Posted by BRIGGS:


Im with ya, Im on the Curry bandwagon here--ill do it right now lee sweetney and thomas--im willing to take a risk and shake it up--i agree with you, i know that stress echo's used with injected dye and MRI imaging show the left ventricle wall and blood flow at maximum heart beat--we can say dna till the cows come home, but if he is testing at a normal blood flow at maximum output and his walls are moving normally, its going to be a normal stress test --in fact I see plausible scenarios where if he goes through a year with no problems and does some retesting--im sure insurance can become available again.
we dont need 40 min a night from curry--we need a hard 26

Posted by nixluva:

Rasheed is a 15/7/1.20 PF and lots of people were killing themselves to get him. Its not a stretch to imagine Curry being better than that. This is what IT is seeing and we should trust him on this.

Posted by teslawlo:

There are going to be lots of concerns with curry's contract. I think curry's representatives need to be pushed a little. They need to be forced to sign a contract worth $70 million ONLY WITH INCENTIVES activated. If curry does poorly or has problems, he should not be paid whatever 10+ million a year that he wants. It's not fair to the bulls or knicks that curry is hovering with this sudden power over nba franchises. I don't believe many teams would sign him to a 70+ million deal guaranteed money right now.

Posted by martin:

Posted by nixluva:

Rasheed is a 15/7/1.20 PF and lots of people were killing themselves to get him. Its not a stretch to imagine Curry being better than that. This is what IT is seeing and we should trust him on this.

Let's not go too overboard. Sheed, for all his faults, is a VERY good player. Three point range. Post up. Face the basket. GREAT help defender. Blocks shots. Blocks out. Communicates well on the court. Plays hurt. Stays in shape. Head case.

Curry hasn't shown too much of the above.

man.... GREAT points top to bottom. Add to the fact that the first time Curry ever came into camp in shape was a contract year.

Posted by fishmike:

Posted by martin:

Posted by nixluva:

Rasheed is a 15/7/1.20 PF and lots of people were killing themselves to get him. Its not a stretch to imagine Curry being better than that. This is what IT is seeing and we should trust him on this.

Let's not go too overboard. Sheed, for all his faults, is a VERY good player. Three point range. Post up. Face the basket. GREAT help defender. Blocks shots. Blocks out. Communicates well on the court. Plays hurt. Stays in shape. Head case.

Curry hasn't shown too much of the above.

man.... GREAT points top to bottom. Add to the fact that the first time Curry ever came into camp in shape was a contract year.

At age 22, Rasheed averaged 15.1, 6.8, and 0.95 in 31 mpg. At the same age, Curry avereaged 16.1, 5.4, 0.92 in 29 mpg. Maybe Rasheed played better defense; I don't remember him from back then but everything else looks equal.



[Edited by - Bonn1997 on 10-02-2005 9:52 PM]

Posted by Masterplan:

i missed out on a lot of the curry discussion over the weekend. but i really do want to throw in my 2 cents here.

i want nothing to do with curry, even if he does have a clean bill of health, something we won't find out before we have to make the deal (last i heard, today- Monday). i can't stand his one-dimensional game and his attitude, these are not things that i see changing with us at all. no one else wants him, not even chicago. same thing with JJ, why do we put so much stock and faith in players when no one else in the entire NBA fan base does?

the team we currently have, IMO, was ready to compete. not for a championship, but for a spot in the playoffs with a shot at giving someone a run for their money in the first round. modest goals, but reason to hope. we will have plenty of internal improvement if we stand pat: sweetney, ariza, frye, nate, lee, hopefully guys like crawford and JJ stepping up under quality coaching. lateral or simple moves could do wonders for us. since 1999, we've had teams that have underperformed our expectations. i finally thought that we had a team that would make the playoffs, give someone a good fight, and have plenty of room to get better automatically. what we give up if we trade for curry is not just young, cheap, talent with good upside and some spare trading chips. our team becomes the eddy curry experiment. the eddy curry experiment was a failure in chicago. if he was so integral to their playoff run, why is he getting run out of town? no one wants him there. if we lowball him and get him for 3 years, that's bad enough. for three years our fate depends on his performance. six years is setting ourselves up for disaster. it's like relying on allan houston's knee, or herb or lenny's coaching, or crawford to play 40 minutes a night as your SG but not chuck bad shots. it will not work out well, saying we'll contend IF curry gets his **** together and works hard and improves his game and is healthy and in good shape and plays D and works on the boards. our team will be in the same purgatory it's been in since scott layden, a mediocre lottery team not bad enough to score big in the draft. i have had enough of that crap. we are so close to a solid team, a core we could bank on for years with a few reasonable additions, and we're going to throw it away to chase an overhyped, walking question mark with a bad ticker. it has disaster written all over it. IMO.

i'm not interested in a big debate on this. the overwhelming consensus seems to be curry will save our collective ass. respond if you like, but i don't plan to respond; i stand by everything i said, and more i don't have the energy to put. just think about what i have to say.

P.S. curry is no rasheed wallace. intangibles, folks. things that don't show up in stats. sheed's a mixed bag, but has been great for detroit. curry is a pile of bad ones.