Jeremy Lin's Contract Saga: Part VII

NBA Fan 1234 · Post #1261 » by **NBA Fan 1234** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:29 pm

Maybe I should have just gone with "knickstape."

Fury · Post #1262 » by **Fury** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:29 pm

How can you get on KG when you know this move **** sucks?

Knicker23 · Post #1263 » by **Knicker23** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:30 pm

KnicksGod wrote:
We'll see. If they don't match.

We'll see how the crowd receives Melo and how forgiving they are.

You want to talk about how Dolan's received walking down the street - you may be onto something.. I bet a lot of fans will be annoyed with him..

The fans will also have less tolerance for the team in general, IF they are losing... Simply bc of the possibility that things may have been different with Lin... And perhaps, as the star of the team, Melo will take the blunt of that.

blumatic · Post #1264 » by **blumatic** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:30 pm

Charles Oakley coming up. I hope he owns SAS.

Post #1265 » by **K_ick_God** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:30 pm

Knickstape1214 wrote:Just want to say, KG, I'm gonna miss your posts if you leave. I've always liked you as a poster. Would be a shame to lose you, and the other regular.

Thanks. I'll still check in now and again after the Lin post-mortem is over (this week and the next few weeks I guess). I just won't follow the team or get invested at all but I'll do a little moderating to stay in touch.

ORANGEandBLUE · Post #1266 » by **ORANGEandBLUE** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:30 pm

Knicks_Fan2 wrote:I'll be excited about this season with, or without, Lin. Doesn't change the fact it's a stupid decision not to match. I can't believe this decision, for some of you, is THE threshold between a sad, decrepit, hopeless team and an exciting, contending, hope-filled team. I can't take you all seriously and will instead continue to laugh and entertain myself reading your melodramatic crap.

It's not about Lin. This team suffered through the most embarrassing decade a sports team has ever gone through because its basic philosophy was to replace youth with overrated veterans. This move proves that that philosophy is still driving this team.

If any other team let Lin go after what he did this season, I'd see your point. But with this team is really strikes a nerve for a lot of fans.

OrangeandBlue20 · Post #1267 » by **OrangeandBlue20** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:30 pm

Who cares if this team has players who are bad people? I don't think pistons fans cared at all when they won 2 rings in a row 20 years ago. It's all about the laundry and entertainment for me. Just help my team win and distract me like sports should do postivively. Jason Kidd gets a triple double against the Celtics at home leading the Knicks to a win. I'm not gonna care that the guy is a jerk off the court at that monent

Nono · Post #1268 » by **Nono** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:31 pm

Anyone care to provide an update ? Has anything significant happened today so far ?

fubu05 · Post #1269 » by **fubu05** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:31 pm

KnicksGod wrote:
cgmw wrote:
god shammgod wrote:a lot of you are way over the top with this.

KnicksGod providing pages and pages of sig fodder. A year from now we'll be like 'remember when KG flipped his sh*t?'

lol

No I'm pretty calm today though. I just mean every word of it earnestly. It's not over the top is it?

Trading Lin for Felton is like throwing in the towel. I'm not sure what can be overstated about a team throwing in the towel AND turning a good part of their club over to the likes of JR Smith.

Remember when JR was celebrating and the ball went the other way for an easy score (against Miami)? That encapsulates the kind of team we'll be.

Remember when Melo got into it with JR after he nailed his big 3 after LeBron's big 3? Remember how Woodson would REAM people on the sidelines? Sorry, losing Lin does not turn us into that team. We have a coach that preaches accountability. That is key. Woody doesn't take BULL.

Post #1270 » by **GONYK** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:31 pm

KnicksGod wrote:
cgmw wrote:
god shammgod wrote:a lot of you are way over the top with this.

KnicksGod providing pages and pages of sig fodder. A year from now we'll be like 'remember when KG flipped his sh*t?'

lol

No I'm pretty calm today though. I just mean every word of it earnestly. It's not over the top is it?

Trading Lin for Felton is like throwing in the towel. I'm not sure what can be overstated about a team throwing in the towel AND turning a good part of their club over to the likes of JR Smith.

Remember when JR was celebrating and the ball went the other way for an easy score (against Miami)? That encapsulates the kind of team we'll be.

My friend, I have to tell you...it really is :lol:

djkinetic · Post #1271 » by **djkinetic** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:31 pm

I think theres still a good chance we match the offer, probably won't hear anything official another 8 hrs but not gonna lie, if we don't end up matching its gonna hurt watching Lin light up teams on the Rockets...especially if its against Felton at the garden...imagine if we don't match Lin he comes into MSG and lights up Felton and the Knicks for 40...some fans will start burning effigies of Dolan lol

Knicker23 · Post #1272 » by **Knicker23** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:31 pm

KnicksGod wrote:
Knickstape1214 wrote:Just want to say, KG, I'm gonna miss your posts if you leave. I've always liked you as a poster. Would be a shame to lose you, and the other regular.

Thanks. I'll still check in now and again after the Lin post-mortem is over (this week and the next few weeks I guess). I just won't follow the team or get invested at all but I'll do a little moderating to stay in touch.

You're morphing into TKF before our eyes.

Gallo:TKF Lin:KG

it ain't a good look.

cgmw · Post #1273 » by **cgmw** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:31 pm

Nono wrote:Anyone care to provide an update ? Has anything significant happened today so far ?

No and no

Post #1274 » by **K_ick_God** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:32 pm

Knicker23 wrote:
KnicksGod wrote:
We'll see. If they don't match.

We'll see how the crowd receives Melo and how forgiving they are.

You want to talk about how Dolan's received walking down the street - you may be onto something.. I bet a lot of fans will be annoyed with him..

The fans will also have less tolerance for the team in general, IF they are losing... Simply bc of the possibility that things may have been different with Lin... And perhaps, as the star of the team, Melo will take the blunt of that.

I think you're underestimating the level of anger and depression. And you're overestimating the solution that winning will provide. Fans in NY are sophisticated -- they know you're not going anywhere with Ray Felton at point. The wins will keep the boos at bay but they won't satisfy the fan base.

MSG will be a morgue or a hostile environment. I promise you.

AmazingJason · Post #1275 » by **AmazingJason** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:32 pm

Ok guys, forget about hypothetical wagering and sig bets...if Lin is not matched tomorrow, I will purchase tickets for opening day in the lower section, run out onto the court during play with a sign that says "Don't Tase Me, Bro," and throw cupcakes at Felton and attempt to eat his flesh until the security staff puts me down.

CU_NY09 · Post #1276 » by **CU_NY09** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:32 pm

Is 17/7 the definition of an average player? SAS says it is.

No35 · Post #1277 » by **No35** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:33 pm

ORANGEandBLUE wrote:
Knicks_Fan2 wrote:I'll be excited about this season with, or without, Lin. Doesn't change the fact it's a stupid decision not to match. I can't believe this decision, for some of you, is THE threshold between a sad, decrepit, hopeless team and an exciting, contending, hope-filled team. I can't take you all seriously and will instead continue to laugh and entertain myself reading your melodramatic crap.

It's not about Lin. This team suffered through the most embarrassing decade a sports team has ever gone through because its basic philosophy was to replace youth with overrated veterans. This move proves that that philosophy is still driving this team.

If any other team let Lin go after what he did this season, I'd see your point. But with this team is really strikes a nerve for a lot of fans.

Isn't it obvious? Isiah still runs the team.

Fat Kat · Post #1278 » by **Fat Kat** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:33 pm

Knicks_Fan2 wrote:I'll be excited about this season with, or without, Lin. Doesn't change the fact it's a stupid decision not to match. I can't believe this decision, for some of you, is THE threshold between a sad, decrepit, hopeless team and an exciting, contending, hope-filled team. I can't take you all seriously and will instead continue to laugh and entertain myself reading your melodramatic crap.

Exactly how I feel. We should sign Lin, but I'm not jumping off of a bridge if we don't. The histrionics are ridiculous.

ag3 · Post #1279 » by **ag3** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:33 pm

Nono wrote:Anyone care to provide an update ? Has anything significant happened today so far ?

No. Nothing new. Just that the Knicks can waive Lin after year 2 and use the stretch provision to save a lot of the made up luxury tax issue.

djkinetic · Post #1280 » by **djkinetic** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:33 pm

AmazingJason wrote:Ok guys, forget about hypothetical wagering and sig bets...if Lin is not matched tomorrow, I will purchase tickets for opening day in the lower section, run out onto the court during play with a sign that says "Don't Tase Me, Bro," and throw cupcakes at Felton and attempt to eat his flesh until the security staff puts me down.

Quality Bath Salts at work.