<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">November 16, 2005 -- Lamond Murray has been here before: on a team waiting for a chance. But that doesn't make the waiting any easier for the veteran who was brought in for depth on the Nets' bench. Murray sounds terribly frustrated. "You start questioning yourself. You [say], 'It must be me.' Going from place to place, with three different coaches and they do the same exact thing to you. You just don't know what it is so it's got to be me, something I'm doing," said Murray, who didn't play last night for the third time in eight games. "I'm here to play and help the team out. But they must feel they don't need me or I can't contribute, and that's not something I can change." In eight games, Murray, 32, never left the bench in three, played a 27 seconds in another, three minutes in a third. His longest run was 15 minutes ? but it came in garbage time at Indiana. "As far as I'm concerned, that wasn't considered playing. One game was the blowout and then he had no choice but to see what other guys would be able to do," continued Murray, a career 11.9 scorer who ran into a similar plight in Toronto under coaches Kevin O'Neill and Sam Mitchell. "If you're not getting in in the first quarter or any time when the game is meaningful, that's not playing. So you just work hard." Coach Lawrence Frank said Murray must "always stay ready because you never know when you're number's being called. That's part of being a professional." </div> Source
At least he admits that he can't change it, and therefore will not try to change it and sour up the team. I do not think that he even deserves the playing time. Padgett is working a lot harder than him. Its a good thing the Nets signed him for only a year.
He had that spot in the rotation that Zoran now occupies. As soon as he came over from Toronto the opportunity was his...he had a strong training camp. But a horrid preseason. And coach Franks still gave him an opportunity to stay apart of the rotation the first couple of games. But he never showed Coach Franks that he was worthy. And now Planinic is in and he is stuck on the sidelines wondering what happed? but its simple you earn your minutes under coach Franks...you dont get them because you have veteran experience over the guys you are competing against for the spot in the lineup. Anyway, Iam not really concerned with Murray that much. He has never really been a productive player in a winning enviroment..his best years came on the Clippers who are pretty much always bad. And the Post Terrell Brandon-Pre Lebron James's Cavs of the early 2000's, when the Cavs were really bad.
I expected Murray to get a lot of mins as a bench player but he didn't help much when he had the chance. Im sure if he doesn't start demanding for a trade,im sure Coach Frank will give him another shot.
