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the knicks are going to waive him soon. theyre just waiting to see if anybody is willing to trade for him. Theyll pull the trigger and Stephon knows this
Finley is a SF who thinks he is a SG. SG are normally more consistant shooters and can handle the ball above avg. Fin can do neither.
Fin can defend 2s but he does Ok against slower 3s. Fin needs to stay at SF and when Manu returns wen Fin plays it will be at the 3.
the knicks are going to waive him soon. theyre just waiting to see if anybody is willing to trade for him. Theyll pull the trigger and Stephon knows this
Nope. He is making over 20mil this season. There would have to be a buyout and Marbury would have to agree with it.
waive, buyout....whatever...i meant buyout
Ok...one of Finleys main jobs is to knock down open 3's. Care to enlighten us on how you will add 7ish percent onto Marbury's average?
Even assuming his at ude could somehow change, a HUGE if, he has very low BB IQ. He couldn't grasp the concept of the System.
Translation: I'm going where the most money is.
FYI, I don't need to listen to the New York media. If you followed his career and observed, perhaps you'd come to the same conclusion. Again, this is not an issue of his talent level or his ability to score. Like an overzealous GM, you're only infatuated with his talent, yet you're ignoring his history and how he would integrate with the other players and into the chemistry of the squad.
Unless the Knicks buy him out, it's all a moot point anyway.
Mike Monroe: If wishes were fishes ...
The headline in this morning's New York Post was an eye catcher: Steph Eyes Spot With San Antonio.
Steph, of course, is Stephon Marbury, the New York Knicks point guard whom new Knicks coach Mike D'"Antoni, with the blessings of new GM Donnie Walsh, has banished to the inactive list. Marbury has a career scoring average of 19.7 points, but is regarded by many -- and this appears to include D'Antoni -- as the ultimate me-first player.
But Marbury, he of the $20.84 million contract, was with the Knicks at AT&T Center on Tuesday, so The Post's beat writer, Marc Berman, asked him how he would feel about playing for the Spurs if the Knicks were to waive him.
Marbury, of course, said he would love to play for the Spurs, and for Gregg Popovich.
Well, duh. The Spurs have won four NBA les since the time Marbury entered the league, in 1996. As he put it himself: "Who wouldn't want to play for San Antonio?"
In the world of New York tabloid journalism, this becomes "Steph Eyes Spot With San Antonio."
The Spurs, of course, aren't allowed to say anything, good or bad, about a player on another team's roster.
But take this to the bank, and consider it informed speculation: As long as Gregg Popovich and R.C. Buford are running the Spurs' basketball operations, you won't see Stephon Marbury in silver and black.
for what its worth, hes probably better than 7 guys on our team.
For those of you that like the idea of Marbury, imagine a box full of anthrax with beautiful breasts attached to it. Now stop staring at the s.
id rather develop hill though. that would be a way better payout.
Fixed, and irrelevant. Again I ask: If he's so good, how come he couldn't keep the Knicks from stinking?
Amen....and if he's such a must have, why has he been banished to the bench by DanTony? Do you think he smarter than Pop or knows something the rest of the league doesn't?
Look at the trail of dead bodies, people!
well hes talented but i never said he was a winner. same could probably be said about every knick on that team when marbury was the starter.
you've got a point with Finley.
but for me, even watching Marbury playing well and helping us would be painful if he stays the same asshole that he's always been.
I'm a Spurs fan for a lot of reason. One of them is that we usually don't promote this kind of player.
Being a fan means having pleasure watching his team. especially for someone like me who doesn't leave in SA. and i wouldn't have with Marbury in a major role for us.
marbary is a playa! i think he would do great as a back up!,, if he want to win a le then thats what have to do!
I don't think you guys understand though how people who have "cancer" like personalities destroy chemistry. They don't have to actively whine and to and even if theyre trying to be positive sometimes small things they do can have large effects on destroying much larger and seemingly solid chemistry.
Just little comments here and there he makes off the cuff that get rookies and players lower in the rotation thinking..."wow i really should get PT, pop is an asshole.." Even though it doesnt direct manu, ginobili, or duncan directly its enough to slowly start eating away at the lower tier Spurs players mentality of "all for the team" and now theyre thinking more about themselves.
And then you have all the new rookies on the team. You're George Hill and even though he's helpful...Tony Parker is kind of a becuase he's french and Jacque Vaughn isn't much better. Now you have Stephon Marbury coming in and telling you that you have potential to be the next Tony Parker...and this tiny little seed is planted in the back of Hill's head, while Marbury thinks he's being helpful and giving George Hill a peptalk so he'll play better.
Also you have Oberto who harbors a small grudge against Marbury from the Olympics...so Ginobili has his boy's back and even though they are still professional with him theres a tiny bit of we dont like him. Oberto says some small comment about how Marbury and Bonner hears it...Bonner takes it the wrong way and starts hating Marbury straight up....etc etc
Now all of the sudden you have this all this extra stuff distracting the Spurs from practice and basketball.
Or everyone stays unified against Marbury...but he makes crazy statements and generally is delusional about what type of player he is...now you have a distraction for the team that generally likes things to run smoothly.
It doesn't have to be huge stuff guys to have huge overall effects on the team.
As far as all the people saying high risk, low reward...you guys are gonna be the FIRST people to dog on the Spurs FO when they waive him by saying it was a waste of money...and what were they thinking.
starbury hogs the ball and would stunt hill's development. plus when tony is back, hill would get no minutes
I really don't see this happening... but I might be wrong lol
Pipedream, with the possiblity of being a pipenightmare. No thanks.
I wouldn't want "Steph" taking minutes from Hill and/or Mason. I'd rather have our real team gel into a cohesive unit for later in the season than get a few buckets from a rented gun, even at the cost of 2-3 games. And that's about all the difference Starbury could possibly make in the W/L column, anyway.
And, as others have said here, we need size much more anyway.
i am actually open to the idea of getting marbury and waving farmer if he signs for whatever is left of the MLE. popovich will definitely keep marbury on a short leash and play him in front of vaughn. after being benched by the knicks, marbury is looking to prove himself. even if it's for the wrong reasons, he will act like a team player and be unselfish just to prove the knicks wrong. this guy can score. i remember people thinking artest wouldn't be a good fit on the spurs. now artest is on his best behavior in the rockets.
thank you
Wanting Marbury would be a sign of desperation. And by desperation I mean you don't have a fifith starter because eveyone else catastrophically died in a plane accident or something...
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