Marbury is no longer in pain
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- January
- 22
Stephon Marbury underwent surgery this morning to remove bone spurs from a creaky left ankle.
Does anybody else want to see the offending fragments in a jar?
It’s going to be interesting to see whether Marbury is around teammates on a regular basis while he’s working to come back. There was no timetable provided, but the process usually takes at least eight weeks.
At some point in the comining weeks, he will be missed.
I know there are legions of fans who are going to disagree, but Marbury is like a major league pitcher who throws 200 innings and goes 8-11 with a 4.53 ERA. Of course, that’s not what he’s paid to be. The minutes that Marbury was playing helped keep Jamal Crawford fresh, helped keep Nate Robinson from being overexposed.
Time will tell if the Knicks are better off going without.
Crawford is the playmaker going forward, and Isiah Thomas hinted the once impulsive shot-maker could be the long-term answer.
Your thoughts?
Here’s one from Crawford, who made it very clear he is willing to play on or off the ball:
“It’s weird because if you think about it, what true point guards have scored 50 points (in a game)?” he said. “Once you score that many points, then you’re looked at as a scorer, and you’re kind of in a box, so it’s weird to say, ‘Now he’s a point guard.’ ”
• Fred Jones was excused from practice today in order to deal with a personal matter.
• There are two more days of practice before the Knicks play again, a gap that players in general despise. They would much rather play a back-to-back than suffer through hours of practice and film.
• Compliments of the Giants, the Knicks can lose as many games as they want in the next two weeks and it won’t cause an uproar.
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on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 at 5:56 pm by Mike Dougherty.
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Crawford is not a PG and he knows it. Nate is too small to be a starting PG and his assist to turnover ratio needs work—-I see him as a good rotation player. I am hoping we draft high and pick Rose.
In the meantime, Curry needs to be traded for expiring contracts and a young player or pick and Marbury needs to be bought out, traded with filler(for Artest and Bibby)and JJ1 or JJ2 must also be moved for expiring contracts. I would hold DLee but make Nate and Renaldo available in the right deal.
The goal is two good drafts followed by having cap room in 2010 for a really good FA class.
Crawfords a pg always has been the problem is he is also the knicks best perimeter scorer as well so its hard to have him run the club full time when the knicks are getting ZERO production out of sf and the second best perimeter scorer is Nate lol
I agree with Bob from DC, except for moving Nate, Jefferies and Balkman. You need some roll players. But if you can get rid of Eddy, Marburry, QUENTIN, and Jerome for some expiring contract and picks, I will be very happy. I doubt you will be able too, because the only idiot to trade for them already has them.
Crawford is not a point guard or a starting two he’s a spark of the bench. That’s his and Nate’s roll. They will be exposed from here on end. Which will end the point guard of the future, playoff talk and Isiah’s. Because Isiah has now hitch his wagon to Jamal, now that he’s done with Marburry and Eddy.