It is not Marburry's fault if Kurt and Houston only took 16 shots between them and only sinked in 5 out of that 16 shots taken. Also, it is not Marb's fault if Lenny didn't feel confident enough in our most energetic defenders (JYD, Sweetney, Ariza). How did Kidd get his players involve while he only had 3 assists in that game???? Vince Carter and Jefferson had 9 assists between them, but look at our boys, Houston, Kurt, and Timmy only had 6 assists between themselves. Marburry did his part, the other players failed to deliver.
We have gotten excellent numbers from Nazr
N. Mohammed C 35 7-13 0-0 4-6 4 9 13 1 3 2 1 2 18

but Kurt has been inconsistant
K. Thomas F 38 3-8 0-0 0-0 1 9 10 1 4 0 2 0 6



M. Sweetney 13 1-6 0-0 1-4 2 2 4 0 1 0 2 0 3
T. Ariza 12 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 0 4 0 1 0 2
J. Williams 12 1-2 0-0 3-3 0 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 5
M. Norris 7 0-2 0-2 0-0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0




N. Krstic C 42 5-7 0-0 2-4 3 4 7 2 1 1 0 4 12
R. Buford 25 6-8 1-1 0-0 1 3 4 0 1 1 1 0 13
J. Smith 18 2-3 1-1 0-0 0 5 5 2 3 0 2 0 5
T. Best 14 3-7 0-0 2-2 0 1 1 3 1 1 2 0 8

Posted by JUNKMEIN:

Respectfully, the Knicks didn't give anything to NJ....the Nets just flat came out and took what they wanted. I love Marbury's game, he's definitely better all around than Kidd at this point. However, Kidd definitely was more effective at involving his teammates than Marbury (it could easily be argued that Marbury had no choice and Kidd has infinitely more talent around him). If not for Marbury playing out of his head in the second half the Knicks wouldn't have threatened at all. Kristic can play for a 21 year old center and just who the hell is Jabari Smith? We would have the same thing if Sweetney and Ariza played many more minutes. Tim, i'm sorry but as a basketball player he just plain ol' stinks. Honestly fellas, I wouldn't have minded swapping Tim for Carter on the Knicks. So, without getting emotional or bent out of shape over the whole issue...congrats to the Nets on scoring a major coup in getting Carter for peanuts. Yeah Carter may go down with an injury but I wouldn't be surprised if he became more than what he was before (yeah I said it) just due to his becoming a US citizen again (yes, more than just a change of scenery ). I wish Isiah had been able to pull it off for as little....Dude can flat out play.

[Edited by - diderotn on 01/04/2005 08:47:09]