holfresh wrote:Bonn1997 wrote:holfresh wrote:Is that now the 5th question that now that I have asked you that u never responded to???
If the Knicks are worth well over a billion and it's not like we were going to have cap space, why should I care if Dolan's paying $25 mil over 3 years? Why would I care if that microscopic amount is distributed unevenly among the years either?
You can't moan about Dolan paying Melo 20 mil and say its ok to pay Lin 15...You can't stand on your soapbox and spew lengthy orations about being fiscal, not overpaying, signing value then say Dolan screwed up not resigning Lin, who I think by the way has his fingerprints on those Harden comments from Parsons...
1- Yes, I thought it was a no brainer, it doesn't affect our plans for 2015 if Dolan was going to keep him at 30m for 4 years, 25m for 3 years is no biggie in fact it doesn't affect the 2015 UFA's which I would even prefer
2- I view it as 3 years 24m, while an extension for Melo would be over that for 1year vs 3 years of service in which would effect our 2015 chances of improving if he opts out this summer and resigned, I have said that I don't mind if Dolan wants to pay Melo after 2016 with a player option, I wouldn't mind but we must preserve salary cap to build a core in 2015 with all the UFA's available for the possibility to build a contender WITH MELO
3- I didn't see Kidd, Novak, MWP and Pablo, in addition to trades for Felton, AB, and Camby with those salaries being much over Lin's while I believe Lin would have been more productive than all players, instead of using the MLE for some of these positions including the picks that went with them, we could have used it to address some of our holes
4- Lin was able to get his team mates to play with on both ends very effectively, DESPITE THE LACK OF TALENT, and his teammates were happy with the system and able to play off his ability to penetrate/facilitate with consistency/efficiency, and players were NOT standing around as opposed to Melo initiating our offense. His ability to penetrate/facilitate is much missed, while Felton is on the downhill of his career
5- I did not say Lin would lead us to the promised land but he could have been a player to continue to build on with our lack of ability to add talent because of the new CBA
So you constantly bash Lin because he was coming off the bench with ex Knick's players, coaches, especially when we were winning
Well Lin has shown to be more than a bench player on Houston that we loss for NOTHING because Melo did not want to share the spotlight
Fields and Novak are not playing now but those were the same players playing a large role with Lin here
Why is Melo unable do get the most of his team mates?
Because he isn't that type of player, nothing is wrong with that, but that should be included in deciding his next contract especially with this CBA
His max extension can be 2x more than the starting salary of a max extension of 2 players that are younger
Which other questions did you claimed I dodged?
