NBA

CREMINS: MARBURY CAN LEAD KNICKS

Stephon Marbury’s time with the Knicks has not gone well – from the team’s failure on the court to the recent sexual harassment trial involving Isiah Thomas, where Marbury was a witness.

But his college coach, Bobby Cremins, said he thinks Marbury can still turn things around at the Garden.

“There’s still time for him,” said Cremins, who went to the Sweet 16 with the point guard during Marbury’s one season at Georgia Tech. “He’s a tremendous talent and I just hope it all clicks in. I know he has something left in him.”

But Cremins, inducted into the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame at the New York Athletic Club last night, said the controversies that often seem to follow Marbury don’t help his game.

“I think he gets frustrated with all the stuff that goes on around him,” said Cremins, entering his second season as the coach at the College of Charleston. “I know he’s frustrated with not winning. No matter what else is going on, he wants to win.”

Cremins said the key to getting the most out of Marbury is having him buy into the team system.

“You have to get to him and make him accept what you need him to do,” Cremins said. “He’s capable of playing team basketball.”

Other inductees included broadcaster Bob Wolff, former St. John’s star Walter Berry, former Houston Rocket Mario Elie, new Minnesota Timberwolves assistant Ed Pinckney, former NBA coach and Knicks GM Al Bianchi, coach Hank Rosenstein and trustee Burt Beagle, longtime CHSAA and Baruch College statistician, who passed away this year.

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St. Peter’s Prep (N.J.) star Will Hill committed to Florida yesterday at the ESPN Zone in midtown. Hill will play defensive back for the Gators, whom he picked over Southern Cal.

dan.martin@nypost.com