It's going to take time ...
Rod Boone here today for Alan.
We spoke to team president Donnie Walsh at practice today and that was his message regarding two different things. 1) a solution to the situation surrounding Stephon Marbury; and 2) turning this team completely around so there aren't any games like Friday night's.
Walsh said he hadn't spoken with Marbury nor Mike D'Antoni about the decision to put him on the inactive list until further notice, but planned on doing so. Not sure if Walsh chatted with Marbury after practice today because Marbury was the first one to finish up with his post-practice shooting and bolted to the locker room.
Even if Walsh did speak with Marbury, don't expect a quick resolution.
Said Walsh: "This is going to take a little while to work it out and see what we should do with this."
So it appears, for now anyway, that this soap opera otherwise nicknamed "As the World of Stephon Marbury and the Knicks Turns" isn't going away anytime soon.
Now onto the second matter. As for whether he thought Friday's pasting by the 76ers was an aberration, Walsh made it clear that it might be a long and bumpy ride.
"I’ll go back to what I said," Walsh said. "This is going to take time. It just is. They’re going to look good some nights, they’re going to look bad other nights. Obviously we’re looking to see with where we want to go, what do we have to do? And that’s an evaluation of everybody on the team in a certain way, to see if they can fit in with where we are going or not. And I can’t do that in one game."
-* One more thing. Zach Randolph and Eddy Curry didn't practice today. Both have sore right knees. Randolph is probable for tomorrow's game vs. the Bucks and Curry, who isn't in shape and not in Mike D'Antoni's rotation anyway, is doubtful. That means the Knicks might (emphasis on might) have to make a couple of roster moves.
Dare they dress No. 3? You know someone had to ask that question, right?
“Again, the door is never closed,” D’Antoni said. “I just want to treat him as good as I can in a bad situation.”
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The strategy on this team is simple. Don't spend the world on trying to fix Isiah's mistakes. If they lose they lose if we win we win. We are not playing to win just eat time before our cap situation goes and a mega star is back on the market and we can go after him. Let players contracts expire. Then trade off the players slowly while taking back Mike D's types of players at lower costs.
Bottom line: Isiah's mistakes are still noticeable and will be eradicated one by one. Donnie just wants the players to show improvement so they can move them when the time is right for other less expensive players. Expect a big unexpected move during the season.
i assume thet the marbury situation will be resolved in a buy-out. marbury will soon realize that any future value he has will disappear the longer he sits in street clothes, and the best thing possible for his career will be to get out of new york and get back on the hardwood. he needs to play for his next contract, and i think business sense dictates that it will be a net gain for him to discount this years salary by about 3-5 million and hit the road.
this will do nothing for the knicks salary structure or cap, it will only put money into dolan's pocket, but it will mercifully bring finality to this disastrous chapter in knick history.
Does that mean
we have lose by 30 points every night?
losing is one thing
but getting our doors blown off
is something totally different
it brings back memories of the "boston massacre"
i hope the knicks play with more
effort in the next game.
Gotta play to win. As a fan maybe you want your team to get a better draft pick but as a player and coach you gotta to play to win.
this problem is bad management period
marbury was never the problem but they had to blaim someone
this team needs a total remake
if the team is tryna go in a different direction why is malik rose playing
bad management from coaching to g.m upstairs downstairs...etc
that's the truth
one more thing mark jacz should of been the coach
stay tuned for more KnowLedge
From the News:
His reputation as a cancer in the locker room, his role in the sexual harassment case Anucha Browne Sanders won against the Knicks last year and several off-court incidents apparently made him dispensable to the team.
"This is his past talking," says Jamel Thomas, Marbury's older cousin who plays pro basketball in Greece. "It's coming to get him."
"He's getting what he deserves for the way he treated people who love him," said a source who has known Marbury since he was a young boy playing on the neighborhood courts on Coney Island. "It's all coming back in the end."
Gotta agree; it's bad management. When your team wins 23 games, it's never just one player's fault!
One, I would like to know one prominent person in management who has put "the blame" on Marbury? Second, why do Marbury fans get so defensive and say he is never a problem?
I have a hard time calling this 'bad management.' This is a delicate situation.. marbury isn't getting playing time because D'an wants to see if mardy collins can turn himself into anything, and the only way he does that is by getting minutes. We know what marbury can do and we know we're not going to resign him. We also know that no one wants to trade for him b/c of his contract. So I'm actually pleased with how this is working.
Oh and I'll take a season of big losses/big wins if it means we get rid of the never ending chaos called our salary cap.
Isiah was a terrible judge of CHARACTER, not talent. That's what put us in this hole. Curry's laziness, Randolph's selfishness, Marbury's everything..... the list goes on. They are all great talents, and we always seemed to get the better of trades on a talent basis, but the attitudes obviously killed us. Not only did we trade for these guys, but we gave them long term contracts. Just brutal, and it's not going to go away overnight. Just like what the economy is going through. The Knicks and the country are "hungover" from greed,corruption, etc... We have to change the culture before anything else, and I think we're on the right track. Would have been nice to keep Ewing, but part of it being financially responsible too.
This is going to take 2 years at least. It's time we all learned to live with that. What I want to see is effort and improvement on the court.
The Knicks failed for three reasons in Phili. They coundn't hit a jumper, they didn't play the fast game enough and they let the Phili big men dominate. All three issues are fixable over time.
@woodenpearl:
you think this country's on the right track?
From K-Berg's blog today:
"Several team executives are marveling at Donnie Walsh's handling of the Zach Randolph situation. "Donnie is playing his hand perfectly on Zach," said one executive, predicting that teams will be lining up at the trade deadline with better offers for Z-Bo than Walsh turned down this past summer."
No "Told-you-So's" will be forthcoming here, because its nice enough to hear some unsolicited positive comment on Walsh. Alot of guys here had it right all along, counseling against panic. Keep it up, you Ol Dirty Bastard, don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
come on, Boone
don't rewrite the story you had in the paper as a blog
i don't quite see how mardy collins is worth playing and steph isn't when you get blown out by thirty. I don't understand why they would put him on the inactive roster at all. Tough situation, but d antoni and walsh flubbed this one.
Walsh and D'Antoni are absolute geniuses!! Why would you want Steph to play even 1 minute? Answer these Q's:
1) will he be on the team next year? A: absolutely not
2) if he's not part of the future why play him at all? A: Walsh + D'Antoni need to evaluate every single guy on this team that may be here in the future: ie, Mardy Collins. so, those are the guys that need to play
3) if Steph might get us more wins (and hence a worse draft pick) what's the point in playing him?
Folks, we're on a 2-3 year plan here ... the team should be playing hard, gathering experience for the young guys, shedding contracts, acquiring talent thru the draft and hopefully landing LeBron or Wade or Bosh (or 2 of them) for 2010
Here's last years redshirted 7 footer from UNLV.
Anyone want a Shot blocker?
http://texas.rivals.com/video.asp?section=bbrecruit&pkey=46767&vidtype=prospect&vidid=98895
Anyone else think Crawford would fit this system better as the PG? We've all said he's been better with the ball in his hands as oppossed to moving without it, plus all preseason/season he's seemed to be trying to get everyone else involved. Plus he's too small to guard SG's, He'd be an asset at the point I think. He'd have the opportunity to go one-on-one a little more, hopefully with a kick-out after the crossover and drive instead of just another elbow jumper lol. If Chandler continues to develop, and Duhon continues to suck, think this could happen?
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