Posted by nixluva:
Who cares what Hinrich is getting paid? He's an OK player, but nothing more. I really don't see what the big deal is with this guy.
Sure it's easy to bash Steph and his career, but you have to put things in perspective. The Bulls have done a good job in building their team and Kirk benefits from that. You put him on some of offensively deficient teams Steph had and I doubt he does very well. Those teams needed a scorer just to stay in games. Circumstances have a LOT to do with a players success. Just ask Jordan, Kobe, KG, TMac, AI, Pierce etc. If you constantly play with inferior teams or teams at the early stages of development, then you're not going to have much success. Steph had that very problem for much of his career. The T'Wolves were mostly young and incomplete, Nets just stunk and were never healthy, PHX was young and incomplete and here in NY it's been a mixture of both. I believe that the end of his career he'll have more success than he's had his entire career. As this team get's better, his role won't be as large as it once was, but the TEAM will be better. We'll have more consistency going forward and I think that will really help to make things better. His stay here will be the longest he's stayed on any one team and in the end I think it will finally pay off.
The reason his stay is longer here is because no other GM was fool enough to sign him to long, high priced contract. As far as him being better now, that might be possible, but how many starbury mistakes it going to take to even convince himself to just shut it, sit when told to and do nothing until told to, without him opening up his ever lasting big mouth? To me, the best of Marbury was destroyed by the best of starbury! I don't want to talk about the person here. It's his job to play basketball. He gets paid millions of dollars every year, for years. I always wanted to know about the basketball player and to tel you the truth, I myself have been so beat down by the starbury, I just simply do not trust him anymore. I don't think I'd trust him even if he did' play his best basketball game this next year or the year after. It's a matter of trust. That's what it has come down to. I have no more patience with the best of Marbury that is yet to come. You and the others can beleive and believe even when he retires, all the more power to all of you. But with me? I've heard it all. It should always be about basketball. It should never be about the 'me' thing ever. The mentality is very much a part of the fundamentals of this game, any game really and if you don't posses it, then chances are you never will and will probably be criticized by it. The problem with Marbs is 'he was never told to shut up'! And people always just give him the slap on the wrist. Brown tried to do it and he ended up being OUT! So no one should touch starbury or else. That's the way I see it.
I'll never trust this' team again.
5/13/2007 6:41 PM