People Jumping Off The Lin Bandwagon After 1 Game Are Assholes
Crazy. Straight mind blowing. It shouldn’t surprise me at this point, but this one did. Hearing people tweet and comment that this was the end of Jeremy Lin blew my mind. Dude loses one game to a team playing the best basketball since the Kobe & Shaq Lakers and people are ready to declare him dead. I dunno if its sarcasm or disappointment or just plain stupidity, but jumping off the bandwagon after Lin has one bad game against the only guy who’s performed better than him the past 2-3 weeks is just downright despicable.
And look its not because I’m saying the Knicks are gonna win the title this year and look back to this moment and say “I told you so.” That ain’t happening. But the fact f the matter is Jeremy Lin in 2 short weeks made basketball in this town relevant again. After a decade plus of complete embarrassment, he brought New York City out of the dark ages of basketball. For God’s sake there was a time I contemplated becoming a motherfucking NETS fan just to have some sort of basketball to watch. Thats how bleak things had gotten for NYC hoops. I was ready to hitch my wagon to Evan Roberts and the New Jersey Nets. Thats about the saddest thing I’ve ever heard.
I have no problem with people jumping back on this bandwagon. I did it. After the torture that Dolan and Isaiah put the Knicks fanbase through for the entire 2000s, getting excited to once again have a likable team in this town is not a crime. Games selling out. Bars going wild. Knicks/Heat have the back pages once again. Everything that we all loved about New York City basketball is thriving again. Its not your typical fair weather, front runner bullshit to enjoy having all that back after everything the fanbase had to endure. So by the same token, bearing in mind all that horrendous suffering and torment for the previous 10 years, how can you jump right back off it at the first big loss? How can you just give up on the one enjoyable team since 1999? Again I’m not telling you this is a championship team. Nobody knows for sure what Jeremy Lin will become. But just for rejuvenating this town and making the franchise respectable again, I think Jeremy Lin has earned the right to have one off game against a team that is head and shoulders better than everyone else in the league.
Thank you A+
Why does this not surprise me? Anyway, the Celtics look awful. I think I’ll just become a Chicago Bulls fan.
You need to tweet at that kid immediately following lins double double he drops the first game back from the all-star break. Retard fuck head knee jerk reaction at it’s finest. The kid is allowed to have a bad game and it didnt come against the fucking hornets, it came against the best team in the league right now that also blew out 7 teams in a row prior by 12 points or more.
the bandwagon ppl should be jumping off of is the STOUDEMIRE bandwagon, he looks like a brittle old man out there… a shell of his former self…. jared jefferies over stat on the court 10:1 at this point sorry to say it
i have a question. why is NYC considered the “mecca” of basketball? it wasn’t invented there. there hasn’t been a good team there in forever. Hasn’t been a championship since 1973. its not like they’re pumping out nba superstars every year and the only relevant player i can remember recently that was born and actually grew up in the city was sebastian telfair. maybe I’m just ignorant/biased about it but id like a solid reason as to why people think nyc is gods gift to basketball.
I am just glad all the Lin Mania took away attention from the Giants Super Bowl win.
Why is jumping off the wagon following a 2-3 stretch knee jerk, but calling this guy an All Star after a 6-0 stretch isn’t knee jerk?
could’ve sworn you said Melo re-invigorated the “suffering NY basketball fanbase” last year?
http://nyc.barstoolsports.com/random-thoughts/the-carmelo-might-shoot-100-from-the-field-tonite-live-blog/
LIN sucks
I think the Knicks cake schedule had a lot to do with their resurgence
When your entire fanbase is a bandwagon you have to expect this. Knee-jerk reactions to Lin blowing it are going to be just as strong as the knee-jerks Lin got when they were winning…. also wtf KFC, how could you think that the Knicks suck but want to root for the NETS? They’re one of the few teams that’s been worse than the Knicks since Kidd left them.
Preach KFC! Preach!
@dasuperking shouldn’t lump in all NY fans about all being “bandwagon”. I agree a lot of bandwagon fans in NY that get all hyped about the stupidest shit. I’ve been a diehard fan of all sports my entire life, I haven’t missed a Giants game since I was 6yrs old. Boston has the same amount of bandwagons and every other major market in the country.
By the way, is BDiddy on an entirely different planet than everyone else? 10 seconds left in the first quarter and he walks the ball up the court, starts setting up with about 3 seconds left, and then bricks 3 from 25 feet out. JLin ain’t got nothing to worry about.
these people are fucking morons. I can’t stand them. Don’t follow the team. No one wants you hear. Were you hear the past 10 years? NO, gtfo!
Stro, considering NY has over 10 times the population of Boston, I find it hard to believe that Boston has the same amount of bandwagon fans.
@dustinbrady Even though I’m a born and raised New Yorker, I couldn’t agree with you more. NYC isn’t a basketball mecca at all. It has (basically) 2 teams and yet still rarely has a team in the playoffs…that’s just flat out pathetic in a league where the majority of teams make it every year. Also, there is nothing specifically great about NY basketball at the lower levels. The college teams are shit (Syracuse doesn’t have dick to do with NYC) and most HS teams in the area are pretty mediocre (with the exception of a few teams in NJ). The only argument for its “mecca” status is that its the home of Rucker Park and MSG, two historic basketball sites, which I guess makes it kind of like the real Mecca which is home to historical sites in that religion all those terrorists believe in. But seriously, it’s a dumb comparison. NYC has shitty basketball. If anything, it’s a baseball mecca (god damn Yankees!). And not to rant, but why the hell is the term mecca used almost exclusively in reference to NYC basketball. You never hear Texas is a football mecca or France is a wine mecca…it’s just a dumb phrase that some fucktard probably uttered in the NY times and people keep repeating.
Not like people jumping on the bandwagon after a game aren’t assholes. Just like Sanchez crown him before they do anything. Guess what Lin Sanchez the jets and the Nba all suck
NYC was at one point considered the Mecca of Basketball because of the amount of Basketball played there. The has always been based in NYC and played at the garden, then You have Ruckers and the Garden, two of the most famous basketball courts in the world, The Knicks and the Nets, as well as The globetrotters who, although gimmicky are very recognizable and basically are responsible for the creation of streetball (And1 mixtape stuff), the sheer amount of NBA players who have come from the city, as well as the fact that there is a court on basically every block.
*NIT has always been based there.
clown sauce youre a moron – ny hs ball is decent? lol we have the best players in the country its just a shame a lot dont get recognized enough. you see jordan henriques from kansas st on top 10 the other day? port chester high school ny. mookie jones on cuse? peekskill. kevin jones wvu, mt vernon.. have you heardof mt vernon hs? they get flown to hawaii to compete against the best in the world every year and nationally ranked and produced a bunch of nba players. you obviously dont enjoy or understand basketball, NYC will always be the mecca. i cant stand the ppl that werent around the past 10 years then decide to talk ball now that the knicks have some wins…get outta idc if youre born and raised shut ur mouth
Straight up retarded ITS ONE FUCKING GAME!!! SNOVAK!!! Blows lines, rips nets
Face it KFC, he’s on the down slope…. bah zing! rimshot!
lin was totally & completely exposed. they basically full court pressed him like a high school game and he just does not have the handles an NBA point guard needs to possess. comparing him to nash is a god damn joke, that guy is a wizard w/ the basketball – in reality lin is an extremely undersized 2 guard with an average jump shot. anyone who plays fantasy knows guys have a great 2-3 weeks all of a sudden & then drop off. he will continue to start at pg cause the knicks have no one else. however the turnovers will continue to pile up and cost the knicks games. do yourself a favor new york and dont rely on him as the future pg of the knicks. shumpert will be better in the long run
- someone with perspective
@postig58 of course i’ve heard of mount vernon, i’m from eastchester you twat wad. they aren’t even good this year. plus, none of those fucking places you just named are in NYC. lower hudson valley basketball looking realllll sick though.
Bandwagon jumping in the media mecca (basketball mecca? that’s sad) of the world? Impossible.
eastchester, that sounds familiar. is there like a female football coach there or something like that? gotta hit up google…