Los Angeles Lakers point guard Jeremy Lin might be having a hard time helping his team win games, but his strong play as of late shows that he can really get the job done.
Averaging at least 12 points and 5 dimes per game, the 26-year old Lin has slowly shown his true abilities in the past few games for the purple-and-gold.
Lin produced at least 14 points and 6 assists in the last five games, and he's also coming off his second double-double game of the season with an 18-point and 11-assist effort against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday.
According to Basketball Reference, Lin is also having efficient shooting year as he is making 62.5 percent of his shots from 10 feet when his defender is 4 to 6 feet away from him and 50 percent when he is completely wide-open.
The former Harvard hot shot has also improved his field goal shooting (49 percent), three-point (38 percent) and effective field goal clip (55 percent), while putting up 1.1 steals and 2.8 rebounds per game in 30 minutes of playing time - which is a quite low usage rate for a starting point guard.
Lin believed his new found confidence in his game has something to do with his impressive play as of late, adding that good things happen when he stays aggressive on the floor.
On the other hand, Byron Scott wasn't happy at all in seeing his team committing 'bonehead' mistakes over and over again. The Lakers head coach lambasted his players for their lack of focus in Friday's 120-119 loss to the T-Wolves.
The Lakers were leading for the majority of the night, until former UCLA shooting guard Zach Lavine led a furious Wolves rally to snare a rare win at Staples Center.
"We made some bonehead plays," Scott told the press after seeing his team lose to the Timberwolves via Fox Sports. "We just made a ton of mistakes. Mental mistakes. Things we talked about doing. We just didn't do them.
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