Stephen Curry Goes Scoreless in 32 Minutes

[GoMuskies]

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=283302166

Damn, only three shots. Loyola must have have three guys guarding him all the time (and no one guarding anyone else!).

[Stonebreaker]

How is that even possible?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/starbuddysteph/spencer1.gif

[wkrq59]

I had the pleasure of covering Steve's dad when he played at Virginia Tech back in the early 70s. Believe me, as the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined.
I think Steve is a little taller than his dad, but the gene pool was rich in talent and passed on.:D

[dc_x]

DAVIDSON, N.C. -- By the third possession, Davidson's Stephen Curry had figured it out. Loyola (Md.) was double-teaming him. Everywhere, on each possession, no matter what the scenario.

So Curry decided to test the triangle-and-2 defense taken to the ultimate extreme. He went into the corner and two defenders followed him, setting up a 4-on-3 for his teammates.

Curry decided to keep standing there, and his teammates kept scoring -- for 40 minutes -- in a 78-48 head-scratching win for the Wildcats (No. 25 on ESPN/USA Today, No. 24 AP) that will be remembered for some time.

The nation's leading scorer was held without a point and took only three shots. But the game was never in doubt because Davidson played the entire game on a virtual power play.

All this was courtesy of a bizarre coaching move by Loyola's Jimmy Patsos.

"We had to play against an NBA player tonight," Patsos explained. "Anybody else ever hold him scoreless? I'm a history major. They're going to remember that we held him scoreless or we lost by 30?"

Some will remember the catcalls Patsos received from the fans when he stuck with the defense well after the game was decided. Davidson coach Bob McKillop was so annoyed he kept Curry in the game until the final minute.

"It seemed to me they were willing to risk the game at the expense of locking Steph up," McKillop said. "When you put two people on somebody and you do it for 30 minutes and at the end of the game, you have to wonder what the reasons for that are."

Curry, the darling of last season's NCAA tournament, had scored a career-high 44 points in a loss at Oklahoma this month. He followed that up with games of 30 and 39 points.

"If Oklahoma can't stop him, how is Loyola College going to stop him?" Patsos asked.

Trouble is, Davidson (5-1) has other options, and they often scored at will even if Curry didn't reach double figures for only the second time of his career.

Andrew Lovedale provided the muscle inside with 20 points and 10 rebounds, Bryant Barr hit six wide-open 3-pointers and scored 18 points. Will Archambault hit three more 3s and scored 13.

And Curry, coming in averaging 35 points a game, joked that he had the best seat in the house.

"Every dead ball I asked them how long they were going to do this," Curry said he asked his shadowing defenders. "They really didn't say anything. They weren't very conversational about it."

"I don't think irritate is the word. Just confused," Curry said. "When they're down by that much and still allowing us to get open shots. It kind of surprised me."

It turned out pretty good for his teammates.

"Their coach obviously wanted guys other than Steph to beat him," Barr said. "If you're playing 4-on-3 against us, somebody is going to hurt you."

Loyola's coach is bizarre.

[SpeX]

What a goofball. You think he would of at least backed it off at some point.

[drudy23]

Dumb...so much for trying to win games.

What's worse is that he tried to make himself out to be some hero afterwards too.

[Raoul Duke]

That's kind of a Dayton-esque, moral victory.

[STL_XUfan]

I wanted espn to have highlights of this game. I just have this picture in my head of Curry going to the bench and his two defenders following him to his chair.

[Juice]

I wanted espn to have highlights of this game. I just have this picture in my head of Curry going to the bench and his two defenders following him to his chair.

In high school, also with a different sport, we had a kid mark one guy the entire game and we would follow him to the bench and get water from the other team. It was pretty damn funny.

[DC Muskie]

I worked at Loyola the year Jimmy was hired...he is a great guy, but almost completely bonkers.

Seriously, this is just about promoting the program. He's been designing this thing the moment this game was on the schedule and Curry came back.

People are now talking about Loyola. In a weird way of course, but at least they are talking about it. And that's better then yesterday.

[PMI]

I guess any publicity is good publicity. I'd like to think this coach is onto something. I mean, I doubt they really expected to win this game regardless. That said, I will have to see Loyola build a program to believe it.