I'm not sure if you're a glutton for punishment or self infliction, but you should quit while you're ahead because you're embarrassing yourself.
You need someone to agree that Mike's system had something to do with Lin... I'll throw you a bone and agree.
But that's anecdotal. Obviously Lin has the skills (and had them without the help of Mike) to be successful in most any system.
1) Lin's demonstration of his decision making has superseded Mike's system. Why do you think the high % numbers increased? Logic.
2) Why do you think Mike COULDN'T transform umpteen guards prior? Logic.
3) Why do you think we shot 40+ threes in games prior? Logic.
4) Why do you think 6'10 Jorts shot more threes than anything? Logic.
Please stop wasting everyones time. We know you have an unconditional love for Mike. Its ok. But you can NEVER convince us that Mike's sysem deserves more credit than we already gave it. Never. Your attempts are futile.
i suggest you google logic. or undonditional love. when he refused to play lin i was on board with firing mike soooooo i guess youre 100% off on that point. i've said this before you cannot take any one positive or negative result and arbitrarily attribute it to a reason that suits your needs.
1) where is your proof that lin would be successful in any system? the closest i can find is his time in GSW where he did absolutely nothing. do not confuse this with proof that it is all dantoni, it is merely contradictory to your notion that jeremy lin would succeed anywhere. yes, they have steph curry but he does not play 48 minutes and there is nobody else on that roster that you can say "lin should never play over him." if he was good enough to turn any team around he would have at least been a successful backup to curry.
2) if some other coach turned douglas or shumpert into a pg you may have a point. until we have a similar situation with another coach turning these guys into pgs, the failure to do so cannot logically be attributed to mda. where is your proof that toney douglas will ever be capable of dribbling without looking down the whole time? has he ever shown an ability to keep his dribble and avoid traps or bad shots?
3) how were we supposed to get high % shots against the heat? in order to put this on lin you need to have samples showing that mda will have players chuck 3s regardless of his pg situation, and that lin can come into some other coach's offense and decrease the number of 3s taken. all we know is that lin + mda is better at getting high % shots than mda without a pg and lin without dantoni. who are you to decide which is better when there is no proof lin will come into any situation and decrease the number of low % shots?
4) there are three reasons for jorts shooting 3s. a big that can shoot 3s makes it easier on the other big in the lane and he shot well enough that a defender has to contest his shot, he is an underrated shooter and there was no one to create higher % shots for him. if he comes back and plays with lin and still shoots more bad % shots than high % shots you can deduce that either mda or jorts is at fault (or some combination of the two), not that lin is the difference.
its easy to manipulate evidence to point to conclusions you want but i've made it very obvious that we cannot be certain which factors attribute to our recent success more.
maybe youre better with math than words. have you ever heard of linear systems of equations? lets say mda is x and lin is y. w represents success and l represents losing.
mike without lin this year is not successful, therefore
x + 0 = L
on the other hand, lin has never done anything at the pro level with any other coach
0 + y = L
the combination of lin and mda works
x + y = W
try to use any of the 3 methods (elimination, graphing, or substitution) of solving this system and tell me whether x or y is of bigger significance.