RE: Marbury...Nope!

["Pereira, Jorge M" <jpereira@xxxxxxxx>]

>>>Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 15:39:44 -0500
From: "Josh Ozersky" <jozersky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: All You Need To Know About Banks. . .

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Better than Banks?  Marbury?   Nope...though it's not his fault.  Marbury is stuck with the slowest, oldest, least mobile team I've seen in a while.  As a team, his hands are tied.  Which brings me to another point.  Isaiah is seen by the media as the next savior while Ainge is the devil (though the Tim Thomas trade caused some murmuring).  All I can say is, good luck, NY.  Isaiah has locked the Knicks into a corner where they are going nowhere soon and in 2 years everyone will be on crutches.  If this is our competition, we're into the playoffs.  If we had a shooter we would have won by 20.

On the Lakers game.  For once Carroll didn't seem to have an answer.  The substitutions didn't seem to have a reason.  Let's face it, right now we're not quite up to the Lakers' level, however, Banks should have been in there most of the time.  I feel we should try to run against the Lakers, and run and run.  That's our big advantage (median age). Use the young legs and Yes, Walter.  The purpose would be not so much to get easy baskets.  The Lakers are too fast and organized to allow that.  The purpose would be to tire Shak.  The only way to beat them is to take Shak out of the game.

Smile, we are doing well.  There are 1,000 reasons to love the Celts.  I love the Celts because Ricky is Spider Man.  So he's missed 1 out of all his dunks.  Shak missed a dunk in the real game. Even Nadia Comenici wasn't a perfect 10 all the time.

Jorge