Posted by McK1:

breaking people's habits at thi stage in their career = UNLIKELY

the apples off the tree have a legit chance.

the ones in the barrell = pipe dream.

In Indy the vets were mostly discarded or roles diminished for moldable 21 and 22 year olds . here we're relying on guys 6,7, 9 years in the league that are pretty much set in their ways.

Things like getting Steph to release the ball early and come down and set screens run plays on the baseline or set up in the corners is something that has to be proven Isiah could do on the court.

Posted by NYKBocker:


Hopefully Blubbury will be gone!

Posted by NYKBocker:

Posted by crzymdups:

Posted by NYKBocker:


Hopefully Blubbury will be gone!

uh... no. Marbury will be front and center this season. He'll probably drop 30pts and 15asts on opening night to celebrate Larry being gone.

Then 10 days later claim his rightful place(in his eyes) as "Best PG in the NBA" I have seen that act and I am tired of him.

Posted by nixluva:

There really isn't any dispute that for most of his career Steph has been one of the top PG's in the league. He still is. The only issue is that we really haven't had much of a team around him yet. I expected that last year would be the beginning of us putting a good team around him and I still believe that the players we have can function at a VERY high level offensively and at a decent level defensively. That's about all anyone can hope for unless they are the rare defensive team that we have in this league. ie Detroit and Chicago. Every other team is also only Decent to good, but not great defensively. Still you can win if you function at a high level. This is what was missing last year. We already KNEW that we didn't have the defensive players, but since LB is an AWFUL offensive coach then he really couldn't help this team at all as constructed. This is why he wanted such sweeping change. The thing is all he had to do was be patient and change on some level would happen. He was just too old to have that kind of patience. Now we don't have that problem. Isiah is young and ready to go to war with these guys.

Some of you guys make it seem like Steph CAN'T play winning basketball, which is a farce. He's been on winning teams before, but he's NEVER been on a GREAT team. So how much winning do you expect he'd do on say the Nets at that time? The Knicks have been in constant transition and this is the 1st time we'll go into a year with MOST of the same players. So I find your pessimism unwarranted. Its not gonna be like last year at all. Isiah gets these guys in camp and works on getting them to grasp the new system and we'll see a much different team.

Last year teams ZONED us to death, cuz they knew our limited offensive attack would be shut down. Now we're not stagnant. The players will be in constant motion and with all the dangerous offensive players we have that will totally confuse many teams defensively. We have the young guys who will be a MUCH bigger part of this thing this year. Those guys are ball movers and have the athletic ability to execute the cuts and moves this offense calls for.
Why some of you are so stuck on he old vets is beyond me! They have no future here!!! 2 of them are GONE already, they just haven't been set free yet. All we need to be concerned with are the younger players that will truly be a part of this going forward.