Rookie, get out there!

lol @ that sounds about right.

His career stats are gonna be 30-12-9 in my opinion.

Interesting, my post got deleted for some reason. Oh well. The main point is that you misunderstood my main point. My issue here is with the selective use of hyperbole. Knight used the clips he analyzed as evidence to reach a conclusion that Curry is an all time great college passer.

Though there are many examples of passers, I’ll use Jonny Flynn as an example.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8sIuf2-dZg

Check at 2:07, Flynn is just a freshman here, but could Curry as a junior really make that pass? Based off the evidence Knight provided, I don’t really know, actually. But I am assuming no. That is an impressive pass that if Knight analyzed with a few others:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37pw9QoJ-Ws
(at 1:41, 2:58, 3:33)

and then concluded Flynn was one of the all time great passers, I’d be skeptical still, but I would at least see a better case than the unimpressive one made for Curry. My point with the pass I can make is that, on my level, with the lower caliber level of athletes around me, as a point guard those are average, expected passes. Curry, as a better athlete and basketball player, should be expected to make those passes too. They are not easy for a college point guard, but they are not so hard that if you complete them you are an all time great. Come on, that first pass, he is praising Curry for keeping his eyes up. Are you kidding me? He’s an all time great college passer because he keeps his eyes up when he plays basketball I am just guessing, but I am pretty sure the majority of college point guards keep their head up when dribbling. And the one where he is standing on his feet, there is no one in front of his target. All he has to do is throw it in front of him with enough arc that it won’t bounce away from him. Hell, his target is slowing down to let the ball catch up with him.

I agree with you that some of those were set plays, because if Curry is already in the alley oop throwing motion and the guy hasn’t made his cut yet and doesn’t cut or cuts a bit late, that’s a turnover. Since Curry began his motion, the responsibilty was on the cutter to run the play.

The second to last pass, so he knows when to use a bounce pass and when to use a chest pass (at least in this instance). That separates him from the pack? It is a pass that I would have expected someone like Chris Paul to make while he was playing in Wake Forest, but I haven’t heard anything about him being an all time great college passer.

The last pass was beautiful, I’ll take nothing away from him. Still, that doesn’t mean there is no one else who has ever played college basketball capable of making that pass.

I would never argue I could make that pass in Curry’s context (except that bounce pass one, I would never get into position to make that bounce pass, but if you placed me in that position, that’s really just an easy pass), but I would argue that there were and are many college passers who could make those passes. Using Brandon Jennings is a nice way to jump to the conclusion that amazing passes don’t work in the better leagues but, for one thing, the league Jennings played in was better than NCAA competition, for another, there is no guarantee Curry is making those passes in the European leagues, and finally, there are players who have gone through college and been successful passers even if they made flashy passes. I mean, I know Knight is getting caught up in the present as people often do, but “there has never been a better passer?” So, Magic Johnson wasn’t better?

I think Knight sees Curry as not a flashy, more fundamental player. I think he likes those types of players, maybe from his coaching days, because they are very coachable. I think that he likes those players more than flashier players, and in his haste to defend Curry as a solid basketball player who did not need to be flashy to be effective, he overcompensated and decided to call Curry one of the best passers in college basketball history.