Steph Curry came to Co. Limerick this month, and one of our most committed young players was there to meet him.
Adare does not often share a postcode with the NBA. This month it did, briefly, when Steph Curry turned up in the Co. Limerick village. Standing nearby was Sam Taylor, one of our young players, and a long-time admirer of the man in front of him.
For Sam, Curry is the idol. The shooter he has watched on countless clips, the name that comes up when young players talk about who they want to be like.
Ask anyone at the Limerick Lions about Sam and the same word comes back: he works. One of the hardest-working young players in the club, the boy who is in early and out late, the one who treats every session as if it matters. So there is something fitting about who he got to meet. Curry built his game on repetition, on putting up shot after shot until the hard things looked easy. That is a lesson Sam already seems to understand.
He has the memory now, and the rest of us have the story. Next time Sam launches one from deep at training, you can be fairly sure who he is thinking of.
He has the memory now, and the rest of us have the story.
Limerick Lions