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<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">November 16, 2005 -- Lamond Murray has been here before: on a team waiting for a chance. But that doesn't make the waiting any easier for the veteran who was brought in for depth on the Nets' bench. Murray sounds terribly frustrated.
"You start questioning yourself. You [say], 'It must be me.' Going from place to place, with three different coaches and they do the same exact thing to you. You just don't know what it is so it's got to be me, something I'm doing," said Murray, who didn't play last night for the third time in eight games.
"I'm here to play and help the team out. But they must feel they don't need me or I can't contribute, and that's not something I can change."
In eight games, Murray, 32, never left the bench in three, played a 27 seconds in another, three minutes in a third. His longest run was 15 minutes ? but it came in garbage time at Indiana.
"As far as I'm concerned, that wasn't considered playing. One game was the blowout and then he had no choice but to see what other guys would be able to do," continued Murray, a career 11.9 scorer who ran into a similar plight in Toronto under coaches Kevin O'Neill and Sam Mitchell.
"If you're not getting in in the first quarter or any time when the game is meaningful, that's not playing. So you just work hard."
Coach Lawrence Frank said Murray must "always stay ready because you never know when you're number's being called. That's part of being a professional." </div>
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"You start questioning yourself. You [say], 'It must be me.' Going from place to place, with three different coaches and they do the same exact thing to you. You just don't know what it is so it's got to be me, something I'm doing," said Murray, who didn't play last night for the third time in eight games.
"I'm here to play and help the team out. But they must feel they don't need me or I can't contribute, and that's not something I can change."
In eight games, Murray, 32, never left the bench in three, played a 27 seconds in another, three minutes in a third. His longest run was 15 minutes ? but it came in garbage time at Indiana.
"As far as I'm concerned, that wasn't considered playing. One game was the blowout and then he had no choice but to see what other guys would be able to do," continued Murray, a career 11.9 scorer who ran into a similar plight in Toronto under coaches Kevin O'Neill and Sam Mitchell.
"If you're not getting in in the first quarter or any time when the game is meaningful, that's not playing. So you just work hard."
Coach Lawrence Frank said Murray must "always stay ready because you never know when you're number's being called. That's part of being a professional." </div>
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