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I call it the Patrick Ewing syndrome. Every year the best player on the Knicks depending on how the team is doing gets slammed by Knickfans. I remember every year the Knicks would get eliminated from the playoffs, there would be a bunch of fans who said Ewing was the problem, and he had to go. Then after Ewing was gone, we had "shaky knees" Allan Houston as the scapegoat. Like Ewing, Houston was to blame for the team not succeding. Even when Houston was healthy and b4 he signed that big contract, you would hear how bad he sucked and how we needed to get rid of him. Now, it is Marbury's turn. When the Knicks suck, it is always the fault of the best player on the team not doing enough.
Reasons that people give for hating Marbury-
1)He's a ballhog, too selfish to play PG- Yet Baron Davis, Gilbert Arenas, Allen Iverson, and Chauncey Billups all take more shots and have less assists than Stephon Marbury. Marbury shot 13 a game last season and averaged 8 assists. And he's not a PG?
2) He doesn't play defense- how many good defensive PG's are there in the league. The reason why Marbury looks bad on D is because unlike other guards his team did not have any shotblockers to back him up.
3) He's arrogant- that's at least 80% of the league. If you ask any top PG in the league who's the best, they'll all say the same thing. "I am"
4) He doesn't make players around him better- Most of Mohammed's points came off of his penetration, and Mohammed never averaged more than 5 points until he came to the Knicks. Stoudamire was rookie of the year, the next season he got hurt, and Marbury was traded. They said the same thing about Kidd until he finally got past the first round with the Nets. Now he is the Messiah of all PGs.
Sorry 4 the long post