http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/95...th-last-season
Jeremy Lin is ready to move on from a disappointing season with the Houston Rockets.
Speaking at a youth conference in Taiwan, Lin gave a candid assessment of his first season in Houston, claiming that Rockets coaches lost confidence in him due to his inconsistent play.
"I became so obsessed with becoming a great basketball player ... trying to be Linsanity, being this phenomenon that took the NBA by storm," Lin told a crowd of approximately 20,000 at the Dream Big, Be Yourself youth conference in Taipei, Taiwan.
"The coaches were losing faith in me; basketball fans were making fun of me. ... I was supposed to be joyful and free, but what I experienced was the opposite. I had no joy, and I felt no freedom."
Lin admitted during the youth conference that he placed extremely high expectations on himself upon joining the Rockets.
"I was ready to invigorate the entire city of Houston," he said. "I was supposed to save Houston basketball."
Lin was one of Houston's marquee acquisitions prior to last season. Following a breakout 2011-12 campaign with the New York Knicks, he signed a three-year, $25 million deal to join the Rockets.
But Lin struggled, averaging 13.4 points and 6.1 assists a game, and battled injuries that forced him to miss two games in Houston's playoff-round loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Lin went as far to say that he experienced "emptiness, confusion and misery" at points last season.
"The one thing I learned was how empty fame and worldly success really are. ... The desire for success never stopped," Lin said. "If the voice that you listen to the most isn't God's voice, then eventually you will experience that emptiness, confusion and misery that I felt when I listened to the voice of Linsanity."
Lin, a devout Christian, told the crowd that he has leaned on his faith in order to reassess his basketball career and his future.
The Rockets will be counting on Lin, who will turn 25 on Friday, to help lead an emerging team that features newly acquired star center Dwight Howard and All-Star guard James Harden.
Dude is so freaking self absorbed. He had huge success for the Knicks in no pressure games under a run and gun system. It was huge huge fun but it wasn't years of success. houston didn't bring him in to save themselves. That's ridiculous. What's Howard if Lin was saving Houston basketball, the messiah himself?
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08-21-2013, 05:33 PM #1I Run NY.
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08-21-2013, 05:36 PM #2n/a
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Another Jeremy Lin thread?
Most talked about scrub in NBA history, glorified back up PG.
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08-21-2013, 05:43 PM #3WHITESIDE
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He makes a lot of excuses... If the coaches lost faith in him it's because he was playing like shit... He's very egoistical for a mediocre player
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08-21-2013, 05:45 PM #4The Sheriff
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Classic Lin acting like he is owed things in life. Work for them you scrub
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08-21-2013, 05:47 PM #53-time NBA All-Star
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Guy is delusional and has zero heart. Classic frontrunner.
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08-21-2013, 05:55 PM #6High School Varsity 6th Man
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Why is he talking like he was terrible last year? Sure, he wasnt like he was on the knicks, but he was still an above-average player
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08-21-2013, 06:00 PM #7Banned
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Lin, suck it up and get better.
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08-21-2013, 06:04 PM #8NBA Legend
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Typical delusional Christian. Thinks the world revolves around himself and his made up deity.
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08-21-2013, 06:04 PM #9#Dre Day in Sac Town
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I'm not sure Houston getting #1 pick with him as the main guy would have invigorated the entire city, Houston must be thanking the lord for the James Harden deal. Lin is a below average starting PG it's really that simple.
Originally Posted by niko
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08-21-2013, 06:05 PM #10Good college starter
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This. and stay healthy. Originally Posted by 305Baller
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08-21-2013, 06:39 PM #11#Treble
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He's from Harvard. He could go to any Fortune 500 company and get hired the same day. Originally Posted by FreezingTsmoove
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08-21-2013, 06:43 PM #12Banned
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Jeremy Lin is scrub and was never anything special.
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08-21-2013, 08:02 PM #13Future NBA G.O.A.T
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u guys will eat ur words when liin puts up 17 and 10 next year
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08-21-2013, 08:15 PM #14<3 LeBron <3 Heat <3
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Lin sucks and always did. Linsanity was a joke that far too many people fell for. 25 mil for this scrub? Houston done fhcked up. They better find a way to ship Lin and Asik. 2 awful contracts imo. Money get be put to much better use.
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08-21-2013, 08:27 PM #15Knicks all da way
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hes gonna be living off linsanity for the rest of his life
cant hate on him for that though, good for him for capitalizing
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