however, he’s only 24, and hopefully he’ll continue to improve. he’s arguably the best post scorer in the entire league over the last couple of months, including Duncan (who operates a little farther out usually). that’s a helluva improvement from his play last year and preceding years, he’s in much better shape than he’s ever been for one. only 1-2 guys in the league at any point have no deficiencies, even Duncan has been a lousy FT shooter for long stretches. Curry is a borderline All-Star right now, hopefully he’ll keep working on his deficiencies.

also, thankfully we have Lee in the starting lineup to help pick up some of the rebounding slack. wait, what’s that? Lee doesn’t start? ah, never mind… :)

do you know if he has a fan club? or a blog? or something….

First – Can anyone tell me where to get a free David Lee T-shirt?

Second – In response to Jon’s post about Curry’s improvement, I agree his offensive numbers are improving. He is scoring and shooting a great percentage from the field and the line. But his lack of assists, steals, blocks and rebounds is amazing, its almost historic. He had three rebounds last night against Miami. He has had 28 games so far this year without a block. His max was three in the first game of the year, and that was the only time. He recently went six straight games without a block, four games in which he played more than forty minutes. So far this year he has registered 31 assists, 18 steals, 24 blocks, and 143 turnovers. Thats almost twice as many turnovers as auxiliary stats. And he averages only seven rebounds per game, which is really low for his minutes and position. Those numbers are so bad it’s almost ludicrous. He has a bad motor and a bad spring, rarely does he ever jsut go up in the paint and dunk over people. He just doesn’t jump well enough and has short arms, if you couldnt tell from the blocks numbers.

I love the Knicks, I hope I turn out to be wrong, but look at a guy like Tim Duncan’s stats and you see how far Curry has to go. Duncan has 147 assists, 32 steals, 94 blocks, and 127 turnovers. while averaging 10.5 boards per game. Thats a huge disparity.

and GS didn’t just “throw in” Diogu, he’s the only guy with possible upside in that deal for Indiana, Dunleavy and Murphy are mediocrities (being generous) with huge albatross contracts. no way they take both of them without Diogu also, IMO, no matter how badly they wanted to get Jackson out of that locker room.

Balkman or Nate Robinson or both

For this guy Ike Digou as those two would really work well in Don Nelson’s run and gun style of play.

And Golden State had soured on him as they just threw him in to the deal.

TMART – this is not a board. It’s a blog.

illmatic – with our cap situation, guys that take the MLE are our big free agent signings. ;-)

Dan – “A solid defender can be the core of an elite team?s starting lineup for years – look at Doug Christie in Sacramento or Bruce Bowen with the Spurs.” One difference is that those guys were ALL NBA caliber defenders.