Knicks' Felton says no doubt he’s better than Rockets' Lin

Which world you live in? The entire Knicks organization, including Wooden, came out and said that would match Houston's first offer for Lin. Carmelo Anthony, Tyson Chandler, and Coach Woodsen met with Lin over dinner just before the start of free agency to convince Lin that the team wanted him back as the starting PG. You must be one if those LOH's, irrationally biased with putrid hate.

Here are a few links for you to educate yourself on facts before spewing your unmitigated hatred on Lin.

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/knicks/wood_director_NBAdxmWjed3dMohGTmg8vL
http://www.tmz.com/2012/06/25/jeremy-lin-new-york-knicks-video-coach-mike-woodson-carmelo-anthony/
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8179341/nba-jeremy-lin-six-degrees-separation-lin-camp

 

If Novak knew that Lin was not coming back to the Knicks, he wouldn't resign with the Knicks. He's the one benefited the most from the Linsanity run.

 

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You don't think in a competitive environment one person getting the best of his counterpart is constituent to overall team success?
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You know better than that, man. Need I remind you of this:

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That was all about Hakeem getting the best of Robinson. And it sure as hell was in the best interest of Houston that Hakeem had that extra fire.

 

Lin is a Rocket, so we should cheer for him as the Rockets fans, but there is no need to put Felton down at the same time.

Felton sucked big time in Portland, but he played really well for the Knicks before the Melo trade, that's why the Knicks felt very comfortable to sign him this summer. So far this season, he has proved they made the right decision.

 

Impact players like Hakeem are far and few in between. Felton, in his best days, can perform nowhere near the Dream.

I strongly believe (and I know you do, too) that individual player would contribute the most to the team when he puts his personal stats aside. Players like Felton who thinks too much of himself usually don't know the very essence of team ball.

One player getting the best of his counterpart does little to the team when he is thinking only about "getting the best of his counterpart".

Back to my original point, is Felton's obsession with being better than Lin a good thing for NYK?

 

With regards to your last question, I believe it is a good thing since it contributes towards his drive to play well. But h2h? I think he tries a little bit too hard then.

 

Thank you for highlighting my point.

It is never a good thing when your main focus in the game is to outshine your counterpart (i.e. the player, not the team). Felton would serve his team better by not trying to "embarrass" Lin.

 

Hue hue hue wouldn't trade Lin for c3po

 

it seems to me that you are too much focused on stats and measurable individual players qualities...basketball is a team sport...and remember this all the current stats measures gonna be outdated one day...and people would look back to today and had their asses laughed off....

 

This shouldn't even be a debate. Felton is a better player than Lin and is on a better contract than him too. You LOF need to take the homer blinders off.

The real comparison is Rafer Alston vs. Jeremy Lin. Rafer had a couple of good seasons in Miami and Toronto before coming to Houston and playing like garbage too.

 

Felton sucks.

 

Felton learnt a lesson . Don't smack talk. Unless u are 100% sure that lin is a noob. Bet it stings now for him.

 

Wait, why are we comparing Raymond Felton with Hakeem again? What an insult to the Dream for even mentioning Felton in the same sentence.

 

Yes. Hakeem could do that. So could Micheal Jordan, Lebron James or even to a lesser extent James Harden, Tracy McGrady, many other great scorers over the years.

But no, Raymond Felton can't do this. You know why? Because he's Raymond FREAKING Felton.

 

Allen Iverson, John Stockton, Gary Payton... future, or current HOF PGs that has stats, but 0 rings. Parson is a team player, he could of score 50 points if he was selfish against the Knicks and Lin could of score 20 points, if wanted to jack up 20 shots each night. I don't think it was a fluke that we beat Bulls and Knicks because the Rockets are playing family ball and JLin will lead them.

 

You are basically saying that past doesn't count, current doesn't matter, and in the future you will be right, based on what?

You said you wouldn't trade Lin with CP3, simply because you are NOT a GM, while every single GM and his/her grandmother would make that trade without any hesitation.

CP3 brings tangibles and intangibles, on and off court. He's been the leader of his teams with incredible consistency. Nothing wrong to love and support Lin, but to claim such bold statement was based on basketball sense or team success, is beyond sense.

 

Not to mention comparing Dream with Felton is inappropriate, but Dream didn't go at Robinson at the cost of the team. Dream was the focal point of Rockets offense, and he totally humiliated Robinson, within the offensive flow, and more importantly, led the team to such important WINs! Just imagine, if Dream had finished with the same stat line, but the rest of the team were totally thrown out of sync, and they had lost, would such performance of Dream still that memorable and defining?

Remember when Amare unhappy about Yao's popularity, and decided to go one on one against Yao? He was blocked again and again, missed terribly in the post, and caused the winning Suns to lose that game on the end. Same thing happened to Howard as well. That's not competitive player getting the best of his counterpart, but rather letting their egos negatively affect the team success.

Although Felton is nowhere near Amare or Howard, his bond-headed one on one effort to take Lin also contributed to Knicks' loss.

 

He's probably even more fired up now to go at Lin again at MSG.

Just leave Parsons open.