arkrud wrote:

earthmansurfer wrote:I think going forward, if a player wants to stay with a team, DON'T accept poison pill contracts. You are just hurting your old team by matching.
But, it is about the money. We told Lin to get an offer, so we are to blame there.
Yet Lin shares some of the responsibility. Maybe I'm too much of a human being, but I would not sign a poison pill contract with Houston when I could play in NY.

I loved Lin here and wanted us to match that offer and when we didn't but then spent more money on the Geriatric Bunch, I thought "This was personal."

What if you knew for sure that you could not play in NY?

After the Rockets first initial offer went public. Knicks made it clear to the world that they would match up to 1 billion dollars. This was before Lin was able to sign any contract and directly after Rockets offer went public. So even if Lin felt that way heading into FA. Knicks claiming they would match up to 1 billion dollars sure would put a lot of confidence back on any players mind that they want him. Then after it was all said and done Lin stated that he thought the Knicks would match. The whole Knicks wanting Lin out is thrown out the window. And as Knickcity pointed out the 2nd Rockets publisized offer wasn't really for more money. It strictly was to hurt the Knicks salary cap situation and make them pay up to 50mil in luxury tax when he made the 15mil final yr.

Again I don't knock Lin for it. It was the most money that he was going to receive from anyone since the Knicks could only offer 4-24. It was his first big contract and its not like he was a sure thing to continue to get nba contracts going forward. I give him major benifit of the doubt that he wasn't thinking about the Knicks salary cap stuff when he signed the contract. As that was more for a cap expert to figure out. I also don't believe the Knicks thought a team like the Rockets would be willing to offer a contract like that. They were probably looking more at senarios where a team would offer him 3 yrs 20mil with a player option. Rockets were just extremely aggressive and probably caught everyone off guard.

newyorknewyork wrote:

Syniko wrote:Lin and his Hornets team are off to a good start. He would have been wasted if he came back to New York. He's in a better place, with a better group of guys. No more ridiculous contracts hanging over his head. No more ridiculous expectations hanging over his head. You might just see Linsanity 2.0 happen in Charlotte.

He has looked really good in Charlotte so far in preseason.

He has scored in double figures in all 7 games and Hornet considers him to lead off the 2nd unit. If you could get a player on your 2nd unit to come out scoring in double figures every single game, you'd be pretty freaking blessed to have that player on your squad.

Sangfroid wrote:

Syniko wrote:

newyorknewyork wrote:

Syniko wrote:Lin and his Hornets team are off to a good start. He would have been wasted if he came back to New York. He's in a better place, with a better group of guys. No more ridiculous contracts hanging over his head. No more ridiculous expectations hanging over his head. You might just see Linsanity 2.0 happen in Charlotte.

He has looked really good in Charlotte so far in preseason.

He has scored in double figures in all 7 games and Hornet considers him to lead off the 2nd unit. If you could get a player on your 2nd unit to come out scoring in double figures every single game, you'd be pretty freaking blessed to have that player on your squad.

Are you talking about DWill, or KOQ?

I'm talking about any players on the 2nd unit but since this thread is about Jeremy Lin, I'm specifically talking about Jeremy Lin here.

Jeremy Lin was the 2nd best player on the Lakers roster (even 3rd at best if you want to count Nick Young over him)and Coach Dimwit Scott hated when Lin played well because he was all about tanking. Go figure.

jrodmc wrote:It will never, ever die. A 2-week run in the middle of the regular season is now being compared to a historical post season, record run that has never been done before.

Hopefully Jeremy Jesus is making some coinage off of this...Smurphsanity

http://nypost.com/2015/10/22/daniel-murphys-epic-tear-recalls-the-fleeting-magic-of-linsanity/

I don't understand how the guy can walk on water but has no left

The Lin run was historically unexpected and he dominated for that short span.

Murp is having one of the best postseasons in the history off the sport, but the city hasn't seen anything as unexpected since Lin. I think that's all they are saying

Syniko wrote:

blkexec wrote:

MS wrote:I am a little perplexed why Phil didn't bring the guy in. He is making little to know money and has the ability to go off occasionally and make life easier for people. He is certainly better than Sasha.

The Lin run was historically unexpected and he dominated for that short span.

Murp is having one of the best postseasons in the history off the sport, but the city hasn't seen anything as unexpected since Lin. I think that's all they are saying

Phil doesn't want or need LINSANITY distractions. He just cleaned house and threw away all the clowns. At this point, he's just food for the media to chew on. He's better off in Charlotte for both sides.

Distraction?

Phil had no choice in the matter. He's not the owner. If you could get a guy to explode off the bench producing starter stats, would you chose to pass that up?

So far, Lin has been producing Starter stats for Charlotte Hornets and everyone's too busy worrying about the past. It just goes to show that people really are either prejudice or plain stupid and that's what I'm calling the lots of you clowns on this damn message board.

foosballnick wrote:

Syniko wrote:

blkexec wrote:

MS wrote:I am a little perplexed why Phil didn't bring the guy in. He is making little to know money and has the ability to go off occasionally and make life easier for people. He is certainly better than Sasha.

The Lin run was historically unexpected and he dominated for that short span.

Murp is having one of the best postseasons in the history off the sport, but the city hasn't seen anything as unexpected since Lin. I think that's all they are saying

Phil doesn't want or need LINSANITY distractions. He just cleaned house and threw away all the clowns. At this point, he's just food for the media to chew on. He's better off in Charlotte for both sides.

Distraction?

Phil had no choice in the matter. He's not the owner. If you could get a guy to explode off the bench producing starter stats, would you chose to pass that up?

So far, Lin has been producing Starter stats for Charlotte Hornets and everyone's too busy worrying about the past. It just goes to show that people really are either prejudice or plain stupid and that's what I'm calling the lots of you clowns on this damn message board.

So based on this preseason production reasoning, D Will will play like a superstar this year.

You come out to play and play your heart out.

Preseason does not mean you get to go there and wing it. You can take your 'preseason production reasoning' whatever and shove it where the sun don't shine.