I'm just thinking it's reactionary to suggest that Zeke will now sabotage his great drafting and youthful athletic core of players and not give it a go. He only has 1 year to turn this thing around.
so rather than allow everyone to derail his vision, by doing it their way and hoping it buys him 2 more years, he finishes what he knows is the right way to build a team.
I'm thinking he truly believes in frye, curry, lee, nate and crawford and marbury.
I don't think he wanted to bring francis and rose in for anything other than "pieces of meat". The team is constructed to run with the veteran scoring point guard.
Marbury is supposed to lead a team of chucking, eventually consistent, chuckers. And have someone taking some of the point guard duties off of marbury so teams can't simply trap him, as the nets did, and he had nobody to give it up to. (frank?)
He's going to play frye because even that pick was ridiculed as short sighted. We quickly learned he was a pretty good kid in a 5 game stretch during the season. Why would Isiah turn his back on him?
One thing Isiah has shown, if anything, is extreme loyalalty to a fault. His backing of his players makes him a player's coach by definition. And he loves lee, frye, nate, crawford, curry and marbury.
If I see these players a majority of the time, next year, I will be ecstatic.
AND they win
35 42
games and I'm dancing in the streets.
This team is supposed to be a train wreck. If nobody else sees playing the youth as a benefit to us long term then you are crazy. All of those players are basically babies compared to the other players in the league AND have a tendency to play Extremly exciting and well together. (all the celtics games, in seattle, philly at home)
Maybe their minutes stay the exact same as they did this year. There is a science to coaching and Minutes played is up there with pitch counts. That may not have been the issue at all, it may have been a matter of starting them and when they start to really eff up, bring in the "dependably average veteran bench".
Let the kids rest and then come back fresh, paying attention to the coaches and coming back out and usinging their energy, athleticism and turn the game (like nate against philly).
Hey, you never know, the vets that come in could abuse the other teams second unit.
Unless that big name is a humungus shaqlike name, he's not coming here.
if he does, we will be well on our way.
But there is no way he trades anybody he drafted or Marbury.
Am I the only person that looks at the francis and Jrose deals in the same light as picking up MalikRose and MoTaylor the year before. or Tim Thomas and Nazr Mohammed.
Trades made necessary because of the cap, that each somehow netted us actually talented young players at the same time.
If you are over the cap, you can only acquire talent via the draft or under the guise of highly paid players. Think Tim Thomas and Davis, that trade was basically sweetney and picks for Curry.
I almost positive he will play all those kids until they prove to be garbage to the entire world, because he truly believes in them, honestly. He's been practically on the bench the entire time.
It may be fools gold, but any step in the right direction, considering how old the core of the team is (marbury is still only 28, in his PRIME) you generally expect a draft class to begin to fully mature by the 3rd year. If Frye, Lee and Nate prove to be the best trio of role players in the league, I'll take an average curry. A sweetney that can score 30 in a game at the drop of a hat.
I just don't think he's going to trade for a big name...just doesn't make any sense. I think he's going to go with the team he hand picked and go down with the ship.
He's not LB.
[Edited by - rvhoss on 06-22-2006 10:28 PM]all kool aid all the time.
6/22/2006 10:21 PM