Best offers were Davidson, VCU and Winthrop. Even Dell Curry's alma mater VT would only let him walk on.
Watching this GS/NO game reminded me Stephen Curry had ZERO offers from major schools
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Don't deserve to win when you go brain dead. Kudos to Curry for feeding off the ignorant basketball the Pels played.
He didn't hit his full height until late in his HS career- a common theme amongst the overlooked superstars. He was like 5'11", 150 lbs going into his Sr year. Westbrook was similar, entering HS at something like 5'5", not hitting his full height until his Jr or Sr year.
There are 10-25 players in every recruiting class who have obvious NBA potential, another 50-75 with some NBA potential. That's out of around 1500 players who sign with D1 schools. There are always going to be studs, even superstars, who aren't in those top 100 players. The odds of finding one of those guys, out of the 1400 or so non-top 100 players, are slim to none. For every David Robinson, Tim Duncan, Steve Nash, Steph Curry, and so on, there's literally thousands who are barely good enough to contribute in D1 basketball.
This game is a prime example of why there is always going to be room on a team for pure shooters. Forget the high flyers, dunkers, spin doctors etc. Shooters win games.
Except when they don't.
UConn won 2 titles in the last 5 years with teams that were hardly stacked with shooters. UL in 2013 wasn't exactly a lights-out jumpshooting team, either.
There is no formula, there are no rules set in stone.
Living in the Bay Area now, I get to go to some games a year and Ive followed his career pretty close for a while and I don't think you'll find many players that puts in the amount of work that he does but its also the quality of the work. His attention to detail in his workouts borders that of a compulsive disorder. Its pretty amazing really.
Yea I probably watched them, Spurs,Hawks the most. Really enjoyed watching GS play this season.
Unreal. Not to mention the game should never have gone to OT ... A. Davis basically tackled Curry on the game "tying" three.
How in the world he didn't get a chance for a four-point play and the win in regulation escapes me.
How in the world he didn't get a chance for a four-point play and the win in regulation escapes me.
This game is a prime example of the importance of the other guys.
Curry was 10/29 tonight. Draymond Green played with high energy on defense (3 steals), had five assists from the forward spot and grabbed 17 rebounds. Shaun Livingston had 12 points in like 20 minutes without attempting a three.
Steph Curry is a shooter unlike any we've ever seen before, but if not for the pieces around him that hide his defense within a team concept and lots of interchangeable and talented pieces around him, the Warriors barely make the playoffs.
Reggie Miller never won a title. Ray Allen never won a title as the best player on a team. The only "pure shooter" to really win a ton of games is Bird. Jordan, Russell, Kareem, Duncan, Shaq, Kobe, Magic--those are all high flyers, dunkers, spin doctors, etc. not shooters.
Does every team need shooters? It helps. But every good team needs ALL the pieces. Shooters don't win games, it's just a highly fetishized trait among fans because they feel like it's something they can reasonably achieve and relate to.
That was offset by the beyond obvious travelling by the guy who passed to Curry, and then his moving screen.
If you go back to 1999, every NBA finals has included one of Kobe, Duncan, or D Wade.
Kobe obviously had help from guys like Shaq and Gasol. And he certainly has had shooters along the way.
Wade had Shaq, as well as LeBron and Bosh. Ray Allen, Mike Miller, Shane Battier were shooters that certainly helped.
Duncan has had Robinson, Parker, Ginobili, and more recently Leonard. They have certainly had shooters.
But the big players that keep showing up--not pure shooters.
The Lakers weren't successful only because of guys like Richmond, Glen Rice, Robert Horry. Those guys put Kobe and Shaq over the top.
Wade and Shaq, Wade and LeBron--clearly the shooters weren't the vital part of that equation.
Duncan is a bit more interesting. That last title really revolved around guys making shots. But they had some of the best defensive players in the league. Parker was still very difficult to stop. They probably don't get as far as they have without the insane shooting of Danny Green and the other guy they had a few years ago that left--his name escapes me. But, put all those guys on the court--take out Duncan, Parker, and Manu--and you aren't in the finals either.
Kobe obviously had help from guys like Shaq and Gasol. And he certainly has had shooters along the way.
Wade had Shaq, as well as LeBron and Bosh. Ray Allen, Mike Miller, Shane Battier were shooters that certainly helped.
Duncan has had Robinson, Parker, Ginobili, and more recently Leonard. They have certainly had shooters.
But the big players that keep showing up--not pure shooters.
The Lakers weren't successful only because of guys like Richmond, Glen Rice, Robert Horry. Those guys put Kobe and Shaq over the top.
Wade and Shaq, Wade and LeBron--clearly the shooters weren't the vital part of that equation.
Duncan is a bit more interesting. That last title really revolved around guys making shots. But they had some of the best defensive players in the league. Parker was still very difficult to stop. They probably don't get as far as they have without the insane shooting of Danny Green and the other guy they had a few years ago that left--his name escapes me. But, put all those guys on the court--take out Duncan, Parker, and Manu--and you aren't in the finals either.
