[ThePundit]

Isiah Thomas had a "playtime's over" discussion with Curry during the Knicks' 113-102 exhibition win over the 76ers Tuesday night, saying he wants the 6-11 center to become more assertive and lose his passive mentality.

"He's got to get to the point where he's not depending on the official to stop that guy from holding him and putting his hands on him. He's depending on himself to say, 'Next time you put your hands on me, I'm going to put my hands on you.' Then it stops."

"It's got to get to the point where, 'Don't even think about slapping me,' " Thomas said.

I think that type of mentality is inborn. Curry's just a nice soft guy and will not change so Isiah is talking on deaf ears.

[EmpireWF]

Eddy Curry will never be a tough, nasty center. It's something you either are or you aren't, it's not a learned quality.

Curry has the unimaginable quality of being a 7 footer who can dissapear in the paint and be ineffective. For the Knicks to do anything noteworthy this year, Curry has got to be a force.

In practice, Thomas has been working with Curry and Marbury and trying to build some chemistry between the two. Thomas was talking about some moves Chamberlain use to pull on him and showing Curry some.

[legend]

Chamberlain retired in 1973, Thomas came into the league in1982. he must have meant Jabbar.
Thomas is just now figuring out that Curry is soft? Maybe he should have asked the 19,000 a game that come watch the stiff play if he wasn't sure.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Anybody ever watch Larry Smith play?...Mr. Mean...I remember someone once saying of Larry, "One day he will go up for a rebound and come down with someone elses head."

I got to agree...its something you are born with.

BTW, anyone see Francis get 39 points the other day?...Is he gonna fit into the team? IS there a team?...or a lose collection of players?...