<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> "I know I wasn't playing the way I'm capable of playing," he said. "I'm aware. I'm aware of how I played. I'm not going to sit here and tell you I didn't play like garbage. I deserve to be on the back page with garbage next to it because I played like garbage. But I know that, though, so I can fess up to that, and I can man up to that. And I can man up when I play well." Isiah Thomas said he gave Marbury a hug and told him he loved him and added, "Thank God for tomorrow because there's another game," even if it is against Tony Parker and the Spurs. But Thomas forced his team to practice on a scheduled day off because of how poorly they played against Indiana on Saturday, and Marbury stayed late for some much-needed extra shooting. He played so poorly Saturday that when he came off the bench in the fourth quarter, the fans let him have it with a shower of boos, seemingly blaming him for all the Knicks' woes over the past couple of years. Marbury did not see it that way, and said the razzing was the result of "one bad game." But he also said he didn't blame the fans. "That's okay," he said. "Bitter with the sweet." Thomas said it wasn't his place to determine whether Marbury was being made the scapegoat of the team, but he also made sure not to tell the fans how to express their distress from the past two seasons. "We can only concentrate on the job that we do," he said. "I'm not about to get into a situation where I'm telling out fans what to do and what to say and how to act. Whatever you decide to do is fine with me." </div> Source
