Posted by islesfan:
One of the most entertaining games in at least a week.
Great choke by Starbury. Nice to see they're still heavily relying on a player that will be on the downside of his career when the young guys finally "get it" in 3-4 years.
Where was Curry? The Franchise was nonexistent again. Couldn't even carry the load against Nick Collison.
Frye is a gutless puke passing up open shots all night because he has no balls. Great lottery pick Isiah.
Playoffs? Who cares, it matters like the 2003 playoffs mattered.
Why exactly is everyone tearing isles to pieces over this?
He's dead on about Frye and Curry.
As to Marbury - he had a great game, yes, but he did choke.
And can anybody deny he'll be on the downside of his career in 3-4 years? No.
So... why the big hissyfit from everyone?
This game was huge, regardless of what IT said beforehand. We couldn't pull it off. Frye and Curry produced nothing. There were about 50 boneheaded mental errors. We didn't even start to play until the second half. For most of the game up to the end we just looked like we didn't want it.
Of course you could go the other route and start making all sorts of excuses as to why we lost and why any criticism about the loss is just ridiculous and hater behavior.
"This is still a young team they're working out the kinks!"
"They played hard its too bad they just couldn't pull it out in the end"
"There was great effort how can you fault them for that?"
"Starbury was great all game just missed a free throw could have happened to anybody"
Blah, blah, blah
That also gets insanely tiresome.
They were playing a team they should have beat, during a game that was very important.
They couldn't pull it off. This is not the time for "almost! you guys are almost there!" and "well hey, last year we would have lost by 10 points! what an improvement!" this is win or we're doing the same thing we've been doing the past several postseasons: nothing.