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

Best quote I have seen for a while!

 

Gladly, if it means more Rocket Wins.

 

Thanks. I appreciate it. Felton is a doughnut eating chucker. I can't stand him. LOL

 

I came across this article today. It does seem that Felton was playing above his level for the first month but has slowly reverted to his mean.

Not saying Felton isn't good. I do think he's probably a better fit for Melo-led Knicks team. But even the Knicks forums complain about how many shots he takes.

That comparison of Raymond Felton and Jeremy Lin, Updated

 

The way felton is playing right now, i can see him going to the bench when shumpert gets bsck.

 

Do the Knicks even have any elite perimeter defenders besides Shump? Because Kidd is too slow at this point and Felton can't really be said to be elite, and Prigi is only a rookie (as well as getting old).

 

Yeah... I thought when I pasted that tweet it would show the date. It's from early Dec, and I just thought it was funny since the dude's already right.

 

Brewer? I don't know.

Shump is coming back from ACL surgery too. Don't know how that will affect his lateral quickness.

 

Ohhh good point. Granted, part of Shump's effectiveness was his quick hands and long arms (and his hands are huge), but conditioning the muscles around the knee would be interesting.

I think it would be less an issue of pure quickness/explosiveness, which comes more from the hamstrings, as it would for directional changes (ie. compensating for fakes), which comes from more around the knees.

I mean it took Lin up to even now to get that conditioning back and he didn't have nearly as bad an injury. (Granted, he seems to be on-track with how long it took Chris Paul to come back from a similar injury to Lin's)

 

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/artic...parison-raymond-felton-and-jeremy-lin-updated

 

Ive been hard on the dude but i have to give him credit. He is starting to play a lot better. I hope he can keep it up on this monster road trip we are bout to hit. Lin has such good character that if someone wants him to fail, there has to be something wrong with them.

 

A very fair article. It's possible for some players to play well with a chip on his shoulder, but not many can continue for a full season based on this alone. It has to come from within. Felton's inner-mentality is to take the easy/lazy contested 2pt shots as opposed to work hard to get into the paint to create contact or higher percentage shots.

He also did well for roughly half a season under D'Antoni, but reverted back to his true self.

I recall reading an article where Felton said he worked out religiously for the first time in his career in the offseason. FIRST TIME in CAREER at 29, and only after a disastrous couple of seasons, returning to Knicks and trying to take on Linsanity.

 

Fatty Felton with 7 points, 0 assists, and 4 turnovers in 25 minutes of a humiliating loss to the Bulls.

Felton's ceiling = Jeremy Lin's floor comments now more apt than ever.

 

Damn. I have him on fantasy basketball

 

Kirk Hinrich 16 points, 8 rebounds, 7 assists, and 4-5 from 3 so far

 

Ray Felton is in much better shape than last year, but he loves his cup cales too much. In my book, in some area, they are even but over all below Lin.

 

Dude has a history of getting worse as the season goes on. I'd probably trade him after his next good game if I were you.

 

man felton has man chi chis.

 

The Knicks are slow and old and shump is their only chance. Ive been saying this all year. Let Melo have his 35 but take away everyone else which is easy and you will beat them. Kidd is SOOOOOO Slow.... they have been falling for a month....they will be out no later than second round