THAT CAN'T BE TRUE! MOREY ONLY LOOK AT STATS! THERE IS NO FAKE STAT! FIND IT! FAKE PER 48 MINS?! FAKE PER?! ADJUSTED FAKES PER POSSESSION?! NOWHERE TO BE FOUND!!! FAKERRRRRR!
This is a good read. His personality and approach should fit in nicely after the departure of Lowry and Scola.
I wonder if the Rockets had actually kept Lin on the roster last offseason and cut Jonny Flynn, would he still be a member of the Rockets today? Assuming he ended up playing well enough to get the same contract, would the Rockets be able to afford that 3rd year at a $15M cap hit? It still amazes me how the contract the Rockets ended up giving him was miles better than the deal they would have been forced to match.
If they kept Lin and everything else in the alternate universe stayed the same, Lin would have gotten only backup minutes after Lowry's injury. He might have proved himself a capable backup by then. If so, he probably would have re-signed at a backup price.
So you're saying we lost out on maybe $5M in yearly cap space, but gained a ton of national notoriety and re-strengthened our foothold in the Chinese market.
I think it means that JLin does not yet know Houston and wasn't ready to drive himself. I am sure Volvo want him to be seen in their cars as much as possible.
Who knows - maybe the kid's development would have been better in that alternate timeline. Backup minutes for a year and a half or so - filling in the legitimate holes/weaknesses in his game during. Not half as exciting though.
If the Rockets had kept Lin over Flynn, he'd probably would have to battle for backup minutes at both the guard spots. He may also have had to prove his worth during the summer league this past July. As Lin would say, NY was a blessing in disguise because it was a perfect storm. He not only had Mike D giving him the green light, but they basically had exhausted all their options at the time at PG and had Lin not perform the way they did and won some of those games, Knicks could have missed the playoffs. So hypothetically, I think if the Rockets decide to bring him back, it would be for less or they would have just decided to offer the money that Dragic wanted and let Lin walk.
No true Rocket fans wanted to see Linsanity (an official English word) happened. They lost a lottery pick from Knicks and made Rockets looked stupid for waiving him. But in the hearts, most silently cheered the kid during Linsanity. In retorspect, without Morey waiving Lin, he probably wouldn't be playing in NBA today.
"If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever." ~ Doug Horton
It worked out how it had to. Lin became the phenomenon. Rockets got him back. I was watching that old Knicks game with the Lakers. He was the best player most definitely out there besides Kobe. I watched a few others and he was the best out there when he was allowed to have the ball before Carmelo the ball dominater came back. I have a problem. I see no way this teams loses big enough to get a high draft pick again. I think Lin is that good. Martin, our rookies, Lin, Omer, are all just enough to win around the same number of games again. The only way to fix that is to finally get rid of Kevin Martin. I think they are making a mistake of they go into the year with Kevin Martin. Not only blocking their highest draft pick from playing time but also getting back to average again. What they need to do is go all in. Martin is the last one that has to go.
