Jeremy Lin agrees to terms on offer sheet [Update: Lin officially signs]

Because you play to win...?

If you're worried about someone holding a grudge against you, you're in the wrong business.

 

Morey wants tax paying teams to pay even more taxes smaller market teams can get more in the tax revenue sharing system. If NYK doesn't match, we have a marketable PG. The team option for the 4th year is key. Because after 3 years, Asik and Lin, the FA pool is deep in 2015.

 

Alienate? Really? If it weren't the Rockets, it would be someone else offering the deal. Pretty certain the Knicks know this.

Even if Lin and Asik are matched, "poison pill" deals are to the minor benefit of the Rockets because of what they do to the payrolls of other teams in two years. Other players will eventually have to be jettisoned to compensate.

 

no, you're wrong. now, we can do nothing and have to wait until 14th of July to explore other feasible solutions on pg position. by that time, we may have no left on the market. mavs was reported to move on sessions. they may have him before we can even sign the offer sheet officially. we are tying our own hands until knicks issue a statement.

i said again and again in the past. i hate these baby steps morey implemented. when you already have a foundation, this strategy is correct. now, we have nothing. we need to gamble instead hesitate. just look at the structure of the offer sheet. if i were morey, i will raise the # to at least 12 for each last year. because the last year is team option, in reality, it is 3 year deal. give him 15 mil in 3rd year is not outeragous. think about frist 3 years total would be 25 mil. Asik got 28 in 3 years. see my point.

 

Um... yeah, I'm gonna be so devastated if we miss out on Ramon Sessions or Aaron Brooks.

 

tell you the truth. knicks definitely appreciate what rox did to them. if it were cuban, knicks would pay tax way more than the offer rox made.

 

Everybody complains about being a mediocre team. Morey decides to blow it up, and people start complaining how we're blowing it up. People complain how the Goran is better than Lin, and complain when Goran sign elsewhere. People complain how Lin isn't worth the same contract offer Goran got, but now complain Morey didn't offer enough to dissuade the Knicks from matching. People complain that Lowry has an attitude problem and he should get traded. He gets traded, and people complain Morey didn't get enough. CF, I tells ya.

 

knicks is much happier than you thought.

 

Also complain how we have a million PF's but no C, and when Morey goes after one of the best defensive bigs in the game, people complain we over paid

 

its no joke. Morey's way of thinking "If I can't beat the other teams by getting better than them, I'll drag them down to my level and beat them with experience."

 

no one complain. if tanking is his goal, he shouldn't waste time and energy on lin. instead, he should look for trade partners to get scola, martin off the team.

 

What baby steps...?

Morey has been chasing the homerun since he got here.

In the last 10 months alone he has traded Martin, Scola, and Lowry (our 3 best players over the last few seasons)... that isn't "hesitating".

Signing Lin to a ridiculous contract he could never possibly live up to is not gambling. It's stupid.

 

Actually, you have it completely backward. If you have a foundation, maybe then you overpay if you think Lin is the missing piece. Maybe then you worry about missing out on Ramon Sessions.

The Rockets know very little about the future backbone of this team, so it doesn't make sense to take the risk - no matter how small - of overpaying Lin and potentially having that as an impediment to acquiring the star you need. And signing Ramon Sessions just to have a body at PG is akin to signing Dalembert last December to plug the hole at center. The Rockets need to either sink or swim, and moves like those do neither. They're exactly what you need to avoid if you don't have a foundation.

 

overpay???

look at asik's offer sheet, 3 year 28 something. well, lin's offer is 19+ in 3 years. since 4th year is a team option. if we don't want him, we don't need to pick it up. we can't ignore it.

 

The reason people advocate tanking is because it's one way to acquire young players with upside. Jeremy Lin is exactly that - he's 23 and had a PER of 20 in his first real season of playing time. It fits the criteria.

PS: Morey is quite capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time.

 

what about asik offer sheet? 3 years 28+ mil. is it stupid?

 

Not comparable situations since there's a premium on big men. Always has been, always will be. If Lin could get substantially more than that, he wouldn't have signed the offer sheet. Thus, going well above 3/19 would be overpaying, by market standards.

 

then, 3rd and 4th year 15 mil is the way to get what you call young with upside. in this way you have good chance to scare off knicks. although i mentioned 15 in 4th year, it really not going to hurt rox due to the team option. if look at asik offer, the report says it is 28 something 3 year. my # is really 25 in 3 year.

 

keep in mind, lin is a RFA. if you follow the market, you have nothing. that's the reason i call wasting every one time and energy.

 

LOL

I tried to ignore this, but I cant.

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The Knicks have NOT been relevant for even longer than we haven't....and they will continue to not be relevant as long as they think Amare the No Defense big man and overrated chuckmeister Carmelo are their franchise cornerstones.

Not even the Almighty Jeremy Lin can save them from that fact.