We’re all familiar with the expression ”going from the ridiculous to the sublime”. But how about ”going from the ridiculous to the more ridiculous”?
When Stephon Marbury left the game with 10:40 left in the second quarter with a turf-toe in the Knicks 99-94 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves, New York’s injury situation grew to never-before-seen heights (or is it depths by now?) of absurdity. With Marbury, Jamal Crawford, Quentin Richardson, and Steve Francis all out, the Knicks were without their top FOUR guards, leaving the team with a 5-9 second-year player in Nate Robinson and rookie Mardy Collins in the back court. That the Knicks still managed to storm back from a 18-pont deficit to make this a game -- a very exciting game, no less -- was somewhere between completely unexpected and beyond astonishing.
“I thought in the second half we made some adjustments and got back in the game,” Coach Isiah Thomas understated the case. “But we just didn’t have enough firepower to close out the game.”
Marbury Gets Hurt, and Knicks Are Lamb For Timberwolves
04-07-2007, 08:11 PM
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