“I doubt D’antoni would play Curry unless Curry showed coach something in practice.”

D’Antoni said in the Post he’d be working Curry in in short bursts, 3 to 5 minutes, likely starting tonight depending on how close a game it is.

No Curry last night. You really can’t trust the Post or D’antoni. But you can trust me.

Before a Knick’s game, I always check sportsline’s scoreboard where they give a game preview by Accuscore with a projection of who will win the game, shown in percentages. Humorously, I don’t think I’ve seen the Knicks projected to win a game this entire season. For example, the projection for tonights game favors OKC 57% to NYC 43%. Even assuming OKC plays stronger against weak defensive teams as Thomas B indicates above, shouldn’t the Knicks be favored. Honestly, I really don’t care either way, but I just find this funny. I wonder how much of this “projection” is based upon numbers.

http://www.sportsline.com/nba/gamecenter/preview/NBA_20090106_NY@OKC

D’Antoni said in the Post he’d be working Curry in in short bursts, 3 to 5 minutes, likely starting tonight depending on how close a game it is.

Good stuff, Thomas, but what about Curry? What’s the current update on the chances of him playing tonight?

Thanks for the kind words.

I read a few reports that Curry is practicing and might get some court time tonight. I did not want to rely on that since it was in the NY Post and they have been telling us since summer league that “sources” say a Marbury buy out will occur in the next few days.

I doubt D’antoni would play Curry unless Curry showed coach something in practice. I don’t know that Curry could have done that being back at practice only a week or so. I cant think Curry is close to being in game shape either.

Conversely, the Thunder front line would be a good place to get broken in. Curry has to be at least twice the girth of Petro or Sene. Good luck pushing Curry out of the post. We shall see.