Posted by TrueBlue:
Posted by Bonn1997:
Posted by nixluva:
Posted by Bonn1997:
Posted by Allanfan20:
Thing is, this was an abnormal number of injuries, and you gotto give it to the guys for playing their butts off and not quitting. Most NBA teams wouldn't be able to withstand losing 4 of their 6 best players.
However, even beforehand, it was just a poorly constructed team, and JUST a .500 team. I think Isiah knows full well that things need to be changed.
The injuries came at once but for the season as a whole our top 5 players have played in about as many games as any other teams'
Marbury has played in 99% of games
Crawford 79%
Q-Rich 67%
Lee 77%
Curry 99%
I think most teams would love to have their least healthy starter still available for most of the games actually. (And that's a player we knew was damaged when we acquired him.)
I don't get your point at all. If you have almost all of you injuries to key players at once, then that's WORSE than the same % spread out over a season at different times.
They got off lucky with almost no injuries for the first 50 games and then they had a stretch of injuries. Other teams had less luck early in the year with injuries and fewer injuries now. These two cancel each other out or if anything are more favorable to the Knicks. Very few teams have had players miss less games.
Yep it's far worse dealing with injuries out the gate for long stretches vs later. It's harder to dig out of holes than trying not to fall into one. Especially when one team plays in a far weaker Division and Conference vs some of the other teams.
You've got to be kidding me! I don't think it's in anyway clear cut that losing a bunch of key players is EVER good. The argument is wether it makes a difference when the injuries are spread out or come all together at one time. In our case it's clear that you don't want to have all of the injuries at the same time. As for this seasons slow start, the knicks started off slow due to a lack of cohesion and a tough opening schedule. I don't think anyone predicted that the team would come out of the gates blazing, with a new coach and system and coming off of the disaster that was last year.
Now I do expect that the team should start of better next year, having at least gone thru a season together under this system and thus not having to start from scratch. I think we come out of this year having a good feeling about Steph, Curry, Lee, Balkman and Collins. If both Q and Jamal heal well, both of them showed themselves to be good contributors this year too. I liked how Q was playing before his back started acting up. We tend to forget all of these things because of how things have gone recently.
The team responded well after the brawl and suspensions. They've also fought hard with all of these key players injured. Those are good positives. Still some of us want to harp on the actual number of wins and losses as if that's what was most important this year. NOT for this developing team. I would've loved for them to reach .500, but more important to me is how the team grows and I like the culture that they've developed of fighting hard. They have bonded this year and we really needed for this team to actually look like a team for a change. Those are some of the things that we accomplished this year.
