“I’m definitely coming back,” Curry said when asked about his future plans. “I don’t think I’m ready.”
Talented and smart. A good combination. Now he just needs to work on that facial hair.
It appears that Curry may have to play for a new coach at Davidson next year, however. Bob McKillop has reportedly been approached by Rice, though there’s no word on whether he is seriously mulling the offer.
Davidson gave us a lot of thrills in this year’s tournament. Congrats to them on a terrific run. Hopefully Stephen Curry will have the sense to stay in school cause he’s not ready for the NBA by a long-shot.
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.
LeBron showed up to the Davidson-Wisconsin game Friday night as we all know, and was very impressed by Stephen’s play.
And then there’s this picture I just came across…Stephen at a party with some babes…and who’s that lurking in the background?
Apparently there have been some text messages too. Stephen’s starting to get worried. He doesn’t want to hurt LeBron’s feelings…but he wants LeBron to know that there can never be anything between them.
Like the rest of the world, I have come to love Stephen Curry, son of NBA Jam legend Dell Curry. This might be the best shot from the NCAA tournament thus far.
Wisconsin went into Friday night’s Sweet Sixteen match-up with Davidson having allowed the fewest points-per-game in the nation. But their vaunted defense would prove no match for the biggest star of this year’s tournament, Stephen Curry.
The Badgers put their defensive specialist Michael Flowers on Curry, but despite Flowers’ valiant efforts, Curry was always able to find that little crack of daylight…and that little crack is all this guy needs.
Curry scored 33, his second-highest total of the tournament so far (he went for 40 in the first-round against Gonzaga). Davidson has now knocked out a 7 seed in Gonzaga, a 2 in Georgetown and a 3 in Wisconsin.
The Georgetown Hoyas became the second #2 seed to be eliminated from the NCAA tournament. They lost 74-70 on Sunday to 10th seeded Davidson.
The upset was made all the more stunning by how it came about: Davidson fell behind by 17 early in the second half, but then Stephen Curry, the hero of the Wildcats’ first round win over Gonzaga, got it cranked up again. Curry scored 25 of his game-high 30 in the second half, including the go-ahead lay-up with 4:40 left in the game, and a subsequent three-pointer to stretch Davidson’s lead.
Georgetown coach John Thompson III was at a loss to explain Curry’s miraculous performance.
“For the most part he had guys all over him and the ball was going in,” Thompson said.
Davidson moves on to face 3rd seeded Wisconsin in the Sweet Sixteen.