Posted by nixluva:

As usual this is all PURE CRAP!!! You guys are just freakin amazing. You just watched the guy play his ass off on bad wheels and teams STILL couldn't stop him. He's not done yet and like EnySpree said, he's been purposely holding back his own game to try and fit more into the team concept. Besides why is it right to kick dirt on him at this time? It's not really about him anymore. We're not looking for him to dominate games like he used to. We only need him to provide scoring punch when it's needed and he eventually found the right balance and was doing that this year. That is before the injuries.

What some of you aren't realizing is that If this team made it to the playoffs and we needed an explosion from Steph he would be able to provide that. Next season he'll likely be able to get more rest now that we have Mardy coming along. Then we can save him for the playoffs. It's a good situation having Steph and his considerable talent at this point. He can last a lot longer if we don't have to wear him out and we won't playing him the way we did most of this year. Steph isn't a problem for this team, he can help us when we need that higher level in a playoff situation.

Posted by franco12:

Posted by nixluva:

As usual this is all PURE CRAP!!! You guys are just freakin amazing. You just watched the guy play his ass off on bad wheels and teams STILL couldn't stop him. He's not done yet and like EnySpree said, he's been purposely holding back his own game to try and fit more into the team concept. Besides why is it right to kick dirt on him at this time? It's not really about him anymore. We're not looking for him to dominate games like he used to. We only need him to provide scoring punch when it's needed and he eventually found the right balance and was doing that this year. That is before the injuries.

What some of you aren't realizing is that If this team made it to the playoffs and we needed an explosion from Steph he would be able to provide that. Next season he'll likely be able to get more rest now that we have Mardy coming along. Then we can save him for the playoffs. It's a good situation having Steph and his considerable talent at this point. He can last a lot longer if we don't have to wear him out and we won't playing him the way we did most of this year. Steph isn't a problem for this team, he can help us when we need that higher level in a playoff situation.

We must have been watching different games because Marbury struggled to get into the lane like he has in the past.

And this is a load of garbage saying Marbury is sacrificing his game for the betterment of the team- all the other guys listed do that- and they still get their points, but they also get assists, steals, make an impact by being a positive player.

Look- Marbury played great team ball this year.

But- bottom line is this- his production and value on the court is grossly mismatched to his salary.

And he is still costing us a draft pick that will be unprotected in 2010.

I'm not sure his value is ever going to be higher around the league and if you could trade him for a decent package, I think you do it.

He isn't getting younger, faster and his shot from outside isn't getting better.

He struggled to get in the lane? When? Maybe when he was injured, which Steph was dealing with a lot last year. And how do you know that he didn't sacrifice his game at all? I think it's pretty obvious that he has since Brown came, but felt better with it under Isiah as he convinced him that we needed to go through Curry. Anyway, you act like Marbury didn't score at all last year, but that was earlier in the season when the team was struggling to find it's identity with Curry as the main guy. That may be a reason the team struggled early on because Steph only scored over 20 points once in the first month and a half, but as the season went on he had far more impact as a scorer, including 8 games where he scored over 30 points and 3 of those over 40 points. He also had stretches of 6 out of 7 games in a row scoring over 20 in January (the teams record was 4-3) and over 20 in 8 out of 9 games, or 9 out of 11 during one stretch (where the Knicks went 5-4 and 6-5) where he had 3 games in a row over 30 points one of which was over 40.

This is the sign of a guy who can't get in the lane or score? Sure, if you want to ignore facts and believe that he's done, then by all means, fire away.