Jeremy Lin dishes 13 assists in win, Linsanity hits All-Star Weekend Jeremy Lin's excellent run of form continued on Wednesday night as he racked up a career-high 13 assists while leading the Knicks to a 100-85 win over the Sacramento Kings. As Cindy Boren reported: Trouble in Linland? The New York Knicks won their seventh straight game since Linsanity took hold of the team, the NBA, LinSPN and the universe, but Jeremy Lin, the undrafted Harvard point guard who started it all, had a relatively quiet game. A group of Taiwanese basketball fans was cheering for Jeremy Lin, an American of Taiwanese descent, on Wednesday night in Taipei, as they watched the New York Knicks beat the Toronto Raptors. There was no three-point game-winner this time and Lin's string of 20-point performances ended at six games. Instead, he - gasp - contributed what his team needed, 13 assists along with his 10 points, as the Knicks beat the Sacramento Kings 100-85 in Madison Square Garden. It was a welcome change, since he was playing too many minutes (averaging nearly 40 over the previous six games) and shooting too much and turning the ball over too often. "As a point guard, my field-goal attempts have been really high," Lin said. I don't think that's necessarily good. I think it's more my job to distribute and get people in rhythm. Hopefully, especially when Melo comes back, another lethal scorer, my shots will go down and my assists will go up. Ah, yes, Melo. Carmelo Anthony has missed the Lin show - as has most of Chinatown and New York City, thanks to the MSG-Time Warner Cable standoff that will someday end with everybody paying more for cable - with a strained groin and could begin playing again Friday. Perhaps he'll be well enough to play in the Knicks" nationally televised game against the Dallas Mavericks at 1 p.m. Sunday. Many commentators talk about Lin overcoming stereotypes about his background in the NBA, but for many the thought of an Asian stereotype being negative at all rings hollow. As Jonathan Zimmerman wrote: I'm an Ivy League graduate and a crazed basketball fan. That gives me two very good reasons to celebrate the meteoric rise of Jeremy Lin, the Harvard-educated point guard who has brought the New York Knicks back to life. But I'm also a university professor. So I'm troubled by the much-heard refrain that Lin - whose parents are Taiwanese immigrants - has "overcome the Asian stereotype." In the popular mind, this story goes, Asian Americans are quiet, studious and really good at math. By scoring 20 or more points in each of his first six NBA starts, including 38 against Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers, Lin supposedly dealt a decisive blow against an insidious ethnic caricature. But isn't that stereotype - especially the part about studying hard - a very good model to follow? Why should anyone want or need to "overcome" it? Here's one sad answer: In our college admissions process, especially, we punish Asian Americans who hew too closely to the stereotype. Rather than rewarding students for their individual effort and achievement, we effectively penalize them for doing so well as a group. In fact, the Education Department is currently investigating a complaint against Harvard - Jeremy Lin's alma mater - for allegedly discriminating against Asian Americans in admissions. The department is also looking at Princeton, where a faculty member's own research has shown that Asian Americans need SAT scores about 140 points higher than white students" - when everything else is equal - to have the same chance of getting into an elite college.