Posted by Bonn1997:

Posted by CrushAlot:

Hopefully he isn't popping diet pills with ephedrin and is doing it the right way.

Or if he is taking that stuff, hopefully he'll be able to play well and stay healthy long enough for us to trade him! I don't want anything bad happening to him health wise but he's an adult responsible for his own decisions.

Although Fish did comment on low intelligence. Hopefully he understands the risks of Ephedra.

I belong to the 'wait and see' group on this issue. He certainly has lots of motivation to do it, and what he needs to do can be done. But when he reports to camp looking like he should, I'll believe it.

There are certain things we can expect and not expect from Curry even if he gets in shape. One thing we can expect is for him to command double teams in the low post. But however good shape he's in, he'll never be a good passer, rebounder or defensive player. He may become less of a liability in those areas, but he just doesn't have what it takes to excel in them. But he can be incredible in the low post and if he achieves that, as he did in the 06-07 season, he'll be very tradeable.

Posted by Ira:

I belong to the 'wait and see' group on this issue. He certainly has lots of motivation to do it, and what he needs to do can be done. But when he reports to camp looking like he should, I'll believe it.

There are certain things we can expect and not expect from Curry even if he gets in shape. One thing we can expect is for him to command double teams in the low post. But however good shape he's in, he'll never be a good passer, rebounder or defensive player. He may become less of a liability in those areas, but he just doesn't have what it takes to excel in them. But he can be incredible in the low post and if he achieves that, as he did in the 06-07 season, he'll be very tradeable.

+1.......Thanks for saving me time. I was going to write almost the exact same thing.

This actually sounds like the best regimen he's undertaking in his career. The one year he really lost weight in Chicago, it was artificial, cuz he was using diet pills and it almost killed him. Then he kind of did a better job and was in OK shape and put up good numbers, but then he just fell off the wagon and got bigger and bigger.

This time it sounds like Walsh and MDA made sure he got with a REAL conditioning guy and they made sure he ate properly. If you cut Salt from your diet you'll lose a LOT of water weight. Then they probably had him cleanse his colon and you know that likely dropped quite a bit. After that you can realistically lose 3lbs a week and not put yourself at any health risk even a bit more under the right supervision. So it's not out of the question for him to have lost 30-40 lbs. 50 could just be exaggeration.

The thing is that I really don't have any problems with an in shape Curry. When he's in shape and motivated even Howard couldn't stop him, so why wouldn't we want to see that? To be honest we've never really seen an in shape Curry in New York. Maybe this will be the 1st time and maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised.

I think Oliver Miller will be more effective than Eddy Curry this year.

"You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig." - Obama

50 lbs in 2 months is a lot, even for a 300-400 lbs person, especially one with a heart condition. 1-2 lbs per week is safe weight loss which if he really started in May would put him at 15-20 lbs of weight loss. So the 50 number is a little scary, but since he is large it is possible.

I doubt he can sustain it, even if he gets through the season in shape - he has shown a history of not being able to stay in shape. The real troubling part is that even if he does show up to play, his value probably won't rebound much because of his history like one of the quotes mentioned. We will most likely have this guy on our roster until he expires which is a crime considering how little he has played in the past couple seasons.

Eddy's secret training location revealed




Seriously though--I hope this is true about Eddy. The one thing we know about Eddy is the man can score the basketball and when he was in fair shape was commanding double teams. I'm am sick of the Knicks scking--I want the gauntlet to be put down and I want to start winning basketball--I have in recent years wanted us to lose for regime change and better draft position[all in the best interests of our team] but no more--10 years--now I want to win. If Eddy comes in shape [although he may have done irreversible interior damage that we wont know about from the weight gain] and the stars align with him--why cant he average 16-18 points in 30 minutes a night and use Darko as his back up to change pace? At the very least--if he shows that he really can play again--his contract becomes an asset--it has little time remaining and if there is a team that needs a C and Eddy is doing 16-7-1 56%--that will be enticing.

[Edited by - BRIGGS on 07-11-2009 10:59 AM]

Posted by OasisBU:

50 lbs in 2 months is a lot, even for a 300-400 lbs person, especially one with a heart condition. 1-2 lbs per week is safe weight loss which if he really started in May would put him at 15-20 lbs of weight loss. So the 50 number is a little scary, but since he is large it is possible.

I doubt he can sustain it, even if he gets through the season in shape - he has shown a history of not being able to stay in shape. The real troubling part is that even if he does show up to play, his value probably won't rebound much because of his history like one of the quotes mentioned. We will most likely have this guy on our roster until he expires which is a crime considering how little he has played in the past couple seasons.

I lost 30 pounds in 60 days last year when I felt I was way overboard with drinking and quit cold turkey. Changed nothing else. Just stopped drinking.

Went from 190 to 160 in exactly 60 days. Given that it's not hard to fathom that a pro athlete under the watchful eye of trainers could lose 50 pounds off his 350+ pound fram in the same time frame.

I heard SNY ran a piece yesterday about Eddy losing 50 pounds, showed footage of him being slimmer, the problem was that Marbury and QBRick were in the footage I heard. LMFAO at that. Journalism at it's best I suppose.