I have watched every Knicks game this season. Bottom 3 defensive teams made the NY scrubs look way better than they are.
If you gave Dragic primary control of the ball in a(n) D'Antoni run offense I wager he could put up similar numbers over a stretch of games.
Mike James had a fluke season, so why not? Ramon Sessions finished the last month of the 08 season averaging 11 assts a game, including 3 consecutive games of 12/13, 20/24, and 25/14. The next year, he had a similar finish, but "only" averaged 12 and 6 for the year. Maybe Lin isn't a fluke, but we've seen players blow up like this before and never make a career of it.
Without Morey waiving Lin, there wouldn't have been a chance for him to play with our current lineup... He did Lin a favor.
If Lin was rated accurately his entire career, he would have been a highly rated prospect throughout high school, attended a Div 1 major program and played heavy minutes (including in the spotlight of the NCAA tournament), been a NBA draft 1st round prospect his entire college career, been drafted in the top 20 picks and given a chance to start with whichever team picked him up from the get-go. It feels nice to see the forces of ignorance and racism that have worked against Lin for the past, oh, 10 years being proven wrong.
If you watched every Knicks game this season and still can't see the difference between the team offense with Lin and the team offense without Lin, I'd say you must watched the game with your feet.
we're like point guard U over here.(minus flynn)So I'm not worried about it. the only thing i'm worried about is that the bricks will conquer the bucks for the final 8th playoff spot. Not all hope is lost though, the 'superstars' will be returning soon.
Easy there fella, you don't want to look like glenrice. I have watched 0 games of the knicks game and I know Lynn is not a scrub . he carries a team to those three wins and jukes John wall and smashes it with epic crunkness.
LOl and exactly how many tweets would that response take? Lin would have already retired by the time he's done. Regarding Lin, if I was DM there was a 100% chance I would have cut Flynn and kept Lin. However, its hard not to fault DM for this move for the following reasons: 1. Lowry's the main pg, Dragic's the backup, AND in a pinch Twill can play the pg spot too. Flynn and Lin are basically 4rth string pgs, from the Rocket's perspective it wasn't much of a loss. It only looks bad cuz the Knicks picked him up, and we have a vested interest in them sucking. If some other team picked Lin we wouldn't be devoting the time of day to this guy. 2. Flynn was making around 3.5M, Lin was making 100K or something ridiculous like that. This means not only does Flynn have value as a pg prospect, his contract also turns into a nice expiring which is a good backup plan in case Flynn sucked. Cutting Flynn would have guaranteed Alexander would have to pay FLynn his salary no matter what, while also making us lose his expiring contract. 3. Explain to your boss why you just gave someone 3.5M guaranteed so you can keep the 4rth string pg. P.S. DD why do you hate Lowry so much? Is it because he ran your pet Brooks out of town? You've got to be kidding, first you're saying Rubio is better than Lowry, and now you're saying Lowry and Lin are about the same?
Clutchfans could have told him that keeping Flynn over Lin was a mistake. Many people, me included, regretted he was let go.
I would suggest that what you're seeing has more to do with not having Carmelo and Amare as ball stoppers on the court. The Knicks are running and freewheeling with their scrubs. The offense just looks better when they're not force feeding two players. I'm not trying to take anything away from Lin he has played well and improved his game tremendously but I'm pretty sure this is more of a blip on the radar than a representation of how he is going to play once defenses start keying in on him.
Oh well, now Morey has to explain to his boss why he let a starting quality PG who makes less than 1 million go for nothing.
I‘'m not denying Melo and Amare might have something to do with it, but the game when they played against Nets, Melo and Amare both were on the court with an off night, yet the team offense was better than the Toney Douglas days.
This. He would never have gotten the same chance he's getting in NYC. He might have gotten a few minutes in the few times Lowry has been out, but probably not enough to show what he's showing now. ... And even if he did, we'd just be left with a major logjam at point. I guess we'd potentially have another good trade piece in a best-case scenario.
Absolutely not true. Novak was the offensive spark in the Wiz game, he was giving out automatic assists. Game was more in favor of the Wiz before Novak's 3s. Lin took over and finished the game, but had a poor start.
True.. I think it worked out for both parties... sucks now that Klow is hurt though.. Flynn to the rescue!! :grin:
