All Is Not Well At Tracy’s New Home
Thursday, February 25th, 2010Inspired by other geniuses, Dan Filowitz tries his hand at one of these xtranormal.com movies. Enjoy!
Posts Tagged ‘Stephon Marbury’
Fare Thee Well! And If For Ever, Still For Ever, Fare Thee Well.
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009It was all so promising at the beginning.
Sure, Knicks fans knew about the baggage, the history. The selfishness. The inability to play for a winning team.
We didn’t care. The Knicks were beyond depressing at that point.
Bringing Steph back home, it could have made the Knicks fun again.
Now we know it didn’t. He put up some very impressive numbers, especially in 2004-2005 (21.7pts, 8.1ast, 3.0reb, 2.8tov, 21.9 PER, 46.2%fg, 83.4%ft, 35.4%3pt, 57.5%ts).
Of course, we’ll mostly remember that season for Steph’s statement in January 2005:
“Don’t get me wrong — I love Jason Kidd. He’s a great point guard. But how am I comparing myself to him when I think I’m the best point guard to play basketball? That doesn’t make any sense. I mean, how can I sit here and compare myself to somebody if I already think I’m the best?”
And this was not that long after Jason Kidd absolutely destroyed him in the 2004 playoffs. Incidentally, the last time the Knicks even made the playoffs.
It was not meant to be, this particular homecoming. Things devolved, and rather quickly. The Larry Brown year. The threats to Isiah on the plane to Phoenix. The D’Antoni/Walsh exile.
So, despite arriving on the wings of hope and promise, mostly we’ll remember him for the negativity. For the dark cloud that always seemed to follow him. For the sadness. For the jokes everyone got to make at our expense.
But also for the glorious weirdness.
The bizzare.
So, on behalf of the Disciples of Clyde, Knicks fans, and good people everywhere, so long, Steph.
It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.
- Jean Paul Sartre
