It leaves Francis in the position of being coached by a coach who wants to play him the best he can, and get the most out of his abilities, either to make him a part of the team or to get something good back for him. This is a much better situation than what he was in under LB.
No, this is the situaion he was in WITH LB. Think about it. I'll give you that LB was behind getting Stevie here JUST for the whole purpose of getting rid of Steph-which I believe is totally possible. What better way to get rid of Steph than treat Stevie the same way you are describing the way Isiah will treat him. Francis is mentally weak. You could tell he didn't want to be here last season.
I also disagree with the attitude you say Isiah will have towards Stevie. He has already went on record as saying this isn't his move, he wouldn't have done it, it was all LB, and Francis isn't a good fit here. He said the EXACT same things about Qyntel, and look where Qyntel is now.
Not outlandish. The point is that Marbury believed that Francis is good enough that he could be considered a replacement for him.
And this is the fundamental problem with Marbury. He has such a high opinion of himself that now he feels he can say which guys are "good enough" to replace him. At this point, I'd take Raymond Felton over him.
I don't get you. What does that have to do with anything? Marbury believes he is pretty good and he believes that Francis is good enough to be considered a replacement. It does not matter what your or my assessment of them is. We are talking about what Marbury meant.
I refer to my previous statement. The fundamental flaw with Steph is his high opinion of himself. He is in no position to-for lack of a better term-decree that Francis is good enough to replace him.
I'd like to point out this is also not the main point I was trying to make. The main point is Steph coming out and saying that Francis is only here to replace him. That means that with Steph here, Francis has no role-all he is is a redundant piece.
True. He should have said: "How sweet it is!"
Please don't joke like that, it may give him some ideas.
Not in this statement. There is no blaming. In this statement he is just calling LB a liar.
"I think Steve Francis was brought here to play the point-guard position last year," Marbury said. "I don't think he was brought in to be a 1-2 punch. I don't know if it was to be shifted to shooting guard or [for me] to be sit down. He didn't come here for us to be a 1-2 punch. I know it wasn't meant for it to be a 1-2 punch and have this dynamic backcourt."From Isiah-
"My job is to make it work and it's a tough spot," Thomas said. "I could find a way to make them both look good. Whatever faults or negative things they can't do or don't do, my job is to put all that in the closet and not let you open that closet door. When your mom made you clean the room and you throw everything in the closet and stand by the closet door, saying the room is clean. Whatever sins and faults they have, my job is to keep it in the closet and not let it show on the MSG floor."Very hard to misinterpret these, bro.
Please pull for me the snippet where you read or interpreted that from.
There is no snippet. But if I said I went out and bought another fridge because the old one wasn't working right, then a friend comes and fixes my old one so I don't get rid of it, what is the role of the new fridge I just wasted my money on?
There was no blaming. Again, he was simply calling LB a liar. You're doing a New York Media job on this quote Joe. You're making mountains out of non-existent molehills.
oohah, you are totally diregarding what was said. Read the quotes I pulled a little earlier. Neither is a ringing endorsement of the trade. Both are shifting the responsibility to the guy that got FIRED! Isiah saying, "It'll be tough", and "I can make them look good", Marbury inferring that Francis has no role...These are not ringing endoresements or quotes of support.
[Edited by - joec32033 on 10-11-2006 09:06 AM]
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