<div class="quote_poster">Blur Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Throwing in Renaldo Balkman and his five points a game kind of looks like your trying to pad the stats a little to make it look better, but point already taken. However, you still have Eddy Curry, Steve Francis (who has performed well lately), Nate Robinson, etc. No excuse to get blown out by 30 points ( a lose is understandable but not in the way it took place). Also I am not comparing the Bulls to the Celtics like I said in my previous post "of course the bulls are a lot better than the Celtics" the situation however was somewhat parallel considering how many players the Hawks were missing. Heck can anyone even name their starting lineup? All teams go through injuries the Rockets were without Yao/Mcgrady for a while yet they were not blown out by 30 points. You cannot blame a lose like this on injuries alone.</div>
Firstly, Eddy Curry only played 21 minutes, most of his minutes coming in the first half and Francis hasn’t played well at all lately. In fact, the last game where he scored over 10 points was about a month ago on March 16th. Nate Robinson scored 24 points and the Knicks still got blown out, which should tell you a lot about how offensively lacking the Knicks were. The Knicks were missing two-thirds of their total scoring. It’s not fair to expect rookies/sophomores and other role players (Rose, Jeffries, James) to pick up the scoring slack from guys like Marbury or Crawford. Let me also add to the fact that the Bulls – who are on pace to win 50 games – were more or less completely healthy. I think a loss of this magnitude is expected playing a healthy Bulls team.
The situation between the Celtics and the Hawks is completely incomparable to the Knicks. Both teams were missing three of their top scorers and 4-5 bench players out. Both teams were evenly matched—that’s a fallacious argument.
Tracy McGrady has played about 70 games this season. Most of the games that McGrady missed were when Yao Ming was healthy. When both of them were gone for (like last year) they only won 34 games and were blown out sometimes too.
<div class="quote_poster">Basketballer05 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">So let me guess this straight. What you are saying here is that all these players are guarnteed to combine for 63 points.</div>
I never said they were guaranteed to score 63 points, so stop putting words in my mouth. Honestly, if you can’t see how an average of 60 missing points isn’t a major disadvantage for a team, than you’re being unreasonable.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Just because they average a certain amount of points, does not mean they will score 16.4 points every single game. Your excuse is so stupid. Marbury could of had an off night, and only scored 2 points. You just dont know. So stop bringing this excuse into the argument.</div>
Yes, I expect Marbury to score 16
.4 points every game.
How is my excuse stupid? Four of the Knicks top five scorers were missing and they combine for two-thirds of the Knicks usual point production. Marbury isn’t the only one missing, so I don’t see the relevance of you bringing him up. Even if Marbury scored 2 points, there’s still Crawford, Richardson, and Lee who could have combined for 50.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">All you do is come up with excuses for your players and team. Knicks are a bunch of sore losers in my opinion. They do this all the time, its pathetic of them. They are disgrace to the great city of New York.</div>
You seem like a young fan. If you haven’t noticed, when a team is missing multiple major contributors, and they are playing a good team which is completely healthy, they tend to struggle.
If you can’t understand that, then you’re simply being unreasonable.
You said something similar to this in the Bulls forum: <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Its not just Francis who has done stuff like this before. Nearly each individual player on the team this season has done something similar to this. Even the coach Isiah has, which just makes me even more ashamed of the Knicks.</div>
Please tell me each individual—not just a few, <u>all.</u>
