RunningJumper
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I'm at school waiting to be picked up so I'll try to respond to most of this.is cp3 not worth a max? his knees look just fine. If you want to talk knees and max's contracts Amare is the one who did not deserve a 100 mill contract and has bad knees. I've seen Lin pass up plenty wide open shots, whats your point? cp3 is shooting 44 % from 3 point land. 19 points almost 9 assist a game. How is he a punk to what he did to new orleans? if your a superstar in this league and your not happy with the direction your organization is moving and you feel there not doing anything to make a change, and you want to WIN, you don't sit around and be unhappy routing your career with the organization you ask for a request to be traded and continue your NBA journey. Cp3 actually went out classy there was no MELO DRAMA there was no DECISION MAKING INTERVIEW i dont see how he's a punk for that. David West left New orleans to go to a contender is he now labeled a punk to? he didn't come cheap did he? if i dont recall he was coming off a injury as well.
Your saying David west went to a rising young team if im reading this correct right and not to a contender? The pacers before david west were already contenders
The clippers were not contenders at all they would probably be a 10th seed in the west 9th at best. Adding cp3 is what made them contenders thats a fact.
8,9 games as a starter and now your saying Lin is better than Cp3, Derrick Rose, Deron williams? :boohoo: It's mind-boggling how people can compare Lin's 8 games as a starter to other Elite Pg's who've been playing allstar levels there whole career not you personally just in general. You cant compare someones 8 games as a starter to derrick rose, or Cp3's career. The only thing you can compare are both players 1st games as starters to be fair.
you said Lin is the best player in the league? why? how? he makes some layups for the most of his run? 8 games and he's now temporarily the best player in the league? :teeth: he has nice numbers but best player in the league.... Not by a long shot my friend.
you see with Lin defenses were not aware of what to expect from Lin, they did not know what he can do until about his 4th or 5th game. Now teams are starting to realize. He has no cross over moves, He cant go left, trap him and he loses his dribble, he's not secure with handling the ball put more pressure on him all these little things teams are noticing and will be making defensive changes to guard him. Its up to him to work on his game and improve, i love Lin just as much as any knick fan, but like i said before the kid is basically a rookie and still learning the game.
Regarding tyson chandler, i dont think he's worth all the money we gave him he plays hard no doubt every night but the man is about to be 30 soon, he's injury prone, he's foul prone. 58 mill for 4 years? he's worth 35-40 mill nothing more Deandre Jordan is worth what were giving tyson chandler
i do respect his leadership on the court and his defensive presence he's helped us big this year and has been the most consistent knick.
Is Chris Paul worth the max? Sure, but with that contract you can't expect to have a greatly deep team. He wasn't putting all the effort in on the Hornets. Lin passing up on open shots was different than Paul last season. Lin passes up open shots to attack the basket. Paul a lot of times would pass up an open shot and just pass the ball to a teammate (not for an assist).
Chris Paul didn't have drama? Every month there was a new story of him being unhappy there. I'm not saying he didn't have a right to be unhappy with some of the things going on in the organization, but he should of outright said he wanted to be traded. At least with Melo he was still playing very good. Paul was playing lazy until the Playoffs.
Yes, Lin is being focused on by more teams now, does that mean he wasn't playing the best? I mean he was still defended well in a lot of those tough games. If he was defended like Rondo then you'd be right.
Anyhoo, gotta go. I'll respond to the rest later.