Posted by rvhoss:
I'm happy with that Curry. If he was all we had, I'd be freaking out and starting a similar thread a day extolling what I hate about him.
But with Crawford, Frye, Lee, Nate, JJ2 and others there to pick up the slack, I'm not concerned with a 23 year old center ONLY averaging 15/5 (or last year's 16/6).
Have you guys been reading Bip and Fish' postings?
it's not about individual stats, it's about team success.
So I say...who cares. I'll take the same player in a new offense.
I think you'll find that Bip and Fish are very fair towards the players and the coach's. And if you pay attention you will hear players get credit when they do well and get blasted when they do something stupid. But when fans over-react to every negative post like it's the end of the world they simply dismiss every thing else. I think if we just read and responded to the topic at hand instead of trying to determine who's positive and who's negative we'd be more productive and find out that most of us are on the same page, we just write differently.
Okay now that my pontificating is over. I personally don't think Curry's core weaknesses will ever change. He will be a very tough offensive player as time goes by. Possibly even dominant. He will improve in rebounding but will never be great. His passing will always be poor. His defense will at best be mediocre. That's fine. That's not what hurts us. What hurts us is that we have built a team that kind of relies on him to play good defense, rebound and move the ball out of the double team in order to keep our motion offense flowing. This is where we need our GM/coach to recognize the strengths and weaknesses of our stars and find players that compliment and lessen those weaknesses. Frye is a great compliment offensively. But that means we need a SF that rebounds and plays D. We need perimeter players that can shut down penetration so we don't need to worry as much about shot blocking. We need another person in the frontcourt rotation that will protect Curry physically. Remember Oakley protecting Ewing. We need that compliment. Our GM hasn't done that yet. He has instead assembled a fantasy basketball team in which noone really compliments each other. This is why our 50 win talent has us all hoping that they will be good enough for an 8th seed instead of guaranteed for the second round. Curry needs to improve but the structure and the way we run things are our major problems. Change the culture and you will see guys like Curry shine. I've been saying this for 5 years now, starting to think it's falling on deaf ears.
10/16/2006 7:58 AM
