BREAKING: Report - Knicks Won't Match, Lin to Rockets

[GetItDone]

I can just see it now...12 AM strikes, knicks message board

KnicksGod at 12:01:

[Falstaffxx]

Get all your jabs in at Melo since Linny is gone.

Lowest career playoff win %.

Not jabs, people stating facts. Stop pretending Melo is some perfect player and act like he doesn't need the most talent possible around him to win. He's not Lebron james where you can stick 4 scrubs on his team make the finals.

So what's the alternative? Blow the whole thing up and start over yet again?

That's what we'll be doing in 3 years. Too bad we're jettisoning one of our only two young players. And who knows how long Shumpert will be here. It's "win now," after all. I feel as if "win" should have its own separate set of quotation marks.

[god shammgod]

I know it's for the best, but I am really really disappointed. It's like breaking up with pretty girl that you know is not good for you, but you gotta do it anyways. Best for both people. Still really disappointed though.

I don't want to watch Rocket games, but I am sure I will now that Lin is on their team, just as I am sure I'll watch a few Raptors games for Fields....really really disappointed.

**** you Dolan.

you can't be a real person

[Genocide3883]

Even Kobe failed to make the playoffs without a stacked team.

Why would you bring up such lies. Kobe has 5 chips, he's a great teammate, not a cancer & isn't anything close to a douchebag.

Melo is & he sucks....he sucks bad.

irrational Melo hater, nothing to see here folks.

[sinjz]

3 year $25 mill contract does not equal a player who has to be a superstar. He's a good piece that we should utilize and not throw away.

Honestly I think most of the tension on these boards are started by troll pretending to be Lin fans and dumb asses jumping all over that crap and claiming anybody who likes Lin thinks he God or something. Then a dumb anti-Lin fan says stuff like how Melo hates Lin and now Pro-Lin and Pro-Melo are at war....

I know. I WANTED us to match Lin. I have said match at all costs from the beginning...where is this coming from?

I think you are missing the point and jumping to conclusions.... I never said you, nor CoolKids did not want to match Lin.

All I was pointing out was that everybody has certain biases and yours was not toward being a Lin fan, but a big Melo fan. Therefore, when anti-Lin comments are made they do not offend you as much as anti-Melo comments. You'd ignore the anti-Lin, but take the anit-Melo as trolling. Dr.Z leaned the other way. That is all.

[GONYK]

Jeez. take off the myopic glasses. Here are some numbers, ya know facts for your delusions:

1) Feb: Lin 21ppg, 4 reb, 8.4 assists on 47% shooting and 33% 3 pt fg

2) mar: Lin 15ppg, 3 rebs, 6.3 assists on 41% shooting and 33 3pt %

So you're just going to ignore that Lin went from playing 40+ mins under D'Antoni to 29 mins under Woodson. Why? Because we were beating teams so bad that he wasn't playing the 4th qtr.

[ag3]

I can just see it now...12 AM strikes, knicks message board

2nd best GIF ever.


I'm intrigued. What's the first best gif?

Has to be the Amare fire extinguisher one.

[Greenie]

Felton has had like one good, D'Antoni inflated run in his career and he went down like a fat sack of bricks, downward spiral because D'Antoni "played him too many minutes"

Hey, I want my PG to be a workhorse, not eat the horse.

Yet people take this 1/2 season sample of Felton and somehow think he's good. They probably tie it in with his draft position.

He's fat. He disappointed. He's body of work for all other teams besides the Knicks = not good. Every other team replaced him at PG with someone else. See any trends here?

It wasn't even a 1/2 season sample. It was one MONTH in December where Felton was playing like an all-star. After that, he regressed back to the mean, started shooting at a 35-38% clip, and started to develop an ego where he would take shots himself over passing to an open shooter. Felton was not a good point guard. I liked his heart and warrior mentality when he was a Knick, but Lin is flat out better.

You can say the same about Lin.

People on this board were livid when Felton got traded in that package. They were mad about losing him too. That's how good he was during his run with us.

[Jordan Diddy]

[Ginger Bean]

Where was this reaction when he lost out on Nash? That was a gamechanger. That was a move that would have made the team a title contender. Lin isn't. Lin may be better than Felton, but he's not the difference in beating Miami or Boston. It'll be the same result.

I don't think it's about losing an elite player or one that's going to bring the ring. That's a cold way of looking at it - like a wannabe GM, not a fan.

Fans get attached to homegrown products. That's why they didn't want to trade Shump for Nash, even though it's NASH.

Linsanity was organic.

[ibraheim718]

Jeez. take off the myopic glasses. Here are some numbers, ya know facts for your delusions:

1) Feb: Lin 21ppg, 4 reb, 8.4 assists on 47% shooting and 33% 3 pt fg

2) mar: Lin 15ppg, 3 rebs, 6.3 assists on 41% shooting and 33 3pt %

So you're just going to ignore that Lin went from playing 40+ mins under D'Antoni to 29 mins under Woodson. Why? Because we were beating teams so bad that he wasn't playing the 4th qtr.

Not to mention the firepower came back also. His job is to led the team to wins.. and that's what he did.

[JBreezeNY]

Even Kobe failed to make the playoffs without a stacked team.

Why would you bring up such lies. Kobe has 5 chips, he's a great teammate, not a cancer & isn't anything close to a douchebag.

Melo is & he sucks....he sucks bad.

irrational Melo hater, nothing to see here folks.

Me-LO sucks, give it up

[papiculo]

no....

[NBA Fan 1234]

I'm intrigued. What's the first best gif?

The rappers on roller skates lol.

3 year $25 mill contract does not equal a player who has to be a superstar. He's a good piece that we should utilize and not throw away.

Honestly I think most of the tension on these boards are started by troll pretending to be Lin fans and dumb asses jumping all over that crap and claiming anybody who likes Lin thinks he God or something. Then a dumb anti-Lin fan says stuff like how Melo hates Lin and now Pro-Lin and Pro-Melo are at war....

I know. I WANTED us to match Lin. I have said match at all costs from the beginning...where is this coming from?

I think you are missing the point and jumping to conclusions.... I never said you, nor CoolKids did not want to match Lin.

All I was pointing out was that everybody has certain biases and yours was not toward being a Lin fan, but a big Melo fan. Therefore, when anti-Lin comments are made they do not offend you as much as anti-Melo comments. You'd ignore the anti-Lin, but take the anit-Melo as trolling. Dr.Z leaned the other way. That is all.

ook. Gotcha. I thought you were insinuating that I did not want to match him (because of my belief that he's not a Paul-superstar point guard). My bad.

I really do try to hold every player on the team equally accountable, though. From the 15th man to the #1 option.

[GONYK]

Felton has had like one good, D'Antoni inflated run in his career and he went down like a fat sack of bricks, downward spiral because D'Antoni "played him too many minutes"

Hey, I want my PG to be a workhorse, not eat the horse.

Yet people take this 1/2 season sample of Felton and somehow think he's good. They probably tie it in with his draft position.

He's fat. He disappointed. He's body of work for all other teams besides the Knicks = not good. Every other team replaced him at PG with someone else. See any trends here?

It wasn't even a 1/2 season sample. It was one MONTH in December where Felton was playing like an all-star. After that, he regressed back to the mean, started shooting at a 35-38% clip, and started to develop an ego where he would take shots himself over passing to an open shooter. Felton was not a good point guard. I liked his heart and warrior mentality when he was a Knick, but Lin is flat out better.

You can say the same about Lin.

People on this board were livid when Felton got traded in that package. They were mad about losing him too. That's how good he was during his run with us.

Personally, I was pissed about losing him for Billups.

Thinking Felton is better than Billups doesn't make Felton better than Lin.

[Knicksrule2k4]

the best gif is the one with all the white dudes dancing lol

[ballzofsteel]

We should have traded lin to china for marbury

[blumatic]

Where was this reaction when he lost out on Nash? That was a gamechanger. That was a move that would have made the team a title contender. Lin isn't. Lin may be better than Felton, but he's not the difference in beating Miami or Boston. It'll be the same result.

I don't think it's about losing an elite player or one that's going to bring the ring. That's a cold way of looking at it - like a wannabe GM, not a fan.

Fans get attached to homegrown products. That's why they didn't want to trade Shump for Nash, even though it's NASH.

Linsanity was organic.

QFT

[sinjz]

I can just see it now...12 AM strikes, knicks message board

2nd best GIF ever.

I'm intrigued. What's the first best gif?

It's gotta be the Kate Upton catdaddy aminated gif.

[Stannis]

DocZ I don't know how you did it... But Who are you dude? If you're ever in New Mexico start a thread and contact me and I'll take you out for a round of golf.. Everything you've been saying is all making sense now... I need to question reality and my very existence now.

+1 Truth.