The Houston Rockets have a revamped roster post-trade deadline, and one player that's going to benefit from it extremely is point guard Jeremy Lin.
In the first year of a three-year contract he signed over the summer, Lin has been generally disappointing. Last year's "Linsanity" has only come in spurts, as the Harvard grad is averaging just 12.8 points and 6.2 assists per game, though he does rank fifth with 1.9 steals per game.
This can be attributed to one simple fact. Prior to the deadline, the Rockets' roster was not fully stocked with players who were ideal fits for head coach Kevin McHale's run-and-gun offense. Save for Lin, James Harden and Omer Asik, plus the ever-adjusting Chandler Parsons, everyone else was essentially a poor fit or a weak one, especially Patrick Patterson.
As a result, Houston's offense became fairly predictable. Since Asik is still a raw offensive talent, Lin opted to let Harden run the show most of the time and only scored and passed as necessary rather than get into full playmaker mode. Without a reliable stretch 4, the Rockets seemed destined to be a merely average team.
As we have seen through ...
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Jeremy Lin Will Thrive with New-Look Rockets Roster
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