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Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Should Leave if James Harden Gets Treated Better
On the surface, everything looks great. After missing the playoffs for three straight seasons, the Houston Rockets are back in the postseason, with a young and very promising core, led by James Harden, the obvious star and most talented player on this team, followed by Jeremy Lin, who isn’t as a gifted scorer like his backcourt teammate, but when you look deeper, is just as important to the team’s success.
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Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Perfectly Complements James Harden
Sometimes, when a talented player like James Harden goes off on an unstoppable shooting spree, it really doesn’t matter that the backcourt relationship and balances is often all wrong for the Houston Rockets, putting too few of the possession time in the hands of Jeremy Lin. However, it takes a smart player to know where the flow of the game is going, and Lin doesn’t get enough credit for being a very intelligent basketball player.
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Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Loses Fourth Quarter Shots to James Harden
While going with your best scorer is usually a pretty good idea in crunch time, making the same obvious choice a defense is prepared for again and again, which in the case of the Houston Rockets means giving the ball to James Harden instead of Jeremy Lin, results in a terrible offensive performance and a loss that could have easily been avoided.
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Jermaine O’Neal With the Weirdest Goaltending Decision Ever
Most goaltending calls we see in the NBA are pretty much the same – a player slightly misjudging the trajectory of the shot, making the block a tad too late. Jermaine O’Neal decided he wanted to make his one quite special, while also doing it in the most crucial of moments, knocking a shot while it was bouncing off the rim to give the Houston Rockets a last-second victory thanks to his intervention.
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Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Doesn’t Help James Harden Do All the Work
After a series of games in which it seemed the Houston Rockets were headed in a new direction of a bit more cooperation and sharing of the ball handling and decision making role between Jeremy Lin and James Harden, it was back to step one for the two and the team, who did win the game and clinch a playoff spot, but needed a little bit of luck to get it.
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Denver Nuggets – Jeremy Lin Couldn’t Slow Things Down Alone
The Houston Rockets can play fast-paced basketball, but they need to do it smartly enough. Jeremy Lin tried to make it a conservative run while other players, like James Harden, attempted to make it a run & gun game, in which the Denver Nuggets have the advantage in almost every position, not to mention depth, size and athleticism, as Wilson Chandler, Andre Iguodala and Corey Brewer made people forget about the injured Danilo Gallinari or Ty Lawson.
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Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin & James Harden at Their Best
Playing against teams who are already in the garbage time of the season is always a good thing to be going through while trying to improve your playoff position, so it’s no wonder the Houston Rockets, led by an in-form James Harden and a similarly sharp Jeremy Lin continued their impressive run of wins towards […]
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Best NBA Players in the Clutch This Season
While LeBron James may not score more than some others in clutch situations, the fact that the Miami Heat are by far the best team in the NBA on both offense and defense, outscoring opponents by 32 points per 100 possessions in the final minutes of close games, more than double the pace-adjusted margin of the second-ranked team, the Oklahoma City Thunder, with a positive margin of 13.8 points per 100 possessions in clutch situations.
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Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Makes Chandler Parsons & James Harden Look Great
Maybe Kevin McHale has been paying attention, because the return of James Harden to the Houston Rockets backcourt didn’t hurt the dominance of Jeremy Lin, which made both the returning star and Chandler Parsons look quite fresh despite missing a few games and with the need to shake off a little rust.
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Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Kind of Basketball Without James Harden
While a lot of the success and ascent into a playoff team this season has to do with James Harden joining the Houston Rockets, the kind of basketball he forces the team to play doesn’t always benefit them and suit the rest of the players. This time, without him on the floor, Jeremy Lin didn’t break out into some memorable performance, but he was the anchor of a different, team-oriented game that might be more suitable for the Rockets’ needs.