Blandbury!

he needs to drive the ball the the hoop

I remember a sick alley oop he was on the receiving end of when he was with the Nets. That was a long time ago.

i dont know if its athletic purple... I think its mental

he's gotten old

he just turned 30 or 31? isnt that prime time for b ball players

One thing you guys haven't considered is that Steph since training camp has been purposefully defering to Francis and J-Clutch. He's not TRYING to take over or dominate. He's trying to left the rest of the team develop their game and when they do that will be to everyones benefit. He could easily just call his own number over and over, but that's not the right thing to do long term. Now it's taken some of his effectiveness away, being so passive, but in the end i think it will be a good thing for the team.

In the old days he'd put up at least 16 shots a game no matter what. He's not doing that. As for those comments about his D, let's be fair. The guy gets beat, but what guard doesn't? When he's focused he plays good D. Even in the last game he had a some good stops but as usual no one seems to notice that. He's also VERY effective against SG's. Even last year statiscally SG's only had a PER of about 10 against him, which is excellent. PLUS we don't really have a lot of support behind him. Guards are in a tough spot on the perimeter with so much space to cover and picks to worry about. So we need to be fair when it comes to him on D. There are so many guards who play poor D that if you had them on this team you'd be saying the same thing about them too. It's just that we see Steph every game and pay more attention to him. When he was avg'ing 20 who where all these great guards that were stopping him?

with steph's new "role" on this team, he's about $12 mil overpaid. his job right now is basically a facilitator and occasionally asked to score. every guard he plays has a career night so he doesn't bring anything there.

Posted by nixluva:

One thing you guys haven't considered is that Steph since training camp has been purposefully defering to Francis and J-Clutch. He's not TRYING to take over or dominate. He's trying to left the rest of the team develop their game and when they do that will be to everyones benefit. He could easily just call his own number over and over, but that's not the right thing to do long term. Now it's taken some of his effectiveness away, being so passive, but in the end i think it will be a good thing for the team.

In the old days he'd put up at least 16 shots a game no matter what. He's not doing that. As for those comments about his D, let's be fair. The guy gets beat, but what guard doesn't? When he's focused he plays good D. Even in the last game he had a some good stops but as usual no one seems to notice that. He's also VERY effective against SG's. Even last year statiscally SG's only had a PER of about 10 against him, which is excellent. PLUS we don't really have a lot of support behind him. Guards are in a tough spot on the perimeter with so much space to cover and picks to worry about. So we need to be fair when it comes to him on D. There are so many guards who play poor D that if you had them on this team you'd be saying the same thing about them too. It's just that we see Steph every game and pay more attention to him. When he was avg'ing 20 who where all these great guards that were stopping him?

the puzzling thing is that Marbury said he was going to be Starbury this year & run free in Isiah's new run & gun system, but that hasn't happened... Marbury's playing w/no passion, no fire, no aggression whatsoever... there's a difference between deferring to teammates & looking like you don't want to be out on the floor at all... there are times during the game when Marbury needs to step up & take over, but other than that 1 short stretch in the SA game, he hasn't done it... that's what's so puzzling to me... i thought he had ALOT to prove this year, & he still has alot left in the tank, but he's not playing like it at all... look at a guy like Darrell Armstrong... homeboy is 38 years old & still runs around w/the energy of a rookie... Marbury's body's taken a whole lot of abuse over the years, but he still has the physical ability to break his man down off the dribble, yet i haven't seen him do that hardly at all this year.