nypost:If it's possible, it got uglier, nastier, more depressing at the Garden as the defending champion Spurs annihilated the sloppy, defenseless Knicks, 109-96.
The Spurs, who shot 56 percent, led by 32 late in the third before fourth-quarter garbage time.
With the Knicks losing their seventh straight — and fifth straight at home — to fall 12 games under .500 at 6-18, Isiah Thomas' two-year anniversary as Knick president today is a bleak one.
"That's New York," Marbury said of the boos after getting schooled by Tony Parker. "I understand New York. I know I'm going to be blamed. I'm not worried about that. What is fair? A lot of people look at it as you're making a lot of money, and don't think that's fair. I'm going out and doing what's asked of me. Everyone has to take the blame collectively."
To put the season's wreckage in perspective, the Knicks last season didn't fall 12 games under .500 until Feb. 11. They finished 33-49.
Thomas was in the tunnel and could hear the Marbury boos. He said over the weekend the club is building around Larry Brown, Channing Frye and Eddy Curry, not Marbury, who finished with 14 points, seven assists and three turnovers.
Brown issued another mea culpa. "They [the Spurs] are well-coached, much better coached than we are," Brown said. "They move the ball better, they defend better.
"I thought when we started this season, even though we were losing games, we were making progress," Brown added. "Now it seems like we're not making progress. They were scripting plays. I didn't think we competed until the end."
Well I hate to say it but Marbury & Brown are just not gonna work out. I'm dissappointed because Marbury is being given the longest chance to help make this team better and it seems like thats just not gonna work. I'm hoping a trade will solve this but it may be Marbury leaving instead of staying.
