Jeremy Lin News: Rockets' Coaches Were Losing Faith in Me, Talks 'Linsanity'

What a difference a season can make.

After a whirlwind 2012 with the New York Knicks culminating in the birth of “Linsanity” and ultimately a $25 million deal with Houston, Jeremy Lin admits his play became so inconsistent last season he actually thinks his coaches lost faith in him.

Speaking at a Dream Big, Be Yourself youth conference in Taiwan earlier this week, ESPN reports Lin told audience members “I became so obsessed with becoming a great basketball player ... trying to be Linsanity, being this phenomenon that took the NBA by storm. The coaches were losing faith in me; basketball fans were making fun of me. ... I was supposed to be joyful and free, but what I experienced was the opposite. I had no joy, and I felt no freedom."

Lin, 25, struggled throughout his entire first season as a Rocket, averaging just 13.4 points and 6.1 assists a game. He even missed two games during the team’s playoff-round loss to Oklahoma City nursing injury.

According to ESPN, in the end Lin told the estimated crowd of 20,000 campers he had no one to blame but himself. "I was ready to invigorate the entire city of Houston," he said, imitating that he may have put too much pressure on himself. "I was supposed to save Houston basketball."

A devout Christian, Lin later told the crowd that he has leaned on his faith in order to reassess priorities. “The one thing I learned was how empty fame and worldly success really are,” he said. “The desire for success never stopped. If the voice that you listen to the most isn't God's voice, then eventually you will experience that emptiness, confusion and misery that I felt when I listened to the voice of Linsanity."

 

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