Originally Posted by
g-money
Wow, that's a big score for NC St. I'm not looking forward to watching Purvis run circles around our guards next year.
I agree that is a great recruit for State. Why would Purvis run circles around Duke's guards next year? I don't know that he is quicker than Cook, Curry, Thornton or Sulaimon and I would expect they might run more circles around him. I do think they might have trouble containing his strength on drives and will make games with State more competitive, but I am not at all worried about him running circles around Duke's quick guards. He is big and strong enough that he may be matched up against Dawkins or Gbinijie, in which case he may have a quickness advantage, but I am hoping both those guys will be very solid defensive players in 2012.
Congrats to State and Gottfried and Purvis.
Last edited by NSDukeFan; 09-30-2011 at 03:52 PM.
Reason: can't forget Rasheed and Purvis should be congratulated as well.
“Those two kids, they’re champions,” Krzyzewski said of his senior leaders. “They’re trying to teach the other kids how to become that, and it’s a long road to become that.”