Work on his body, on his shot selection, give him a clear role on the team, bring a coach that can transform his potential into reality and makes him work on defense the way he can. Crawford can be great if he would work on getting better, and he seems to be willing to do that.

Posted by raven:

Posted by MaulingandAppalling:

Craw is fun to watch, but we can't have two starting guards who can't play defense. Craw has to come off the bench - he could be sixth man of the year, but they can't share too many minutes, it's a recipe for disaster.

wasn't that the plan at the beginning of the season ?

Probably so but between injuries, H20's false starts, coaching changes and turmoil in general, not as much progress has been made. I think this plan is perfect for next year with a coach and a system, and a plan. We'll see what happens with our picks.

how has he not shown much improvement? He's gotten better every year considerably. He played 2 years of HS ball and one year of college. Every coach says hes a hard worker. He's got flaws but there is clearly an upside here

I am willing to tolerate Crawfford until next season, but if he shows no improvements as far as shots selection next season, I will advocate for him to be gone by mid-season. For all that it's worth, Isiah should have traded him to Toronto for Vince when we had the chance...

I don't agree with the notion of playing Crawff as a starting PG, he is what he is, just a combo guard. Marb is a scorring PG and there is nothing wrong with his game. As for him not being able to make guys better, I despise that also, in my opinion, if guys were knocking down their shots, and contributed to the win colums, Marb would have definitely been a candidate for MVP. When you equate the many miss shots that TT and Crawf have had togeter, those could have look great in the assist colum for Marb....it is not his fault that he has marginal talents around him...Amare looked really good as a rookie playing with Marb, although all that he did then was dunking the ball. Now that he has broaden his game by imcorporating a jumshot, and now that Q Richardson is shooting the 3 at a very nice percentage, Marburry would have been as good if not better than Nash with the system that they are running.....

Posted by Allanfan20:

I definitely want to see Crawford stay and play starting PG as opposed to SG. The offense runs and runs when he's running and he penetrates a lot more and his shot selection is a little better. But when he's shooting guard, it seems he magically turns into the 3 jacker.

Part of my statement was a response to you and the rest was for the other Marburry critics.

Posted by Allanfan20:

If you can locate the word Marbury in my post, let alone me saying anything bad about Marbury, then you're a better man than I.

I think the problem is too many Knicks fans expct Crawford to become a superstar SG, but it Ain't happenin! not now, not ever. At his size and frame I see him as an excellent career 6th man combo guard because he will never play the defense necessary to be a winning SG. Whats so wrong with that?

If he learned to contain himself and make better decisions I think he'd be a fine starting PG, maybe 3yrs down the line as Marbury gets older and his contract is up. Crawford at his size makes him an extremely tough match up for the opposing PG but as a SG he will always be atrocious!

That is the biggest mistake the Knicks are making! Hopefully they land a real SG otherwise we will never be a good defensive team with marbur and crawford playing together.

[Edited by - gunsnewing on 04/21/2005 21:01:41]

Posted by OldFan:

I was just agreeing with Ira. I don't see the big improvement Craw has supposedly had.

Yeah I'm not very optimistic either which is why I think it will be safe to bring in a real SG and let him be the 6th man combo guard off the bench with the possibility of maybe taking over at PG in the future.

If I could package this guy with KT or TT he would be out the door... Too much not to like. Shot selection, lack of defense, timid, etc, etc.