To here a lot of commentators, Lin lost this game single handedly. The headline at Yahoo Sports declared "Knick lose as Lin is lackluster." This is perhaps the problem-this was a guy who was a bench warmer now he's given sole ownership of the outcomes of every game.
Like coach D'Antoni said, he did score 26 points, what was he expected to do score 40? How can 26 points be lackluster? He did have 9 turnovers along with 5 assists. The turnovers are obviously not wanted but, this has been his modus operandi during the win streak as well. He always gets a lot of turnovers though this is his most so far.
So Lin has gone from being a benchwarmer to having extremely high expectations. He did cut down the turnovers in the second half-8 of the 9 turnovers were in the first half, and he scored 16 of his 26 points.
It will be interesting to see what happens on Sunday against Dallas if Carmello does make it back for that game. When you lose things look different. I'm a Knicks fan and I'm disappointed too. Still we had a 7 game win streak-were they expected to never lose again? I think everyone should calm a bit. If this is considered a subpar game from Lin what does that say?
Let's see Sunday though, there are all kinds of questions about how Carmello and Lin will mesh along with Stoudemire. Can't wait for that one.
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