He's just not the type of player I'm looking for. I'm sure he'll have a respectable career, but we just dont need an undersized 2 guard right now.

Way too big of a question mark. If I felt more secure with out 08 pick, perhaps I would be more willing to take a shot with Curry.

if we're at 8 and we take him i'm cool with it.

i think if he plays the point, then he'll be fine.

if i were him those are the things i'd work on showing, because if he's really 6'1" you gotta play pg.

Posted by nyk4ever:

Curry is the same height and heavier than Monta Ellis but no one says Ellis cant hold up to the rigors of the NBA. Maybe Ellis can't hold up to mopeds, but he certainly has been fine otherwise.

Ellis is also a freak athlete bro... Curry's lack of height is gonna be a huge stumbling block for him at the NBA level... he's not built solidly like a Ben Gordon to take contact driving to the hole, & he doesn't have the elite athleticism that someone like Ellis or Nate has... so what is he? a better passing version of Juan Dixon?

If Curry ends up a Knick, he's going to start at PG. I can't think of many teams that will play him at SG.

Posted by PresIke:

I agree with #2 Pencil...

TMS, man, you realize he was playing PG this year for Davidson and was one of the NCAA leaders in assists on a team full of crap players?

i'm not saying he's my #1 choice, but i think he's gonna be a point in the nba, and has shown to many that he has some potential in this area, even if he has played shooting guard before.

assists per game averages for guys with shot of being lotto picks who played point:

Johnny Fynn - 6.7
Ty Lawson - 6.5
Eric Maynor - 6.2
Steph Curry - 5.7
Drue Holiday - 3.7
Jeff Teague - 3.5

[Edited by - PresIke on 04-23-2009 7:28 PM]

i realize he put up stats in college but let's face it, he's known for his shooting... that's what he projects as at the pro level, a spot up shooter IMHO... i don't see him being no Tony Parker cuz he doesn't have nearly the quickness or ball handle that Parker has to play that style of game... i am projecting him to be a better version of Juan Dixon w/some passing ability, but he won't be a star in the NBA... just MHO... i ain't no expert so take it for what u will.

I'd say Jeff Teague might be the next Juan Dixon, a combo guard who is almost there but not quite. It's too bad Davidson didn't play Wake this year. I think Curry would have held Teague to, oh, 10 points and dropped 30 on him. (Which doesn't say much about either of their NBA careers but, well, it would have been amusing.)

Posted by EnySpree:

If you guys watch Davidson play...Curry is looking to pass. He has his head up and eyes lurking...but his team is terrible. I dunno what either of Dell Curry's kids were thinking by going to small schools...both of them are good players.

Well back to the point guard play of Curry. He is actually a pass first guard. That sounds funny but its true. Him taking all those shots in college is by design cuz the rest of the team is like jared jeffies just at different heights.

Thanks for bringing me some laughter this morning. LOL, good one.

He might do quite well in this system but his lack of D has me up in arms. I would probably rather have Flynn, Jennings or any of the others at 8 (but who knows)...

D'Antoni doesn't give a flying poo about defense. He will take the most offensively dynamic player.

Posted by PresIke:

Posted by crzymdups:

D'Antoni doesn't give a flying poo about defense. He will take the most offensively dynamic player.

you know this is just not true, right?

Yea. It should read: D'Antoni doesn't give a flying poo poo about defense.

Just a footnote to this thread but everyone keeps saying "Curry will have a long NBA career because his dad had a long career." I think that's wrong. Stephen's style is very different from Dell's--it's more like, oh, Parker or Childs. Dell had a long career because he played sparingly and his style was fairly, um, calm. Stephen's going to be much more injury prone, IMO. In addition to his ankle injury--which he came back from quickly--this year, he played most of last year and part of this year with an iffy wrist ligament injury. Maybe he can have a Reggie Miller career if he plays SG on the right team but I doubt it. A few years in the NBA will slow him down and he's not that quick right now. Just something to keep in mind.

...long island's own mckillop takes off for greener pastures...

Nope. McKillop's going to retire at Davidson. He just signed a sweet contract and, hey, it's not that hard to win 20 games every other year in the Southern Conference. Will Davidson ever make it to the top 20 again? Nah.

That said, McKillop's a great coach, a JvG of mid-major college ball, IMO. But he's working with a very different set of variables than most coaches. In short, he focuses his program around having very smart but marginal players for four years, knowing that a very disciplined set of role players playing a near perfect game will beat a certain number of much more talented teams. IIRC, this year's team had three walks ons. Davidson attracts half the talent of, say, South Alabama or even, oh, your random Ivy league school. (This year's class includes the only recent recruit I can think of who was coveted by other teams, Jake Cohen, a top 50 center out of PA.) Most of their players were the second option on okay HS teams and a lot of their foreign players, say, Andrew Lovedale, barely played HS ball. McKillop assumes that, over four years, he can turn smart, highly motivated kids, into cogs into a working basketball machine. McKillop, like JvG, is a film and scouting freak. If you watched Davidson this year you saw them do seemingly weird stuff, like juggle their line up on every other possession and put barely used bench players in the game to run unique plays, etc. They were one of the best prepared college teams all year. And they did less of that this year than in previous years, just because they could lean on Curry.