A question for Hubman and a few other folks who have brought up the Curry kids lately

[Wandering_Hokie]

Except he was 6-6 with a more solid frame

And a really good rebounder

[chuckd4vt]

And a really good rebounder

Good point. SG's O did/would allow both to get looks.

[Cvillehoops13]

Next question - Are we going to offer Ace Custis' son next year? He's a junior at Nandua (I think) and he seems like a pretty good player. He's attended VT camps so SG must know about him.

He's actually a senior and one of the kids in my example above

[Cvillehoops13]

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).

Munson was a tough defender in HS, and much quicker and stronger when he and Steph were the same age. I wasn't the biggest fan of Munson's but he was a tough and athletic kid.

[VPI63]

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.

I never took a position on this when it came up. I trusted the coach's judgement and so I never posted on it.

To some degree, he has lost some of that trust, so I have revisited the issue.

#1, Dell Curry probably lived for the day to see both his sons in a VT uniform. Whether Steph would have succeeded or not is not really the point.

Hell, we have walk-ons with less skill than what his "projection" was (is Racer more talented?) and, furthermore, we seem to find scollies for big guys from Holland that do no more than breath oxygen and take up space on the bench (ok, probably fodder at the practices).

The upset that I see (and now downside), is the Curry's financial support of the VT BB program.

That right there would be worth a scollie, IMHO. Now support mostly likely will go to Duke and Davidson.

Finally, I must say, some "experts" ought to take a course in genetics.

It probably can be audited right there in the AG department.

[TomTurkey]

I agry. Wanted to see it from another perspective and you made that happen. It always comes back to your point.

[SlimShadyVT]

^^^Bump^^^

[SlimShadyVT]

And someday tell the whole story....if you know the whole story. Which I doubt.

[Gator Hokie]

And someday tell the whole story....if you know the whole story. Which I doubt.

And you are tainted by your ties to the Curry family.

[Gator Hokie]

Hindsight and bloodlines,the only reasons folks give.

Bogus.