Nugs Make Right Move With Questionable Execution

Within reason, a decent summary is that he arrives on the scene, his teams immediately become dramatically more competitive; they improve into the following year or two or three, but he then starts losing the team and typically develops a particularly public clash with a key player. I guess I have the impression that he is pretty passive aggressive and goes to third parties to complain about things that bother him. This Melo deal fits that scenario. He is magical for awhile and it wears off

Remember he tried to blame Pierce for his poor coaching and the eventual failing of the USA team?

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/stephon_marbury_embroils_celtics?utm_source=a-section

1. All that writing. For what? I just don’t need all that explaining.I kept reading and reading, thinking I was going to discover something new here. After I finished, I just was stunned. I mean I don’t know all that. Just Steve does.
2. You are presumimng a lot here, if and if and if, when in fact you really don’t know at all what happened and maybe even though you don’t care for the solution, maybe it’s ok with them. I mean you aren’t even involved. How would you know, Steve?
3.The subject means to me nothing. I could care less how the Denver Nuggets punish their player. All I want to know is if we are going to be good enough to repeat. All the other teams I hate, Also, when two other teams play or the C’s are not in the playoffs who cares. I will never watch.

hasn’t shown a propensity to actually help his team win. I think he’s vastly over-estimated by sports media, writers, bloggers, announcers.

Excuse me, Bernard Kng was incredible and helped the Knicks a great deal to win.

Carmelo reminds me of a young Paul Pierce

Good work, Professor.

I will contend that stuff like this is the exact reason for Ainge not to have brought Marbury on board. Malcontent narcissistic megatalents kill team harmony.

As hot as they have been, it’s doubtful the Pistons would have lost to the nuggets with or without Dr Snitch. I feel for George Karl and Chauncey Billups having to put up with this primadonna.

What I’ve read is that Karl wanted to rest Anthony for a few minutes and that Melo refused/resisted to be substituted and wanted to stay on the floor. If this was what actually happened, how would people react if the interpreters of the episode were, say, Tim Duncan and Gregg Popovich. Because I remember this happening between those two – and Duncan wasn’t punished or accused of mutiny.

I agree with the article, but I wanted to throw out this angle.

 I read your message and am sorry that you could not follow me. I applaud you on your restraint as well. I can be obnoxious when I am strong about my opinions. You’re a good guy and better than me.

Anthony had to be suspended. He disrespected his coach in front of his teammates. That isn’t the way for a player to act towards his coach…. blah, blah, blah….until you get to the article by Hochman.

‘All that’was superfluous. You don’t need to play teacher here to your readers to explain why disiplinary action was necessary. We know ‘all that.’ I couldn’t wait to get to the end of ‘all that’ because I am not learning anything here new. The reasons for the suspension are self evident. and we don’t need a ‘father-son’ explanation as to why.

Now, you might be affronted by the words teacher and father- son. Don’t. You are an excellent writer in my book and I enjoy your coverage of the league. I too am being a bit callous and insuting in language. Yet, ‘all that’ really could have been ommited. Also, it makes your article too pedantic and overweight with….‘all that.’

Next your point. It is well taken and true. Yet, here again the situation that you imagine to exist within the Nuggets front office, George Karl, the press, the announcement, the timing of the announcement, the player, etc… is your own imaginative, and “possible”(I am referring to your if words here) situation. You see, Steve,once again I am not sure there handling was not o.k. Even if Karl met with the player after the announcement. What is most important is the punishment. Karl might be exasperated with Anthony and is purposefully showing him disrespect because of his own reasons. I don’t know the mechanisms in play here and will not assume or hypothesize the mechanisms. Maybe Karl is fine with meeting the next day with his player. It could be just that is the way Karl thinks and he uconciously knows that the next day is also good. He trusts the speech he has in mind for Anthony. George Karl is a trite unconventional anyways, often playing to the tune of a different drummer.As long as the end result is effective is what matters.

 My reaction basically is that the article is such a trivial dot within the margins of NBA daily events that I seriously was a bit bored by it all. I want to read about basketball and the Celtics. I come here to this website in order to relax.