Jeremy Lin’s boxscore from last Saturday’s victory at Brown seemed a bit anemic, as he got himself in foul trouble early and only played 9 minutes in the first half. He finished with just 5 points, but still had 7 assists, 6 of them in the 2nd half, in just 25 minutes of play out of a possible 40. He shot an un-Jeremy-like 1-for-6 from the field.

This was less than 24 hours after he fouled out against Yale, in what was eventually an overtime nailbiter that Harvard eeked out by three points. In that game, he scored 18 points but had to sit on the bench with his 5th personal foul and still two minutes on the clock, usually the climax of the Jeremy Lin Show — remember, he scored 11 points in the last 1:38 of play against UConn! Instead, Jeremy finished with just 32 minutes played out of a possible 45.

Does this mean his draft stock has plummeted?
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Bob Cousy (click to vote).

In case you haven’t heard, Jeremy Lin is now on the shortlist of 11 finalists for the Bob Cousy Award.

He’s also on the final list of 30 for the Wooden Award, but I’ll save that — or rather, the cross-section of Cousy/Wooden Awards — for another post.

The Cousy Award is given to the top point guard in the NCAA. There’s also a popular vote right now, in which…

The player that receives the most fan votes will receive one vote toward the final committee vote. Fan voting will run one month – beginning February 5 and will conclude March 5.
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Jeremy Lin, pre-game intros, family.

NOTE: This is Part 4 of a four-part series of blogposts. Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 were published in the three days prior. I re-titled this post because I felt it was the most interesting of the four.

From deity to defeated

After Friday night’s win over Columbia, there were hundreds of fans lined up to meet Jeremy Lin, to get autographs and take pictures. He was very accommodating. He was a hero. I could only shake my head and smile in astonishment.

Even the Santa Clara post-game hadn’t been that frenzied, at least from my vantage point, although I did overhear his teammate mentioning autograph-seekers outside the team bus. I think the fans were not found in droves on the Leavey Center floor after the Santa Clara game primarily because of the long post-game press conference. The scene at Leavey ended up being picture-taking sessions mostly with family and extended family, and reconnecting with long-lost former teammates and even former opponents, such as Anthony Goods of Stanford fame, who played against Jeremy in the first home-coming three years prior.

Even as his friend, after the Columbia game it was nearly impossible to navigate the waters just to say hello. At one point, after autographing a sign and some t-shirts, Jeremy was rescued by Coach Tommy Amaker, who called him over from about ten yards away to take pictures with Jeremy’s relatives. Even his flat-mate Cheng Ho (running back for Harvard football team) told Jeremy rather abruptly, “Eh, you’re too popular. I’ll just see you later.”
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