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Is Marion a role player right now b/c of the team he is on? Would he be a premiere player on most other teams? B/c I think he would.

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I honestly have no clue. I'm inclined to say no, actually. He's generally been surrounded by talent like Starbury, Nash, Stoudemire, et al, so there's no precedent for how he's performed. Drop him on a crappy team and I have no idea how that would turn out.

Anyway, the most obvious statistic supporting the "Nash doesn't make him better" argument is that his statistics have been virtually the same his whole career, whether the team was good or bad, whether Nashty was around or not. He admirably filled the hole with higher scoring and rebounding the year that Stoudemire was out, other than that he's been eerily consistent.