Just Enjoy watching great basketball Who cares about he is Chinese or Taiwanese By the time he got to his postgame news conference, Washington Wizards coach Randy Wittman had already gotten flak from a family member about the way his team defended New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin. His son, Ryan, had played basketball at Cornell and squared off against Lin when the Knicks' point guard was at Harvard. "He told me that they did a much better job of guarding him than we did tonight," Wittman said after a 107-93 loss to New York. "I already had that text message before the game was over. Makes Dad feel good." By the time the media Q&A was over, Wittman had enough Linsanity. "I don't know how you want me to answer ... Lin," he said in response to a question about John Wall's defense. "Lin played a fine game, and that's all I have to say about that." Exit stage left. With Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire unavailable again, Lin chewed up the Wizards' defense with 23 points and 10 assists to lead the Knicks to a third straight victory. With shooters (Steve Novak, 5-for-9 on 3-pointers) and the impeccable screening of Tyson Chandler, a combination of which Wall seemed envious, Lin ran Mike D'Antoni's system to perfection. "If you run enough of them, you'll find something," Lin said of the Knicks' high-screening action. "We put them through, at least, maybe 100 pick-and-rolls. They changed coverages, and we just kept attacking." That brought trips to the free-throw line. New ...
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