WOW at the nets commetns on Steph.. i never seen these before

"The difference between last year and this year?" ponders an emotional Kenyon Martin, taking out his furiously repressed feelings on his sneaker laces in the near-deserted Nets locker room an hour before facing the Indiana Pacers. `This year we have guys who want to play. Last year we had some people in here who were too busy tapping themselves on the shoulder, telling themselves how great they were."

"Last year, we didn't play any defense," forward Aaron Williams, a 6'10" supersub, chimes in from the next stall. "On any NBA team, the leader sets the tone. And our leader didn't bother playing D most nights."

"He thought he was too good for that--then he'd blame everybody else, pointing fingers," Martin adds. "I'm not naming any names, you understand, but this was an unhappy, divided locker room last year. And the division was one guy on one side and everyone else on the other."

"Yes, we did have one guy in here last year who thought he was too good for everybody else on the team and didn't mind saying so," smiles GM Rod Thorn, still remaining strictly incognito about the "one guy's" identity. "And he was, too. Better than everyone else, that is. But it all didn't add up to much, did it?"

What it added up to was a woeful 26-56 record, with an even a woeful-er 57-107 over the entire "Marbury Era;" to be exact.

"Still, thank God for Stephon," Thorn says. "Without him, we could have never gotten the other kid."

It's like shooting fish in a barrel.

I wish the Nets' personnel was on the Knicks!

Posted by Elite:

WOW at the nets commetns on Steph.. i never seen these before

"The difference between last year and this year?" ponders an emotional Kenyon Martin, taking out his furiously repressed feelings on his sneaker laces in the near-deserted Nets locker room an hour before facing the Indiana Pacers. `This year we have guys who want to play. Last year we had some people in here who were too busy tapping themselves on the shoulder, telling themselves how great they were."

"Last year, we didn't play any defense," forward Aaron Williams, a 6'10" supersub, chimes in from the next stall. "On any NBA team, the leader sets the tone. And our leader didn't bother playing D most nights."

"He thought he was too good for that--then he'd blame everybody else, pointing fingers," Martin adds. "I'm not naming any names, you understand, but this was an unhappy, divided locker room last year. And the division was one guy on one side and everyone else on the other."

"Yes, we did have one guy in here last year who thought he was too good for everybody else on the team and didn't mind saying so," smiles GM Rod Thorn, still remaining strictly incognito about the "one guy's" identity. "And he was, too. Better than everyone else, that is. But it all didn't add up to much, did it?"

What it added up to was a woeful 26-56 record, with an even a woeful-er 57-107 over the entire "Marbury Era;" to be exact.

"Still, thank God for Stephon," Thorn says. "Without him, we could have never gotten the other kid."

can we please just cut our losses & get rid of Marbury already? reading things like this makes me wanna puke... even worse because we have absolutely zero hope of getting any quality player back in return for him the way the Nets were able to... even still, we need to cut ties & move on... for his own sake, so does Marbury.

Marbury is a cancer. Bench him! Let's see what Francis can do if you make him the man.

It's always interesting to me that the guys who can't understand how I can "hate" a basketball player "so much" (enough to do some research and opine on the reasons for his failings) feel no misgivings about hating ME so much.

Who's more significant in the grand scheme of things, me or Marbury? At least if I'm gonna hate I'm gonna hate with good reason.

Posted by BlueSeats:


oh well, i had some fun times back then, but i read some of my old posts and extended debates and i wonder where it all came from. i had a passion for debate back then, but the content of all my rants are self-evident now. there is no need for a blue seats anymore, most people are beating the same drum, and i couldn't do it again if i wanted to. i've lost my mojo and i'm reduced to bitter one-liners, like an old comedic lounge lizard who fills his liver with alcohol and dreams of moving to florida to retire. i'm like the fat, spent, destitute jake lamotta character in Raging Bull, who when his career was over became a bad nightclub act and he'd look at his pathetic self in the mirror while practicing his lame jokes, and say of himself "that's entertainment."

^ oh man that is some sweet writing!