cold_cowboy wrote:spaceballer wrote:Then why did they feel the need to lie about it to Woj and get caught redhanded in their lie by Woj? They could have avoided all of this just by being professional and had the respect and courtesy to at least give Lin a heads up about using his number in the promo stuff. Instead of being forced to lie to Woj to cover their tracks and now doing damage control.
The Rockets screwed up. I'm sure Morey would rather be dealing with happy questions about free agency and potential prospects and signings, rather than have to go out and do a damage control speech over this PR flub after their attempt to lie to Woj failed.
nobody cares what executives say.
everybody cares what players say.
ask a casual fan who jeremy lin is and ask a casual fan who daryl morey is, you can guess the responses. and i agree with you, they could have avoided this by just telling jeremy, obviously tried to cover it up and failed, but nobody will care. nobody is going to fire daryl for that, but teams might view jeremy differently after he publicly shows dissatisfaction in something that is typical for the business.
You're mixing up your logic and conflating your audiences. It's a confused mess of logic and conflation. You begin by talking about the general public, and end by talking about team executives.
"Nobody cares what executives say"? Then what is the point of all these free agency talks? Obviously the players are listening during these pitches and do care what the executives say. As noted by Morey himself during the Dwight free agency negotiations, Morey said that players are getting smarter and making free agency choices that consider the owners as well as the rest of the organization (which certainly includes the executives put in the front office). So your statement is self-evidently false. Heck, who even knows if today's PR flap played any role in Lowry's calculus to not rejoin Houston.
Next you move onto talk about the general public and who they know or don't know. The general public probably doesn't know 80% of the players in the NBA.
Finally, you say that teams might view him differently in light of expressing any ounce of dissatisfaction. I'm sure teams (executives and not the general public, I'm assuming?) consider much more than this (you know, such as his actual play). And if you examine the actual substance of the complaint, considering the fact that the Rockets didn't even have the respect to inform him about the use of his number beforehand till he learned about it and was ambushed by pictures in the news, the mild tweeting of a bible verse is nothing like the twitter rampages of Royce White or TWill. All in all, I'd consider it rather graceful, especially when he attempted to tamp down the outrage expressed on his behalf by one of his fans on twitter, by resorting to more bible platitudes.
Lin comes off like a gracious prince in those bible comments, not a twitter rampaging Royce White crusader. The general NBA public (minus some rather homer Rockets fans unwilling to examine their organization's failure here) seems to be firmly on his side, judging by the respondents on this thread and other places like reddit. You've got forum posters and fans of every other team standing up for Lin.
