I was bored earlier, so I went to HoopsHype and checked out our roster and some of the other Atlantic teams...

Couple of things struck me -

A.) Letting Timmy and Penny slide off the cap would atleast help return us to SOME cap respectability.

B.) There was a quote from Marbury on the site "I ain't going nowhere, and I'm still going to play the same way I play".......are we REALLY supposed to believe he can adapt?

C.) There are still a couple teams that might be willing to trade for him.

D.) Trading him would allow us to move Crawford to the point and Q Rich to the 2, seeing as how Crawford is Isiah's lover boy and he won't be parting with him anytime soon...



So, to the point :

Would Isiah ever trade Marbury???

If Larry wants him gone, he's gone.

I think if after 3 years the little experiment didn't pan out, i could see trading marbury to be fully under the cap...I think you have to wait until after H20's deal would have expired, after the 06/07 season.

that, in my mind, is the make or break.

the revolving door in nyc is ok for role players, but you can't keep shuffling in stars and hope they bring with them the magic potion to a winning team.

You have to at one point just stick with one player and do what you can to surround that player with what he needs to succeed.

Unless the player is shaq, there is nobody you could trade him for that would bring a championship. and with the way the CBA is, you have to bring back contracts of equivalent (sp?) value so what's the difference.

Thrusting Crawford to the starting role really doesn't make us feel better and if you bring in a stud, he won't be the focus of the offense.

Now is the time for everyone to just realize that marbury is our star that we should build around...we tried to go with ewing alone, but it didn't work, you have to stick with it.

Marbury is awesome, his stats speak for themselves.

To answer your question, there is no way Isiah trades marbury...if marbury is traded, it'll be after Zeke is gone.

[Edited by - rvhoss on 08-19-2005 7:19 PM]

Posted by rvhoss:

I think if after 3 years the little experiment didn't pan out, i could see trading marbury to be fully under the cap...I think you have to wait until after H20's deal would have expired, after the 06/07 season.

that, in my mind, is the make or break.

the revolving door in nyc is ok for role players, but you can't keep shuffling in stars and hope they bring with them the magic potion to a winning team.

You have to at one point just stick with one player and do what you can to surround that player with what he needs to succeed.

Unless the player is shaq, there is nobody you could trade him for that would bring a championship. and with the way the CBA is, you have to bring back contracts of equivalent (sp?) value so what's the difference.

Thrusting Crawford to the starting role really doesn't make us feel better and if you bring in a stud, he won't be the focus of the offense.

Now is the time for everyone to just realize that marbury is our star that we should build around...we tried to go with ewing alone, but it didn't work, you have to stick with it.

Marbury is awesome, his stats speak for themselves.

To answer your question, there is no way Isiah trades marbury...if marbury is traded, it'll be after Zeke is gone.

[Edited by - rvhoss on 08-19-2005 7:19 PM]

the stats are real. who does marbs have on the team having his back? J Kidd, please... J Kidd had Kenyon Martin and Jefferson

when marbs had amare, marbs and amare fought the spurs really hard in the first round that year... now, two years later, Amare has another PG still feeding him, crushing people...

Marbury's problem is sometimes he rubs people the wrong way...

I agree with rich, but who's to say IT and LB want clash like ernie and JVG did. Everybody knows what a control freak LB is ( not that anything is wrong with that at this juncture )but I honestly feel maurbury wants to be a winner more then he wants to be the best pg on earth. Crawford as well wants to become a better player and is willing to learn. Stephs relationship with Steph is exactly like JVG and Ewing, only IT has more power then JVG.
So to answer your ? no..hell no

Absolutely. Isiah would trade his own mother. (or so he said.)

2 more seasons!


Wow...

Magic: "Ummmmmm, is that Calvin Klein?"

Isiah: "Yaaaaaaa, Magic! How'd you know?"

Magic: "Ooooo girl, I bought myself some CK last week."

Isiah: "Ummmm, I can tell..."

Magic: "Oh you..."

Always remember this. The NBA is a business, first.

Personally, I don't understand what this love affair is with players who came from NY. I'm sure Dolan would rather keep him, so you're more or less right. But it's Isiah's job to do everything in his power to bring us a championship, and as of right now, we're farther away than we are closer...