Things have not been very good for Jeremy Lin and the Knicks since coming back from the All-Star Break—it's gotten to the point that USA Today and Christian Post are saying Linsanity is over. Well not so for some entrepreneurial marijuana peddlers in LA, who have concocted a Linsanity strain of pot. And it's Rick Ross-approved!
Really, things have not been good for the team since Carmelo Anthony returned from being injured. CBS gets into the nitty gritty of it all, breaking down Melo's performance over the last seven games to try to understand why things are going so badly for him. But they don't think it has anything to do with selfishness on Anthony's part: "We see a trend where Anthony is either singularly involved in the playset or relegated to a fringe element. The former is a waste of the improved talent around him and what the Knicks have shown when they play with chemistry, and the latter is a waste of Anthony's singular talent."
It's unfair to put all the blame on the bad chemistry between Lin and Melo, but even Melo admitted this week that he wasn't comfortable yet in his new role. Coach Mike D’Antoni calls integrating the two, along with newly healthy Baron Davis and newcomer JR Smith, "a little bit of a transition." The NY Times is worried about that "sudden abundance of talent:"
The hope is that more talent means fresher legs and more production across 48 minutes. But it does not always work out that way in the N.B.A. This may be a case where more is less.
The Knicks only have 27 games left in this shortened season, but the Times is hopeful that "it should be enough for the Knicks to reshape their identity in a season of constant change." Moreover, the Knicks will improve based on the integration of Lin with the rest of the team—and anyway, how can anyone say that Linsanity is dead when there are still people writing columns about "what Jeremy Lin can teach us about dating at the ripe, young age of 23?"
