More on Curry and Marbury
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I’ve never seen Eddy Curry mad, so I’m not sure how to label his mood after practice.
Let’s just say he was a little grumpy.
He still leaned against the wall and fielded all of the difficult questions. It’s pretty clear the struggling middleman craves stability, and this team is anything but of late.
How many lineups did Larry Brown use?
“When you’re not winning games, you gotta empty the tool shed,” Isiah Thomas said. “Clearly, what we’ve been doing hasn’t been working. Everyone had a nice comfortable role, knew their minutes, knew when they were coming in, but at the end of the day you sit here at 8-20.”
Zing.
“Right now, nobody’s comfortable,” Curry said.
Touche.
“I think with Eddy right now, there definitely is an adjustment that he’s going through,” Thomas said. “Last year, our whole offense was centered around him so there was enough time and enough touches in a game that he could always get rhythm and good numbers.”
Good point.
“My game definitely hasn’t taken a step back,” Curry said. ”(The situation is) just different.”
Back and forth.
Curry was disoriented after picking up two quick fouls and sitting for 34 minutes before getting up to start the fourth quarter.
“The whole third I kinda felt like there was a possibility I might go in,” Curry said. “As the minutes wound down in the fourth quarter, I became more of a cheerleader and my body just kinda shut down a little bit. I wasn’t warm at all. I gotta do a better job of being ready I guess.”
I think he meant after the plug was pulled.
Either way, Thomas didn’t like hearing that somebody was shutting down mentally on the bench.
“We sure as hell hadn’t mentally shut down,” he said. “We hadn’t gone away from him in terms of not playing him the whole game. We just had a group out there that was playing well. Zach came in off the bench and got it going. David was playing pretty well. We just had a group that had a nice rhythm. We’re definitely not going away from him.”
So there.
And on the Stephon Marbury front, Thomas kind of threw a change up.
He was asked whether there was a chance Marbury doesn’t return this season. Point blank. There was no way to misinterpret the question.
“I don’t know,” Thomas said.
There’s potential for all kinds of speculation, but the Knicks continue to say Marbury is just struggling with a swirl of emotions following the death of his father.
“Our organization speaks with him daily.,” Thomas said. “It’s very safe to say he’s having a very difficult time.”
And we did ask why Renaldo Balkman didn’t show up in the new alignment.
“I thought Jared was playing well,” Thomas said.
Balkman appears to be paying a penance for defending very well in recent appearances.
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I’m willing to do the job for a nominal 300K. Experience? Well, I was a ballboy in 88-89 (i kid you not) so I have at least seen a winning, well run Knicks team in person. I also know where the locker room is unless they’ve moved it since then. I mean, there weren’t any Knicks City Dancers back then, so that might be a distraction, but other than that I don’t see why I should lose more than 80% of the games the rest of the season.
I’m just saying, if we’re going to lose, it might as well be on the cheap and with some novelty. I think I’d be better than Whoopie Goldberg in any case.
Other than that, I’d start Jamal, Fred Jones, Jared Jeffries, David Lee and Zebo. I’d also avoid making bizarre substitutions.
As long as were losing, I might as well bring Nate and Balkman off the bench first. Q, Eddie can come in next and if they don’t produce I’d put the young guys in and find out if Wilson Chandler, Morris Randoplh and Mary Collins can play in this league.
So, any ideas of how I can bring my campaign to fruition? I work with Mara Altshuler, so maybe I should use her newfound celebrity to put my name in the ring. Are you listening Isiah? Hire me for 300K, keep your front office job, and let me take the fall. Everyone wins, even if the Knicks keep on losing. Whaddya say?
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