<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>New York Daily News - Stephon Marbury revealed Friday night that he is struggling to adjust to his new role in Isiah Thomas' offense, suggesting that for the money the Knicks are giving him, they should expect more out of him. "I didn't get paid the money I got paid to do what I'm doing now," said Marbury, who is the NBA's fourth-highest paid player at $20.1 million. "I got paid to be a scoring guard. ... Now I'm playing more of a passive role." Marbury finished with 13 points, eight assists, and four rebounds in last night's 99-90 loss to Toronto. Thomas has designed the offense to feature Eddy Curry, Zach Randolph, and Jamal Crawford. Friday night, Randolph was held scoreless, and Curry had just six points. Crawford scored 27. "It's not working out right now," Marbury said of Curry being the centerpiece.</div> Source
There literally is no offensive gameplan on that team. I rip Sam Mitchell a lot, but Isiah made him looking like a friggin' genius. All the players do is camp out on the perimeter and lazily swing the ball back and forth. Occaisonally, someone dumps it into Randolph/Curry and they can try to score against a collapsing D. If not, they run down the shot clock and one of their guards takes their man one-on-one and ends up forcing a shot. There's no motion. No screens. Nothing.
Man Denny could design a better offense with a crayon after a bottle of absinth. For a guy who could read the game sooo well, he coaches like an idiot...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Chutney @ Jan 12 2008, 01:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>There literally is no offensive gameplan on that team. I rip Sam Mitchell a lot, but Isiah made him looking like a friggin' genius. All the players do is camp out on the perimeter and lazily swing the ball back and forth. Occaisonally, someone dumps it into Randolph/Curry and they can try to score against a collapsing D. If not, they run down the shot clock and one of their guards takes their man one-on-one and ends up forcing a shot. There's no motion. No screens. Nothing.</div> I can vouche for you there. I can't tell you how many times I've turned to the MSG channel to see the Knicks having an offensive possession that consists of: Pump fake, pass. Pump fake, drive, pass. Pump fake, pass. Pump fake, drive, pass. Shoot, miss. Other team gets rebound. End of possession. Actually makes me thankful for having a mediocre (at best) coach for offense.
