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Stephen Yeager
If you were the Knicks, would you have kept Jeremy Lin?
I always thought he was overrated myself..
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    Robert Shorts (500 Reputation Points)
    yes i would have kept him. he was not overrated, just undervalued until he got his chance. His numbers aren't overrated and he alone took a sub 500 team to the playoffs by sometimes playing up to 45+ minutes a night before melo and stat came back which is why he got hurt!!!. he made all of the bench players better by: here's a thought passing the ball as well as scoring. He is not a ball hog like melo. Stat stunk last year and virtually has no post game but with a good pg like lin they all got good points and in a great flow. Melo messed up the flow by hogging the ball and missing alot of shots...maybe had a couple of 40 point games but very inconsistent. Stat and melo don't play well together because melo doesn't like to pass. I personally wouldn't build my team around melo and thats why denver got rid of him. Lin didn't ask for much as they were making millions off of lin name and he was on a rookie salary. Him asking for 8 million a year wasn't bad and it would have gone to 14 after year 4 if the knicks decided to keep him after that year.... ungrateful knicks management! now they got all of these old men on there, how many 40 year olds are on the knicks?
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    Paul Bova (500 Reputation Points)
    I don't know if Houston was offering that much money I would have given him away myself. Plus, Raymond Felton (who played really well for the Knicks two years ago) and Jason KIdd on the fence of going to the Knicks I thinks it was a smart move to give him up.
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    Robert Chum Li (500 Reputation Points)
    Not for the poison pill, considering the financial situation the Knicks were in. It was their fault for saying they would match absolutely any offer... So Houston, who had just been jilted by Howard went max (like binging). The first two years are fine, in fact, he is underpaid for them... It's the last year that is monster. However, at that point you will have seen what Lin was. Either he was worth that 15 million for one year (or even less to renegotiate on an extension later), or he was not, in which case, he would have been fantastic as a trade chip for teams who wanted to wipe cap space.

    So, yes, they were stupid to let him go... with a caveat.

    Then again. Dolan is an idiot without that kind of foresight.
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    Robert Chum Li (500 Reputation Points)
    Not for the poison pill, considering the financial situation the Knicks were in. It was their fault for saying they would match absolutely any offer... So Houston, who had just been jilted by Howard went max (like binging). The first two years are fine, in fact, he is underpaid for them... It's the last year that is monster. However, at that point you will have seen what Lin was. Either he was worth that 15 million for one year (or even less to renegotiate on an extension later), or he was not, in which case, he would have been fantastic as a trade chip for teams who wanted to wipe cap space.

    So, yes, they were stupid to let him go... with a caveat.

    Then again. Dolan is an idiot without that kind of foresight.
  • 0
    Robert Chum Li (500 Reputation Points)
    Not for the poison pill, considering the financial situation the Knicks were in. It was their fault for saying they would match absolutely any offer... So Houston, who had just been jilted by Howard went max (like binging). The first two years are fine, in fact, he is underpaid for them... It's the last year that is monster. However, at that point you will have seen what Lin was. Either he was worth that 15 million for one year (or even less to renegotiate on an extension later), or he was not, in which case, he would have been fantastic as a trade chip for teams who wanted to wipe cap space.

    So, yes, they were stupid to let him go... with a caveat.

    Then again. Dolan is an idiot without that kind of foresight.
  • 0
    Robert Chum Li (500 Reputation Points)
    Not for the poison pill, considering the financial situation the Knicks were in. It was their fault for saying they would match absolutely any offer... So Houston, who had just been jilted by Howard went max (like binging). The first two years are fine, in fact, he is underpaid for them... It's the last year that is monster. However, at that point you will have seen what Lin was. Either he was worth that 15 million for one year (or even less to renegotiate on an extension later), or he was not, in which case, he would have been fantastic as a trade chip for teams who wanted to wipe cap space.

    So, yes, they were stupid to let him go... with a caveat.

    Then again. Dolan is an idiot without that kind of foresight.
  • 0
    Robert Chum Li (500 Reputation Points)
    Not for the poison pill, considering the financial situation the Knicks were in. It was their fault for saying they would match absolutely any offer... So Houston, who had just been jilted by Howard went max (like binging). The first two years are fine, in fact, he is underpaid for them... It's the last year that is monster. However, at that point you will have seen what Lin was. Either he was worth that 15 million for one year (or even less to renegotiate on an extension later), or he was not, in which case, he would have been fantastic as a trade chip for teams who wanted to wipe cap space.

    So, yes, they were stupid to let him go... with a caveat.

    Then again. Dolan is an idiot without that kind of foresight.
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