<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">CNNSI.com - Larry Brown pulled Stephon Marbury out of a meeting and sent him a message: After days of feuding, the Knicks coach still wants his temperamental guard back next season. "He told me he could do whatever he wants with this franchise, and that he don't want to trade me,'' Marbury said Thursday after practice. "And that he wanted me to be here and that everything that basically went on throughout the last week was over with.'' "Basically, I told him that I appreciated the way he cheered for his teammates at the end of the game and it meant a lot,'' Brown said. "I was sorry that the crowd, some of the people booed him, that's never what any coach would like to see happen. "I want to coach him and I want to make him better and I don't want him to have to go through what he's gone through. I really was proud of the way he acted.'' "I'm down for what's right,'' Marbury said. "Like I said, I was committed and I'm still committed to the organization, to doing exactly what he's been asking. "He told me to play the way he wants me to play and if I don't feel like it's the right way just bare with it. And I didn't say yes and I didn't say no.'' </div> Link
I don't buy this at all. Everyone knows that Brown isn't trustowrthy. Brown spills everything to the media and when you don't have a coach you can trust, it greatly changes things. Both Brown and Marbury have acted immature throughout the whole process. One of them should have been the bigger man about it, but both look bad. The media, however, will make it looks as if Marbury is the culprit and he's "the bad guy" in the situation when it's just as much Brown's fault.
How about this though? <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">"He told me to play the way he wants me to play and if I don't feel like it's the right way just bare with it. And I didn't say yes and I didn't say no.'' </div> Brown tried to reconcile, and he still won't back down. Marbury's pride is clouding his judgment now.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting MrJ:</div><div class="quote_post">I don't buy this at all. Everyone knows that Brown isn't trustowrthy. Brown spills everything to the media and when you don't have a coach you can trust, it greatly changes things. Both Brown and Marbury have acted immature throughout the whole process. One of them should have been the bigger man about it, but both look bad. The media, however, will make it looks as if Marbury is the culprit and he's "the bad guy" in the situation when it's just as much Brown's fault.</div> Exactly.
