It's not irrelevant. You want the Raptors to empty out their wallets on a guy with no proven track record.
Jose Calderon has played at the highest level, at a championship level, numerous times internationally. Based on the trend of this thread you're probably going to scoff at that but the pressure is just as great, if not more intense in international play. European fans a crazy at times in comparison to North American fans. Regardless of that, I'm not a strong supporter of Calderon either, I just feel he's a much better PG than Jeremy Lin. Calderon has a long, proven track record in many different situations. Jeremy Lin has very little track record at all. My point about the playoffs is that things change in the playoffs. Teams right now who are likely to draw the Knicks are probably already scouting Lin hardcore. No doubt looking to feast on his poor judgement with the ball, at times. Not to mention that but playoffs ball slows down a lot. So to review Prime, in the playoffs Lin will have to overcome harder defense and a half court system. If he does that I'll be warming up.
The Raptors have a number of good options to take with the future of their PG spot. There are more proven avenues to proceed down. One of them would be simply waiting a year and seeing what's available then. To give Jeremy Lin full MLE is jumping the gun. Let someone else take the gamble and if it works out there's always next time.
One final point I'll make. The Knicks are going to match any offer for him so what's the point of even debating it?
Jose Calderon has played at the highest level, at a championship level, numerous times internationally. Based on the trend of this thread you're probably going to scoff at that but the pressure is just as great, if not more intense in international play. European fans a crazy at times in comparison to North American fans. Regardless of that, I'm not a strong supporter of Calderon either, I just feel he's a much better PG than Jeremy Lin. Calderon has a long, proven track record in many different situations. Jeremy Lin has very little track record at all. My point about the playoffs is that things change in the playoffs. Teams right now who are likely to draw the Knicks are probably already scouting Lin hardcore. No doubt looking to feast on his poor judgement with the ball, at times. Not to mention that but playoffs ball slows down a lot. So to review Prime, in the playoffs Lin will have to overcome harder defense and a half court system. If he does that I'll be warming up.
The Raptors have a number of good options to take with the future of their PG spot. There are more proven avenues to proceed down. One of them would be simply waiting a year and seeing what's available then. To give Jeremy Lin full MLE is jumping the gun. Let someone else take the gamble and if it works out there's always next time.
One final point I'll make. The Knicks are going to match any offer for him so what's the point of even debating it?
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