Six foot three [Jeremy] Lin, who is from Palo Alto, California, was turned down by UCLA, his dream college, and did not receive any offers of basketball scholarships. He went to Harvard because they were one of only two teams to offer him a place on the squad; he studied economics.
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The part about UCLA being his dream college hurts
Kind of like the Michael Jordan and Kevin Durant quotes along similar lines, but that was the Russell Westbrook recruiting class, where he had to wait to see if JF was going to go pro to see if we even had an open ride. Then again, we also took Dragobrick from that class.
I heard on the radio yesterday
that Kerry Keating admitted it was a mistake to not offer Jeremy a scholarship.
Obviously in hindsight it was a mistake not to offer him a scholarship, but the actual news in this is that it was Keating who evaluated/decided not to offer Linn.
Even if that's true
What scholarship? Westbrook was the last guy in that class. Maybe they were planning on pushing someone else out, I don’t know. Now if he meant they shouldn’t have offered Drago and did with Lin what they did with Westbrook, then that makes more sense, but the way the timeline played out, I don’t get that at all.
Even if they did offer him
He probably would have been forced to transfer to UNLV at some point
A bruin is good forever, a Trojan is only good... ahh eff it, just use tin foil
It's true, I don't think he would've gotten much playing time with us
This isn’t a knock on Howland either, Jeremy Lin had to fight for his minutes everywhere. Last year on Golden State he spent the year riding the bench with less minutes than Acie Law, who was probably the worst player in the NBA at that point. Then the Warriors waived him. It wasn’t until the Knicks were desperate for even a half-decent point guard that Lin started seeing the floor.
by Objection Penguin on Feb 10, 2012 3:05 PM PST up reply actions
FWIW
I shared the note above bc I thought it was a fun note. I can’t really knock Howland and his staff for not offering Lin. Still it was cool to read that. I am happy for Lin especially after reading the comment below about him coming from a Bruin family.
by Nestor on Feb 10, 2012 3:11 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
totally agree
I just can’t help but imagine what could’ve been had he ended up shining at both UCLA and Golden State.
Considering our shollie and PG situation in 06, I actually give Keating credit for taking the time to meet with him and at least offer him a walk-on spot. In comparison, Lin said Stanford (literally across the street from Paly) was only “fake interested” and a Cal staffer called him “Ron”
by Objection Penguin on Feb 10, 2012 3:26 PM PST up reply actions
Not sure
I didn’t mean it as a huge criticism either, it’s not hard to think that UCLA was ok at the PG position for a few years back in 2006.
The bit on the radio didn’t go into great detail about scholarship numbers and need at the position, I just got the impression that Keating didn’t deem Lin worthy of a scholarship at the time (along with everyone else in the country). This was interesting to me since Keating gets quite a bit of credit for recruiting during his time at UCLA.
In other words, this is also just another confirmation that Keating had a big part in UCLA’s recruiting when he was around.
I don't think we would have offered him one even if the Drago spot was open
In this case, I have to defend Howland and Keating. I just can’t help but wonder what happens if we had Lin on the team instead of Drago.
We should have given Drago's scholie to Satan
Couldn’t have been worse.
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by gbruin on Feb 10, 2012 3:19 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Linsanity!!!
Et tu, brute! Yeah it seems all of my FB friends who have about the same length last name as Jeremy had something to post about him.
A very roundabout way
of saying all of your Asian FB friends?
Over the summer last year...
Jeremy was at Wooden playing some pickup basketball and hardly anyone knew who he was other than the fact that he was insanely good. Jeremy would have been the epitome of a student-athlete at UCLA. Plus, his brother Josh and his fiance are both Bruin alums!
Couple of quotes:
Joe Lacob, incoming Warriors’ owner and Stanford booster, said Stanford’s failure to recruit Lin “was really stupid. The kid was right across the street. You can’t recognize that, [then] you’ve got a problem.”
Kerry Keating, the UCLA assistant who offered Lin the opportunity to walk-on, would say in hindsight that Lin would probably have ended up starting at point guard for UCLA.
Phil Taylor of SI
Taylor wrote a nice piece about Lin. Apparently, Taylor lives in Palo Alto and admits to letting preconceived bias cloud his assessment of Lin’s talent, which could be applicable to a lot of other people.
Let's take a minute here
Woulda coulda shoulda…I mean these things are kind of pointless to talk about. People get looked over all the time, before we get caught up in Lin hysteria I watched him play for the warriors before he was cut, good player but not elite. Let’s give it a season before we anoint this guy the greatest Bruin that never was.
Michael Jordan is
the greatest Bruin that never was and Kevin Durant is probably next up seeing as both wanted to go to UCLA and didn’t get offers. That being said, I’d have to argue that scoring more points in your first three starts than any player since the NBA and ABA merged is a pretty solid feat to hang your hat on. I’ll get hysterical about that sort of thing : )
It's been a very impressive three game run, very impressive.
But the guy was waived off two NBA teams, one just a week or so ago before his signing with the Knicks.
worked out best for him
Howland would have had him on the bench forever.
by Bruins#1 on Feb 10, 2012 7:28 PM PST via mobile reply actions
5 point guards have had career bests against the lakers this season
Career bests.
Thats more a reflection on Blake and Fisher. Not taking away anything from Lin, just saying the lakers have the worst starting/back up pg I have ever seen in the NBA.
by silverlakebruin on Feb 13, 2012 8:03 AM PST up reply actions
Remind you of anyone?
Lakers chasing Chris Paul with no backup plan?…
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
I think that situation is slightly different
There had been no precedent for needing a backup plan in that situation. What they needed, and what doesn’t actually exist, is a backup plan for the commissioner being a lying weasel who grants a GM full autonomy and then yanks out the rug from under him.
David Stern
has some Chianti Dan qualities…
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
Just thought I'd chime in with an ultra petty I TOLD YOU SO
Two years ago pretty much to the day we had a discussion on BN in which I suggested that Lin (then a Harvard senior) was a better player than Jerime Anderson and I got the following responses:
come on now… it’s a down year but let’s not pine over harvard’s star player. i’m sure he is more productive than jerime, but he is also a senior. how did he do his 2nd year? i’m sure he’s about as good as MAH. 30 on uconn sounds great but they’ve been schizo all year.
and
You have to wonder about that If he goes to UCLA and Abdul-Hamid goes to Harvard, maybe we’d be asking the same questions about Mustafa.
I’ve saved those poster the embarrassment of including their names : )
The Morgan Center needs to hire you ASAP
as a consultant/talent evaluator/assistant coach
Dump Dan!
by bruinclassof10 on Feb 13, 2012 2:25 PM PST up reply actions
The elephant in the room....
He had the wrong color of skin. If it was white or black he would have been looked more closely at. People don’t expect short (relative to Yao Ming) Asians to play well or be successful in basketball.
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