When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I still had to call out plays, notice schemes, know the systems, do everything they had to do.
We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.
You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.