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Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season

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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#21 » by DOT » Thu May 31, 2018 3:36 pm

Jonathan starks wrote:I’m sorry, he’s a borderline nba player. Maybe it’s been overstated, but mills made a bad decision here. Doesn’t really hinder us all that much tho

yeah, that's my stance on the thing

is he overpaid? yeah

does it affect us? not really

if kanter opts out, it'll be the difference between having 19 million and 23 million, and considering the market this offseason and where we're at as a team, we shouldn't be chasing any players asking for 23 million anyway. especially if we're re-signing koq, then it'll be the difference between like 9 and 13 million, which isn't really a big gap. plus if we really needed to, we could easily dump ron or lft as expirings, or lee
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#22 » by DOT » Thu May 31, 2018 3:37 pm

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DaGawd wrote:Kid is trash im sorry... not an nba player

why be an nba player when you can be a meme?


Or a movement, frankly.

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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#23 » by King of Canada » Thu May 31, 2018 3:37 pm

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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#24 » by F N 11 » Thu May 31, 2018 3:44 pm

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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#25 » by Clyde_Style » Thu May 31, 2018 3:46 pm

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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#26 » by Jeff Van Gully » Thu May 31, 2018 3:47 pm

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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#27 » by Deeeez Knicks » Thu May 31, 2018 3:47 pm

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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#28 » by thebuzzardman » Thu May 31, 2018 3:49 pm

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you have gone full-clyde style


So I shouldn't admit that I want to mix a in a picture of Ron's flying body floating over the psychedelic video and loop it for 12 hours?
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#29 » by Jeff Van Gully » Thu May 31, 2018 3:50 pm

still not a bad deal. kid can play to that level. it was worth keeping him to see what he had. rotation got crowded. he got hurt.

he def needs to rediscover his jumper if he wants to continue his NBA career tho. with the shoulder injury (from that good defense!) it'll be tough.
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#30 » by Jeff Van Gully » Thu May 31, 2018 3:51 pm

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you have gone full-clyde style


So I shouldn't admit that I want to mix a in a picture of Ron's flying body floating over the psychedelic video and loop it for 12 hours?


i wouldn't. but that's just me. do you.
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#31 » by Jeff Van Gully » Thu May 31, 2018 3:52 pm

all that said, i'm not sure ron baker is athletic enough for the likes of this FO. but i could see fizdale loving him for his tenacity. you just need guys with ron baker's mentality.
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#32 » by thebuzzardman » Thu May 31, 2018 3:54 pm



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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#33 » by thebuzzardman » Thu May 31, 2018 3:55 pm

I like Ron as a player. Feels redundant with Dotson emerging. Yes, they don't play exactly the same, but still.
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#34 » by Clyde_Style » Thu May 31, 2018 3:58 pm

If his three starts falling he becomes a legit 3 & D guy because there were times when his defense was the only thing keeping this team in a game. Yeah, the team sucked, but he does play disruptive D sometimes
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#35 » by Juco24 » Thu May 31, 2018 4:07 pm

Said it before we signed him.... HORRIBLE
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#36 » by Fat » Thu May 31, 2018 4:08 pm

forgot he was a knick
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#37 » by j4remi » Thu May 31, 2018 4:09 pm

Can we convert this to a two-way contract?
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#38 » by Phish Tank » Thu May 31, 2018 4:11 pm

is anyone surprised?
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#39 » by NYKAL » Thu May 31, 2018 4:16 pm

Clyde_Style wrote:If his three starts falling he becomes a legit 3 & D guy because there were times when his defense was the only thing keeping this team in a game. Yeah, the team sucked, but he does play disruptive D sometimes


what happened to Knicks loving their subpar mascot players? I scrappy lil Opey Cunningham. He plays harder than almost everyone on the roster and often was one of the few Knicks who played defense. Not mad at him commanding the end of the bench.
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#40 » by Knicksfan1992 » Thu May 31, 2018 4:17 pm

Jeff Van Gully wrote:all that said, i'm not sure ron baker is athletic enough for the likes of this FO. but i could see fizdale loving him for his tenacity. you just need guys with ron baker's mentality.


That and hes super long and extremely smart defensively with his positioning off ball and getting through screens on ball. He needs to find some sort of niche offensively to be useful though. If he can't shoot or finish at the rim off cuts then he's essentially a shorter Andre Roberson which isn't good enough to play more than 10 minutes a game. I still like Ron though and I think there's an NBA player there he just needs to find it quickly or he'll be in Europe soon enough.

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