Nalod wrote:ChuckBuck wrote:Nalod wrote:
No linsanity, no playoffs for knicks last season.Playoffs?
Rockets are not a playoff team. Lin is not a 20mm player.
He got one year huge money. It was not a value contract, it was a poison pill.
Why the "good riddance" from so many? Lovers so insecure we have to kick every player who leaves to the curb hoping they don't come back to haunt the decision?
What, no more AR love? Darko Love? MDA blame run out so we have to pound our chest now hoping Felton is the new savior at PG?
End result is Knicks botched Losing Lin. He was a knick and now he is gone without compensation. Laying blame on Lin is comical. Knicks should have locked him up. In a world where results matter, the ending result is we let him slip away. There should have never been a poison pill. Give him a nice deal before free agency and tell him if he don't sign he can walk. If he walks, there is no back end 15mm poison pill because Knicks are out of it.
Like I said, he never should have gotten away or let him hit free agency. Maybe 100 reasons why we don't keep him and they may be valid but its not the result we wanted. Knicks wanted this kid. We lost him. Fail.
Thus the Knick idiocy legacy continues.
We don't need Felton to be our savior, it's a team game. But I can guarantee you he will play more than 25 games unlike some flash in the pan.
Since accuracy counts: Lin played 35 games. He started 25. I don't know how many DNPs but knicks are 24 games into the season when The Linsanity started agasint the nets. Think he got his first minutes
He played well for Woodson on a bad knee.
He had one month to get into playing shape.
He had no camp. Team traveling its not easy to get in playing shape.
He has had all off season to get into starters minutes kind of shape.
Being a free agent put him into a crazy situation.
Lin did what he did. Bottom line is we let him go when we intended to keep him.
We fought for his bird rights. We told the world we wanted him. We told teh world he starts.
So lets not go "flash in the pan" kind of talk.
We botched it up. Why? Cuz our intentions did not come to fruition. He is not on the roster?
Blame Lin? By the sounds of it we never made an offer until he was told to go find a number. Now we say "he never wanted to be here"? Comical. Its reported Dolan didn't want him to play in the playoffs so he could just get healed. Every sign internally and media reported was we would match all offers. Thats because the knicks figured his value. Knicks did not anticipate the poison pill. So the net effect, Lin is not here.
Thus its a fail. Forget Kidd and Felton and Pablo because this is not where we were going.
Shyt happens. Its still a fail.
He broke down is not a valid reason to "good riddance". The poison pill should never been offered because he should have been locked up.
Anything else is a failure. It happens. ALl teams fail. Orlando failed to keep its superstar. Boston Failed because they basically gave away Joe Johnson to PHX. Dallas Failed to evaluate Nash and let him walk so they could sign Dampier. Golden State failed to evaluate Lin's potential. Houston wiffed on him also. Knicks saw it right in front of them. The whole world saw it.
You saw it. Lin was ready to sign for like 5-6 mil and rockets knew we'd match, so the put in the pill. I can't say for sure but you give lin that 5-6 mil a year early enough in the process we keep him.
Im speculating of course. I do know the intended PG for the Knicks, a kid who still needs further developement and work on turnovers is a great prospect still and showed the clutch gene in the hot media spotlight.
We failed.
What team lets a talented prospect get away? Who lets a talented kid even get to the point a team offers a poisen pill? One who does not evaluate properly or makes decisons on emotion.
Since accuracy counts: Lin played 35 games. He started 25. I don't know how many DNPs but knicks are 24 games into the season when The Linsanity started agasint the nets. Think he got his first minutes were at game 17 in Charlotte. I was at that game.
Team is 9-15 when linsanity starts.
So lets say: 66 game season, minus 17, is 51 and he plays 35 of those games before going down. Thats not quite as snarky as "He only played 25 games and we should give him 15mil in one year?"
If we never wanted him thats one thing. KNicks did. Knicks lost him, thus failed.
Maybe its not the end of the world and the team is still going to be good.
Rooting for the team to succeed is one thing. Defending a failure is pointless homerism.
Despite it all, the team fortunes are still strong given the size of the fanbase.
Do you understand that the Knicks were limited to offering 5 mil per year but could match another team's offer? They couldn't, "Lock him up'. Grunwald has proven to be a very shrewd man that understands this cba. If he could have locked Lin up he would have.
