Lessons Learned from the Linsanity

it’s probably a matter of the proportionality of the interest? Reading the NBA highlights once a week makes sense but hanging on every minute of a knicks season don’t?
When Jrich, Barnes, and Pietrus left it was nice to read they made the playoffs at season end but I didn’t watch any of their games, so maybe we’ll have the same opportunity with JLin?

And if we picked Monroe, we probably would have kept Jeremy Lin since we would not need DeAndre Jordan. Not goes right for the Warriors. We got Jerry West and Larry Riley is still the GM :(.

clean house and get rid of Fitz and hire Greg Papa again with Jim Barnett.

Greg Pappa is probably my favorite play by play voice of all time. He’s the dude. Can’t stand that little punk Fitz with his pursed up mouth and his furrow-brow….the spiked hair, I can’t freaking stand em.

We got Jerry West and Larry Riley is still the GM :(.

This grieves me. It’s troubling, because you know Jerry West’s love for the game has seen no decline, and he’s already responsible for taking some of the biggest steps to turn this thing around.

Beg him to be GM and make ALL ROSTER DECISIONS and then get the hell out of his way.

I think West probably had it right on DJ. I don’t know about “the answer to all our problems,” but Jordan has been very, very good this year: just as ridiculously efficient on offense as he was last year, with a slight uptick in rebounding and shotblocking, and a slight drop in fouls. And he’s still only 23.

Absent an elite player, what this team needs above all else right now is a big, young, athletic, efficient, rebounding, post-defending beast. Number two on the list, imho, is to get rid of Monta and his inefficient, poor rebounding, poor defending ways. From everything we’ve read, Jerry West seems to have been right on the money on both counts.

I didn’t read the piece in SI. The only comment I ever read on the matter from West, was that he “just wasn’t sure about him.” I didn’t take that as some kind of gauge on his level of talent. He’s gotten better every year, and he’s still very young.

To me, that meant that Jerry West wasn’t really into the whole idea of offering a contract that the Clippers were going to match, regardless.

His athleticism and defense with our current crop of offense would have been fantastic.

BUT Lin is more suited with D’Antoni run and gun style and he has Tyson Chandler to throw no-look passes to.

Curry’s been injured most of the year. We signed Nate Robinson later on to fill the void which Jeremy Lin would’ve had the opportunity to fill

The cynic in me says that Lin would not have been given the chance to play through his mistakes like he was allowed in the NY miracle.

A turnover or 2 and Jenkins would have played instead or Monta would have run point with Jenkins backup…..Lin would have rode the bench.

The T-Wolves rendered him ineffective without much in the way of team-wide adjustments (they never hedged on the P&R – it was all Rubio),

Scratching my head with statement since I watched the the game….agree that Rubio had success with Lin but calling Lin ineffective in that game is quite a stretch…..Lin will most probably not “keep up” 25pts/8ast of course …he may just just settle in as a PG that makes the Knicks a much better team….gotta say the unholy though that if he keeps the same “juice” going forward dispite lower future stats that he will be a better pure PG than Curry….Could visualize him as the starting PG for the Warriors with Curry at the 2 and Monta competing with Klay for the 6th man minutes. He currently brings more energy and “juice” to the PG position. I do not believe he is a fluke…..

He’s been defended horrible. People were slow getting around the screen and giving him a lane.

Last night against Minny Rubio played him tight off the screen and he was bad.

Dont think so..
Those were the alternatives with the exception of course being that mythical phantom PF out that was available that we did not get. Do not see the logic?

and I’d trade Josh Smith for lebron in another heart beat so in 2 heartbeats we could become contenders. Success is so simple when you look at it that way.