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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#41 » by Woods Son » Thu May 31, 2018 4:23 pm

Hey! Did you guys hear he made a children's book?!? Well worth 4.5Mil
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#42 » by Jeff Van Gully » Thu May 31, 2018 4:26 pm

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This is pretty awesome


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

Post#43 » by DOT » Thu May 31, 2018 4:27 pm

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

Post#44 » by Jeff Van Gully » Thu May 31, 2018 4:28 pm

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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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Re: 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#46 » by Deeeez Knicks » Thu May 31, 2018 4:39 pm

I like Baker and we should have brought him back, but it was more so the way we signed him using our exception and giving him a player option. In the grand scheme it really doesn't matter too much since Timmy was a much worse contract but there were better ways to bring him back and use our cap. Just was another example of Mills not knowing what he wax doing despite being our GM for 5 years.
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#47 » by NoStatsGuy » Thu May 31, 2018 4:45 pm

DaGawd wrote:
Knicksfan1992 wrote:Hopefully his shoulder issue is fixed and he can get that jumper in line for next season because he absolutely brings it defensively..

Fun Fact:

When Ron Baker and Frank played together they had a net rating of +5.5 and a defensive rating under 100 which is stifling.

Kid is trash im sorry... not an nba player


guys are happy with 10-15 minutes defense from a d-leaguer for 4.5 million but laugh at people, who want beasley back :crazy:
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#48 » by HarthorneWingo » Thu May 31, 2018 4:50 pm

NoLayupRule wrote:Good
He’s a hard working defender and I like his game
Hopefully he’s been working on that jumper


Exactly. If he can start knocking down open 3s, he'll definitely be in the rotation.
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#49 » by god shammgod » Thu May 31, 2018 5:02 pm

how crazy was phil. lol. paid this guy who would be lucky just to find a roster spot in the nba.
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#50 » by Clyde_Style » Thu May 31, 2018 5:17 pm

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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.


Exactly, seems many just play a game of trash/not trash when there are a spectrum of roles on a team. He'll have his role to play even if it is only as a locker room guy and practice player.
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#51 » by Clyde_Style » Thu May 31, 2018 5:21 pm

Knicksfan1992 wrote:
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.


His wing span is very wide relative to his height. And he's a bull.

He is not a good finisher on contested shots because he has no lift and gets stuffed, but if he has a window on the lay-in he has good conversion skills. We saw him execute the back door play on the delivering and receiving end very well.

And he was largely a mistake free PG when filling in at the point even if he is not a creator.

The team often had a positive +/- when Baker was on the floor so I know he can make a difference in the right spots. A good coach will find a use for him.
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#52 » by Deeeez Knicks » Thu May 31, 2018 5:23 pm

god shammgod wrote:how crazyi was phil. lol. paid this guy who would be lucky just to find a roster spot in the nba.


Phil was already fired. It was Mills
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#53 » by Clyde_Style » Thu May 31, 2018 5:25 pm

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

Post#54 » by Billy Goat » Thu May 31, 2018 5:26 pm

Baker was given a player option? Interesting strategy there negotiating against no one.
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#55 » by god shammgod » Thu May 31, 2018 5:33 pm

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god shammgod wrote:how crazyi was phil. lol. paid this guy who would be lucky just to find a roster spot in the nba.


Phil was already fired. It was Mills


well that's scary :lol:
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#56 » by Capn'O » Thu May 31, 2018 5:39 pm

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god shammgod wrote:how crazyi was phil. lol. paid this guy who would be lucky just to find a roster spot in the nba.


Phil was already fired. It was Mills


well that's scary :lol:


Perry seems to be a buffer against Mills doing stupid things but I'll feel much more confident with this statement at the end of the offseason. Or not :o
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#57 » by knickstape4ever » Thu May 31, 2018 5:39 pm

if they cant trade him, cut him. he's a waste of a roster spot. would rather play Dot. Also this year's draft has some pretty good 2's that could be available at 36. ESPN had us taking Bruce Brown (who I love, but wont fall), Josh Okogie is a personal fav of mine
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#58 » by knickstape4ever » Thu May 31, 2018 5:40 pm

You know what's also crazy about Baker...he's a 74 in 2K which is waaaaay overrated
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Post#59 » by Deeeez Knicks » Thu May 31, 2018 5:50 pm

Billy Goat wrote:Baker was given a player option? Interesting strategy there negotiating against no one.


It's actually even worse then that. In order to sign Hardaway for his full $71mil we had to first renounce Baker, then use our exception to sign him. I think you have to give him a player option in that exception or it at least isn't as team friendly as we see.

Where as if we had given Timmy a little less money (I still didn't want to sign him at all) we could have kept Bakers rights, signed him to a friendlier deal, and used our exception for something else. I think we could have also signed Dotson for a cheap 3rd year. It was a waterfall effect were one bad decision led to others. Maybe not a huge deal, but horrible use of our cap.
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Re: Ron Baker has picked up his player option for next season 

Post#60 » by mpharris36 » Thu May 31, 2018 5:55 pm

god shammgod wrote:how crazy was phil. lol. paid this guy who would be lucky just to find a roster spot in the nba.


phil fired Jun 28th

Ron Baker signed Jul 11th

Ron Baker and Timmy in the same offseason...Mills was amazing at his job...both given a player option too...the mills specialty written all over it.
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