Quote Originally Posted by Will Stewart View Post
The world's full of itty-bitty shooters. You know by now that Seth Greenberg prizes toughness and defense ahead of being able to jack up three-pointers. High-level toughness and defense are more rare than itty-bitty shooters, who are a dime a dozen at the high school level.

Seth Greenberg runs a program that prizes toughness and defense, and his offense is a dribble-drive offense, not a screening offense that frees up shooters to jack up three pointers. Not only was Stephen little more than an itty-bitty shooter coming out of high school, he was the exact OPPOSITE of what Seth prizes and usually recruits to his system. In retrospect, I can't believe Seth offered him a scholarship at all, because Stephen was way out of Seth's comfort zone.

I don't think Stephen would have excelled here, anyway, because Seth Greenberg doesn't run the type of program in which three-point shooters excel. He probably wouldn't have gotten off the bench, because he was probably a huge defensive liability at the ACC level. The instant he didn't rotate over on D, or the instant a 6-5 guard drove straight to the rim on him, boom ... back to the bench he would have gone.

The Davidson situation was perfect for Stephen. And Duke is doing a lot more with Seth Curry, I think, than VT would have done. Just my take.
This is a very interesting take on the entire situation (and a good one), and also raises a much larger question about recruiting under CSG.........

Just out of curioisity Will (or anyone else), was Nigel Munson a hard nosed defender out of high school? He was a 6' 0" 160 lb. point guard in high school, and from what I recall, he was no amazing defender at VT. Curry was a little taller than Munson, but a little less developed (from what I recall).