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I’ve studied English sinse this Winter .
It’s very difficult for Me! Really hard!
I would like like to meet boys and practisice My English with them.

Thanks all!!

You’ve certainly listed several players, I’ll give you that. But you haven’t made a case for any of them, with the exception of your admiration for Morrison’s mustache.

Tyrus Thomas has been a nonfactor, at best, so far with a 3.10 PER. Morrison has a 7.93 PER. Marcus Williams has a 5.17 PER.

Only Roy and Gay, at 15.43 and 13.17 PER respectively, are over Curry’s current, admittedly disappointing, 11.00 PER.

If you would rather have those players because you think they have greater “potential” despite their presently dismal performance, well Curry leads the league in potential.

Since the Knicks already have lots of young wing players, I’d rather they had a potentially dominant big man like Curry than any of the players you named.

Here is the trend I see with Curry:
1) he wants to post up and score in the paint everytime he gets the rock; but
2) he can be a bull in the proverbial china shop, and certainly the refs are extra vigilant when he’s posting up to detect any hints of such bullish tendencies, and certainly his defenders are more than happy to act out the role of fine porcelain; so
3) Curry is limited to walking on eggshells in the paint, ultimately making for weak, tentative shot attempts that don’t do justice to his true scoring ability.

Curry’s defenders will not stop flopping anytime soon, and nor will the refs lay off him anytime soon, so he needs to mix it up. Specifically, he needs to develop that jumper so his moves aren’t so predictable, which will ultimately give his post-up game more latitude. Yao and JO wouldn’t be half the players they are on offense without their jumpers.

Tyrus Thomas
Adam Morrison (just for that sweet, sweet ‘stache…er, I mean jumper)
Brandon Roy
Rudy Gay
Marcus Williams (yes, I like Renaldo “the Humpty Dance” Balkman, but Williams is gonna be Mark Jackson mach II)

That enough Marc?

In addition to what Marc said…JO winning most improved player? That means you were pretty bad, then got pretty good. That doesn’t really impress me, and just shows that curry has never been bad enough to show such a measurable difference in improvement.

That said, it seems silly to have All Star Game appearances be the measure of a player’s success. Yao went to two all-star games largely because of Internet voting and his legendary status at home.

Jermaine O’Neal went to one (not two) all-star games before 24 in part because, at the time, there were so few quality centers in the east at the time. (The other east centers in the 2002 game were the ancient Mourning and Mutombo.) Though he did make the third-team All NBA that year (with by far the fewest votes of the 15 players selected All NBA), the only truly dominant center in the league then was Shaq. (The second team All NBA center was Dirk.)

Anyway, which player from the 2006 draft would you rather have than Curry?

I’ll say it again:

Curry turns 24 in December. By the time Jermaine O?Neal turned 24, he had won the NBA?s Most Improved Player award, had been in 2 All Star Games, and was voted to 2 All NBA teams.

By the time Yao Ming turned 24, he had been in 2 All Star Games, and made it to the All NBA team.

Ron Arest went to his first All Star game at age 24. He also been on the All Defensive team twice, and won Defensive Player of the Year.

So, until we can contend, which may or may not take a while, I’m intersted in watching a team that is going to go out and compete every night. That’s what we’ve been given this year. The knicks have been ‘IN’ every single game. They’ve had a chance to win ALL of them, which is much different than last year, where 3 minutes into the 3rd quarter, the game was over 70% of the time.

Knickerblogger, I don’t think your ‘standards’ are too high. Just your expectations. I base my expectation in reality. I see what dolan did to the knicks, and I realize it’s going to take some time to pull out of it.

The team was WAY over the salary cap when Isaih got here.

I believe the knicks would have made the playoffs last year, had brown not f&%#ed everything up.

They’ll make the playoffs this year, and not win a championship. (my standards aren’t low, I just don’t like to live in a fantasy world where you call in the UBER-GM who magically transforms your team overnigt into a contender).

We have a young solid core instead of and aging bunch of subpar players. The knicks starters were bench players on any other team. (anderson?!?!, eisly?!?!, harrington?!?!)

So, until the time comes, where the knicks can contend, I plan on being entertained. Sadly, knickerblogger, in the business world, the idea is not to win a championship, but to entertain the masses, to sell tickets if you will. I feel the current knicks are an entertaining product, and when they get some more cohesion from playing together, they’ll be more entertaining and win more. Remember, last year they didn’t ‘really’ get to play together.

And if not Isaih, then who?