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发帖数: 9501 | 1 In this great but divided land of ours, there's but one thing on which we
can all agree: Jeremy Lin is not underpublicized. There is no immediate
danger of Lin being relegated to the small print, or being ignored on the
nightly highlights. The man is a full-blown phenomenon, but you already knew
that.
Still, if you want to know how crazy this whole thing has gotten, don't ask
Lin. Ask Peter Diepenbrock.
Jeremy Lin and his Palo Alto High School teammates won a state title for
coach Peter Diepenbrock.
Diepenbrock coached Lin at Palo Alto (Calif.) High School, and Friday
morning he received two calls from San Francisco television stations. They
wanted to know where he would be watching that night's game between the
Knicks and Lakers. He told them he'd head over to a local tavern with a
couple of Lin's former high school teammates. Lin scored 38 points that
night and three guys watched it with a camera trained on them. Television
magic was made.
Think about it, though: People wanted to watch him watch Lin. Is there any
greater testament to the level of craziness? And despite Diepenbrock's
relationship with Lin -- they text every day -- it's worth noting that he
watches a game the same way the rest of us watch a game: passively, in a
manner that is not especially telegenic.
It doesn't matter, though. Diepenbrock didn't have to do anything else. The
mere sight of someone watching Lin is newsworthy. Right now, no angle of the
Jeremy Lin story is too obtuse to investigate. Too much is not even close
to enough.
"It's been crazy for me," Diepenbrock says. "I can't imagine what it's like
to be him."
Diepenbrock is funny, profane and blunt. He's enjoying his moment. He won a
state championship Lin's senior year, and the turning point came when the
coach -- who admits to being "as anal as any coach, ever" -- sat his star
player down and said, "Let's tell it like it is. I'm the defensive
coordinator; you're the offensive coordinator. Just get it done."
And what Lin is doing now as a Knick is exactly what he did in high school:
repeatedly come off a high ball screen and let his instincts get it done.
From Diepenbrock's perspective, the world is seeing Jeremy being Jeremy.
Mason & Ireland
Jeremy Lin's high school coach Peter Dipenbrock calls in to talk about Lin's
high school days. Is everybody talking about Jeremy Lin just because he is
an Asian-American? Are you buying the Jeremy Lin-sanity?
"But what about the fearlessness?" Diepenbrock asks. "What about having the
[male parts] to [bleeping] take on three guys, including a 7-footer? And how
about doing it when your entire career is on the line?"
You know how people from an athlete's past always say they saw it coming?
They never, ever doubted, and now they can't believe it took the rest of the
world this long to catch up? Well, Diepenbrock isn't one of those guys.
Never did he believe he was coaching an NBA player when he had Lin in high
school. ("No, no, no," he says.) And when no big-time program -- not even
Stanford, the one across the street -- thought enough of Lin to offer him a
scholarship, Diepenbrock really didn't have a problem with that.
"I wasn't sitting there saying all these Division I coaches were
knuckleheads," Diepenbrock says. "There were legitimate questions about
Jeremy."
Peter Diepenbrock never expected to be watching Jeremy Lin light up the
Lakers.
Diepenbrock starts to say something else, then stops. "I already got in
trouble with Jeremy for saying this, so I probably shouldn't," he says. Then
, a few seconds later, he says, "Oh, what the hell. I'll say it anyway and
get in trouble twice: Jeremy was not a good practice player."
Really? The hard-working kid from Harvard, undrafted, cut by two NBA teams -
- not a good practice player? Go ahead: shatter our dreams.
But wait. Diepenbrock's not finished. After a year at Harvard, Lin returned
to Palo Alto and asked his old coach, "Can you work me out?"
"Now?" Diepenbrock asked. "I was here every day for three years, and now you
want me to work you out?"
Lin, ever the pragmatist, said, "Yes, because now I know I need it."
From that point on, a workout fiend was born. During the lockout, Lin's
schedule read like a brochure for Navy SEAL BUD/S training:
10-11 a.m.: Agility training
11-noon: Weight training
1-2: Shooting work, with private coach
2-4: Individual work
Lin played whenever he could, which meant playing in Sunday morning pickup
games with his two brothers and joining Diepenbrock's night-league team. "I'
m a 48-year-old fat guy working on my jumper, and my night-league point
guard is the talk of the NBA," Diepenbrock says. "If you knew who this guy
is at his core -- it's such a real story, so good it's unreal. When he was
in high school, if there was alcohol at a party, he'd immediately turn the
other way. He's such a good person."
Lin's mother, Shirley, would sit in the stands an hour before Jeremy's high
school games, thumbing through a sheath of opponents' boxscores. There wasn'
t a lot of basketball history in the family; Lin's parents are Taiwanese
immigrants who adopted basketball because their sons did.
"Jeremy is 6-3, and that's just a fluke that nobody can explain,"
Diepenbrock says. "The others are like 5-6 and 5-7. But I'll tell you one
thing: All three Lin brothers come off an on-ball screen the same exact way.
" Joseph Lin, generously listed at 5-11 and 135 pounds, played 16½
minutes a game as a freshman guard at Hamilton College this season.
The only time Diepenbrock had a problem with the Lin family was when Shirley
would approach him and say, "Coach, Jeremy has an A-minus in math. I don't
think he's going to be able to play this week."
Diepenbrock says, "You know how parents tell their kids they can do anything
? Most people just say it to say it, but Jeremy's mom lives it. Because of
that, Jeremy's always had this ridiculous confidence level. A friend of mine
said, 'The way Jeremy's mind works, he's probably wondering why this didn't
happen last year.'"
The undercurrent to the Jeremy Lin hysteria seems pretty simple: Get it all
out now, all the disbelief and superlatives, because there's a good chance
it won't last. Solid reasoning, since the specter of Carmelo Anthony's
return threatens to turn the Knicks back into a typical trudge-and-drudge
NBA team.
Doesn't matter, though. The world will always have the past 10 days, and
Diepenbrock will always have one particular moment. It happened in the
Knicks-Lakers game, early, when Lin and Kobe Bryant were running downcourt
together, trailing the play, neither part of the action.
Kobe reached out and put his hand on Lin, not a shove but not a tap, either.
More than anything, a message. You know, a pecking-order thing.
Diepenbrock's voice starts to rise and accelerate as he talks about what
came next.
"Jeremy swiped his hand away," he says. "It was like, 'Get the [bleep] away
from me.' And that moment, man -- that was Jeremy. He's a nice guy, but he's
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