Is Stephon Marbury Headed for a Second Straight Year in Dipped Statistics?
who always takes the shot. However, the Knicks’ offense does not appear to be headed that way at this point in pre-season. While the tempo of getting the ball up court is a lot faster than it was under former head coach Larry Brown, once the ball is in the front court, it is not quick and decisive offense that Steve Nash is running in Phoenix. Some people might say that the Knicks can’t run that offense because they don’t have Steve Nash. On the contrary though, Stephon Marbury is a much more athletic point guard than Nash and he is capable of doing any athletic feat that Nash can. It is only the things going on in Marbury’s head that are preventing him from achieving his true athletic ability. But the numbers don’t lie. Marbury is the only player since Oscar Robertson to average 20 points and 8 assists for his career. And even though Marbury’s stats took a hit last year because of his feuding and the coaching of Larry Brown, Marbury’s ability to put the ball in the hole and make extre
