Posted by SlimPack:
Well if you think about it alot of those coaches changed their philosophys after marbury was traded,
Could yopu be more specific? I'm not sure how flip or Skiles changed, and if you're thinking D'Antoni's style changed to more uptempo after Steph it's mainly because Steph and Hardaway refused to buy into that system. So rather than saying he changed I think it's more fair to say his style was thwarted by Steph (and others)
and also the reason he doesnt trust brown is becuase 1. the knicks are losing,
That was to be expected by most level headed analysts. And we should remember we were on the losing end of a season last year too, before LB. And we lost to LA even when Steph scored 45.
Point being, who's Steph to think he knows more about winning than Brown?
and 2. what larry brown is trying to do doesn't make any sense. a team doesnt need a pure PG to be successful, it doesn't make sense for larry to try and turn marbury into one when the team will obviously be much better off making more use of his natural talents.
I'm not sure about that. There have been teams who won with a pG as their leading scorer: Isiah, Magic, and clyde.
Magic was as pure as they come, in spite of being a great scorer.
Clyde wasn't nearly as gifted a PG as magic and stockton etc, but Red Holtzman had him playing in the Larry brown/Billups mold and it worked.
Isiah was often moved to the off-guard with Dumars playing the pure PG role.
so even the great scoring PGs played "the right way", what hasn't worked was guys dominating from the point to the exclusion of their teammates. Even the great oscar robertson couldn't do that, and he learned to make his teammates better.
Im starting to think that larry brown really is trying to manipulate zeke instead of win games.
To what end?
