God I'm so sick of hearing this shtick from Lin fans about how Melo/Kobe/Kemba didn't like Lin and they were the reason he's bounced from the league and never achieved his true potential and blah blah blah.
Let's make it crystal fucking clear, Jeremy Lin is a good backup/solid starter, thats it. He's not some superstar that could post 30 points a game if it wasn't for the evil Melo or Kobe or whatever. Lin posts a career avg of 11/3/3, while his Linsanity stats with the Knicks at a 14/6/3. That's not bad. Not bad at all but hardly star status and hardly enough for the Knicks to have to give up 25 million in cap space.
Jeremy Lin doesn't have elite athleticism or excellent finishing ability or a killer 3 pt shot. He never reached the Linsanity era stats again in his career because during his time with the Knicks they just so happened to run exactly the type of offense that Lin thrived in, heavy pick and roll with an uptempo style while letting Lin run the offense. That's not to mention having Mike The point guard whisperer Dantoni coaching the team.
So Lin, with an offense that fit him like a glove + great players in Melo+ Chandler, managed to get 14/6/3. Great. Except then the Houston/Knicks contract situation happened. Then that whole "Dantoni" style of play was sorta phased out by most teams in the league. So now Lin goes from being in the best possible place for him to being stuck in NBA limbo, not good enough to change an offence for but too good for a simple backup role.
ALSO I (personally) think the whole "Jeremy Lin clawed his way from rock bottom to the NBA" thing is just a tad overblown. The guy was a fucking Harvard grad, it's not like he was homeless and picked up playing on the street. Yeah I get it he didn't come from the best neighborhood and he had to fight to get on an NBA roster but you know what? So did 60% of the NBA. Saying Lin doesn't mesh well on teams because he had to claw his way to the NBA is a disservice to other guys who also had rough experiences growing up. Allen Iverson grew up with water and utilities cut off for days at a time, Zach Randolph who didn't have enough money to buy a second pair of jeans, while some like DJ Mbenga and Serge Ibaka had family killed in the wars in the Congo. If those guys could fit in with their teams then you can't "guess it has to do with how he meshes coming from a harvard background and them clawing up through high school and trying to get a college tuition"