How can Jeremy Lin be a Harvard graduate and be this dumb?

[Bigsmoke]

Lol

http://youtu.be/sCHIqNEjKEw

[DCL]

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=364279

[midatlantic09]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the standards for getting into schools (even Harvard) aren't nearly as high for athletes as they are for the general student body. Whereas a regular student will need near perfect grades/SAT/extracurriculurs/etc, an athlete will probably need average or slightly above average grades/SAT/extracurriculars/etc. Also, once accepted at a place like Harvard, I'm pretty sure it's difficult to flunk out unless you literally blow off the entire curriculum and do next to nothing.

That said, whenever I hear about an athlete getting into/graduating from a top school, I'm not all that impressed.

[FKAri]

Because he was following your dumb coach. Only person who picked up on the mistake was Kobe because he doesn't even follow the Earth around the Sun.

[MavsSuperFan]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the standards for getting into schools (even Harvard) aren't nearly as high for athletes as they are for the general student body. Whereas a regular student will need near perfect grades/SAT/extracurriculurs/etc, an athlete will probably need average or slightly above average grades/SAT/extracurriculars/etc. Also, once accepted at a place like Harvard, I'm pretty sure it's difficult to flunk out unless you literally blow off the entire curriculum and do next to nothing.

That said, whenever I hear about an athlete getting into/graduating from a top school, I'm not all that impressed.

That might be a factor.

Also its perfectly possible to be insanely book smart and not make smart moves in pressure situations.

[VengefulAngel]

You definitely didn't graduate, how do you not realise that there is a thread about this already particularly with it having a very similar title.

[kuniva_dAMiGhTy]

Lin fans crack me up. Read the video comments about Kobe being "unnecessarily mad", "gay", and that apparently LA didn't "need" to foul in that situation.

These dorks make the Bran Family appear sane.

[buddha]

I can understand waiting to foul if you are trying to trap the ball carrier and get a steal. but he was just sitting there let time run off the clock.

[Collie]

Book smarts =/= basketball smarts

[kentatm]

He said in the postgame that Scott told him multiple times in the huddle to not foul and Scott admitted it was his fault.

[strifed169]

Lin isn't dumb he just has low bball IQ, helluva bball player, but his offensive awareness is shit.

[lilteapot]

Because I doubt there is a class at harvard that teaches basketball IQ.