McNamara isn't as good a player.What are you his mother?

 

last i checked curry was never a pre-season wooden or naismith award candidate........you dont think GMac could average 25 playing the 2 guard at davidson?? get real, GMac is the career leader for 3 pt buckets in big east games....if curry played point he wouldnt average 25 a game....and as we saw today, his PG skills are shaky at best.... curry's had a solid tournament and people like you who never heard of him before are now all over his jock....... gmac carried his team to a big east title 2 years in a row.......you cant argue that curry is more clutch considering he didnt even take the last shot today.....it dont matter cause neither player will have an NBA career.....

 

Lots of good comparisons so far, Langdon, Stoudamire and Dixon all fit. I am going to throw out another one in the form of Shawn Respert. I doubt he will be a top ten pick like the ex sparten but he reminds me of him.

 

Curry will be no better than the 2nd or 3rd guy off the bench in the NBA. He can shoot (although there are better shooters), can score (although others are better at creating their own scoring), and he has good bloodlines (although he is no bgger than 6'2" 170ish). He lacks the passing ability to play PG, the handle to create his own offense, and the size to be a combo guard. I seen someone mentioned Daniel Gibson in this thread as a possible comparison. That isn't as valid as you would like it to be. Gibson handles the ball much better than Curry does and played PG at times during his tenure at Texas. Based on what I saw of Currry when he played Point today (against a damn good college defense) he looked uncomfortable handlng the ball and creating for others. He had a few tunrovers which could have been avoided with better PG skills. His defense isn't terrible but it isn't great and he would get abused night in and night out on the NBA level. His size is his downfall. If he was 6'6" 190ish he would be a Rip Hamilton type clone. But he isn't and that is the difference between him being an NBA starter, or a benchwarmer.

 

If Curry doesn't work on his handle, this'll be the last time the nation hears about him.

Thats the difference between a Troy Bell and Earl Boykins career IMO.

It's just like Redick. He's a great shooter, but once he got away from a system that catered to getting him looks, he got exposed.

Curry's facing the same fate. It was almost embarassing watching him with the ball today. Robinson and Rush pretty much gave him a preview of what to expect in the NBA and he couldn't do anything. He had two airballs off of halfhearted moves, and that was about the just of him creating his offense, aside from that behind the back.

He's also going to have to learn how to play some point. He didn't create anything for anyone today.

If I were him I'd come back next year and try and run as much point as possible.

 

You could have quoted my post and just typed "I agree 110%" :biggrin:

 

That's only true in most circumstance.Curry can play the point if he's beside a playmaker like Lebron James.He can play the two if like Montae Ellis he plays for a team where the point guard is big enough to guard the opposing two guard.Curry could guard point guards well enough,but he's not going to be able to play the point if he's paired with combo guard or a forward who can create.

It's not as black and white as some people are making it.He could play for the Cavaliers today.

 

Who hasn't said that Curry is a bench player? With his bloodlines, this guy will make the NBA. NBA is a fraternity, how else can you explain Coby Karl in the league?

 

A genie?

I remember Karl playing against my high school team and that kid fit in with the talent level on the court. My team did not have anyone over 6'1'' and went something like 2-20 my (and Coby's) senior year. No one except Karl got anything more than interest from an in-state D3 team. I despise Coby Karl.

From his wikipedia he put up a stunning 8 points and 2 rebounds his junior year. Not on a talented team; no one on that team sniffed D1. With that kind of talent, I'm amazed UNC wasn't clamoring for him to sign!

 

So you guys have somehow judged his ball handling skills are suspect because of the way the Kansas game ended? Come on now, anyone could see that the guy was tired. They ran him into the ground, dude has logged heavy minutes all tournament. His ball handling has been fine up unto this point. The guy is a legit first round NBA talent.The question should be, what teams are willing to take a look at Jason Richards?

 

Sophomore sensation Curry returning to Davidson

 

Expectations and the situation he will be put in is the key for him, I think we all agree that he isn't going to be a star. His handles (right now) aren't good enough to run the point, but he also won't be asked to be a point guard in the league. He will be used as a spot-up shooter to spread the floor who can also create for himself in some matchups.

 

a bunch of haters here. the guy had the whole defense geared to stop him, he still dropped 25 points on them and you're cryin about his handle and a few air balls. Curry was a pg in high school btw, his handle is fine, so is his defense and so is his quickness. there was no need for him to play any pg minutes at all with a richards on that team, and there is no need for curry to be a pg in the NBA either.

 

being a pg in high school doesn't mean that you can be a pg in college or the nba. it just means that you were a pg in high school.

 

being a sg in college doesnt mean you cant pass either.

 

no one is saying it does. you, however, are saying that he can play pg in the nba because he did it in high school.

 

HB this is the NBA Draft Forum, this is not the College Forum. Curry is a phenom in college and we all appreciate his game and what he can do. There are busts that happen every year in the LOTTERY. Curry is not going to go in the lottery, so there is a much higher chance that he doesn't produce at all in the League. You have to nitpick when you're scouting for the next level, if you don't nitpick you end up morgaging your future on Joe Forte. Great college player no doubt, but the kid didn't have NBA skill. Ditto for whichever team didn't nitpick William Avery's game. If you want us to glow about the positives of Curry's game, then go to the College Forum. If you want to know exactly why the second best player in the 2008 NCAA Tournament might not even be a first round pick in the NBA, then come here.

His ball handling is not fine. He only handled the ball in limited minutes because Richards was out on the floor all the time. When he handled it he did not look comfortable or natural with the ball. He looks natural coming off screens and getting the slightest separation at the free throw line and knocking down a mid-range shot with his lightning quick release. That's how Davidson used him, and that's why he didn't turn the ball over. Look at him with a critical eye and you'll see the same thing when he is asked to handle the ball.

Of course this is all moot because Curry is coming back next year to be Davidson's starting point guard. If he shows that he can handle the ball and run an offense, his stock will rise. He has a better chance of hitting the first round by doing this than by declaring now and trying to prove it in workouts.

 

I think his ball handling is just fine. He utilizes the stutter step quite nicely, even with Chalmers hawkish defense he rarely coughed the ball up. You guys make it sound like this guy can't even dribble the ball. If you want to complain about anything, it should be the fact that he doesn't pick up assists. His ball handling is not the problem. How you are going to ignore the fact that he only had 5 turnovers all tournament is beyond me? Teams were out to stop him. Tell me a moment in the tournament when he was seeing one or two defenders trying to pry the ball for him.

 

The point guard project is off to a good start, with 29pts, 10ast, and 9stl. Was only against the mighty Guilford Quakers, though; we'll see if the playmaking continues.

 

Definitely a good start. Hopefuly he continues his play.

 

33/9 so far in his second game. Can't wait to see them play some good teams.

 

I think its a given that he can score, maybe he could play his way into the lottery

 

Averaging 9.5 assists per game is a good way to start.

 

His assist numbers are eye-pooping for a guy who everyone thought wouldn't work as a PG. Obviously he needs to prove that against top competition, and tomorrow against Oklahoma will be his first chance to do that if Oklahoma holds on tonight.

 

Its crazy how much his brother plays like him.

 

lol, Seth's gonna get the get the playmaking question out of the way a lot quicker than Stephen did - 6ast/0to in his college debut.

 

jason richards did an excellent job as a playmaker last year so they didn't need curry

but anytime he was put it that position he did a good job and i saw him make some very nice passes

i think he'll make the transition to PG fine
or at least combo guard as opposed to just really small SG
anyway i don't see how he isn't a lottery pick
and if he continues to shoot and score like he did and runs the PG as well as he has. I wouldnt put being a top 5 pick past him.

Don't forget his D also, while he isn't a shut down guy he has great timing for steals that turn the momentum of the game (in a ginobili sort of way)

 

Yup, shoots just like his brother too. In defender's grills and all.

 

See guys like Curry, Morrow and Korver prove that if you can at least handle a little bit, you can make the NBA as an elite shooter. The problem with Redick is that he is a horrific ballhandler and needs to run off screens to get his shot. He's not good enough to design an offense around.

 

You guys hear this latest with this kid. He's been tearing up the ncaa so far this year, so Loyola decided to double him, EVERY SINGLE PLAY OF THE GAME. Davidson won by 30, Curry went 0-3 with 0 points. THe opposistion coach kept doubling even after the game was out of reach, just to keep curry from scoring. he sounded all proud of that strategy after the game too. what a loser. Its amazing the kind of effect this guy has.

 

"We had to play against an NBA player tonight," Patsos explained. "Anybody else ever hold him scoreless? I'm a history major. They're going to remember that we held him scoreless or we lost by 30?"

Some will remember the catcalls Patsos received from the fans when he stuck with the defense well after the game was decided. Davidson coach Bob McKillop was so annoyed he kept Curry in the game until the final minute.

"It seemed to me they were willing to risk the game at the expense of locking Steph up," McKillop said. "When you put two people on somebody and you do it for 30 minutes and at the end of the game, you have to wonder what the reasons for that are."

Curry, the darling of last season's NCAA tournament, had scored a career-high 44 points in a loss at Oklahoma this month. He followed that up with games of 30 and 39 points.

"If Oklahoma can't stop him, how is Loyola College going to stop him?" Patsos asked.

It might be a good strategy to a certain degree, judging from the comments it sure sounds like the only goal was to keep him scoreless at all costs.

 

Very embarrassing for the former Maryland assistant.