A miserable season for the Knicks
When Larry Brown, ill, left mid game for the hospital, it symbolised the wreck the season has been for Brown and the Knicks. It began with much fan fare with the home coming of legendary Larry Brown to coach in his dream job. The season has ended miserably.
Michael Lee explores in The Washington Post:
The Knicks (22-57) lost their first five games of the season, went 1-12 in the month in December and 1-11 in February. They have to win two of their last three games to avoid posting the worst 82-game season in franchise history (the Knicks went 23-59 in 1985-86). Portland is the only team in the NBA with fewer wins…
The Knicks’ incredible failure has frustrated Brown, his players, their fans and people within the organization. “You see a great coach. You see so much talent and it doesn’t add up,” Knicks guard Jamal Crawford said recently…
Brown has lamented all season that he doesn’t have a pure point guard to set up teammates and make everyone better, an apparent jab at Marbury, whom Brown had issues with dating from when Brown coached him on the U.S. Olympic team that won a bronze medal in Athens in 2004. Brown and Marbury staged a weeklong war of words in March, which ended in a pseudo resolution in which Brown told Marbury that he didn’t want to trade him and Marbury said Brown “flexed his juice card real hard.”
That saga doesn’t appear to be near a conclusion, unless one of Marbury or Brown departs. Either that, or the two have to learn to find out to bring positives they both possess to an end positive result on the floor. Is Brown the only person to blame given he has been a superb coach in the past? Or is a large part of it to do with adjustments not working out.
The fans, theplayers, Brown, the hot dog seller - every one is frustrated. Knicks look to start afresh next season. How they are going to do it and overcome the current problems? It is not very simple.
Tags: Larry Brown, New York Knicks, Stephen Marbury.
