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[QUOTE="SaltineW, post: 5752934, member: 11014"]
The last SU player in the mold of Dual was Quadir Copeland (7' Wingspan). Prior to Copeland, it was Kadary Richmond. Copeland matured into a 7.54 BPR player this year under Will Wade @ NC State. While Copeland was a far better offensive player, Dual was the superior defensive player. Though Dual's 6.2 BPR is a step below that of Copeland's, I think SU is getting a defensively disruptive PG in Dual.

How good was Dual (2.63 OBPR) offensively, as a junior, last season? Markedly better than Donnie Freeman (2.03 OBPR), folks - but, worse than Naithan George (3.38 OBPR) and markedly worse than Nate Kingz (3.79 OBPR). Dual isn't a shooter, like Kingz and George are, his offensive game is getting into the lane and either distributing or using his long arms to get to the rim. Dual is also a PG that a coach can leave in down the stretch, because he's not a free throw shooting liability as he shot 76.4% from the charity stripe last season.

Dual can and will shoot a few 3's, so I'm not suggesting other teams will sag off him and give him open looks, as he's a good enough shooter that teams do need to guard him (he shot 31.6% ly from deep). I think with continued development and GMAC doing the coaching, Dual could continue to get better - in similar fashion as both Copeland and Richmond did as they became upper classmen.
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