How good would young Steph Curry be in Beilein's system?
I know barely anyone recruited Steph Curry in high school, but it's just a fun thought experiment.
Would he be Beilein's ideal point guard? Seems like Beilein's diamond under the rough type for sure.
He averaged 25.3 pts, 4.5 reb and 3.7 asts shooting .467% from the field and .412% from 3 at Davidson.
I'm guessing his ppg would go down but assists would go up. Idk about shooting % b/c that is still ridiculously high.
Correction: really good.
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Better question would be Beilein coaching Klay Thompson.
I am pretty sure Beilein liked him as a prospect, but he went to Washington State.
Did he actually offer him?
An old ESPN Profile list Michigan as one of the schools, but then again, I don't know if that was an interest list or a list of offers.
I just remember seeing his name mentioned on UMHOOPS site before.
This is the best I can find from 2008 or 2009:
"Michigan swung for the fences with a couple of big time prospects – most notably Klay Thompson... but came up empty.
I am assuming that means we offered him, but I can't say I know for sure.
Also a site member named JBlair52 made this post 3 years ago about Beilein.
"He was also on Justin Watts before NC, Iman Shumpert before GaTech, and he was all over Klay Thompson before he blew up."
Klay Thompson plays for the Golden State Warriors and Iman Shumpert plays for the Cavaliers.
According to his Scout profile, he was offered and visited in September 2007. He would commit to WSU later that month, but remember that was back when Tony Bennett was WSU's coach, pre-Ken Bone.
Steph would be GOD
Pretty good, I don't know.
I can't tell if this is part of the show or they just really caught that on a broadcast. I'd believe either one.
They really caught that on the broadcast. Ohh, the Knicks.
I remember desperately wanting the Pacers to draft Curry, but his stock took off days before the draft, he went to GS at 7 and we got this:
1. He isn't very good and washed out for the Pacers after his first contract.
2. Jrue Holiday, Ty Lawson, and Jeff Teague all went after him in the draft, and all 3 would have made the trade for George Hill unnecessary resulting in:
PG Lawson/Holiday/Teague
SG Paul George
SF Kawhi Leonard
PF David West
C Roy Hibbert
*sobs*
as in Steph Curry of .... yesterday?
Steph Curry would be great no matter who coached him or what system he played in.
Probably be the same player he is today along with being drafted around the same place he was.
Kids don't get up this early.
Here's the Michigan-Davidson recap:
Curry had 32 (on 25 shots) but Michigan won by 10 after leading by as many as 17. Dion Harris had 23 while Courtney Sims had 21.
Just look at how good Stauskas got in just is sophomore year. Curry would have been just as good if not better. Granted, he's a lot better shooter now than he was in college.
He was still a pretty badass shooter in college....
I'm not discounting how good a shooter he was in college. He's stepped it up to another level in the NBA.
He might not have left WVU with Curry on his roster.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=263150130
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- Dion Harris scored 23 points and Courtney Sims added 21 to lead Michigan past Davidson 78-68 on Saturday in the John Thompson Challenge. Michigan (2-0) took its biggest led by as many as 17 points in the second half. But the Wildcats (1-1) used a 12-0 run to cut the lead to 58-53.
Stephen Curry had 32 points and nine rebounds for Davidson. The Wolverines made 64 percent of their shots in the first half to take a 41-31 halftime lead and make up for cold shooting in Friday night's season-opening win against Central Connecticut State. The scoring was needed to offset Curry's shooting. The 6-foot-1 freshman went 6-for-13 to score 17 first-half points and was 4-for-9 in 3-pointers.
sigh...