Posted by VDesai:

Posted by Bonn1997:

Posted by VDesai:

Posted by Bonn1997:

Posted by VDesai:

Zaza isn't better than Curry

Who cares? What's your point? Is your point merely that there actually IS a center in this league worse than Eddy? What do you get out of making that point--there must be some motivation behind the point?

Someone said/implied Zaza was better than Curry. I'm pointing out that he's not.

But why were you pointing it out? Why do you care if there is one center in the league worse than Curry?

Hmmm...I think I'm going to leave it as a mystery.

Posted by joel:

Guys, relax. That's why our smoother operator GM only gave up 2 draft picks and not 5. He realized he was a project.

Aha, I'm dead inside.

Posted by Klytus:

Who are the 53,084 idiots that voted for Jabba the hut?

Posted by nixluva:

This implosion this season doesn't prove to me that Curry can't be a useful part of a team that wins games. I think Isiah screwed the pooch on this guy and now he's back to the player he was in his 1st season here.

Curry could've been given more of an ultimatum to lose weight and to focus on the rest of his game. A better off season regimen and a dietician hired by the team. Isiah could've made sure to develop a real plan of attack that woud lead to a better meshing of Zach into the team. He could've signed or traded for aother perimeter shooter instead of coming back with the same exact group again. Guys like Kapono, Carroll and House were out there. We needed to do something. To insure the bigs had guys who could feed the post and hit a shot. We should've cut James and used his spot to add a solid Point Guard.

The thing is that as GM Isiah has to prepare for all situations, including guys not having good seasons. ie. Q. If Isiah had taken a different approach with the offense I believe Curry and Zach would've been more successful. He should've started the offense based on pick and roll. He should've used more curl plays and overall guard motion to force defenses to be occupied in stopping them. Instead of this vanilla strict post offense. The reason is that we don't have the perimeter shooting to make that work. You can't stretch a defense without shooting, but since we have very quick guards making teams chase those guys would work better. It keeps teams from being able to easily double your post players.

In a system like that Curry would be more effective. He can catch anything, so having him roll after setting picks and then receive the pass is another option for him. It also would mask his inability to pass. There are options for using the same players we have and Isiah hasn't found them. So I don't think it's right to lay all of this on Curry and make fun of him not being as good as he should be this year.

Posted by nixluva:

Yeah the guy has many flaws to his game that have been exposed with Zach here, however I think it wasn't unrealistic to expect 18/7/1blk/1.5 asts, if Isiah had been more active in Curry's offseason prep and if he had added the Guards we needed to make it all work a bit better. The whole Zach thing was strange too. He never got control of it. He should've seen the ball sharing problem in his mind before the trade and at the least in practice sessions. I'm sure Q wasn't hitting shots in practice either, so he shouldn't have gone this long without moving the guy out of the lineup. He should've anticipated the continued decline of Steph too. For this reason he needed to have insurance at the guad spot and this meant cutting James and perhaps even Malik or Morris. We needed more options.