How quickly things change in professional sports. Check out this post from Where's Luke's own ChuckJerry about the Knicks - dated four years ago, and how it's ancient history already. I don't think anybody he refers to is even on the team anymore!
Among the gems in his post about Mr. Curry:
"I do have hope for the Knicks to improve this year and also the next. The reason: Eddy Curry is unstoppable."
"There have been two bright spots for the Knicks this year in an otherwise mediocre to ppor season. First is that David Lee is incredible.... The second bright spot for the Knicks this year is Eddy Curry. To say that he's turned the corner this season would be a huge understatement."
"It might be an overstatement, but I think [Curry]'s the most underrated offensive player in the league. He throws down alley oop passes better than anyone this side of Dwight Howard and is better than anyone I can ever recall with his back to the basket."
... and...
"Quentin Richardson... does everything at an above average level without really being a star."
"Renaldo Balkman is pure energy and no focus at this point. He might be a David Lee Lite type of guy eventually."
Note: this is not to pick on ChuckJerry at all - again, this just illustrates how quickly things change in sports. I've said / written identical things in the past as well. Case in point: my Quad Who point from this past off-season, discussing why the Knicks are god-awful, when infact they have proven to be decent.
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LOL. But for real, I actually thought Mr. Sandman was looking ok as well for that year. He did average like 20 points a game. What a total waste of talent!
You removed some of the context here. The rest of the post talks about how he is pure offense and zero rebounding and zero defense.
And that year he basically was unstoppable on offense. It's been a while since he's even played at all, so it's hard to remember.
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