Posted by djsunyc:
Posted by Killa4luv:
Well how about this for a theory.
The Knicks could have more victories but because of LB's lack of a SL, crazy rotation, Craws inconsistancy, Currys injuries, and q's ineptitude, we haven't. Steph has been by far the best and most consistant player on the team. He is frustrated, because he could do more things to help us win, but because of LB's insistance on coaching to his liking as opposed to his personnel he cannot. As a result his infamous body language has appeared to be more pronounced, but hasn't actually worsened, it is just visible more often because we are losing more often. If it indeed has worsened it is in response to our losing and the frustration that comes with that. Not to mention the fact the he is blamed for everything bad that happpens to the knicks whether it is his fault or not.
problem is, every team steph ever played for catered to him and for the most part, has not resulted in any type of success. and in the one situation where it did (phx), the coach and the other 2 good players wanted him gone.
in this situation, lb's way has been proven to work so he's installing his system. i ask this, why was it so hard for steph ("the toughest 10 assists in my life") that he pleaded to be moved to sg? i mean, steph IS the best pg, got frustrated quickly, then asked to be moved to sg. and this AFTER he said on SAS that he can score 30 any night but doesn't want to b/c he wants to be pg.
your take, "b/c he feels like he could help the team with his scoring." my take, "coach, i can't play my game. i want to be iverson so i can play my game the way i want to. i don't like playing pg in your system." which is more likely the case?
i never once blamed steph for ANY loss. i never once blamed steph for anything. i just don't want him around our young kids. i want to let those guys grow together and move on. i want the philosphy of this organization to change.
The thing is that Steph had success with Minny playing the exact same way he plays now. He wasn't traded cuz they didn't like him. He wanted to leave cuz of his own immaturity, but the team had its 1st success with him as PG. 1st playoff appearances and 1st winning season. Its not true that Steph hasn't made players better cuz in fact most of the guys he's played with have had some of their best scoring seasons playing with him. I know this for a fact. You can go and look it up.
As far as Steph not liking this LB PG style, its mainly cuz we don't have enough guys who can create their own shots or hit open shots when set up properly. IF you where out there watching guys just look horrible in this system you'd want to do more too.
Its not his style that doesn't win, its the teams he's played on. Name me the team he's been on that was expected to challenge for the NBA title in the season he played for them. NO team he's ever been on was at that stage of development or had that level of talent. Even when he was on Minny, KG was just a kid and so was he. Nets NEVER had that kind of talent. It was just STeph, KVH and Kmart was a rookie just coming back form a big injury. Phx again Steph had Marion and Amare was a rookie. Steph only played 18 games with Amare in his sophomore seaons, so who knows what would have happened. Here we've not yet had a team that was ready for anything.
Look at who Steph plays with when he's on the court. He starts with guys like Q, Ariza, AD or James. Heck if he was allowed to play his game he could set these guys up for easy buckets like he did for Nazr and KT, but with this style he's not able to do that, cuz in this offense the PG simply starts the swing of the ball and isn't always the one making the pass that leads to the shot. The problem is that these guys mostly create TO's or Miss the shot. Its really unfair to Steph that he's mostly facing the other teams starting lineup with a VERY weak offensive squad of his own. Then he's not allowed to do what he can do. how much help does he get from his teammates and how much can he do to help them when he's mostly just bringing it up and making an early pass that leads to another pass, instead of his probing the D and then finding the open man for open shots.
IF LB let Steph and JC play their game and let the Bigs feed off of what they create this team would be as potent if not more than last years team on offense. We avg'd 97ppg and that was with TT, Penny and H2O and very little at center. Now I think we could be even more effective with the guys we have if we played to their strengths.
