Remember all that talk from Isiah Thomas about Eddy Curry finding ways other than offense to have an impact in games? Never mind.
And with Curry admitting Friday night after his first scoreless game in almost four years that he's mentally shot, he no longer can exploit the one talent he does have: Now he can't score.
With his players searching for someone to lead them out of a nightmarish start to the season, Thomas walked into the United Center - Curry's former home - and served his center a plate of cold, stale humble pie with curiously timed comments about how Curry might never be more than a one-dimensional player.
Then, with Curry struggling with early foul trouble and unable to shake an epic case of the yips around the basket, the Knicks lost their fifth straight and seventh in nine games, falling to the Bulls, 101-96. At 6-16, they are tied with Memphis and Miami for the second-worst record in the NBA, better than only Minnesota (3-18). (...)
