Play well for five games?
Could be just about anyone.
This Lin stuff is WAY premature.
Anybody remember when Flip Murray broke out at the start of the '03-'04 season? Ray Allen was out for the start of the season, so Flip Murray got to step in as the starting shooting guard for Seattle. For the first 11 games he was averaging 24ppg, and this was after averaging only 1.9ppg in 14 games the season before.
I wonder if there were any "let's trade Pierce for Murray" threads back then.
Hey LarBrd33, do you remember what the buzz in Seattle was like at the time?
Lin's doing a lot more than just scoring though.
The man who deftly picked him up in our fantasy league would say that
I don't know, through the first 11 games for Flip Murray in '03-'04 he averaged:
23.9ppg, 50% fg, 39% 3pt, 65% ft, 4.3rpg, 4.4apg, 1.5spg, 0.6bpg, 2.9 to, 1.5 assist/turnover
Lin's averages over the last 5:
26.8ppg, 52% fg, 18% 3pt, 74% ft, 4.2rpg, 8.0apg, 2.0spg, 0.2bpg, 4.6 to, 1.7 assist/turnover
Except for assists (but it equals out somewhat when you consider assist-to-turnover), their numbers look pretty similar to me. Let's see how Lin's numbers look at the end of the season.