2015 When Jeremy Lin joined Hornets , two of the first three games were against the Hawks at home and away respectively. In those two games, the Hornets lost by a slight difference. In the first season of Jeremy Lin signing a three-year contract with the Nets, the Nets played the only three-game winning streak of the season in the last ten games, and even scored a 50% victory rate. They played against the Hawks at home and away games for two consecutive Mondays, and both won under Jeremy Lin’s control. The Hawks were still the playoff team in those two seasons, but after interrupting the record of reaching the playoffs for ten consecutive seasons last season, the Hawks chose to break up with Mike Budenholzer, signed with the new coach Pierce, and spent nearly $200 million to renovate the home court with a 19-year-old age. At the same time, they continued to trade players and continued to rebuild the project. Jeremy Lin, who had been injured for a year, came to Atlanta at this time. How will it help the Eagles at this stage?
To be fair, Jeremy Lin's arrival has certain value to the Eagles both on and off the court. Let’s talk about off-court business operations first. Although the Hawks had the strongest single-season 60 wins under the leadership of Baden Hoze, their sales performance has not met expectations. In recent years, they have been actively improving their home box office through various means. For example, when the jersey design was fully updated and the retro team recognition was reintroduced, the head of the team's ticketing department claimed at the seminar that season tickets and jersey sales were rising. But after the record collapsed last year, the Hawks' basketball operations department had to find topical operation points in the new season, and Jeremy Lin would be one of them.
In the past, the Hawks were a strong team in the East District when point guard Tiger led. After he left, Schroeder was not going well. Jeremy Lin has the experience of success in the Hornets, and the Eagles are willing to take a gamble. According to the latest issue of the US social survey, there are about 47,000 Chinese people in the Atlanta metropolitan area, ranking 16th among major metropolitan areas in the United States. Compared with the teams that Jeremy Lin has been with, the consumption potential of Chinese people here is indeed not as good as that of Chinese cities such as New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles , and Los Angeles , and half of them than Houston. Although the market size is not large, according to Jeremy Lin’s previous experience in Charlotte, even in , North Carolina, where the Chinese population is relatively small, Hornets Public Relations has publicly affirmed the box office suction brought by Jeremy Lin. After Jeremy Lin’s transaction was announced, the traffic of the Eagle’s official social media has increased significantly. For example, IG and and Twitter have increased. The benefits are not amazing at this stage, but it has given the Eagle’s sales team room to operate topics.
From the perspective of team combat effectiveness, Jeremy Lin has obvious risk factors, from his age, injury to his habitual playing style, which also makes him an uncertain spare tire for the Hawks. Originally, the main function of Jeremy Lin’s transaction case was one of the team’s preliminary preparations for sending away the main star point guard Dennis Schroder. Jeremy Lin joins the team's backcourt lineup, rather than buying insurance, it is better to say it is a gamble. Before the one-year contract expires, Jeremy Lin's substitute experience will be used to help team rookie Trae Young adapt to the professional arena. Although it is not expected whether he can adapt to Pierce's tactical system, Jeremy Lin's three-point ability will make up for Schroeder's original shortcomings. Even if Jeremy Lin's on-field efficiency and offensive and defensive role decline due to his age, and his injury recovery is worse than expected and he cannot play, such a bet will not become too much burden to the team.
Speaking of the Hawks' tactical system, since Pierce was the first year as head coach, everything is still unknown. We can only understand the focus of the Hawks' new season and the possible cooperation entry points of Jeremy Lin from his past experience. Pierce is a defender and is very young. She is only 42 years old this year. She studied Santa Clara University in college. She worked with Hall of Fame point guard Steve Nash and led the team to the top 16 in the country twice. With the gorgeous and comprehensive main attacker Nash present, Pierce's role can only focus on defense and oppress his opponent with excellent physical fitness and athletic power. This also became his thinking orientation when he later entered the NBA system as an assistant coach.After Pierce took over the new position, he immediately stated in the media that his coaching system would focus on defense. Judging from the data, Jeremy Lin cannot be said to be good at defense, but his awareness of assisting defense and ambitions have always been very strong, and his positive defensive attitude and communication are not fully presented by the commonly used defensive data. Judging from Jeremy Lin's defensive efforts in the past, having him on the court as one of the defensive propulsion engines will indeed be helpful to Pierce, who wants to push the defensive team building.
Pearce spent five seasons in 76ers, assisting head coach Brown (Brett Brown) to complete the reconstruction, and bring the team back to the playoffs and national focus step by step. During the process, Pierce dominated the defensive layout and rebounding system of the 76ers. Brown occasionally asked Pierce to directly issue defensive instructions with tactical boards during the timeout. The players also had good reputations about Pierce's ability and attitude, which is also the main reason why he was able to win the roster of the four final candidates. The Hawks hope that he can use his rich breeding experience like Badenhoze before and successfully bring out a new generation of strong teams. In 2013, Badenhoze also stayed in the Spurs system for 17 years, and came to the Hawks to serve as head coach for the first time, and won the strongest record in team history in the second year.
If you want to talk about personal friendship, the relationship between Pierce and Jeremy Lin is relatively far away. Pierce once joined the Warriors coaching team in the 2010-11 season, and that was Jeremy Lin's first NBA season; Pierce, who also came from California, had a university alma mater of less than 20 minutes away from Palo Alto High School where Jeremy Lin attended, but the proximity of these teams to geopolitical aspects, apart from bringing some off-court topics, it did not have much direct help to the cooperation between the two on the court. However, Pierce was a rookie who was not selected and only played professional basketball overseas. Such a ronin background really makes him more willing to know strange players in depth and give them more opportunities to play in the defensive team. Jeremy Lin's leader in the lounge has always had a good evaluation. With him in the team, he can also help the new team gather and integrate.
Finally, judging from the cooperation of the player lineup, although the list of the new season has not yet been finalized, there are still several discussion topics. Travis Schlenk, the current general manager of the Hawks, is actually from the Warriors system. The intersection between him and Pierce is regarded as one of the elements that dominates the head coach's personnel case. Schlank is known for his vision of evaluating the potential of players. He helped the team sign back-end rookies such as Draymond Green as the vice president. According to his team-building philosophy and evaluation logic, before the start of the next season, the Hawks' roster still has a lot of room for adjustment and possibility of change.
After Jeremy Lin’s transaction case, the Hawks then traded Schroeder to the Thunder in the past few days and bought out for Carmelo Anthony’s contract, allowing him to join the Rockets, and signed Pacers forward Alex Poythress with a two-way contract. Looking at the Hawks' current player list, the average age is less than 23 years old. Jeremy Lin, who will turn 30 in August this year, will be the oldest player on the team. Among the main players of the teams who are similar to Jeremy Lin’s age are his future scoring partner Kent Bazemore, and Dewayne Dedmon in the penalty area. Other forward players from last season, such as Taurean Waller-Prince and John Collins, are very young, among which Collins is just 20 years old. Such age distribution is actually not far from the previous Nets. The age gap and mutual adaptation should not be a problem for Jeremy Lin.
Hawks center Dedmon was also a player who was signed by the Warriors and quickly gave up. After the 76ers, Magic and the Kings wandered around, the Hawks made significant progress last season. This season, I can really appreciate Jeremy Lin.
From the perspective of tactical play, who can play pick-and-roll with Jeremy Lin during the offense? After being injured, Jeremy Lin, who has just returned, may be affected in terms of explosive power and breakthrough speed, and he needs the cover of his teammates to create opportunities.Although the Hawks still do not see the obviously efficient pick-and-roll configuration and internal and external combinations, the jump shots of several forward guards are not bad, and they can also catch the ball and shoot after shifting in a single gear. Jeremy Lin's assist ability may have the opportunity to play in such a lineup. The Hawks' rankings in the next season are at the bottom of the league. For most of Atlanta's main fans, Jeremy Lin is neither a special medicine to save the record nor an important highlight of the new season's game. But based on Jeremy Lin's past performance and successful experience, perhaps he can help the team bottom and rebound, just as he led a vote of marginal people to surprise him when Nick led a vote of marginal people.
For Jeremy Lin, the eagle that has been regarded by all walks of life is already at the bottom of the valley. Any development and numbers above the bottom in the future will be a surprise to earn. Without the pressure and burdens that everyone expected, it will also help Jeremy Lin return and adjust after being seriously injured. The Eagles are so bleak that they may be more suitable for Jeremy Lin’s team playing style. With his current experience and qualifications, although he is not a recognized leader and cricket star, the lounge culture and leadership style he worked hard to run when he was at the Nets have gradually fermented. Even if Jeremy Lin is not on the court in the future, if he can bring such an atmosphere and culture to Atlanta, it will be a win-win situation for him and this young team.
