Lin-sanity on NBA TV all weekend! How do we stack up to that team?

good comparison. Only time will tell. I definintly would not be surprised if we have a winning records at home as long as RedNation brings half the support that MSG did at home court.

 

Chandler Parsons is much better than Landry Fields in my opinion. Parsons is almost elite defense. Landry's defense is very suspect. Landry's jumper is also completely broken making him more limited offensively as well.

 

Something a lot of people are forgetting is that Lin wasn't thoroughly scouted until after the All Star Break. His first game back was the Cavs game. So no Linsanity 2.0 won't happen again. He did continue to put up solid numbers and was quite consistent afterwards (18 & 8) as opposed to like 20 & 10. But it won't happen again because he won't be able to ambush teams like he did prior to the all star break.

 

You're not considering defense. Tyson, JJ, and Iman have staked a career is shut-down defense. Who on the Rockets' team do we have that can play defense?

Also, you're putting too much faith in Jeremy Lamb, especially because he hasn't stepped onto an NBA court yet. Considering Shumpert guards the likes of Derrick Rose, Kobe Bryant, Dwayne Wade, are you saying Jeremy Lamb would win that matchup?

Same thing with JJ. Jeffries was the leading player in drawing charges last year. Against a rookie in Terrance Jones, he would have no problem pushing the right buttons to have Jones sitting on the bench in 5 minutes.

I only see K-Mart and current-Jeremy Lin outplaying their positions. It's kind of silly giving a matchup to unproven rookies, no matter what you think of their potential.

 

And this is why he's worth the money to Leslie.

 

asik, parsons

 

There were also a lot of changes happening in rapid fire. Stoudemire and then Melo coming back, coaching change, and then Lin was injured before he stopped playing. (He tried to play through injury for some number of games.)

All of that said, who here wouldn't be happy with 18 and 8?

 

Loving his game against Minny

 

I admire your optimism and I do agree with your opinion that Lin will be a good player for us. But, like Chocobofreak said, I think you may be discounting the defensive end. Iman might not be the offensive player that Lamb is, but I watched a lot of Knicks games last year and he is no slouch on the offensive end and he is an already elite defender. I give an edge to the Knicks in that matchup. And as much of an inept offensive option that Jeffries is, he still is an elite defender and a great hustle player.

Another major thing to keep in mind is that because most of the Knicks players such as Chandler, Jeffries, and Shumpert focus all their energy on the defensive end, it allows Lin to expend all his focus on creating for himself and for others. Similar to the 2000 Sixers when it was just Iverson and 4 defensive stoppers, it was easy for the players to fit with each other on the floor. It still remains to be seen if the play styles of Lamb, T. Jones, Martin, etc can fit with Lin being the sole playmaker on the team. Also, I can see that lineup easily giving up 100 ppg.

 

Jared Jeffries is good at D, not ELITE.

 

JJ's D is ok but it's his hustle and the way he took those charges really inspired them to play better.

 

You forgot Steve Novak had a significant role during Linsanity

 

Agreed, Knicks fans often overrated him. I remember watching him as a Rocket, I was not that impressed with his defense. Chuckwagon was the better option as a center, and he was 6 inches shorter.

Jeffries was the only other competent defender on a team with terrible defenders other than Chandler and maybe Shumpert. Melo and Stoudemire were terrible, Novak is terrible, etc...

 

The player's exp and salary will give people an idea the Knicks core players during Linsanity:

Player..years....salary(millions)
Lin........2.......0.76 (waiver on min)
Field......2.......0.76
Shump...R.......1.56
JJ..........9.......0.84 (vet min)
TC.......10.......13.1
Novak...7........0.84 (waiver on vet min)
Walker...3.......0.88 (waived this year)

The 7 rotational players combined salary was about the same as Stat or Melo. Outside of Tyson Chandler, six players made 5.6 million for an average of less than 1 million/year. It cost less than 20 million to assemble that lineup.

On paper, every team Knicks played against during Linsanity had a better lineup.

Yes, Rockets have a better lineup too.

 

Well one thing is that Chandler Parsons is kind of like Landry Fields in the way they play but I think Parsons is a better player so he should get along well with Lin.

 

That is why Linsainty began in the 1st place, ppl do know what they saw.
And who started the Linsanity? It's not the media, it's the NYK fans that were at the Feb 4 NNK vs NYN game, the media just hyped what the public wanted.

 

Lin knows exactly who is a TEAM player and he's close friends with those kinds.
And he will approach them directly.