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I know youre sicing here, but Ill be serious. I mean the most youve been doing is boxscore watching cause its been hard to catch games even for Houston fans because of the channel switch. Yesterdays game was on NBATV but the first two games you had to search on som obscure chinese streams.

Game 1 I watched (if you can call it that). The stream made jeremy Lin look like Renaldo Balkman so I could barely figure out what was going on--especially since it was in Chinese. Game 2 was better, and I watched most of the game yesterday.

He looks fine right now. He's moving well on both ends of the floor and he just plays with a good pace and energy. There's a marked difference in energy on both ends of the floor when he's not on the floor much like the Knicks last year when he was off the court during "Linsanity".

So far he's done a much better job of playing within the flow of the offense. Hes not forcing things--not sure if its cause he's "learned" or if its because of preseason. The problem with this for me is aggressiveness is his strength. He'll have to find a way to balance the two things.

Opposing guareds have definitely been attacking him hard and making him work on both ends of the floor. I think its good for him right now to get back into shape. Cory Joseph was guarding him full court yesterday so he really had to work.

In the limited sample size, it seems like they arent gonna run as much iso and pick and roll as NY did. His points projection may be down, but its looking like his assists will be up and his turnovers down. His steals will still be there but his rebounding is going to drop.