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Originally Posted by APujols5
Because they gave those salaries to deadbeat stiffs.
the main problem is they have 4 PGs (including Jcraw)
and only Nate really understands how to play the PG role. Francis, Starbury and Jcraw are shoot first, almost never pass, undersized SGs trapped playing PG
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Nate is worse than Crawford and Marbury when it comes to handling the point guard duties. Sadly, the Knicks best point guard is rookie forward Renaldo Balkman. And yes, that's meant to make people laugh and Knick fans cry because it's true.
Nate is even worse than the Marbury, Francis, Crawford trio when it comes to shooting first. If Nate hits one shot, he goes on a shooting spree that would make Antoine Walker jealous.
Marbury's problem the past two seasons has been this desire to pass first instead of score. Thing is, by doing so he's holding himself back too much and passing immediately starting a play instead of creating a play and finding the open man. Everyone getting on him saying he only shoots first and Marbury trying to please those people has actually made him a worse player. That's why I would always advise players to not listen to fans because most fans don't know a thing about basketball.
As for Curry. He's been better offensively, but defensively he's the laziest player I've seen wearing a Knick uniform. And, I've seen Charles Smith play so that's saying a lot. Curry still doesn't jump to get rebounds and he jogs back on defense allowing guards that push the ball up court to slide in for a layup before he even recognizes the offensive player.
That being said, the Knicks aren't terrible in terms of talent. It's getting that talent to work together that's been difficult.