If you read All Game you would have known . . .

.  . . that the excitement gripping greater New York, as well as much of the sports world,  over the performances of recent Knick acquisition Jeremy Lin had been anticipated by the lintensely Ivy-centric  linner circle of Paulie B.   Back on Friday January 29, 2010 our crew visited Levien to check out the buzz surrounding  the Crimson’s senior leader,  a Taiwanese (the media seems ever more scrupulous about this adjective ) American kid from the Silicon Valley who studied computer science and the back door cut.  There was already chatter about NBA possibilities for the guy, so my peeps and I, along with at least 2500 other bball lovers,  linvestigated.  Jeremy was not his free wheeling Knick to be self that night.  Listed at 6′ 5″ , he clearly wasn’t  that tall.   Essentially playing point forward, he made one of the two treys he launched, but his jump shot mechanics were quirky and he seemed much more comfortable driving the lane than playing outside.  Very nice first step for the Ivies but was he quick enough and did he have the hops to make a living doing that at the next level?  Even assuming he made the leap, I doubt any of us expected anything like the explosion of the past 10 days.  As the always perspicacious hoop analyst Daniel from Park Slope commented – “Kinda unbelievable.”   In  any case, back in late January of 2010, having scored 14  points, dished 2 assists, grabbed 2 boards and accumulated 3 personal fouls in a mere 24 minutes,  he returned to the bench to watch his mates rout that version of the Lions 74-45.  Lindigestion enough.

Peace out, paulie b