nixluva wrote:Even the BEST GM's in history have bad moves on their record!!! Right now we don't know what this will end up being so there's no way to grade the move. We can only wait and see what Phil does. He obviously thought long and hard about it and this was his final decision. There's no way he doesn't know all of the ramifications of picking up options verses not picking them up. This is literally all he and his staff have to do so i'm sure they talked it over and over weighed against other options and this is what they decided.

No Nix Phil and the Trust

Paper, Rocked, Scissored Larkin's option

The whole wait and see approach is part of your MO

You love to see what ends up happening only then

To fit or change the narrative into an absolute positive slant

Some moves are discernible in a Proactive state

But if moves are judged in Reactive states

Then it would have been nice of you to have taken

The same stance when we traded for Bargnani

You know zip your lips until we knew for sure

Vmart wrote:If he leaves he leaves. I wouldn't get to worked up about it.

newyorknewyork wrote:

F500ONE wrote:

knickscity wrote:His option wasnt picked up because no matter how he plays...Phil has no intention of keeping him. Makes the Calderon deal even sillier.

I think it's a smart move overall

Of course Phil Jackson has final say on things

So if he decided not to pick his option

Up then obviously it's a good move because he can do no wrong

It's "In Phil We Trust" right?

Or should it be followed by "No Matter What"

More like lets see the end result before we come to a conclusion.

smackeddog wrote:

fishmike wrote:what bugs me about it is it eliminates any chance of continuity. Look at the elite teams. They develop and bring people back. How does a renta-year player whos essentially a rookie help us. Why do we bother investing in this guy?

Yep, first all-out dumb move by Phil since he took over. Fisher likes him, and seems committed to developing him- why let him walk? Whats the point in spending all year teaching the triangle, if we're not going to bring any of the players back?

knickscity wrote:

newyorknewyork wrote:

F500ONE wrote:

knickscity wrote:His option wasnt picked up because no matter how he plays...Phil has no intention of keeping him. Makes the Calderon deal even sillier.

I think it's a smart move overall

Of course Phil Jackson has final say on things

So if he decided not to pick his option

Up then obviously it's a good move because he can do no wrong

It's "In Phil We Trust" right?

Or should it be followed by "No Matter What"

More like lets see the end result before we come to a conclusion.

But we already know the result now...unless Larkin accepts 1.7 from this team, he wont be back no matter if he play well or not.

The end result is what Phil is able to accomplish by not picking up Larkin's option compared to if he had picked up Larkin's contract. This we will most likely not know until the off season. Larkin can play out of his mind for the rest of the season, but if not picking up his option leads to someone better or a better circumstance then Phil ended up making the right decision.

All the knowledge that we know Phil knows as well. They have been talking about it for a few days so there must have been a lot of thought put into it over the last few days and he came to this conclusion. There must be a reason that this decision was taken over the other.

knickscity wrote:

newyorknewyork wrote:

knickscity wrote:

newyorknewyork wrote:

F500ONE wrote:

knickscity wrote:His option wasnt picked up because no matter how he plays...Phil has no intention of keeping him. Makes the Calderon deal even sillier.

I think it's a smart move overall

Of course Phil Jackson has final say on things

So if he decided not to pick his option

Up then obviously it's a good move because he can do no wrong

It's "In Phil We Trust" right?

Or should it be followed by "No Matter What"

More like lets see the end result before we come to a conclusion.

But we already know the result now...unless Larkin accepts 1.7 from this team, he wont be back no matter if he play well or not.

The end result is what Phil is able to accomplish by not picking up Larkin's option compared to if he had picked up Larkin's contract. This we will most likely not know until the off season. Larkin can play out of his mind for the rest of the season, but if not picking up his option leads to someone better or a better circumstance then Phil ended up making the right decision.

All the knowledge that we know Phil knows as well. They have been talking about it for a few days so there must have been a lot of thought put into it over the last few days and he came to this conclusion. There must be a reason that this decision was taken over the other.

That can be said of any move by any front office, but the end result in this situation involves the player, not what he's replaced by or if at all. It's shortsighted to limit the capability of keeping any player without an evaulation done first. Unless you think keeping a player at 1.7 is gonna cost the Knicks a free agent.

newynewy

Proved my point with his statement of

"I'm 100% sure Phil knows what he's doing"

Once again Phil could come set his house on fire

After kidnapping his family and he'd say

"I'm 100% sure Phil knows what he's doing"

It cracks me up some fans dig their feet into the ground to this degree

F500ONE wrote:

knickscity wrote:

newyorknewyork wrote:

knickscity wrote:

newyorknewyork wrote:

F500ONE wrote:

knickscity wrote:His option wasnt picked up because no matter how he plays...Phil has no intention of keeping him. Makes the Calderon deal even sillier.

I think it's a smart move overall

Of course Phil Jackson has final say on things

So if he decided not to pick his option

Up then obviously it's a good move because he can do no wrong

It's "In Phil We Trust" right?

Or should it be followed by "No Matter What"

More like lets see the end result before we come to a conclusion.

But we already know the result now...unless Larkin accepts 1.7 from this team, he wont be back no matter if he play well or not.

The end result is what Phil is able to accomplish by not picking up Larkin's option compared to if he had picked up Larkin's contract. This we will most likely not know until the off season. Larkin can play out of his mind for the rest of the season, but if not picking up his option leads to someone better or a better circumstance then Phil ended up making the right decision.

All the knowledge that we know Phil knows as well. They have been talking about it for a few days so there must have been a lot of thought put into it over the last few days and he came to this conclusion. There must be a reason that this decision was taken over the other.

That can be said of any move by any front office, but the end result in this situation involves the player, not what he's replaced by or if at all. It's shortsighted to limit the capability of keeping any player without an evaulation done first. Unless you think keeping a player at 1.7 is gonna cost the Knicks a free agent.

newynewy

Proved my point with his statement of

"I'm 100% sure Phil knows what he's doing"

Once again Phil could come set his house on fire

After kidnapping his family and he'd say

"I'm 100% sure Phil knows what he's doing"

It cracks me up some fans dig their feet into the ground to this degree

That wasn't me that was nyker4ever. I know the matter of who says it isn't the point, just clarifying. #2 according to you Phil has ****ed up every move he has made so far which cracks me up as well.

newyorknewyork wrote:

F500ONE wrote:

knickscity wrote:

newyorknewyork wrote:

knickscity wrote:

newyorknewyork wrote:

F500ONE wrote:

knickscity wrote:His option wasnt picked up because no matter how he plays...Phil has no intention of keeping him. Makes the Calderon deal even sillier.

I think it's a smart move overall

Of course Phil Jackson has final say on things

So if he decided not to pick his option

Up then obviously it's a good move because he can do no wrong

It's "In Phil We Trust" right?

Or should it be followed by "No Matter What"

More like lets see the end result before we come to a conclusion.

But we already know the result now...unless Larkin accepts 1.7 from this team, he wont be back no matter if he play well or not.

The end result is what Phil is able to accomplish by not picking up Larkin's option compared to if he had picked up Larkin's contract. This we will most likely not know until the off season. Larkin can play out of his mind for the rest of the season, but if not picking up his option leads to someone better or a better circumstance then Phil ended up making the right decision.

All the knowledge that we know Phil knows as well. They have been talking about it for a few days so there must have been a lot of thought put into it over the last few days and he came to this conclusion. There must be a reason that this decision was taken over the other.

That can be said of any move by any front office, but the end result in this situation involves the player, not what he's replaced by or if at all. It's shortsighted to limit the capability of keeping any player without an evaulation done first. Unless you think keeping a player at 1.7 is gonna cost the Knicks a free agent.

newynewy

Proved my point with his statement of

"I'm 100% sure Phil knows what he's doing"

Once again Phil could come set his house on fire

After kidnapping his family and he'd say

"I'm 100% sure Phil knows what he's doing"

It cracks me up some fans dig their feet into the ground to this degree

That wasn't me that was nyker4ever. I know the matter of who says it isn't the point, just clarifying. #2 according to you Phil has ****ed up every move he has made so far which cracks me up as well.

Nope

I like the Travis Wear signing

I like him not picking up Shane's option

I like the fact they didn't talk to Shump about extension

Unfortunately he's done some things that were absolute head scratchers

F500ONE wrote:

newyorknewyork wrote:

F500ONE wrote:

knickscity wrote:

newyorknewyork wrote:

knickscity wrote:

newyorknewyork wrote:

F500ONE wrote:

knickscity wrote:His option wasnt picked up because no matter how he plays...Phil has no intention of keeping him. Makes the Calderon deal even sillier.

I think it's a smart move overall

Of course Phil Jackson has final say on things

So if he decided not to pick his option

Up then obviously it's a good move because he can do no wrong

It's "In Phil We Trust" right?

Or should it be followed by "No Matter What"

More like lets see the end result before we come to a conclusion.

But we already know the result now...unless Larkin accepts 1.7 from this team, he wont be back no matter if he play well or not.

The end result is what Phil is able to accomplish by not picking up Larkin's option compared to if he had picked up Larkin's contract. This we will most likely not know until the off season. Larkin can play out of his mind for the rest of the season, but if not picking up his option leads to someone better or a better circumstance then Phil ended up making the right decision.

All the knowledge that we know Phil knows as well. They have been talking about it for a few days so there must have been a lot of thought put into it over the last few days and he came to this conclusion. There must be a reason that this decision was taken over the other.

That can be said of any move by any front office, but the end result in this situation involves the player, not what he's replaced by or if at all. It's shortsighted to limit the capability of keeping any player without an evaulation done first. Unless you think keeping a player at 1.7 is gonna cost the Knicks a free agent.

newynewy

Proved my point with his statement of

"I'm 100% sure Phil knows what he's doing"

Once again Phil could come set his house on fire

After kidnapping his family and he'd say

"I'm 100% sure Phil knows what he's doing"

It cracks me up some fans dig their feet into the ground to this degree

That wasn't me that was nyker4ever. I know the matter of who says it isn't the point, just clarifying. #2 according to you Phil has ****ed up every move he has made so far which cracks me up as well.

Nope

I like the Travis Wear signing

I like him not picking up Shane's option

I like the fact they didn't talk to Shump about extension

Unfortunately he's done some things that were absolute head scratchers

Head scratchers to you because you don't have all the available information that he does. Its fun to play arm chair GM and all, but you get a little too full of yourself sometimes.

All I'm saying take some mindfulness training let it play out first.