I completely disagree with this (though I’ll preemptively acknowledge perhaps our disagreement is based on semantics, different interpretations of these terms). I thought he was very skilled, at least as a low-post scorer. His problem was that he wasn’t very athletic. Older Shaq had a love-hate relationship with conditioning, but the young Shaq was tremendously athletic. The Curry I saw could never run the floor or move like that. He couldn’t jump and didn’t have the quickness to cut off a penetrator, which I see more as “athleticism” than “skill.”

Anyway, good riddance. I don’t blame him for not being a franchise player. That was Isiah’s fault in thinking he was one, not Curry’s fault for not being one. But I still can’t stand him.

Don’t sign/trade for a PF/C who eats like a LT/LG.

He isn’t much of a rebounder but is a stat anomoly in the sense the more he played as a knick the better their rebounding margin, i suspect that had more to do with his decent ability to box out and let those who actually rebound well(qrich and Davivd Lee) do so, and he physically wore down players who had to push and shove with him for 35minutes a game that season …not because he is a good rebounder , i think he’s made his peace with that and works to minimize his fault there.

on defense he is decent on his man usually , better when he is scoring well it seems and worse when he is struggling to score , and almost always a slow rotating help defender…gearing up his jump for a sensation block rather than using his large frame to be an obstacle to intimdate shots or just using sound judgement and making players shoot over him like less athletic post defenders like oakley , kurt thomas or even a guy like nick collison, no one should be asking curry to a monster shotblock or should be , but making reasonable reads on defense I think is very fair, and he only does rarely.

as for intangibles …its bad , he seems nice enough and likeable to teammates , but he just seems like the type of guy who have to motive all the time and if he isn’t your franchise guy he is not worth the hassle keep in shape unless he really fills a void…big guys just seem to get those nagging injuries more often and curry to be useful needs to play enough to stay in condition and keep his weight reasonable, its pretty obvious he doesn’t have it in him to do one his own which is sad for a professional athlete.

To me when he is in good shape he is still a good starter in the nba provided he has a team that have strengths that minimize his weaknesses, but on most good teams he is a bench player, providing some scoring against overwhelmed reserves.