Posted by MS:
I am not sure why no one sees this but last night was a perfect example of why Crawford has no place on this team, I hear all this bull**** about Marbury, but the fact remains Crawford is the most selfish, useless player on this team......
He uses up close to 12 seconds every possession dicking around with the ball and then takes an off balance shot, or hands the ball to someone with 4 on the clock creating awful possessions. And when he doesn't use the clock he is firing with 18 on the clock.
He never plays in the flow of the game or the offense, and Isiah never takes him out or talks to him after he makes an awful decision, ala his forced shot in the overtime.......
No player has further digressed under Isiah than Crawford, his green light privledges need to be revoked now, its not just one game, and please don't tell me him and Curry work well together, or he is a clutch shooter....He loses more games for us than he wins.....
He should get spot duty only when Q returns........
Crawford is a streak shooter, he will have good games and bad games. His shot selection is questionable at times, but again, he is one of those players. He shoots and we're like "Noooo, and yes when it drops in."" I have learned to live with this from him, he has hit too many game winners for this team. As it stands, the knicks need Craws offense, when he does well the team does well, when he struggles with his shot, the team usually struggles. He is a very very very bad defender, this is the area he needs to fix. Beyond that, he is just like any other streak shooter.
Lets use Starks as an example.
On defense Starks was an animal and represents everything you want from your guard on defense. On offense, he was very much like Jamal, a chucker. Jamal is actually more gifted offensively in that he can create his own shot, albeit most times there off balance, but they do go in.
The point of mentioning starks is to compare that a shooter is a shooter, dont be mad at him for that, be mad at him for his D.
Trying to change the way a player naturally has played never can never work. This is what's happening to Marbury. You can't change shoot first guys into pass first guys, etc.
12/19/2006 5:36 PM