Comments on: Stephon Marbury says he’s always been a good teammate

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:37:08 +0000

Im sick of the Steph bashing that follows him where ever he goes now…from Jersey on hes been haunted by this cloud conjured up by pete vescey in ’02 after the Nets missed the playoffs the year before (again) then Kidd comes in and hes some kind of savior?! nevermind that he fell into the perfect situation w/ a healthy (finally) kenyon martin, healthy keith van horn, who by the way hadnt seemed to be all that hungry to make it to the playoffs since his rookie year let-down, and 3 new young guys who LOVE to run the BEST guy steph had when he was in jersey besides van horn for 3 years was Johnny Newman the only problem was he was a WASHED UP vet damn near 40 years old…it was steph van horn lucious harris J-new k-mart and armon freakin gilliam! thats not a squad!! cmon!! then they get young guys and kidd and they make it to the finals and steph gets labeled some kind of a franchise killer its bull crap. he goes to phoenix and they make teh playoffs every year and lose to the spurs EVERY YEAR! they wasnt sayin shyt about tony parker when steph spent THOSE 3 years bustin his hump EVERY SINGLE MEETING!
they didnt boo him when he came here at first, they werent booing when he LEAD us to the playoffs that year, they felt his desire when we missed the post season by a few games cuz of poor execution and inexperience (mainly jamal crawford, dont get me wrong Ive ALWAYS loved craw…) they didnt have nothin to say. then the media puts that bug in their ear ” you know hes done this before…,” like it was HIS fault the T’wolves couldnt get out the first round, and NOT the youthful inexperience and being out-matched EVERY SINGLE YEAR or that its HIS fault jersey sucked cuz he ONLY averaged 24 and 9 instead of the 19 and 12 everyone seemed to want and not the wrag-tag bunch of BUMBS he had as help (kendall gill was a bum from day 1 in NJ…ask sam cassell he knows!) you CANT get credited with assists if the guys DONT SCORE!
you cant out it all on him the knicks have just plain sucked! thats the way it is…they had 3 great coaches since hes been there and they all said teh same thing about the TEAM “they lack effort” or “they dont want to play defense”…stephs not by any means a star defender but I dont really ever recall him lacking effort on the court at either end (obviously he works harder offensively but seriously…) at one point they had the worst record and THE MOST FIRST ROUND DRAFT PICKS, 12!! that was the WHOLE roster!!!! thats stephs fault? your crazy!

sorry I know its a rant but I cant take it anymore…
chris duhonh is a hustler but hes not going to be a #1 starting pg LEADER in this league I dont think ever hes a GREAT backup

sorry I know its long
B

By: Coop

Coop — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:49:02 +0000

Big V,

haha I remember ‘Slam’ calling it the ‘Allan Houston Rule’ and then looking like total asshats when NY didnt use it on H20. Being Slam, of course, they didnt admit fault.

By: me

me — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:57:48 +0000

the last paragraph is too funny hahah. new york shoudnt try to buy him out, let him play. its a new coach and he hasnt played in a while and it seems like he wants to be outt here. the guy has talent, he can bring it or get paid twice and bring it someplace else.

By: Promoman

Promoman — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:55:29 +0000

Marbury’s a problem, but he isn’t the sole reason the Knicks are garbage. Dolan & Isiah stockpiled more ballhogs, lazy players, and flat-out low/no talents rather than real players. They won’t win with Robertson Duhon, or Nate starting anyway.

By: dagwaller

dagwaller — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:34:26 +0000

It’s Bruce. Pause.

By: Big V

Big V — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:01:25 +0000

@ Coop,

Not sure but wasn’t that the whole point of the Amnesty rule (Allan Houston Rule), which they ended up using on JYD anyway?

By: Coop

Coop — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:34:05 +0000

I can’t recall the details of the Houston situation; with regard to injuries, teams at least have the facility to wipe the contract from the cap, and a proportion of a guys wages are centrally funded if he retires due to injury but i cant recall the parameters of that. I dont know if Houston could have saved everyone a headache by ‘retiring’ earlier.

By: Big V

Big V — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:18:21 +0000

This is the same thing people were saying about Allan Houston, except that people used the excuse of him getting injured as a cop out. The Knicks offer him the money and he’s the bad guy for taking it. And does anyone think they wanted him to play more than he himself wanted to be on that court? It’s not like he bitched out, hell, he’s STILL trying to help the team out. Not to go off topic, but the haters sound remarkably similar in these instances.

By: kermit the washington

kermit the washington — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:59:49 +0000

This is the Knicks problem, not Steph’s. The Knicks made the foolish decision to go with this cat, and now they’re going to have to pay for it, and lie in the bed that they’ve made. Steph is a straight idiot who should go back to the playground where he came from, since he obviously hasn’t grown up past that stage.

By: AJ knixx

AJ knixx — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:56:51 +0000

***worth to keep him because hes not a bad player. The way i just wrote that made me sound like charles barkley. Does he make sense to anyone?or is it just me?