Going back to last spring, before the Draft, the Nets were unsure that Jeremy Lin would be ready for training camp. He was working hard, but recovery from a ruptured patella tendon is long and difficult.
Lin reinforced that doubt in an interview that ran on the Nets official website July 12. He told Tom Dowd that he was not yet satisfied with his level of explosiveness and that he had not fully practiced in a 5-on-5 or even 3-on-3 format.
“A lot of it is really just seeing how it feels week to week,” said Lin in the interview since removed from the Nets site.