Posted by PresIke:
DJ, it may look to us like that's it, but in my book there is really no such thing as "lazy." Lazy what it appears to be but really "laziness" is usually something else. I'm sure this statement won't be popular but it's my point of view.
It does seem that he is slow to react to things, but isn't that odd since a lot of the hoopla about Curry is that he is supposed to be so athletic for his size? It's probably a case of motivation, if I had to guess, and personality. Some people are just not as driven as others to be "achievers." Is that Eddy?
The evidence is looking more like that may be the case, although maturity and discipline can come slower for some more more than others, so if it is an issue of motivation what can one do to change that (other than post the obligatory donught or hamburger to bang another cliched point across)?
Can we live with him as improving with these concerns just slightly or not? I cannot say that I am not concerned, because I am and hoped for more than what we are seeing now. Everyone said that "This is the year Eddy proves himself" yet after a hot start in the first couple of games he has fallen right back into his inconsistent habits. Maybe it's a confidence thing...who knows...but right now his play is not what most fans had to have hoped for.
let's say you're kid that's big. and you play basketball b/c you're big. but inherently, you're just a nice, funny big kid that like to have fun. not particularly motivated tho. so you play bball and you find that you're big enough and good enough to get drafted and become a millionaire. so now, at the age of 18, you're now getting paid more than anything else you could probably do just to play a game. so you continue to just play without any real incentive to get better. hey, i'm getting more money that i ever thought i could imagine so who cares? now, it's your contract year. and your agent starts telling you, hey man, you can get a big time deal here if you just get in shape for a year and show you care. i'm sure his family was telling him this also. so he loses a ton of weight (amid ephedra rumors) and plays hard for one season before his heart ailment comes to light. so at this point, chicago decides to only give him a portion of what he's really looking for until isiah shows up with dolan's checkbook. so now, you get a $60 mil deal for basically just playing bball the same way you've always done without putting in all the hard work to get better. basically coasting to the big contract. now you're 23 with guaranteed money. you feel like you maybe let isiah down so you suck it up and try to do him right...but ultimately, that's not your ineherent nature. you're inherent nature is to coast. and you got more money than you can ever hope for so what is the true incentive to change other than personal drive...of which you really don't have any?
that's where eddy is right now.
so how does one change that? it is of my personal experience that a change this dramatic can only occur after a life changing event. a death, a birth, or something of similar magnitude. until then, eddy has known nothing else than to just pretty much coast. he has his money already so there's no motivation there. so until something big happens to "change" him, i think we're going to see eddy behave in the same manner as he's done for his entire career and probably his entire life to date.
11/19/2006 12:22 AM
