The Honorable Cock Jowles: I guess my point is that you really have to think that a metric is complete bullshit if you’re saying that a guy rated that highly doesn’t deserve that kind of minimal-risk decision.

Yeah but he went to Harvard, right? I mean, who’d he do it against? Northeastern?

KnickInSeattle:
Has anyone seen Melo reacting to Lin’s success from the bench?
Most of the team seems excited and happy for him (a very good sign).

I would bet that Melo is too, but I watched the last game on NBA TV, got the Wizards broadcast and they didn’t show the Knicks bench much at all.

I would bet that Melo is too, but I watched the last game on NBA TV, got the Wizards broadcast and they didn’t show the Knicks bench much at all.

cgreene: The fact that the Knicks are in such a hole record wise does put a damper on this for me a bit. Wish we were talking about how this was going to vault the Knicks into the upper echelon of the conference rather than help them possibly make the playoffs. But it’s fun for now!

We’re 4 games below .500…not in that big of a hole when you consider how this team should play together once complete now that we have a legit, serviceable PG (not asking him to score 30 points a night…but he can RUN THIS TEAM). You ask me, once Amare is back, assuming they dont have to spend 2 weeks to develop chemistry, we can go on a serious run…MAYBE well enough to let Melo postpone his comeback another week to fully heal. We’re on the cusp of something really great if we can get Melo involved in the flow. Contrary to many (i suspect), i think he will buy in..i just hope he has the ability to adjust his game.

njasdjdh: assists while shooting greater than 50% from the floor since the ’05-’06 season:

What ’bout the team surrounding Jeremy Lin last night? Jared Jeffries, Novak, and Fields? Wizards based on conventional thought have decent players – Nick Young, McGee, Crawford. So who was able to make their teammates better?

Frank: I’m still giddy from the last 3 games so this may be overoptimistic, but if you look at our offensive efficiency recently, it did seem like we maybe were starting to turn a corner even before Lin came in and turned into Steve Nash.http://www.hoopdata.com/teamgl.aspx?team=NYKIf you put Melo or Stat on the receiving end of some of those passes that are currently going to Jefferies or Walker, this offense could just explode (in a good way). Hopefully the defense doesn’t suffer too much from their return though.Overall I think it’s sort of lucky that STAT’s coming back monday and Melo probably a few games after that, so that we can slowly add pieces back in rather than flooding the floor with high usage players all at once.

Good point about how he’s playing this well with Jeffries who can’t finish at all and Chandler who is great with the lobs, decent otherwise but is no Amare when it comes to finishing at the rim. Amare is going to flat out dominate when he gets back…If melo buys in, we’re back to being a team to fear. Also good point on the staggered add-back of Amare and Melo.

I’m worried about Melo. Will he be OK not handling the ball as much? Has he ever really played with a real pass first PG? The only time I can think of was in the olympics, and Melo was arguably the best player on the floor. Lets hope he’s ok getting his in the flow.

What I really can’t wait for is the first time Lin waves at him to get the hell out of the way. Then we will know what we have.

Brian Cronin:
Man, Chandler is so freakin’ awesome.

Yup. (not to be lost in all the Linsteria!)

Brian Cronin:
there are plenty of teams still willing to give Flynn a flyer. So I wonder why they weren’t able to dump him on another team to keep Lin.

Like us! (wasn’t it less than a week ago that we supposedly offered Renaldo Balkman for Flynn? Imagine if Lin was cut again just to make make room for Flynn. That would have win Flynnsane!)