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Unfortunately, Curry has hands of stone.

Position has everything to do with it — 95% of guards are finished at age 32 because they can’t play defense against a guy on the perimeter, and because they can’t get past the quicker 25-year-old guarding them. Loss of a step for a guard means it’s over except in the rare case of extreme talent like MJ, Stockton, or the Glove.

On the other hand, dozens of guys like Malone, Dikembe, Kareem, etc. play until age 40 because a) they don’t have to chase people through screens on the perimeter and b) because a big man with good hands and post-up skills is always in demand. Losing a step doesn’t mean 1/10th as much to a guy like Curry as it means to a guy like Stephon. :)

Let’s face it — if Shaq could actually shoot and not just dunk, he would still be effective at age 45. Hell, AD still has a freakin’ NBA contract — ’nuff said.

I’m not even sure what this sentence means (unless its a confusing attempt at humor and James is bad enough to be mentioned 3x).

Regardless, lets PLEASE stop comparing individual players to players in the past…i.e. Crawford to Vinnie Johnson.

The problem is less about individual production and more about “chemistry,” in this case finding a group of 5+ players who can consistently play at a high level TOGETHER. So what if Marbury or Frye has a high PER right now. If we’re losing at a regular rate, they are not doing their jobs. While I’m all for the use of statistical analysis, I believe it is only useful in VERY select situations in basketball. This, as most of you already know, is due to the fact that basketball is a continuous flowing game, and small events regularly change the course of the game that will never show up in stats.

I don’t want to hear about Curry’s rebounding rate, because in the games I WATCH, he is a lazy, soft big man on defense who couldn’t give a shit about rebounds unless they fall into his lap. On offense, he catches the ball, and shoots quickly. He does make his fair number of tough shots, which is a discernable skill, but that may be the only one he has. PER and other stats don’t account for players too slow to switch on D, too hesitant to hedge on pick and rolls, players knowing correct spacing on the floor, etc. So before we can compare our current players to random individual players of the current/past, lets taste an inkling of success first.

First of all, what does position have to do with hitting one’s peak around 27? Doesn’t that happen for all positions?

Secondly, Vinnie “The Microwave” Johnson was a great sixth man who sparked the offense off the bench. Crawford is no Microwave, nor will he ever be one.

They were built around Tim Duncan/the Brothers Wallace. They also kept their cores intact for years. Isiah has completely revamped the Knicks’ core – if you want to follow the path of the Pistons and the Spurs, the core players should all be keepers by now, so Larry Brown could impose his system on them. They’re not.

Also, is Eddy Curry really so much better than Mike Sweetney (who averages a point less and a rebound more) and a pick that could conceivably be Gay, Morrison or Aldridge? The Hawks are a half-game back, and the Raptors are a game back. No lottery team is going to trade away a 1st-round pick for any player on this current roster but Frye, so Larry is going to have to figure out how to mold this team into something he’ll still want to coach next year, without the benefit of any long-term draft help. It’s all downhill from here, baby.