crzymdups wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

RonRon wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

Jmpasq wrote:I thought Novak was worth max 2.5 a year. I was thinking 3 years 7 million, 2 years 5 million something like that.

it's $3.5M per year for a guy who led the NBA in 3pt% and knows and fits the team. not a bad deal.

its really not and I can't blame Knicks financial problems on him.
I am unsure of this move because if JR doesn't resign, we could be just a little short of having the full 5m MLE to use, if we can trade for Kidd.

But players Danny Green, Gary Neal, Randy Foye will cost probably the same or less.
While they are much more complete players.

Is more complete the same thing as better? Are you sure it's better to be mediocre in many areas (Neal, Foye) than the best in the nation in one and below average in the rest (Novak)?

agreed. sometimes building a team is better.

and i love how people are conveniently ignoring the fact that we can't pay players from other teams $3.5M right now because we're over the cap.

and we're LUCKY we were able to win bird rights for novak and re-sign him.

Agreed, and I'm glad to see him back. I think he earned his check. Adding Kidd and having Lin back will only mean more opportunities for Novak.

Even though JR can handle the ball and create his own shot I can't think of a singe game I didn't want to scream at him for making a stupid play. He's very streaky and often makes poor decisions and stupid fouls when it matters...gives me Nate Rob flashbacks. Again having Kidd and Lin to make those decisions will help JR too... but out of the two, Novak is the safer option. Novak can shoot the lights out on any given day and now we have the PGs to get him open shots so with his skill it's pretty safe to say he'll remain a valuable asset. And another thing about Novak was that he said all along that he wanted to be in NY and play here whatever it takes...he could have gotten paid anywhere despite his playoff performance but he chose to be here. Does JR want to play here? He seems ambivalent despite being a Jersey guy. We don't know how committed he is...and while ultimately I do think it would be good to have him back, I don't think the money we can offer is exactly convincing. I still can't believe the Raptors are going to pay Fields 20mil...

Caseloads wrote:

MS wrote:Agreed 2.5MM is his market. Overpaying for a guy that does one thing exceptionally well. You would think that a guy that could barely get open in the playoffs would have not commanded almost 4MM per, but whatever.

yeah, he could not score a point in the playoffs. wow. overpaid by a lot.

you mean the playoffs where the knicks had no PGs left? is it any wonder a guy who doesn't create his own shot struggled?

crzymdups wrote:

Caseloads wrote:

MS wrote:Agreed 2.5MM is his market. Overpaying for a guy that does one thing exceptionally well. You would think that a guy that could barely get open in the playoffs would have not commanded almost 4MM per, but whatever.

yeah, he could not score a point in the playoffs. wow. overpaid by a lot.

you mean the playoffs where the knicks had no PGs left? is it any wonder a guy who doesn't create his own shot struggled?

he was open a lot, he just can't hit a shot with a player closing him out (wade running at him)

Caseloads wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

Caseloads wrote:

MS wrote:Agreed 2.5MM is his market. Overpaying for a guy that does one thing exceptionally well. You would think that a guy that could barely get open in the playoffs would have not commanded almost 4MM per, but whatever.

yeah, he could not score a point in the playoffs. wow. overpaid by a lot.

you mean the playoffs where the knicks had no PGs left? is it any wonder a guy who doesn't create his own shot struggled?

he was open a lot, he just can't hit a shot with a player closing him out (wade running at him)

Were you watching? He was NEVER open. Novak hit shots all season with guys running at him. Miami had Wade attached to him all series. Compound that with not having any dribble penetration at all and you had an extremely stagnant offense. Only thing that could have helped was if JR was able to hit a good percentage of the wide open shots he had.

tj23 wrote:The difference with Novak and other good shooters is that Steve is always on. He's extremely consistent and he can still get his shot off quickly even with defenders closing on him. He doesn't rebound or defend well but he is fundamentally sound. He boxes out and is a smart, willing defender. I might go as high as full mid level. I think he's a rare type of role player, not just any old spot up shooter.

With Lin and J Kidd at PG I am not too worried about a repeat of the Heat series. We also have Camby backing up Tyson - this is HUGE. If Stat moves to 6th man our second squad would be insane. He will probably start regardless but there are some nice possibilities here.

Full contract for what he brings, but not ridiculous.

As much as a leader Kidd was brought here to be, we needed skill, and if we had signed a useful player like Bayless instead or even Delfino (making Novak expendable)

2 extra draft picks that we actually could use as assets in addition to the 3 draft picks used to get rid of Camby and Novak, SO 5 EXTRA PICKS

Those 2 moves, later becoming 3 moves, would allow us to be much in a much better situation for yesterday, today, and tomorrow
We also could have had the full 5m MLE last summer, instead of the 3m MLE if we did not trade for Camby and resigned Novak