CUrry had a great game. He had a few missed defensive assignments and was not as quick to help as he should have been, but he was definitely a positive factor in the game. The team defense is better than it was at the beginning of the season. IT just needs to keep working on getting the players to play competent team defense. This team looks much better than it did 15 games ago. If it improves over the next 10-15 games, we should be playing .500 ball at least and have a decent shot at the 8th playoff spot.

Just curious for all the pick and roll compaints. did the Raps out score us 56-22 in the paint or did we outscore the Raps 56-22 in the paint?

Posted by simrud:

who gives a **** we lost

We lost but you see the progress with this team especially from the center position. We're still trying to find our identity a month into the season.

Despite the loss, it was the 1st time we witness production especially in the 4th quarter from the center position.

Sorry I sold our Knicks short. We won the points in the paint battle 58-22 not 56-22. :)

Posted by nyk4ever:

Posted by PresIke:



Yeah, good thing Eddy reads this forum, otherwise he'd never have had 6 straight 20 pt games and a dominate game like yesterday...

Thats what I get for giving some props to "Half Offense/zero defense" Curry.

Eddy had a big block in crunch time yesterday...

Posted by SugarRayRichardson:

Posted by holfresh:

Posted by nyk4ever:

Posted by PresIke:



Yeah, good thing Eddy reads this forum, otherwise he'd never have had 6 straight 20 pt games and a dominate game like yesterday...

Thats what I get for giving some props to "Half Offense/zero defense" Curry.

Eddy had a big block in crunch time yesterday...

On Bosh I might add after he beat Lee

Stop speaking reality. Its not appreciated! :)

Hey that's nice. Upped his block count for the season to 7. Almost bursting into that 0.4 blocks per game range. HUGE. That's reality.

More reality: If he would have done the average blocking at the end of the game, he would have gotten 2 more rebounds and the Knicks could have actually beat a 1-7 road team. That's more reality.

Posted by Vmart:

Posted by mythfaze:

Very happy with Curry's 27 points and his 12 rebounds tonight - especially the rebounds because there weren't too many that just bounced to him. He was out there fighting for the majority of the ones he pulled down.

However, I still thought Curry was pretty bad tonight. He doesn't play any defense whatsoever. On the man he's supposed to be covering or in the lane. I didn't watch him contest, alter or block a single shot. (Well, he did, but to a ridiculous small amount of them.) It's not his post, it's whoever decides to drive on that possession's post. The Raptors drove in at will and were just fouled every time. For all the points he scores, he more than makes up for them with his terrible defense.

He's crazy slow, often looks confused and makes stupid mistakes. I happened to notice Q and Francis yelling at him on separate occasions.

Wish he would get himself into shape and learn how to play some defense.

[Edited by - mythfaze on 12-03-2006 01:42 AM]

I don't think Shaq could ahve played defense against the raptors with their outside shooting centers. Thats clearly a mismatch because the raptor centers are more like sfs.

1. Curry is no Shaq. Shaq has career averages of 12 boards and 2.5 blocks. I'm sure he would have held his own.
2. Mismatches for this game, fine. This isn't exactly the first game Curry has provided lackluster defense.

Posted by mythfaze:
Curry is no Shaq.

he's definitely not... & he never will be, so we shouldn't be holding our breathe on him ever to become Shaq... that way you'll begin to appreciate what Eddy CAN do to help this team win games... he's an offensive weapon in the low post that opens up the offense for other players... if he can improve his passing out of the post, he can be an Allstar calibre player... his defensive skills & shotblocking will never be instinctual the way it is w/other dominant C's of the past like Russell, Olajuwan, Ewing, Shaq, etc... those guys are HOFers... all these lofty expectations you guys seem to have for Curry to live up to is preventing you from seeing what he does do well, & that's scoring in the low post... he's an improved player from last season, & if he continues to progress, he'll be a nice piece to have for the longterm vision for this franchise... even after 3 more years of development on his game, he'll still be a young 26 years of age... why everyone is so down on him is beyond me when the guy's only 23 years old & still learning the game.