^ no offense...but Lin isn't recovering to play some high-school ball....when he plays, he needs to be able to play -- and at a high level -- against the NBA's elite in a playoff-intensity game.
He's not going to go back and play and be in a Chandler Game 1 situation,
nor have any lingering questions about re-injury in a game where maybe the NBA's most tenacious D is going to absolute swarm him.
Lin takes a lot of abuse in general with his game, and all season the refs gave him very little protection.
edit -- it's also preposterous to think that even an atrocious game in the playoffs would sink him from getting a MLE-type deal. 1 game? against MIA? Hah...
(if anything, finance would motivate Lin to play if he isn't truly ready. a good game played by him, let alone a winning game to set up potentially more, carries a much greater positive than the downside -- financially -- of him playing and sucking)
He's not going to go back and play and be in a Chandler Game 1 situation,
nor have any lingering questions about re-injury in a game where maybe the NBA's most tenacious D is going to absolute swarm him.
Lin takes a lot of abuse in general with his game, and all season the refs gave him very little protection.
edit -- it's also preposterous to think that even an atrocious game in the playoffs would sink him from getting a MLE-type deal. 1 game? against MIA? Hah...
(if anything, finance would motivate Lin to play if he isn't truly ready. a good game played by him, let alone a winning game to set up potentially more, carries a much greater positive than the downside -- financially -- of him playing and sucking)