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Stephon Marbury: 20 points per game 8.5 assists per game. Nobody seems to remeber that series against the Spurs where he almost beat them. At least his suns got alot closer than anybody else that year, the Spurs won the title.
What did the knicks give up for him? Howard Eisley, Antonio McDyess and a pick that turned into Maciej Lampe, don’t know who he is? Exactly.

Talk about how terrible Isiah is, but without him, we would have Howard Eisley, Charlie Ward, Antonio McDyess, Maciej Lampe, Trevor Ariza, instead of Stephon Marbury, and Steve Francis. Now although it would be amazing if they could just get them to pass-first and play better D, Isiah hasn’t done that bad for himself in that regard. He can’t help 20 turnovers a game, bad freethrow shooting, and players being to lazy to play good defense or rebound on the defensive end.

But I’m an optimist, and i predicted 45-50 win season last year, so it doesn’t look great. At least the Knicks do have one consistant preformer night in and night out, Walt “Clyde” Frazier!!!

1. Curry might even average something like 18 ppg with a high field goal percentage, but he will never get many rebounds or play good defense. He seems to lack the physiological capability to push hard, and the response time to get rebounds or block shots. They should never had let Jackie Butler go.

2. I see a major key as to whether the Knicks play well depending on whether Dave Lee gets 30 minutes per game. He should definitely be playing most of the time at small forward now while jeffries is out, except for some particular poor match ups. Once Jeffries comes back, he should be the first person in replacing small, power and center. Balkman will get minutes because Thomas needs to prove that he did not screw up in the draft, but should do ok. But despite Balkman’s assertion that he can shoot from downtown, I have a suspicion that the three pointer he hit the other day will be his next to last for this year.

3. Channing should get 18 ppg if the guards pass the ball, and should get 9 rpg.

4. If Marbury (aka best point guard in the world) and Stevie are around all year, they will play better under Thomas than they did for Brown, but they should have drafted a point guard for their first choice.

5. I hope that Larry Brown does not get too much money. If he does not, and the Knicks still suck after 30 games, perhaps Dolan can admit his mistakes and and afford to release Marbury and Thomas.

I don’t see practicing FTs fitting very well in to Isiah’s new Nothing But Fun! regime, despite that one practice the Post (or was it the Daily News) reported on …

As for the free throws, look at the numbers. Marbury, Richardson, Crawford, and Curry all shot much worse from the line last year than they had in previous seasons. What other explanation do you have? If tightness doesn’t affect free throw shooting, why do so many players choke at crunch time from the line? Why can players make them in practice and not in games? Do you doubt that the players were tight last year thanks to Captain Queeg?

As always, I blame Larry Brown for everything. In this case, though, I think I’m onto something.