D’Antoni Benches Marbury; Tick, Tick, Tick, …
The new sherrif in town, Mike D’Antoni, had a strong message for Stephon Marbury in the Knicks’ season opener last night: You’re no longer part of the show, bub.
D’Antoni didn’t give Steph a nanosecond of playing time in the Knicks’ 120-115 victory over Miami, sending an unmistakable signal that this is an entirely new era in The Garden.
“We’ve got to know certain things as we go forward,” D’Antoni said. “We’re trying to build a team, and this is not this year, it’s a two-to-three year project. I don’t want to get started next year, I want to get started right now … We need to build a team and know that’s who we are … right or wrong.”
“This is a business and I understand the decision if that’s the way they want to go,” Stephon said after the game, “I have no problem with it.”
Marbury didn’t lash out at his coach for the embarrassing DNP, mostly because he doesn’t need to: his biggest fanboy in the media takes care of those things.
Of course, it remains to be seen just how long Marbury can maintain the facade of the cool, calm and collected professional should D’Antoni keep him glued to the bench.
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I don’t think Mardy Collins or Jamal Crawford outplayed him at the one or two position. Look, D’Antoni came into the team knowing he had a built in scapegoat in Marbury. If Marbury questions the coaches decision, he’s a whiner. If he takes it in stride, he really doesn’t care and is working behind the scenes. I wish the Knicks would go ahead and get rid of Marbury and let D’Antoni prove he deserves the big bucks. Right now, he and Donnie Walsh are playing with house money.
but the team would be pretty good if he is in the lineup. i mean i like little robinson a lot. but.
steph. m.
jam. craw.
wilson chand.
david lee.
zach randolph
Now Eddy Curry, on the other hand…
Cats hate Marbury, and I respect that even if I don’t agree.
But this was a BS move by Mikey D. What did Steph do to deserve and DNP? It seems like an attempt to provoke Steph into saying something really wild and then point to that as proof that he’s doing typical Marbury stuff. The Knicks were blowing the Heat out and Steph couldn’t get any burn? Hell, Ron Jeremy even played The Greatest Shooter in Basketball History last night. If Ron can move past old issues, then D’Antoni can give Steph a fair shake.
Yeah, make sure they toe the line! Show them who’s cracking the whip!
If coaches are the boss, I hope that everybody looks at them that way when stuff goes bad. Because what I’ve seen is that when coaches succeed in the NBA they get a lot of credit from fans, and when coaches fail NBA players get a lot of blame.
Remember New York won last night right? And Marbury from my understanding missed a couple of practices to answer your question what he did wrong….and as I recall last year Marbury played all year and New York sucked ass right? Tell me I’m wrong Allenp please….
The problem is that Steph didn’t do anything to deserve that DNP. Curry on the other hand is a different story. Plus when we they were up by 20 why couldn’t Steph get some tick then?
So, you’re argument is that if Steph didn’t play and Knicks win that means Steph playing was the reason why the Knicks lost last year?
Do you realize how many games Steph missed last year?
Do you know anything about cause and effect or logical arguments?
Nah, I’m guessing not. If you did, you would understand that you just used a logical fallacy and you wouldn’t do that anymore.
Sure, the Knicks were trash last year. The year before that, they surprised quite a few teams and Steph carried them for stretches of the season because of injuries. Steph is a lot of things, but to blame him solely for the Knicks winning or losing shows a shocking lack of basketball knowledge. The Knicks lose as a team and they win as a team.
Besides the real issue was why refuse to play him all of a sudden after he got burn in ever preseason game? That just seems strange. And please produce a source for Steph missing practice.
I told you to check nytimes.com…and I provided stats for you….your just delivering jargon to me with no facts…son check out the nytimes.com case closed.
One more thing don’t address my name again until you have cold facts…I don’t want to hear your bickering again….I get enough from my wife!
As I read above I see both sides.
#1 Boston neither wants or needs Marbury
#2 He played pretty well in the preseason (preseason)You play everyone in the then but that doesn’t mean you get to play in the season
#3 It’s not just how he plays it’s about his antics, locker room presence, unpredictable nature and overall negetive effect on the team. (The facts, not just media opinions are documented.
#4 Mike D HAS to set the tone of NO tolerence and stick with it.
#5 It’s easier than said to trade him (not many want him which tells you something) or to buy him out.
#6 Marbury still has game but he also still has cancerous problems. Every coach and team can’t be wrong. point blank.
#18 for The Green!!
That tatoo on the side of his head is simply stupid, interesting but stupid.
That tatoo on the side of his head is simply stupid, interesting but stupid.
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