Posted by tkf:
you are correct, blue, you are correct! and when he stood up to mabs, what happened? IT traded him. And in return for IT's loyalty what does marbury do? He quits on the team and the coach that IT assembled and brought together..... What a class act...

Exactly, that's what kills me most about this guy. What more could isiah have done for him? Lenny and Larry are both HOF coaches and former point guards with a bent toward PGs.

First Isiah thought a soft kindly approach would appeal to Steph (and Crawford, who we were told really took to Lenny) and Steph abused him by telling him to stick his defensive schemes when Steph's execution was criticized. Then Steph decides practices are beneath him, just as they were in Phoenix.

Between Isiah emasculating him by allowing him none of his own assistants, and Steph effectively giving him fudgies at practice, Lenny says "enough'", and retires, or get the boot for "only" getting .500 play from them.

This time Isiah thinks "okay, I'll dump my only defender for Steph and I'll get him the best coach available, my friend for 25 years, the man who rescued my fallen soul after I was unceremoniously fired by Bird in Indiana. I'll give him Larry, the guy who made contenders out of difficult-fits like Ivy and Billips. Larry, who went to the conference finals with Haywoode Workman running the point. If anyone can salvage Steph's career and put some toughness into a team so soft I was embarrassed to be associated with it, it's Larry Brown."

For his efforts Isiah is rewarded with constant whining, foot dragging, dissension, indifference and malaise. When Kobe scorches him for 42 pts Steph blames Larry for only allowing him 20 shots, of which he only took 9. Then "the best" PG wants to play SG. After we win 6 in a row Steph returns from injury wanting to abandon what worked and run NO set plays. When we win two in a row after Dolan's pep talk Steph decides getting back on track isn't as nearly fun as being Starbury was.

Just one petty, self-serving battle after another. Steph's approach to the team and the season, (and really with regards to Steph's entire career), was pretty aptly summarized by Isiah months ago when he told Crybury: "be manly about it, your family is watching."

I'm sure Isiah can't wait for the day he's some other GM's nightmare.

Posted by BlueSeats:

Posted by tkf:
you are correct, blue, you are correct! and when he stood up to mabs, what happened? IT traded him. And in return for IT's loyalty what does marbury do? He quits on the team and the coach that IT assembled and brought together..... What a class act...

Exactly, that's what kills me most about this guy. What more could isiah have done for him? Lenny and Larry are both HOF coaches and former point guards with a bent toward PGs.

First Isiah thought a soft kindly approach would appeal to Steph (and Crawford, who we were told really took to Lenny) and Steph abused him by telling him to stick his defensive schemes when Steph's execution was criticized. Then Steph decides practices are beneath him, just as they were in Phoenix.

Between Isiah emasculating him by allowing him none of his own assistants, and Steph effectively giving him fudgies at practice, Lenny says "enough'", and retires, or get the boot for "only" getting .500 play from them.

This time Isiah thinks "okay, I'll dump my only defender for Steph and I'll get him the best coach available, my friend for 25 years, the man who rescued my fallen soul after I was unceremoniously fired by Bird in Indiana. I'll give him Larry, the guy who made contenders out of difficult-fits like Ivy and Billips. Larry, who went to the conference finals with Haywoode Workman running the point. If anyone can salvage Steph's career and put some toughness into a team so soft I was embarrassed to be associated with it, it's Larry Brown."

For his efforts Isiah is rewarded with constant whining, foot dragging, dissension, indifference and malaise. When Kobe scorches him for 42 pts Steph blames Larry for only allowing him 20 shots, of which he only took 9. Then "the best" PG wants to play SG. After we win 6 in a row Steph returns from injury wanting to abandon what worked and run NO set plays. When we win two in a row after Dolan's pep talk Steph decides getting back on track isn't as nearly fun as being Starbury was.

Just one petty, self-serving battle after another. Steph's approach to the team and the season, (and really with regards to Steph's entire career), was pretty aptly summarized by Isiah months ago when he told Crybury: "be manly about it, your family is watching."

I'm sure Isiah can't wait for the day he's some other GM's nightmare.

Thankyou Blueseats, some people don't get it.

Whats the difference between a regular "juice card" and one that is "hard"?

Whats a "juice card" anyway?

But it sounds like I would like one!

Maybe I already do!

Anybody cheak out what Nate McMillon is going thru in POrtland? A hard ass coach whose team has quit on him. A core of Zach and Miles is really not very good.

Anyone want to man up on who requested those mental midgets?

Nate did some nice work with the sonics, and now he is old and senile too?

I don't care if we won 40 this year and pandered to these soft divas. If they can't take Larry's quotes, how they going to fair in a playoff series? a 7th game against Detroit in the Conference finals? Not very well, won't even get that chance.

Not if your not playing defense!

So the losses are really irrelevent. Win 30 vs 20 is not difference if your team ain't going no where.

Guys, there's been a lot said about what happened this year. But I think that EnySpree nailed it a while ago.

This season has simply needed more damn cowbell.