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Fine with me. I like Lance Thomas! He doesn't uhhhhh offer much on offense, but he's also not going to ruin things on that end. I love his footwork and multi-positional range on defense, and I was often pleased last season with his degree of hustle and grit and energy and other baseball words. Lance Thomas is not at all exciting, but he works. He seems like a good guy to have around, and a suitable candidate for minutes off the bench. The end of it, ideally!

If Charania's number is correct, Thomas's new contract appears to be a cut above the veteran's minimum, which means the Knicks only have a million or two (plus the room exception) to hand out until they get down to those vet's min deals. Welcome back, Lance!

Two big questions now:

1. Who's next? Lou Amundson? Cole Aldrich? Alexey Shved!?!? (Langston Galloway are with the Knicks unless they get cut.)

2. Who wears number 42, Lance or Robin Lopez!?

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We used CAP SPACE and NOT the vet min to sign him to a 1year deal, while these players signed for vet min

Gereld Green
Wesley Johnson

Jeremy Evans 2year vet min

What is next Lou Amundson for the room exemption?

yellowboy90 wrote:did they really give him over the minimum? IF so that is so stupid.

There's really not a lot that is good out there that warrants more than a minimum that's within the range of the available space. Plus he knows the offense for the most part and adds some depth at SF.

TPercy wrote:What the **** Phil...1.6 million for Lance Thomas? Phil has reached a new level stupid. 1.6 million for a bum to take shots just inside the 3pt line at a 37% clip. Fucking moron.

Phil has a large staff of nba professionals.....vs.....a bunch of snotty nose..beer belly..coach potato knick fans.

blkexec wrote:

TPercy wrote:What the **** Phil...1.6 million for Lance Thomas? Phil has reached a new level stupid. 1.6 million for a bum to take shots just inside the 3pt line at a 37% clip. Fucking moron.

Phil has a large staff of nba professionals.....vs.....a bunch of snotty nose..beer belly..coach potato knick fans.

Coach potato? You are funny.
This was a bad move. There clearly were options better than him out there. What does Lance Thomas bring that warrants that?

TPercy wrote:

wargames wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:did they really give him over the minimum? IF so that is so stupid.

There's really not a lot that is good out there that warrants more than a minimum that's within the range of the available space. Plus he knows the offense for the most part and adds some depth at SF.

Depth? He is a bum.

Yeah, but he's a bum that spent a season in the offense that the knicks as a whole are still learning. Its only 1.6 mil on a 1 year deal so its not like he's being payed a lot for his familiarity with the system. However, that familiarity means in a worst case scenario he could sub and not hurt the offense if an injury happens (IE depth). That has value and if his agent said he wanted more than a minimum for that I wouldn't say his agent was crazy..... and looking at the results neither did Phil.

TPercy wrote:What the **** Phil...1.6 million for Lance Thomas? Phil has reached a new level stupid. 1.6 million for a bum to take shots just inside the 3pt line at a 37% clip. Fucking moron.

You felt the need to put out two such responses and not combine your overreaction into a single post? Somewhat of an immature response, IMO.

When he was playing regularly I thought he did fine.

End of the bench guy...solid citizen, and a guy who seemed to do well in the Triangle. He plays good D and actually showed a shot a times.

Does make some strange plays every now and then, but...he actually surprised me at times. Maybe he looked better to me because I wasn't expecting much, but he and Amundson earned a return ticket based on the kind of play and effort they gave the team last year.

He is also the type of guy who will go hard in practice, I expect, and he'll be a good influence on younger players.

blkexec wrote:

TPercy wrote:What the **** Phil...1.6 million for Lance Thomas? Phil has reached a new level stupid. 1.6 million for a bum to take shots just inside the 3pt line at a 37% clip. Fucking moron.

Phil has a large staff of nba professionals.....vs.....a bunch of snotty nose..beer belly..coach potato knick fans.

newyorker4ever wrote:

TPercy wrote:

blkexec wrote:

TPercy wrote:What the **** Phil...1.6 million for Lance Thomas? Phil has reached a new level stupid. 1.6 million for a bum to take shots just inside the 3pt line at a 37% clip. Fucking moron.

Phil has a large staff of nba professionals.....vs.....a bunch of snotty nose..beer belly..coach potato knick fans.

Coach potato? You are funny.
This was a bad move. There clearly were options better than him out there. What does Lance Thomas bring that warrants that?

We should hurry up and text Phil Jackson and let him know that someone on a message board thinks he's making moves that aren't any good. LOL

So Phil Jackson is immune to making bad moves? You think everything that Phil Jackson has done up to this point has been perfect? Wow.