Players like Stephen Curry and Russell Westbrook’s fast-paced scoring style has taken over. Gone are the slower paces of Kobe Bryant and Paul Pierce. Here are the speed and barrages of three-pointers we used to only see in endless rounds of NBA Jam.
And yet, the New York Knicks point guard is something of an anomaly. He played his college ball at North Carolina State, an ACC school then defined by tough defense instead of the conference’s signature run-and-gun offense. He averaged 18.1 points and 6.2 assists per game as a five-star recruit.