Q: This just hit me: If Stern doesn't veto the Lakers/Rockets/Hornets trade Jeremy Lin would still be a Rocket. Houston couldn't keep Lin because they already had 3 PG's with fully guaranteed contracts (Lowry, Dragic, Flynn). If the trade is allowed to go through, Lin would have been able to take Dragic's spot on the roster. Instead Stern vetoes the trade, and now Lin is singlehandedly saving the Knicks season, and keeping them out of the lottery. Oh ya, Houston owns New York's first rounder (top 5 protected). Is it possible Stern knew all this, and this was his actual reason for vetoing the trade? Also is this Stern's way of getting back at Houston for booing him after Game 7 of the NBA Finals? Let's be honest, the man isn't above grudges. — Adam Spolane, Houston
SG: I love when Daryl Morey writes me with the alias "Adam Spolane." And yeah, you're right — if the Gasol trade goes through and Houston follows that up by signing Nene (something the Rockets believe would have happened, even if the rest of the league is dubious), here's Houston's team right now: Kyle Lowry, Courtney Lee, Chandler Parsons, Nene and Pau Gasol (starters); Jeremy Lin, Marcus Morris, Patrick Patterson, Jordan Hill, Chase Budinger, Free Agent 2-Guard to Be Named (bench). Pretty interesting. Daryl will now light himself on fire.
(PS: Did you notice Houston was awarded the 2013 NBA All-Star Game last week? My buddy House is convinced that was Stern's way of apologizing for screwing the Rockets over. It's like Warden Norton letting Andy Dufresne shine his shoes right after he killed Andy's buddy who could have testified that Andy was innocent, and throwing Andy in the hole for two months for calling him "obtuse." Sorry about what happened, Houston — here, shine my shoes with the 2013 All-Star Game!)
That mailbag was awesome, I liked the paranoid dude who "believed" that Lin was an espn product hidden from the league with Stern's permission, only to create linsanity and get lots of hits.
Grantland has lots of good sport articles, I just wish Rick Reilley would write for them, he's my favorite sport columnist.
On February 16 2012 13:13 don_kyuhote wrote: ahaha what a great day of age to be a christian sports fan. First Tebow, now Lin pissing people off because of their faith?
Don't forget Jon Jones.
hahaha... I really don't see what the problem is with getting out a few Jesus/God shoutouts. It's not like they are giving a Sunday morning church sermon during their interviews.
J lin is strait fire, guy is a stud right now hope he can continue to help the knicks win games and hopefully he and carmello can co exist on the court
On February 16 2012 13:13 don_kyuhote wrote: ahaha what a great day of age to be a christian sports fan. First Tebow, now Lin pissing people off because of their faith?
Don't forget Jon Jones.
hahaha... I really don't see what the problem is with getting out a few Jesus/God shoutouts. It's not like they are giving a Sunday morning church sermon during their interviews.
Yeah with Tebow it's more ostentatious but I haven't seen Lin do anything more than thank God in interviews, which is similar to artists thanking god for winning awards at awards shows. Don't think it's really a big deal but people are making it out to be significant or something.
On February 16 2012 13:13 don_kyuhote wrote: ahaha what a great day of age to be a christian sports fan. First Tebow, now Lin pissing people off because of their faith?
Don't forget Jon Jones.
hahaha... I really don't see what the problem is with getting out a few Jesus/God shoutouts. It's not like they are giving a Sunday morning church sermon during their interviews.
Yeah with Tebow it's more ostentatious but I haven't seen Lin do anything more than thank God in interviews, which is similar to artists thanking god for winning awards at awards shows. Don't think it's really a big deal but people are making it out to be significant or something.
I think it's kind of like how whenever there's a girl on the Internet people flip the fuck out. It's not that (all the) people are sexist, it's that for whatever reason they associate being open with your gender as attention whoring, even though they wouldn't think that about most other personal traits. I guess part of it is that the faithful don't like people who come off as holier-than-thou.
As an atheist my reactions is basically 'ok, I think he's wrong but it's not my problem'. It's not like there aren't a whole bunch of superstitions athletes have, this is just the biggest one.
Q: This just hit me: If Stern doesn't veto the Lakers/Rockets/Hornets trade Jeremy Lin would still be a Rocket. Houston couldn't keep Lin because they already had 3 PG's with fully guaranteed contracts (Lowry, Dragic, Flynn). If the trade is allowed to go through, Lin would have been able to take Dragic's spot on the roster. Instead Stern vetoes the trade, and now Lin is singlehandedly saving the Knicks season, and keeping them out of the lottery. Oh ya, Houston owns New York's first rounder (top 5 protected). Is it possible Stern knew all this, and this was his actual reason for vetoing the trade? Also is this Stern's way of getting back at Houston for booing him after Game 7 of the NBA Finals? Let's be honest, the man isn't above grudges. — Adam Spolane, Houston
SG: I love when Daryl Morey writes me with the alias "Adam Spolane." And yeah, you're right — if the Gasol trade goes through and Houston follows that up by signing Nene (something the Rockets believe would have happened, even if the rest of the league is dubious), here's Houston's team right now: Kyle Lowry, Courtney Lee, Chandler Parsons, Nene and Pau Gasol (starters); Jeremy Lin, Marcus Morris, Patrick Patterson, Jordan Hill, Chase Budinger, Free Agent 2-Guard to Be Named (bench). Pretty interesting. Daryl will now light himself on fire.
(PS: Did you notice Houston was awarded the 2013 NBA All-Star Game last week? My buddy House is convinced that was Stern's way of apologizing for screwing the Rockets over. It's like Warden Norton letting Andy Dufresne shine his shoes right after he killed Andy's buddy who could have testified that Andy was innocent, and throwing Andy in the hole for two months for calling him "obtuse." Sorry about what happened, Houston — here, shine my shoes with the 2013 All-Star Game!)
That mailbag was awesome, I liked the paranoid dude who "believed" that Lin was an espn product hidden from the league with Stern's permission, only to create linsanity and get lots of hits.
Grantland has lots of good sport articles, I just wish Rick Reilley would write for them, he's my favorite sport columnist.
Vintage Reilly ruled, but he's really gone down the shitter the last 3-4 years, especially since he jumped ship to ESPN. The dude recycles so many old phrases, or straight up whole stories
Q: It has been such a thrill to watch the emergence of Jeremy Lin. In fact my only regret as a Knicks fan is we didn't have him on the team last season so that Dolan could have included Lin in the package to Denver. — Robert, Santa Monica
At this point it is clear that melo is needed. Except for Lin and Stoudemire tonight, no one else showed up at all.
Fields 1 for 8 Novak 2 for 9 Walker 1 for 6 Shump 3 for 9
Lin has a lot of turnovers yeah. part of it is carelessness that he needs to fix, but part of it is that he has to play ultra aggressive, make inside passes, gets double teamed, is forced left etc. Melo will help take off a lot of the pressure I think.
outside shots man, you can't make them all, Novak missed a few open looks, but it wasn't their offense that fuck them in the ass, it's the lack of defense. Terrible defense allowing back door cut during clutch time for layups. If it were any of the top teams even if someone manage to catch the ball cutting in, they will get foul so hard that they won't be making a layup.
On February 18 2012 13:25 rei wrote: outside shots man, you can't make them all, Novak missed a few open looks, but it wasn't their offense that fuck them in the ass, it's the lack of defense. Terrible defense allowing back door cut during clutch time for layups. If it were any of the top teams even if someone manage to catch the ball cutting in, they will get foul so hard that they won't be making a layup.
I'm with you. The offense was pretty terrible tonight because of abysmal 3-point shooting but the defense was retarded. They'd foul when a guy was going for layup but a crap sissy one so not only would hornets score but draw the foul and get the 3-pt play too. Terrible.