Linsanity
seemingly came out of nowhere, but it was always there waiting to happen,
waiting for ONE coach to unleash it.
Lin was capable of doing what he did for Knicks for long time. But no coach recognized it and enabled him
Linsanity was there at Palo Alto HS, but college coaches ignored it. It was there at Harvard but no NBA GM saw it & he went undrafted.
Linsanity was there in D-League, but Lin had to bounce around, tossed away like dirty laundry before MDA, who in reality didn't recognize it, either, but just ran out of healthy guards one night and unchained Linsanity from the bench. Once MDA saw what he'd let out of bottle, he ran with it. Give credit to MDA for sticking with Lin.
Linsanity was put back in the evil Genie's bottle after he left NY by three straight coaches who refused to recognize what he could give them, sometimes out of stupidity, other times out of spite.
As a result, writers locked into a negative Lin narrative that said Linsanity was over & Lin was just a backup PG who got lucky for couple weeks.
But, nothing could be further from the truth. Linsanity was STILL there. It never went away.
And now Lin comes full circle, back not only to NYC but to the MDA asst coach who helped shape Linsanity, Kenny Atkinson.
With Lin as starting PG for a coach who'll enable him to do what he always could do since Palo Alto, a better more mature Lin will explode in Brook-Lin.
Linsanity was a word invented by the media to describe the incredible things Lin has been doing all his life on the basketball court.
Linsanity is just Jeremy Lin. Allowed to be at his best. Period.
