New Jersey suffered massive injury losses during Marbury's time there and Phoenix blew up its team in the wake of Kidd's wife beating and the drug stories (not related to Kidd specifically) picking up again. Their interest in Marbury wasn't in playing for a title, it was in his nice guy reputation off the court (while they were in rebuilding mode). All of this avoids the question, what the hell has Jason Kidd ever won? He couldn't do it in Dallas, couldn't get it done in Phoenix, can't get it done in New Jersey,
despite having a damned good supporting cast. How much longer is he not going to get the job done before people admit that he's a complementary player? (And all of this is beside the question of this thread; Kidd, a wife beater and substance abuser, gets a free pass for turning his back on the Nets and disappearing before a game. Did people cut Vinsanity this kind of slack for his shameful performance in Toronto?)
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Originally Posted by alphaorange
Kidd is a pretty good player who is seldom to blame for his team's failures. Hard to scapegoat him. Marbury's play is erratic, his defense GENERALLY horrible, and he rarely says the right thing from a team POV. In other words, Kidd BLENDS....Steph doesn't. All this is just an on the court observation. Kidd seems the far inferior human. That being said, I gave not gotten the feeling Steph is being made the scapegoat for the teams lousy play. I DO get the feeling that he is reluctant to do what IT wants him to. After the incident in which he left the team, he said (when interviewed) that he would continue to do exactly what he had been doing and change nothing. Prolly not what IT was hoping to hear.
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I've never been a huge fan of Stephie's game. I think he gets a lot of "loser" crap for the situations that he's landed in (to wit, teams tend to trade for him to keep the fans entertained while they're rebuilding), and I've rehashed this endlessly on the main board (New Jersey's injury nightmares, Phoenix's blowing up of its team and use of Marbury to improve its image in the community, New York's importing him into a lunatic asylum). I do think that's generally unfair, because he really has no control over where he's been traded to. At the end of the day he isn't really (to my mind) a great player, so much as an entertaining one.
From a technical standpoint, he scores efficiently enough when he puts his mind to it, but he has an alphadog personality in a gammadog game. If he wanted to he could be a good complementary player for a good team. I just don't think Stephie has that in him. He's spent too many years as the primary attraction for rebuilding teams. But he's worlds better than Kidd as a human being and JK deserves a heaping ration of **** for his disgraceful act of skipping a game to force a trade. That's Vince Carter territory.
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