Kansas Beats Davidson to Reach Final Four. Stephen Curry Picks Bad Time to Turn Human.
It was starting to look like Stephen Curry wasn’t actually human but more of a god, in a strictly basketball sense of course (he’s A god, not THE God).
Alas, Stephen is in fact fallible, as he proved in the second half of Davidson’s Elite 8 loss to Kansas.
The shots he was was canning all throughout the tournament suddenly weren’t falling. And it wasn’t like Kansas was really shutting him down either - he’s fired with people in his face all Big Dance long and they’ve still mostly gone in.
Curry sliced up Gonzaga, carved up Georgetown and then pureed Wisconsin. It looked in the first half like he was going to do the same to Kansas too, but from 18:30 of the second half until there were 55 seconds left, Curry made only a single two-point basket. He went 1-10 in that stretch including 0-7 from behind the arc.
Despite his disappointing effort in the second half, Curry still had the chance to put on Superman’s cape for Davidson.
It was 59-54 Kansas with under a minute left. Davidson needed a 3 badly and Curry delivered, cutting the score to 59-57.
And there it would remain until Davidson got the ball back again with 19 seconds. Curry took the in-bounds pass, and lingered in the back court letting the clock run. Maybe he took too long getting started. He wasn’t quite able to shake free from the defense, and ended up passing off to Jason Richards who was beyond NBA 3-point range. Richards fired a desperation shot that was wide left. Kansas went to the Final Four, while Davidson saw their epic streak end.
Seems sort of unjust that Curry should end up leaving such a negative impression after all his excellence. But, if you want to be a true tournament hero and not just a guy who got on a hot streak, you have to make those huge plays at the end. Christian Laettner did. So did Tyus Edney and Keith Smart and Lorenzo Charles. Stephen Curry didn’t. Now Davidson goes home.
It was a hell of a run though.
Tags: Christian Laettner, Davidson, Georgetown, Gonzaga, Jason Richards, Kansas, Keith Smart, Lorenzo Charles, Stephen Curry, Tyus Edney, Wisconsin
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March 31st, 2008 at 12:56 am
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