 80%, when the opponent knows his breakthrough habits, strengthen the defense on the right side, Jeremy Lin's impact will be greatly reduced. During the seven-game winning streak, Jeremy Lin scored many points by breaking through, and even if he couldn't score, he could get free throws, but then it was difficult for him to break through from the right side to the basket, and it was easy to make mistakes when breaking through from the left side where he was not good at.
In addition, Jeremy Lin relies heavily on blocking and dismantling tactics, and is very dependent on a more mobile center partner, and his proportion of blocking and dismantling when he attacks reaches 44%, which is a very high proportion. Opponents knew his habits and cut off his blocking and dismantling cooperation with the center, and his score per blocking round dropped from first in the league to fifty-first in the league.
Jeremy Lin has the most tacit cooperation between the Knicks and Chandler, after leaving the Knicks, he has never met a center who is willing to block and dismantle, and his ball is not playing for the Knicks, his performance is getting worse and worse, slowly changing from a starter to a substitute, slowly being marginalized.
Write at the end
Although Jeremy Lin did not develop in the direction we expected, he went from a marginal player who lost the draft, from a marginal player who spent the night on the couch of his teammate's house to the Time Magazine magazine in the United States, becoming a well-known "Lin Madness", his career has been wonderful enough, after many years, his story can still be exciting, let us have a firm belief in the darkest moments of life, we are not Jeremy Lin, but we can all have our own "madness".