I remember when going after Dragic was considered settling for scraps vs. someone like Deron Williams. How times have changed.
People keep making threads to call out posters while being wrong in the first place. First Linn is better than Flynn. Thats true Second Dragic is as good as gone Third Linn is to replace Dragic being gone and thats not guaranteed if the Knicks match Fourth he helped make you draft pick lower on the Knicks as well as highlighted the bad decision to let him go in favor of Flynn. These are all unchanged facts regardless if we resign him for 30 million dollars after releasing him the year before.
If it's any consolation, I wasn't mad when he was released back then and I would still prefer Lowry. But whatever happens happens I guess, I don't really care as long as he produces.
I'm not complaining because it is for PR purposes. I'm complaining because we're going to have to overpay him to get the Knicks to let him go, and we already have a good, affordable PG on the roster that management does not seem to be even attempting to keep. I'm also complaining because without a superstar, Jeremy Lin is just another piece to lead us in mediocrity. Until we get a star, the last position we need to spend money on is PG.
We definitely could have, should have, would have. As Carl pointed out though, people were going coo-coo for coco puffs with this guy before, and now, 'Nope, don't want him. Not worth it.' Ha, it is what it is.
Dragic is serious about wanting 10 million per season and somebody might be crazy enough to give him that. Lin can be had for what we wanted to play Dragic (around 6-7M per). At the end of the day I think Dragic is better than Lin as well but why are you making a big deal about us exploring a backup plan to resort to in case we really do lose Dragic? Consolation or not there's this thing called a budget.
if Lowry is the piece we need to move in order to land a superstar then the argument of Dragic vs. Lin becomes moot to me...
they are pretty much same. period. whoever asks less will be rox. plain and simple. why do you keep saying dragic is better than lin? it doesn't make any sense to pay 2 or 3 more mil just for a player no difference from other player. none of them is a superstar who we can build on.
I agree with this. Still doenst change the past mistakes on Lin if we resign him though. It only corrects the mistake of losing Dragic after cutting Lin in the first place.
It is a combination of things... 1) We should have never let him go in the first place, so trying to sign him makes it sting a little more. 2) Getting Lin means losing Dragic. 3) Sample is not large enough to justify the contract we would be offering him.
He wouldn't have even seen the court till Kyle got sick. Who knows if he would have performed the same after sitting on the bench that long. I don't think half a season, which ended with a knee injury, deserves a 8 m/yr contract. I WANT to Sign Dragic for 6-7 m/yr and tell Kyle it was his job to lose, but that wouldn't fly so I don't see the point in signing Lin -- who I don't think is near as good at this point as Dragic -- for another 1-2 m/yr? The only scenarios I am okay with are signing Dragic or keeping Lowry.
The conundrum, conundrum, is that the market for Lowry was set. And so is the one for Lin. In-sanity, eh? BTW - - how much added value is there for Dragic or Lin because it makes Lowry a tradable ASSET? I'd guesstimate an additional 20%. You?
too many variables there to even get into bottom line is whether its Lowry, Dragic or Lin manning the point, this team still needs a Superstar
By resigning him you admit it was a mistake and prove peoples points right about what they said back then. Does it not? Not only does it prove them right. It admits those mistakes Morey made on Lin to begin with. So they can have their cake and eat it too if they want. Maybe Lins injury history scares people a little? Maybe his production although high is a little inflated. Lets agree it was a mistake to let him go now. Obviously we are to let Dragic go to inflate that mistake if we do not land Lin and Knicks match us.
i feel the same. He's not good enough to maintain linsanity and fed off the support and hype. Cutting him can be forgiven because of the circumstances at the time. He was unknown and unproven. The linsanity experience has probably given him the confidence to start anywhere in this league, but 8 mill is too much too soon.
