what you seemingly fail to realize/accept is that every single team in the league would love a low-post scorer, it’s a very rare commodity, and Curry is among the best handful of those. obviously he still needs to develop in numerous other areas of his game, but it’s just as obvious that he’s made serious strides this year. you choose to ignore those, and regard a 24 year old center who’s under constant doubleteams as a finished product with zero chance of improvement from here. I prefer to wait and see how he develops next year. as I’ve said since early this season, I’ll be a lot harder on this team next year, once they’ve had a full year to play together and regroup from Larry Brown.

anyway, I certainly am not defending Curry blindly, but you go way too far in attacking his game and his potential impact on the team, especially with the right people around him.

but more to the point, everyone here has heard all this a million times from you already, why can’t you stop, or at least slow down? did Curry sleep with your sister? why don’t you go after Francis, or Frye, or Marbury, or always hurt Q? there are no shortage of targets on this team, your focus on Curry is obsessive and annoying.

I appreciate it, but I think it’s best if we stick to our roles on this board. My job is to be condescending to you and write excessively long posts about stats and the WOW which get ridiculed by you and others.

Your job is to to defend Eddy Curry using qualitative analysis. This means heavy referencing of all the double teams he commands, comments about how no one can feed the post or hit a jump shot other than Jamal Crawford, and feigning near complete ignorance of the fact that he can’t rebound for crap or play defense at all.

It also requires near total amnesia regarding Eddy’s quest to overtake those players ahead of him, the league leaders in assists and steals, and the league’s second leading rebounder, in order to capture the turnover title this year.

And given his statline this last month during the playoff push, I would say you have a lot on your plate.

Eddy Curry’s “March” to the Lottery

15.8 ppg on 46% fg,
40/81 from the line,
5.6 rebounds
.6 blocks
1.2 assists
.2 steals
3.8 turnovers!

Defending Eddy Curry is a huge job Jon, and apparently someone has to do it. That someone is you. I don’t envy you the task, and given how much work it will be, I would definitely urge you not to waste your time condescending to me or anyone else.

wow, Vince Carter just tied the Nets game at the buzzer with a slam over his head on an air ball from deep.

There’s really no need to respond to people in such a condescending way. Like the majority of people who comment on this site, I’m well aware of the Knicks transactions as well as all the transactions from around the league.

Maybe I explained it poorly or you misundertood it, but the point of my post was that while Morris is a nice prospect and adds another talented player to the mix, he has some of the same strengths and weaknesses as Curry and Frye. This is not the first time Isiah has added a redundant piece. Basically Isiah has stock pilled high usage low efficiency guards who can?t run an offense, don?t play defense, and can?t get the ball to the high efficiency bigs who don?t defend and can?t seem to either pass or hold on to the ball when they do get it. This is clearly not how you build a team. Hopefully Morris can at least break the trend by providing a defensive presence inside.

I think that adding Francis last year is a decent comparison, not in terms of the deals that brought them here, but in terms of their additions to the Knicks? roster. Francis? a talented player but brings nothing to the roster that isn’t already there between Steph, Nate, Jamal, and Q. Adding Balkman is not really comparable as he brings a skill set that no one else on the team has.

On the whole, I?m high on the signing because, more than anything, I?d like to see the Knicks address their defense and this might be a step in that direction.

Also, given Isiah’s draft record it would be nice if, as you suggest, this is a player Isiah Thomas is actually high on and didn’t just bring in because he’s available.

the only thing we lose is this secondary salary exemption, which you can only use once every two years. we still have the full mid-cap exemption every year, though, although given the recent track record with that, it might be nice if the league forbid us to use it.