bobneptune: made a calculated risk that has worked perfectly since lin did his david bowie impersonation as the ” man who fell to earth”. getting struck by lightning is a wonderful thing.of course, you conveniently neglect this “master plan” was sitting at a crisp 8 and 15 helplessly hoping for davis to get an un-disc injury and with the completely predictable awful play of douglas and zombie bibby.so , yeah…. management should take a victory lap for their genius. i made my money in the horse racing business and i can tell you i never lost a bet when i played the results from the tote board.just out of curiosity, where was the point guard coming from for this year if lin didn’t fall out of the sky?

Well, if you look back at my posts before the year started and they had acquired Chandler, you would find that I totally supported the move for the long term. So your point about the “tote board” is just plain ignorant. You also keep bringing up that the Knicks were 8-15 before Lin. To use your bad analogy, that’s like saying that “well, Secretariat was losing at the quarter pole, so I was right that he was a poor bet; the fact that he won the race is just plain lucky.”

Wouldn’t you call it “unlucky” that Toney Douglas played ten times worse than he did at any point last year? Nobody thought that Douglas was anything more than a stopgap at the point, but he was so totally inept that it became a major setback. Why do you now conclude that if Lin was, say, only as good as Chris Duhon, that the team would not have improved in the short run? Who’s to say that Baron Davis doesn’t come back after the All-Star break to play well? Why is it impossible that a Steve Nash might come our way next year, like Jason Kidd did for Dallas? Or D-league guy might rise to the occasion? Bottom line is, you were wrong. Deal with it.

Z-man:
Some here just can’t deal with the concept that the Knicks took a premeditated, calculated risk that has ultimately worked (build a top-notch relatively young front line by sacrificing most of your cap space and draft picks and worry about finding a PG and building a bench based on them being easier to find with no cap room than good starting bigs, the attraction of NYC’s big market and the attraction of playing with a front line that just needed a PG to get over the top).

i totally agree they made a calculated risk that has worked perfectly since lin did his david bowie impersonation as the ” man who fell to earth”. getting struck by lightning is a wonderful thing.

of course, you conveniently neglect this “master plan” was sitting at a crisp 8 and 15 helplessly hoping for davis to get an un-disc injury and with the completely predictable awful play of douglas and zombie bibby.

so , yeah…. management should take a victory lap for their genius.

i made my money in the horse racing business and i can tell you i never lost a bet when i played the results from the tote board.

just out of curiosity, where was the point guard coming from for this year if lin didn’t fall out of the sky?

hoolahoop: If he had a $5mil offer from Minni he’d be playing in MSG only when they came town.

this , obv…… i mean be serious , guys

Bought tickets for Mon @ 51 bucks after the Nets win. LOL STEAL!!! FTLin!!

Ha!

I had tickets for the game against Cleveland in a couple of weeks but I had something else to do that night, so I listed them at a significant increase and then bought tickets for a game against Detroit in March. Everything other game is WAY too expensive!

If he’s happy, he’ll take a 2.5 guaranteed. And if not, a 1.8 hit on this year is a steal, if he winds up making 3.5-5 if he decides to leave. A real win-win in my book.

Happiness will have nothing to do with it – he’ll take a big money contract somewhere else unless something catastrophic happens to him. That, though, is something to worry about in the offseason, not now.

jon abbey: maybe it’s just semantics, but it’s actually 1 year/1.8M, with a second year option for 2.5M, so 2/4.3M in the unlikely and happy event that he exercises that.

If he’s happy, he’ll take a 2.5 guaranteed. And if not, a 1.8 hit on this year is a steal, if he winds up making 3.5-5 if he decides to leave. A real win-win in my book.

Antwan:

Heres his contract info.
2 years 4.3 million, with second year option for 2.5.

maybe it’s just semantics, but it’s actually 1 year/1.8M, with a second year option for 2.5M, so 2/4.3M in the unlikely and happy event that he exercises that.