JamesLin wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:This sentiment does not strike me as valid. Our big 3 have played in 88% (you must be joking) of the games this year. When you add that Lin fell into our laps, we've had very good luck overall.

Hmm.. good point. Our big 3 has been playing healthy 88%. Lin only counted for 2 weeks of excellence. You better put the pipe down man. We've had bad luck overall. Lost coach, lost starters, lost our rosters and got new one, our bench players were not healthy either. Davis didn't come til later. Iman didn't perform like this at beginning except spotting scores. If you think we've had very good luck, then your life must be miserable in order to say that. You sir, are not valid.

jrodmc wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

JamesLin wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:This sentiment does not strike me as valid. Our big 3 have played in 88% (you must be joking) of the games this year. When you add that Lin fell into our laps, we've had very good luck overall.

Hmm.. good point. Our big 3 has been playing healthy 88%. Lin only counted for 2 weeks of excellence. You better put the pipe down man. We've had bad luck overall. Lost coach, lost starters, lost our rosters and got new one, our bench players were not healthy either. Davis didn't come til later. Iman didn't perform like this at beginning except spotting scores. If you think we've had very good luck, then your life must be miserable in order to say that. You sir, are not valid.

First you say good point, and then you say I am not valid? Talk about being all over the place! Lin counted for only a few weeks but we would not be in the playoff mix without that stretch. I doubt our bench players have had more injuries than most team's benches. You seem to be showing fan bias.

I believe brother James was being sarcastic with the "good point", unless of course you're being sarcastic by asking about why he said "good point", in which case you are really real, Bonn.

Shump's been out, Jorts been out, Fishlips, BD's uniform still has creases in it, TD's been out (not that anybody cared), Bill Walker, now Jordan (not that it matters) other than JSmith, who hasn't been hurt on the bench? Bibbles don't count.

Shump's played 90% of the games. We got BD injured. The other guys? OK, maybe 7 through 12 we've had bad luck.
If you were to tell me at the start of the season that, on the one hand, Chandler (a guy with an injury history) would play at DPOY level for 58/60 games, our big 3 would play 88% of the games, we'd get Smith and Novak (who both stayed healthy), and Linsanity would fall in our laps, and on the other hand, Jeffries, Jorts, Douglas, and Walker would have significant injuries, I'd say sign me up.

We also had some incredibly good luck in landing our PG-of-the-future off the junk heap of the NBA and finally getting out from the lackluster leadership of MDA. I liked the "idea" of his offensive scheme, but I think at this point it has proven itself too inflexible to win at a consistent rate in the NBA without an MVP-calibre PG running it. Also, I doubt it would ever find success in the playoffs due to the lack of defensive focus.

IMO, our good luck so far exceeded our bad luck this season, that we should consider the Knicks well-positioned for next year.

Bonn1997 wrote:This sentiment does not strike me as valid. Our big 3 have played in 88% of the games this year. When you add that Lin fell into our laps, we've had very good luck overall.

Not sure how well you did in math in school but its 83.88% of the games.

Bonn1997 wrote:

JamesLin wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:This sentiment does not strike me as valid. Our big 3 have played in 88% (you must be joking) of the games this year. When you add that Lin fell into our laps, we've had very good luck overall.

Hmm.. good point. Our big 3 has been playing healthy 88%. Lin only counted for 2 weeks of excellence. You better put the pipe down man. We've had bad luck overall. Lost coach, lost starters, lost our rosters and got new one, our bench players were not healthy either. Davis didn't come til later. Iman didn't perform like this at beginning except spotting scores. If you think we've had very good luck, then your life must be miserable in order to say that. You sir, are not valid.

First you say good point, and then you say I am not valid? Talk about being all over the place! Lin counted for only a few weeks but we would not be in the playoff mix without that stretch. I doubt our bench players have had more injuries than most team's benches. You seem to be showing fan bias.

Good point Bonn

Though not a good point.

BigRedDog wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:This sentiment does not strike me as valid. Our big 3 have played in 88% of the games this year. When you add that Lin fell into our laps, we've had very good luck overall.

Not sure how well you did in math in school but its 83.88% of the games.

Not sure why you need to be snotty but you're right; it's 84 not 88%. Still sounds average or better than average relative to most teams' top 3 in this season, and we've had our outstanding 3 intact for most of the games.

jrodmc wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

JamesLin wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:This sentiment does not strike me as valid. Our big 3 have played in 88% (you must be joking) of the games this year. When you add that Lin fell into our laps, we've had very good luck overall.

Hmm.. good point. Our big 3 has been playing healthy 88%. Lin only counted for 2 weeks of excellence. You better put the pipe down man. We've had bad luck overall. Lost coach, lost starters, lost our rosters and got new one, our bench players were not healthy either. Davis didn't come til later. Iman didn't perform like this at beginning except spotting scores. If you think we've had very good luck, then your life must be miserable in order to say that. You sir, are not valid.

First you say good point, and then you say I am not valid? Talk about being all over the place! Lin counted for only a few weeks but we would not be in the playoff mix without that stretch. I doubt our bench players have had more injuries than most team's benches. You seem to be showing fan bias.

I believe brother James was being sarcastic with the "good point", unless of course you're being sarcastic by asking about why he said "good point", in which case you are really real, Bonn.