Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Where Overrated, Overpaid and Damaged Bulls Go to Die
Subject to a battery of medical tests, we're now going to be led in the post by Eddy Curry. We've roughly given up: (i) Sweetney; (ii) the Tim Thomas contract; (iii) our 1st round pick next year; (iv) the Bulls can swap 1st round slots with us in 2007. That leaves us with the Spurs' 1st round pick next year ... no doubt very far from the lottery and functionally equivalent to a 2nd round pick.
I am not going to budge on this issue. We've made yet another mistake and we're going to pay for it for some time to come. Isiah can talk of the tandem of Curry and James all he wants, I am not biting. All this means is that we are spending lavishly on a backup center (James) and hoping wildly that everyone else was wrong about the health/desire of our starting center (Curry).
It is very likely that this move makes Knicks better this year. As said below, Curry is better developed than Sweetney. But I believe that Curry is not the #5 you can build a team around. Maybe the best evidence is his closeness to Jamal Crawford.
It seems like the Knicks are where overrated, overpaid and damaged Bulls go to die . . .
I am not going to budge on this issue. We've made yet another mistake and we're going to pay for it for some time to come. Isiah can talk of the tandem of Curry and James all he wants, I am not biting. All this means is that we are spending lavishly on a backup center (James) and hoping wildly that everyone else was wrong about the health/desire of our starting center (Curry).
It is very likely that this move makes Knicks better this year. As said below, Curry is better developed than Sweetney. But I believe that Curry is not the #5 you can build a team around. Maybe the best evidence is his closeness to Jamal Crawford.
It seems like the Knicks are where overrated, overpaid and damaged Bulls go to die . . .
