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Originally Posted by YankeePride
Nate is worse than Crawford and Marbury when it comes to handling the point guard duties . . . 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 . . . the Knicks aren't terrible in terms of talent. It's getting that talent to work together that's been difficult.
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Astute comments, these. I should have been harsher on APujols5 accordingly. The Knicks do not have a real point guard, period.
Nate is an exciting player at times but does not have real floor presence and selflessness required for point guard. None of the others do either, apparently (Balkman? That's not his position, but hmmm). Perhaps a healthy Francis being told PG is his, act accordingly? Marbury SG only (although someone told me he is too short for that)? But Crawford and Robinson are extra SG's and should be coming off the bench (if not traded).
I will also question APujols5's judgment on Jared Jeffries. Is he talking from previous observation? If not, he should give Jeffries a break; he just returned from injury and started his first game this week. They say that this is a high-energy, low-ego, defensive-minded player that the Knicks need. I like watching him and Balkman play more than seeing Robinson's hijinks.
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Originally Posted by YankeePride
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.
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I'm not starting an Eddie Curry Fan Club, but I'm pretty sure that he had double-doubles (points and rebounds) in that recent run of games that I talked about. The jury is still out, and the usual nonsense is setting in (going the other way, like talk about him on the All-Star East team this year), but he has been playing much better lately.