Posted by fishmike:
forget about taking risks with young players. Let Kwame explode somewhere else. Give me old dependable KT on the pick and roll every day.
At some point people need to look at the results and not the stats. KT plays a ton of minutes, and he plays very hard. He works hard on D for a team that doesnt play any. I understand why people over value him. The simple fact is he's overmatched most night, and the numbers dont lie: we have been killed at PF and SF all year long. Its not even close. We win the battle at center. We win the battle at PG, and SG is a slight minus (1 point). SF and PF were are -5.3 and -5.4. Maybe that will change at SF now, but whats changing at PF? I havent seen much change there for 4 years.
Fish, these are exactly my sentiments. I have pointed out KT's faults and how he has held this team down for over 3 years now and I have been called nuts by fans on the board. But KT is not going to get this team to a championship. The Knicks have changed at every position and remain with KT it seems that the Knicks are being built around KT rather than Marbury and athletic running pg. This is no way to compliment a athletic pg with a slow as molasses PF.
I understand loyalty but I also understand winning. Its great to have loyalty to a player but most are blind to the faults of a player when Loyalty is involved. KT needs to be removed from the lineup ASAP. He is the culprit that is holding the team down. Since the day that he has taken to the lineup they have been below .500 and well below .500. People will say how do you blame one person on a team I can when the player is playing close to 37 minutes a game. At the same time if one player can make a difference in winnig one player also can be the difference in losing.
1/14/2005 6:29 PM