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  • #36371
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    d-rav
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     Would you guys take Lin ahead of Teague??? 

    Daryl Morey regrets Jeremy Lin cut

    By Ian Begley
    Special to ESPNNewYork.com
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    Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey regrets letting go of New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin.

    "We should have kept (Jeremy Lin). Did not know he was this good," Morey wrote on his official Twitter account on Thursday. "Anyone who says they knew misleading U."

    In a separate tweet, Morey praised Lin, writing "Finally, really happy for (Lin). Very hard working, nice, & humble. He has a great, great future."

     

     

    Lin has surprised many talent evaluators with his play in the Knicks’ past three games.

     

    The undrafted former Harvard standout has averaged 25.3 points and 8.3 assists over his past three games — all Knicks victories.

    In his first start, Lin scored 28 points and had eight assists against the Utah Jazz in a game in which New York (11-15) was missing Amare Stoudemire (death in the family) and had lostCarmelo Anthony just minutes into the first quarter due to a groin injury.

    The 23-year-old followed that performance with a 23-point, 10-assist night against theWashington Wizards on Wednesday.

     

     

    Lin was released in late December by the Rockets to make room for Houston’s signing ofSamuel Dalembert. Houston already had three point guards on its roster, and all of their contracts were guaranteed. Lin had a non-guaranteed contract.

    Earlier in the preseason, Lin was released by theGolden State Warriors, who let him go to create enough salary cap space for a four-year offer sheet worth nearly $43 million to then-restricted free agent DeAndre Jordan. The Clippers matched the offer.

    The Knicks signed Lin off of waivers two days after he was released by the Rockets.

     

    New York needed another guard after rookie Iman Shumpert went down with a knee injury in its season-opening win over Boston.

     

     

    Lin served as the Knicks’ third-string guard before he was sent by the team to its D-League affiliate, the Erie BayHawks. Lin spent six days with the BayHawks.

    With starting point guard Toney Douglasstruggling with his shot, Lin received significant minutes for the first time against New Jersey last Saturday.

    He responded with 25 points and seven assists, many of which were recorded againstDeron Williams.

    Lin is the first player since LeBron James to score at least 20 points and record at least eight assists in his first start. James accomplished the feat as a rookie in 2003.

    Lin and the Knicks will face Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers at Madison Square Garden on Friday night in a game televised by ESPN.

    The game will likely draw a large number of Lin supporters, reflecting his sudden surge in popularity. Morey, responding to a question about releasing Lin, wrote on Twitter: "(Lin) is a very good player but Linsanity was not happening here this year."

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  • #633960
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    To be honest, we have nothing to regret.  Yes, he’s showing that he’s a pretty good player even though I still have my doubts but who knew he’d be this good?  I’m sure 95% of GMs would have cut him too if they had Lowry, Dragic, and Flynn.  He was the only non-guaranteed contract so it was smart to do that. 

    Hindsight is 20/20 but we shouldn’t regret it, we still have Lowry who averages 15-8-6. 

    Like I said, 95% of GMs would have cut Lin if they had Lowry, Dragic and Flynn before we knew he could be pretty good.

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  • #633962
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     Moreover at the beginning of the season the rockets got :

    lowry as a starter (he pushed aaron brooks away from houston…) dragic as a back up (young promising performing at times) and johnny flynn (who was still a strter 2 years ago).

    You can’t have regrets on cutting lin. He wouldn’t have broken the rotation to get enough playing time to prove himself.

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  • #633964
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    JunkYardDog
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     GS should have regrets cause they needed some quality back up point guard…

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  • #633965
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    Wavy Bagels
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     I personally think they regret cutting Jeremy Lin from a marketing standpoint. Had they found out how well he could play if they had given him minutes (which wouldn’t have happened because they already had Lowry and Dragic as TOL stated) and won games for them, they perhaps could’ve perhaps utilized Lin’s asian heritage, popularity, plus the background story of his humble beginnings at Harvard University as a marketing tool, then further down the line, he would be their "resurrection" of Yao Ming (another notable Asian NBA player who played for the Rockets). Lin just seems to be not only a good player with excellent IQ, but more significantly, a clever marketing option for whoever picked him up (in this case, the New York Knicks).

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