Schweers, who made 415 3-pointers at Christopher Newport whereas taking pictures 46.1 % from deep, has thought of Curry her favourite participant since he was rising as a mid-major school star down the street at Davidson. At 5-foot-7, Schweers mentioned she may relate to Curry since they had been each comparatively undersized. And so they each may shoot.
“He simply brings a lot pleasure,” mentioned Schweers, who has spent the previous 10 years taking part in abroad, most lately in Portugal.
In 2004, forward of his senior 12 months of highschool, John Grotberg went on a recruiting go to to Davidson. However after he sustained a knee harm, Grotberg opted to go the Division III route and enrolled at Grinnell School in Iowa. It turned out for the most effective: Grotberg wound up making extra 3-pointers than any males’s participant in N.C.A.A. historical past, and the backcourt at Davidson would have been crowded.
“Steph was a 12 months behind me,” Grotberg mentioned.
Grotberg, 34, went on to play in Europe earlier than he studied drugs at Yale, and is now a doctor in St. Louis. Now greater than ever, Grotberg mentioned, he appreciates his tangential connection to Curry, citing the 3-point report that he nonetheless owns, he mentioned, solely as a result of Curry left Davidson a 12 months early for the N.B.A.
Grotberg continues to marvel, together with numerous different basketball followers, at how Curry has remodeled the sport by stretching the court docket past comprehension. For a shooter, it’s the stuff of goals.
“You get into this repetition the place your physique is aware of what to do,” Grotberg mentioned, “and all you’ll want to do is use the house to do it.”
Curry has spent the previous 13 seasons carving out that house. Now, on a stage of his personal creation, he’s there alone.