Nash on Marbury and the Knicks

[ASUFan22]

Post-n-run. :nasty: <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Nash: 1-on-1, Marbury's bestBY ALAN HAHNNewsday Staff WriterAugust 26, 2006Shaquille O'Neal and Alonzo Mourning recently roasted the infamous "best point guard in the NBA" label Stephon Marbury placed on himself more than a year ago, but Steve Nash, the NBA's reigning two-time MVP, wouldn't dispute it."I know if I played one-on-one with Steph, he'd beat me probably every single time," Nash said Friday. "So in many ways, he's right."&lt;A TARGET="_top" HREF="http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=v.../16687954/1;;~sscs=?http://www.pcrichard.com/"&gt;&lt;IMG SRC="http://m.2mdn.net/1215181/spacer.gif" BORDER=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;The laid-back Phoenix Suns guard, who recently sheared his trademark scraggly locks for a buzz cut, has been in the New York area the past few days and made a guest appearance at the Knicks' youth basketball camp at Basketball City in Chelsea Piers. Though he didn't contradict Marbury's comment, he did apathetically add that, "it doesn't interest me that much."What did interest Nash was talking to the kids at the camp about team play - "Never underestimate the importance of being a good teammate," he said - and that in itself might be all the reason why he thinks little of the Marbury claim. Nash's success, which includes a career-high, 22-assist performance against the Knicks in a triple-overtime loss at the Garden on Jan. 2, comes from having four other players on the court.Nash says Marbury's new coach, Isiah Thomas, was his childhood idol. "He was a perfect player for me to emulate," Nash said. He also believes the Knicks will be better this year, even above .500, with Thomas running the bench."Everyone involved last year just didn't seem to mesh," he said. "Maybe they didn't have enough time, but they never seemed to have the chance to come together and click. With Isiah, it'll be a lot easier. It'll be a much better fit in a lot of ways."After greeting Knicks guard Nate Robinson with a handshake, Nash explained how Thomas could be a better fit than Larry Brown."Larry's a teacher; it takes time to teach," Nash explained. "I think that Isiah will give them a lot more confidence in their style and I think you'll see a lot more of their talents coming out right away. With Larry, it would have taken a while. It would have worked, but it would have taken a while. And this is a difficult city for it to take a while."Robinson, who earlier in the summer said Brown coached as if he was "trying to take away my joy," said there was more to blame than just coaching."It was more about our team," he said. "We need to give it up for the next guy instead of yourself."</div>

 

[iFR3SHi]

I hate Nash. But hes right Isiah wanted a run and gun team but he didnt scout a coach to be an offensive coach he selected a coach that plays wants to win by defense, stops, and then on offense he wanted thye basics instead of the flashy passes e5tc. Isiah coaching now he will let the players he wanted to suceed and now hes got them. He had in mind of what the roles he wanted his players to play. The role was their style of play but Larry's strict coaching and the reltionship withg Marbury wasnt going along so Knicks shouldnot be the team teams think they will win easily. The Knicks will be much better than last season.

 

[Blaze]

I want to see Francis and Marbury play this year. At the same time.

 

[jlongstreth]

I wish I got more Knick games out in Cali so I could watch it cause if it works out where they play well together than they are going to b eone hell of a team to watch

 

[KCX]

Marbury will be back to his old self with IT coaching.

 

[Illosophee]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (KCX @ Sep 15 2006, 04:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Marbury will be back to his old self with IT coaching.</div>I hope you don't mean Phoenix Suns or New Jersey Nets because, even with Marbury, the teams sucked. As soon as he left and Nash and JKidd replaced him, the teams became top 10 in the league. No lie.Anyway, that was a good read. Nothing much to comment on, though. I don't really see why this was titled "Nash on Marbury and the Knicks". Just should have been titled "Nash on Isiah Thomas and the Knicks". Nash clearly stated that he had no interest in Steph's statement.