ChuckBuck wrote:jrodmc wrote:Sangfroid wrote:It's sad to think that this is gonna be the tone for the season
It's sad to think that we're probably going to get more Linanal-a-sys on this board than anything else as the season goes on...
Pre-season Houston game and we're getting highlights posted from a 3 point, 6 assist effort.
Hey how come no one posted videos of Toney Douglas 4 point 7 assist effort?
It might be his only highlight of the year lol.
Guys at clutch city are saying a lot of positive things about Toney. Hope he gets his career back on track.
Lin looked very good tonight especially from late second and all of the 3rd qrt....
As did other players around the league won't name drop though.
3G4G wrote:Lin looked very good tonight especially from late second and all of the 3rd qrt....As did other players around the league won't name drop though.
Watching baseball all night. Would love if you name dropped.
CrushAlot wrote:3G4G wrote:Lin looked very good tonight especially from late second and all of the 3rd qrt....As did other players around the league won't name drop though.
Watching baseball all night. Would love if you name dropped.
Gallo/Brewer played well
All of Phx starters look like they've been playing with each other for a while
Waiters played well
Derrick Williams played well
Pacers new additions Green and Mahinmi played well
Quiet as kept GSW have this guy by the name of Ezele who is flat out nasty. If they stay healthy they are a playoff team. David Lee has played well himself.
Last but not least Eddy Curry is getting real minutes on the Spurs and contributing. I want to start a thread about him but don't want to rattle this board about his situation.
3G4G wrote:CrushAlot wrote:3G4G wrote:Lin looked very good tonight especially from late second and all of the 3rd qrt....As did other players around the league won't name drop though.
Watching baseball all night. Would love if you name dropped.
Gallo/Brewer played well
All of Phx starters look like they've been playing with each other for a while
Waiters played well
Derrick Williams played well
Pacers new additions Green and Mahinmi played well
Quiet as kept GSW have this guy by the name of Ezele who is flat out nasty. If they stay healthy they are a playoff team. David Lee has played well himself.
Last but not least Eddy Curry is getting real minutes on the Spurs and contributing. I want to start a thread about him but don't want to rattle this board about his situation.
Thanks. I read some good things about ezele. He is supposed to start if Bogut isn't ready. Ezele is easy to remember because his first name sounds like Festivus the holiday for the rest of us.
Cool that gallo is over his shoulder injury
The Facts
franco12 wrote:
I am still sick to my stomach that we let this guy walk for nothing. Or, actually for spite and to please Melo 
1. franco12 - for the 50-eleventh time, Carmelo Anthony had absolutely NOTHING to do with Lin taking the Knicks generous rebuttal to the Houston offer sheet (which they said they would do in advance) bacvk to the Rockets for more money.
2. franco12 - Carmelo Anthony is just a man. He does not run the Knicks. James Dolan signs the checks. It was his call. Period.
3. franco12 - let's check the side-by-side comparison. Houston Star player Lin - 3 points, 6 assists.
NYK Third string guard Pablo Prigioni 14 points, 3 assists and 3 steals
misterearl wrote:The Factsfranco12 wrote:
I am still sick to my stomach that we let this guy walk for nothing. Or, actually for spite and to please Melo
1. franco12 - for the 50-eleventh time, Carmelo Anthony had absolutely NOTHING to do with Lin taking the Knicks generous rebuttal to the Houston offer sheet (which they said they would do in advance) bacvk to the Rockets for more money.
2. franco12 - Carmelo Anthony is just a man. He does not run the Knicks. James Dolan signs the checks. It was his call. Period.
3. franco12 - let's check the side-by-side comparison. Houston Star player Lin - 3 points, 6 assists.
NYK Third string guard Pablo Prigioni 14 points, 3 assists and 3 steals
You're going to use preseason stats to justify Dolan's moves?
The Answer Man Is Happy We Finally Have Basketball
Q. VCoug - You're going to use preseason stats to justify Dolan's moves?
A. Nope, I prefer the excellent commentary of Howard Medgal
Steve Novak looked noticeably quicker to my eyes, which is great to see, since he needs to be less of a defensive liability to play more. 32 minutes played would have been a season-high last year. I mean, the shooting, sure. But the everything else is what we need to be looking for: shooting is the given.
J.R. Smith was fantastic. He scored 20 points, took a team-high 11 shots, but they weren’t forced. He had six assists, four rebounds and a steal. And again, I don’t get the not starting thing. Mychel Thompson did, and frankly, he looked like a non-guaranteed invite playing out of position-which, of course, he is. Are we so sure Ronnie Brewer is coming back at full strength? Are we sure Smith isn’t the best option to start anyhow?
I really enjoy watching John Shurna shoot. And Henry Sims strikes me as someone who could help a team passing out of the high post and blocking some shots, if only he were a bit stronger and able to rebound. But remember, he couldn’t even do that adequately in college.
3G4G wrote:CrushAlot wrote:3G4G wrote:Lin looked very good tonight especially from late second and all of the 3rd qrt....As did other players around the league won't name drop though.
Watching baseball all night. Would love if you name dropped.
Gallo/Brewer played well
All of Phx starters look like they've been playing with each other for a while
Waiters played well
Derrick Williams played well
Pacers new additions Green and Mahinmi played well
Quiet as kept GSW have this guy by the name of Ezele who is flat out nasty. If they stay healthy they are a playoff team. David Lee has played well himself.
Last but not least Eddy Curry is getting real minutes on the Spurs and contributing. I want to start a thread about him but don't want to rattle this board about his situation.
How did Pablo Prigini look to you?
The Wizards color commentator said the he agreed with the Knicks decision not to resign Lin because it was too much money....take it for what its worth.
Uptown - that was Phil Chenier.
It was not the money. The Knicks have plenty of money. It was the do-over money.
He is correct.
Uptown wrote:The Wizards color commentator said the he agreed with the Knicks decision not to resign Lin because it was too much money....take it for what its worth.
he didn't say he agreed, he was pretty much stating why he thought the knicks didn't match and that was because we were already loaded with huge deals with amare,carmelo and chandler....
tkf wrote:Uptown wrote:The Wizards color commentator said the he agreed with the Knicks decision not to resign Lin because it was too much money....take it for what its worth.
he didn't say he agreed, he was pretty much stating why he thought the knicks didn't match and that was because we were already loaded with huge deals with amare,carmelo and chandler....
Pretty much why Houston's poison pill third year made the contract almost impossible to match.
CrushAlot wrote:tkf wrote:Uptown wrote:The Wizards color commentator said the he agreed with the Knicks decision not to resign Lin because it was too much money....take it for what its worth.
he didn't say he agreed, he was pretty much stating why he thought the knicks didn't match and that was because we were already loaded with huge deals with amare,carmelo and chandler....
Pretty much why Houston's poison pill third year made the contract almost impossible to match.
Papabear Says
Face it!! Melo and Lin cannot coexist. One or the other had to go. If Lin would have remain here we would have had a major problem. First of all I don't think Lin's body would be able to take the punishment he would get from other teams. Now he is in Houston and even if he gets the numbers he got in New York it wouldn't matter because he would be off the big stage. I think also that New York Knicks new something that Houston didn't about Lin's dourability .
Papabear wrote:CrushAlot wrote:tkf wrote:Uptown wrote:The Wizards color commentator said the he agreed with the Knicks decision not to resign Lin because it was too much money....take it for what its worth.
he didn't say he agreed, he was pretty much stating why he thought the knicks didn't match and that was because we were already loaded with huge deals with amare,carmelo and chandler....
Pretty much why Houston's poison pill third year made the contract almost impossible to match.
Papabear Says
Face it!! Melo and Lin cannot coexist. One or the other had to go. If Lin would have remain here we would have had a major problem. First of all I don't think Lin's body would be able to take the punishment he would get from other teams. Now he is in Houston and even if he gets the numbers he got in New York it wouldn't matter because he would be off the big stage. I think also that New York Knicks new something that Houston didn't about Lin's dourability .
There's almost no evidence that they couldn't have worked together. They didn't play together during Linsanity and then Melo wasn't trying after he came back from injury under MDA. I still can't believe that there are people who believe the Lin decision was based on anything other than Dolan's ego.
VCoug wrote:Papabear wrote:CrushAlot wrote:tkf wrote:Uptown wrote:The Wizards color commentator said the he agreed with the Knicks decision not to resign Lin because it was too much money....take it for what its worth.
he didn't say he agreed, he was pretty much stating why he thought the knicks didn't match and that was because we were already loaded with huge deals with amare,carmelo and chandler....
Pretty much why Houston's poison pill third year made the contract almost impossible to match.
Papabear Says
Face it!! Melo and Lin cannot coexist. One or the other had to go. If Lin would have remain here we would have had a major problem. First of all I don't think Lin's body would be able to take the punishment he would get from other teams. Now he is in Houston and even if he gets the numbers he got in New York it wouldn't matter because he would be off the big stage. I think also that New York Knicks new something that Houston didn't about Lin's dourability .
There's almost no evidence that they couldn't have worked together. They didn't play together during Linsanity and then Melo wasn't trying after he came back from injury under MDA. I still can't believe that there are people who believe the Lin decision was based on anything other than Dolan's ego.
The fact of the matter is that Dolan didn't want to PAY Lin.
It's over with, can we all move on?
Papabear wrote:CrushAlot wrote:tkf wrote:Uptown wrote:The Wizards color commentator said the he agreed with the Knicks decision not to resign Lin because it was too much money....take it for what its worth.
he didn't say he agreed, he was pretty much stating why he thought the knicks didn't match and that was because we were already loaded with huge deals with amare,carmelo and chandler....
Pretty much why Houston's poison pill third year made the contract almost impossible to match.
Papabear Says
Face it!! Melo and Lin cannot coexist. One or the other had to go. If Lin would have remain here we would have had a major problem. First of all I don't think Lin's body would be able to take the punishment he would get from other teams. Now he is in Houston and even if he gets the numbers he got in New York it wouldn't matter because he would be off the big stage. I think also that New York Knicks new something that Houston didn't about Lin's dourability .
Totally untrue. Lin is more of a scoring pg but so was Billups. Billups and Melo meshed just fine....
CashMoney wrote:VCoug wrote:Papabear wrote:CrushAlot wrote:tkf wrote:Uptown wrote:The Wizards color commentator said the he agreed with the Knicks decision not to resign Lin because it was too much money....take it for what its worth.
he didn't say he agreed, he was pretty much stating why he thought the knicks didn't match and that was because we were already loaded with huge deals with amare,carmelo and chandler....
Pretty much why Houston's poison pill third year made the contract almost impossible to match.
Papabear Says
Face it!! Melo and Lin cannot coexist. One or the other had to go. If Lin would have remain here we would have had a major problem. First of all I don't think Lin's body would be able to take the punishment he would get from other teams. Now he is in Houston and even if he gets the numbers he got in New York it wouldn't matter because he would be off the big stage. I think also that New York Knicks new something that Houston didn't about Lin's dourability .
There's almost no evidence that they couldn't have worked together. They didn't play together during Linsanity and then Melo wasn't trying after he came back from injury under MDA. I still can't believe that there are people who believe the Lin decision was based on anything other than Dolan's ego.
The fact of the matter is that Dolan didn't want to PAY Lin.
It's over with, can we all move on?
The amount he had to pay because of the new cba and the restrictions that would be on the team made it a very tough contract to match. It was probably the smart business decision. It may have been an emotional decision reaction on Dolan's part but it also may have just been business.
In two preseason games Lin got 6 and 7 assists in 20 and 23 minutes respectfully. Didn't shoot great but those assist numbers are nice, especially considering the team he has. Oh, both were wins but I know it's only pre-season.
Will be interesting to see what, if anything, he can do with that team. It is pretty much accepted he has a bad team around him. So, let the miracle continue
