Marbury/Doc comments after game 7

[vagrantwade]

For the haters out there;

http://blogs.nypost.com/sports/knicks/archives/2009/05/greetings_from_1.html

Greetings from Boston

By MARC BERMAN

BOSTON - Congrats to Orlando assistant coach Patrick Ewing for his guarantee not blowing up in his face. Had the Magic lost, Stan Van Gundy would've been really begging the Knicks to hire him.

And congrats to Stephon Marbury. He didn't win tonight, his season is over, but he made something out of what could have been a complete nightmare season.

Marbury didn't get the championship he craved, but he got the experience he wanted, as I wrote in the late editions of today's Post. It was weird being in Boston and seeing how well the fans and media treated him in his short stay.

And though Marbury's role off the bench was low-impact on too many playoff nights, Celtics coach Doc Rivers said after getting eliminated in Game 7 to Orlando, he'd like to see the Coney Islander in green next season.

"He had his ups and downs,'' Rivers said. "He was behind the eight ball. He didn't have a lot of time to get it. But he was great. He wasn't only good on the court. He was phenomenal off the court. He did a lot for (Rajon) Rondo. He was great for us. We'd like him back but we'll see.''

I noticed before the Celtics took the court before tonight's game, Marbury was in Rajon Rondo's ear for about 30 seconds. It's the type of veteran knowhow he did not show enough of as a Knick.

I wouldn't be surprised if Marbury entertained offers in Europe if the pay was right and he didn't have a starting-job opportunity elsewhere.

"I got to wait and see,'' Marbury said. "I'm not going to make any hasty decisions. But I loved playing here. Being a Sixth Man coming off the bench is not a bad thing. I know I'm a starter so it really doesn't matter as long as I'm the court.''

Marbury spoke for more than 20 minutes in the locker room afterward to swarms and swarms of Boston media types, all wanting to hear about his future. Marbury wasn't the scapegoat here for everything that went wrong. During the Orlando series, he ran into some Beantown scribes and spent an hour in the team hotel, shooting the breeze with them.

Though he committed three turnovers in his eight-minute second quarter stint, he showed flashes of the Marbury of old and wasn't as tentative. Marbury could never find that rhythm consistently. And he never once got on the court with KG, whose locker is next to his.

"It was always different every game,'' Marbury said. "Not playing for a year, tonight was the best I felt in terms of attacking the basket,'' Marbury said. "So I know it's there.''

[kenmaine]

Three turnovers in eight minutes and he says it was the best he felt. Gee, that sounds like the type of pg we need.
How about a pg who can just get the ball upcourt without turning it over.
Yes, he has awesome skills, but I still go back to the chart someone posted here with his past teams records while he was there, and then after he left. You can make excuses for the guy all you want, but there is a mountain of evidence that teams are better without him.

[vagrantwade]

Three turnovers in eight minutes and he says it was the best he felt. Gee, that sounds like the type of pg we need.
How about a pg who can just get the ball upcourt without turning it over.
Yes, he has awesome skills, but I still go back to the chart someone posted here with his past teams records while he was there, and then after he left. You can make excuses for the guy all you want, but there is a mountain of evidence that teams are better without him.

He obviously meant the best he felt physically.

And show me that "evidence" so I can debunk it like I have many times before. Like how the Nets got good after almost completely reorganizing the roster. Or how Minnesota got "good" years later after KG was virtually the only person left from when Marbury was there? Or Phoenix got a bunch of new players, and the ones that were already there like Marion and Amare got better. Even though Marbury almost led that team past the eventual champion San Antonio spurs?

Or how about the Knicks? How have they been in the past 2 seasons?

[Who]

I think Europe is Marbury's best hope at a large payday.

I'd be surprised if any NBA teams offered him more than $2.5mil. I think, for the most part, he'll be offered LLE and minimum contract deals.

[Roy Hobbs]

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[Roy Hobbs]

So...  Doc was complimentary to one of his players.  That means what, exactly?  When he comes out a couple of days later and says the team's preference is to go in another direction, I'm assuming he's being candid.