Knicks Defense

the Dallas game was one of my favorites. loved the dunk by balkman on harris.

Another name you could have easily kicked around in comparison to Steph is Chauncey Billups. I don’t know what his salary is, but here are his stats side-by-side with stephon’s from last season.

Chauncey Billups
17p 7a 1.2 st 2to 42.7%fg 34.5%3pt 88%ft

Stephon Marbury
16.4p 5.4a 1.0st 2.4to 41.5%fg 35.7%3pt 77%ft

Chauncey gets all the credit in the world for being a winner (NBA title in ‘04, current PG for olympic team) where as Stephon gets the reputation of being a career looser with high stats and even higher salary.

I’m just not buying it. These players don’t make up the contracts on their own, GMs do that. Much of this perception stuff is circumstantial. Billups had a great team that year they won it. that team was filled with role players, and they had just the right combination of chemistry and experience playing together. If Stephon is a looser by the media’s standards, then so is AI, so is KG, so is Paul Pierce, there are many that are paid tons of money and have not won anything. Jason Kidd hasn’t won anything and his reputation is worlds better than stephon’s. Vice Carter ring a bell?

If people still think Nash has an opportunity to win, which everybody does–including those bogus predictions by formula–then I suggest Stephon has that same opportunity currently, especially since he three full years younger than nash and a year younger than Billups.

By the way I’m glad the knicks got rid of Larry Brown. he’s a media-obsessed snake in the grass–nobody in the nba is even thinking of employing him at this moment. 23 wins. What a disgrace to the franchise and to the city of new york.

and if the knicks don’t do some damage this post-season, then there should be some more changes made. Chicago rebuilt in a shorter period of time than it is taking NY, and that is unacceptable.