Monday, November 21, 2005

Quick Tidbits, Knicks Edition

Two quick observations this morning:

-Eddy Curry is as bad as I thought he was. All this "second best center in the Eastern Conference" stuff must've been spoken through the funhouse mirror-distorted prism of a crackpipe. He's fat, he's slow, he's lazy, he can't rebound, he won't defend, he misses open layups and easy shots in the paint and he doesn't play through minor cuts and scrapes. In short, he typifies everything the Chicago Bulls were from the fall of 1998 to the winter of 2005. He absolutely stinks and I'm ashamed that he's on the Knicks. The least the Knicks could do is take away Oakley's #34 (it really should've been retired by now) jersey and re-assign him to something else. He's doing very little to earn his keep here.

-Channing Frye is better than people gave him credit for. Sure it's only 10 games into a career but he's shown an ability to score that has surprised me. Over the last three games that he's been given significant playing time, he's racked up some nice numbers. His averages:

29 MPG/ 55.5% FG/ 86.6% FT/ 21 PPG/ 5.6 RPG

I know there's a whole world of basketball statistics out there that rival Sabermetrics that I don't know or understand that could probably shed more light than these more mundane and common numbers but I'm encouraged that Frye could do this well in FG%. Larry Brown will be forced to keep him in the rotation as long as he's scoring and running the court well.

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