OT: that Lin dude is crazy!

[3RA1N1AC]

 

[PapaG]

rubio, the gasols, rudy, and calderon are racists!!!

What's the problem?

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[3RA1N1AC]

whats the problem?

 

[santeesioux]

Whoa, this is fucked up. Nsfw racist language

http://www.asianjunkie.com/2012/02/jenny-hyun-songwriter-for-snsd-chocolat-is-a-racist-psychopath/

 

[3RA1N1AC]

Whoa, this is fucked up. Nsfw racist language

http://www.asianjunkie.com/2012/02/jenny-hyun-songwriter-for-snsd-chocolat-is-a-racist-psychopath/

never heard of her

 

[KingSpeed]

22 pts 9 assts 3 stls with 11 mins to play

 

[3RA1N1AC]

lin +5
amare -22

and 11 assists now 4 TOs

 

[Minstrel]

Linteresting.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Lintense!

 

[illmatic99]

How many times did I mention that we should get Novak? ugh

I hate when I turn out to be smarter than our management.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Are the Knicks still intent on going after Dwight Howard? Would we be interested in getting Stoudemire for expiring contracts? Reunite him with Felton (unless he's one of the expiring contracts).

 

[illmatic99]

Swag on high. I'm officially jealous of NY fans.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Lin has saved D'Antoni's job as surely as that anthem girl saved Cheeks's.

 

[Minstrel]

Felton was nearly an All-Star for New York. Perhaps a Felton-for-Lin swap? We could give up Jamal Crawford too, even though that would decimate our guard depth.

Hollinger's Analysis of the deal is -39625 wins for New York and +12 wins for Portland, but Hollinger is a bit of a geek.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Felton was nearly an All-Star for New York. Perhaps a Felton-for-Lin swap?

I think this has been suggested.

I wonder what barriers Lin will be more responsible for breaking down: more Asian-American players scouted or more Ivy League players scouted?

(There was no "annoyingly God-bothering players" barrier to be broken down.)

 

[Minstrel]

I think this has been suggested.

Good ideas often emerge multiple times and independently. Like Newton and Leibniz with calculus.

I wonder what barriers Lin will be more responsible for breaking down: more Asian-American players scouted or more Ivy League players scouted?

I think those are basically the same thing, or at least extremely overlapping on a Venn diagram.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

im gonna go lin my lin this lin is making my lin lin

 

[mook]

Knicks basketball has become "appointment tv" for me. First time that was ever true.

People keep talking about Lin like he's going to come back down to earth once he's scouted, as though other teams will only improve while a 23 year old second year player with only 7 starts is only going to get worse. Seems to me a lot more likely that he's going to figure out his turnover problems, work on his three point shot and defense, and get to know his teammates' strengths better. He may have some short-term setbacks as his body gets used to the grueling schedule, but overall he's going to get much better, not worse.

 

[Nikolokolus]

I agree that Lin should probably be able to sustain a fairly high level of play because he's got a high basketball IQ, he sees the floor and bottom line, he's just a gamer. The turnovers aren't ideal, but Hollinger has done several articles in the past on young point guards (mostly in his draft previews) and a high turnover rate as long as it's paired with a high assist rate is one of the most easily corrected flaws a prospect can have.

The fact that he plays for a coach that wants his point guard to take risks and doesn't get a stomach cramp every time a player turns it over also helps him immensely.

He could have hardly landed in a better situation.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

 

[XXPrimusXX]

Linconceivable!

 

[3RA1N1AC]

let he who is without lin (the blazers) cast the first stone (brick)

 

[Natebishop3]

 

[magnifier661]

With all this "linsanity" taking place. It's gonna suck for New York fans when they won't be able to afford him. I think they can only offer min MLE since they are over the cap and don't hold any "Bird Rights" on him. I suspect many teams offering more than that to him.

 

[B-Roy]

With all this "linsanity" taking place. It's gonna suck for New York fans when they won't be able to afford him. I think they can only offer min MLE since they are over the cap and don't hold any "Bird Rights" on him. I suspect many teams offering more than that to him.

They have his early bird rights. I think he's subject to the Gilbert Arenas provision. The most any team can offer him is a starting salary of 5 million, and NYK has the chance to match.

Even if they can't match him as an RFA per say, he can still only make 5 million next year MAX. (Which NYK will obviously give him) Why would he turn down a starting position with the team that basically gave him the opportunity to be a star? The contract he gets will probably be back loaded anyways, and Dolan will spend when he needs to.

 

[Natebishop3]

Yeah, Lin isn't going anywhere.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

How many times did I mention that we should get Novak? ugh

I hate when I turn out to be smarter than our management.

Don't worry, it hasn't happened yet, and nobody expects it to happen. And the team's management is pretty inept.

 

[alex42083]

How many times did I mention that we should get Novak? ugh

I hate when I turn out to be smarter than our management.

Especially when the system puts a premium on jump-shooting, you'd think we'd go out and get shooters. But instead we get athletes and scorers.. which isn't bad, but they don't thrive in Nate's system as much as they could.

And yeah.. Lin is not going anywhere. NY will do anything to keep him, or else, they'll riot. They'd get rid of Melo first if they had to, to keep Lin.

 

[magnifier661]

They have his early bird rights. I think he's subject to the Gilbert Arenas provision. The most any team can offer him is a starting salary of 5 million, and NYK has the chance to match.

Even if they can't match him as an RFA per say, he can still only make 5 million next year MAX. (Which NYK will obviously give him) Why would he turn down a starting position with the team that basically gave him the opportunity to be a star? The contract he gets will probably be back loaded anyways, and Dolan will spend when he needs to.

He was a walk on. He has no bird rights. I agree if he has an opportunity to stay in new York he should, but if someone offers him more than what new York has to offer, which is min mle and only 2 years, what would you take? I think min mle is only for two years right?

 

[B-Roy]

He was a walk on. He has no bird rights. I agree if he has an opportunity to stay in new York he should, but if someone offers him more than what new York has to offer, which is min mle and only 2 years, what would you take? I think min mle is only for two years right?

I don't know where you're getting your information, but it's wrong

Here's the deal: By virtue of the Golden State Warriors signing Lin to a two-year contract before waiving him in December, Lin becomes a restricted free agent after this season. Under typical circumstances, Lin would be eligible to receive a qualifying offer from the Knicks worth approximately $1.1 million.

These, obviously, are not typical circumstances. Several factors are at play, including a new provision in the collective bargaining agreement that allows players who achieve certain playing-time benchmarks (dealing with games started and minutes) to be eligible for a higher qualifying offer. In Lin's case, the maximum qualifying offer he could get under these new rules would be about $2.7 million -- the equivalent offer for the 21st pick in the 2008 draft.

The maximum that another team could offer in the first year of a multi-year offer sheet will be the non-taxpayer mid-level exception of $5 million. The second year of the offer sheet would be subject to the 4.5 percent raise for non-Bird free agents. After that, the offer sheets can be back-loaded up to the max -- 25 percent of the cap -- but the Knicks would be able to match under league salary rules. In any event, it likely will cost them their mid-level exception for next season.

The Knicks could use up to their full mid-level ($5 million) to match any rival offers. Under the new rules with different mid-level thresholds for tax-payers, non-tax payers and teams with room, the Knicks would not, under the new rules, be able to exceed the cap to sign another free agent and then use the full mid-level to retain Lin. In that case, they'd be relegated to the room exception ($2.5 million).

http://ken-berger.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/11838893/34839685?source=rss_blogs_NBA

Basically, they can use their MLE to retain Lin, but they can't use their MLE AGAIN to sign another player.