I will be in the lone minority but I think its a shame whats happening to E-city. If off season conditioning was a big issue, why didn't the Knicks hire Eddy Curry a conditioning coach and diet coach to help him. Yeah its his responsibilty, but how many kids are really that responsible at his age?? E-city never went to college and developed a work ethic and now its hurting him. But E-city is from the ghetto where personal responsibility is sorely lacking and needs to be taught. The Jenifer Hudson tragedy should let you know the mentality of the people that E-city is surrounded by and not to mention the fact E-city will struggle with his weight for the rest of his life because of bad genes. A good organization would put these facts together and try to protect their INVESTMENT by trying to help the kid. Instead the same coach that wasted our first round draft pick on 6'10", not even 200 pounds soaking wet project from Europe benches E-city for not being in shape??? How about being a coach and whipping him into shape whether he likes it or not??? That makes D'antoni a hypocrite in my book and I guess the "Big Cock" will be his son since he drafted a "fellow Italian" and his buddies best friend. I will reserve more judgement until after I watch the game tonight, but NBA history says unless you have 2 guys named Micheal and Scotti in the backcourt, which we don't, you need some type of post player in the NBA. Zach Randolph is a swingman who doesn't pass out of double-teams and David Lee is a garbage man, neither of which can play with their back to the goal. If Mike D'antoni thinks he can win in the East chasing up and down the court throwing up three's all willy-nilly, he is about to have a rude awakening. Eastern conference teams like Detroit and Boston use their guards to control the tempo of the game and slow it down, run on the long boards that missing three's creates and then blow you out by 20.