it's not about up tempo, it's about roles. Isiah sees a role for the players he brough in, he knows exactly how crawford can be put in a position to succeed. This is the kid that scored 50 for the bulls one game.
He's always been thought of a sixth man until he matured to take over for marbury. Look at his salary scale:
05-06 06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11
Crawford $6,525,000 $7,250,000 $7,975,000 $8,700,000 $9,425,000 $10,150,000
He's not slated to make over $10 million until AFTER marbury is off the cap.
He was supposed to be able to back up both marbury and houston.
He'll be the sixth man (unless he's miraculously transformed into a consistent starter). (maybe that's why he was the only one brown started consistently down the stretch, to get zeke's goat, how did that leak that he was getting traded to the nuggets?)
Qrich will be the starter if he's here, but who ever isiah puts in his starting backcourt, they will be proven starters. So if we don't move somebody, then somebody has to be gary payton to crawfords wade (if crawford can not have a 30 point half against the sonics, but have several 30 point games).
I think he sees exactly how channing frye, eddy curry and david lee can be used on this current team. He knows how nate can help, he knows Marbury's temperment.
The roles will be clearly defined heading into the season and will be like that until somebody gets hurt or plays himself out of the starting lineup over the course of a few games as opposed to this last year when it was minutes, sometimes seconds.
[Edited by - rvhoss on 06-24-2006 11:14 PM][Edited by - rvhoss on 06-24-2006 11:15 PM]all kool aid all the time.
6/24/2006 10:02 PM