Posted by Marv:
jax played himself out of new york by falling in love with this own offense after his stellar rookie year. for such a new york savvy guy he managed to alienate the local fan base and get himself run out of town. i ,believe it could have been avoided if he had retained his role as a highly successful rookie point guard who focused on feeding others and putting his shot in the ;background
See I don't agree with you Marv. remember he did make the all-star team in his second year. Jackson's ****iness did turn some people off, but compared to the throat cutting gestures of today I think the helicopter dance is cute.
What I think hurt Jackson was the fact he showed up out of shape in his 3rd season. He still played pretty well but not to the standard he showed he was capable of previously, and New York turned on him. But he came back in shape the next season rededicated to making other players better and he maintained that for the rest of his career (13 more years)and he was treated pretty badly by the Kicks organization.
Riley wanted him out because Jackson's man-to-man defense was poor. Unfortunately Riley outsmarted himself because after trading Jackson nobody could run the offense smoothly and we became one of the ugliest teams to watch in history. People like to reminisce about the good old days of the 90's but the Knicks had a lot of trouble scoring because our PG's were not very good orchestrator. Sometimes you have to give something to get something.
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