Carson Durr

[MSU999]

I will eat crow on Durr. Sounds like he had a great game against Wyoming........

[grizzh8r]

I will eat crow on Durr. Sounds like he had a great game against Wyoming........

And a career high 19 tonight. If he can do this on a semi-consistent basis, I like this team even more.

[bozbobcat]

Carson Durr did everything and more tonight. I think he's capable of doing this again and his points are going to be necessary for the Cats to win. He had an awesome game tonight and I couldn't be happier with that, personally.

[MSU999]

I will eat crow on Durr. Sounds like he had a great game against Wyoming........

And a career high 19 tonight. If he can do this on a semi-consistent basis, I like this team even more.

Wow.....did he. He was awesome.....something has got him going. Might have won if he and Dissly were in the game in overtime. The kids played hard in OT without them...........especially Taylor.....if Durr keeps it up, we might be better than people think in conference! Go Carson!

[mslacat]

I have always thought that the only thing that was holding Durr back was his confidence on the floor during games. I think with a few of really nice games behind him and the coaches definately showing faith in him he has primed himself for a very nice conference season.

[MSU999]

I have always thought that the only thing that was holding Durr back was his confidence on the floor during games. I think with a few of really nice games behind him and the coaches definately showing faith in him he has primed himself for a very nice conference season.

Real nice article on Carson in today's Chronicle.........probably sums it up best!

[jhagemeister]

I have always thought that the only thing that was holding Durr back was his confidence on the floor during games. I think with a few of really nice games behind him and the coaches definately showing faith in him he has primed himself for a very nice conference season.

Real nice article on Carson in today's Chronicle.........probably sums it up best!

Can you copy and paste it so the BN can see it?

[SACCAT]

Durr looked grest against Fresno last weekend, I think he will be Key to us the rest of the year. If we can get him and Dissly playing that way all year we could be a tough team in the big sky. The only player that makes me cringe at times is Taylor. He plays great one half and nothing the next. With Durr, dissly and Durham, we will be hard to guard. Also I love the new look on Offence. I think Huse has realy stressed screens and movement with this team. Through the years the cats have been known to shoot the three first...look for the cutter second. Now we look for the cutter first and take better three's when they are there.

[urcrackinmeup]

MONTANA STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL

Durr finds consistency, new role with Bobcats


By JEFF WELSCH Chronicle Sports Editor

Old man that he is, it’s no wonder Carson Durr has been such a streaky shooter for the Montana State men’s basketball team.
For three years, as a role player, he’d sit mostly on the bench, his creaky 20-year-old joints gathering rust. By the time he’d taken enough shots to loosen muscles and elicit images of the point-a-minute gunslinger at tiny Roberts High School, he was back on the bench.
Streaky, they called the 6-foot-6 wing with the tousled brown hair and scruffy chin hair.
“Half the time, I wasn’t even warmed up,” Durr laments now, adding with a laugh: “Me, I’ve got an old body, and I’ve got to get warmed up.”
So fast forward to Durr’s senior year. He has moved into a new role, as a wise old starter for a rebuilding program under first-year coach Brad Huse.
Streaky has thus been replaced by consistent.
At first, he consistently struggled even with warm-up time, scoring a total of 13 points in the first seven games.
Now, Durr has consistently found the perimeter shooting touch for which he was recruited after leading Roberts to the state Class C title in 2003. He produced 16, eight and 19 points in the past three games against Wyoming, Boise State and Fresno State — three of MSU’s better opponents.
Turns out all a geriatric shooter needed was the time and green light to, well, shoot.
“It’s a different feeling for me, having a feel for the game,” said Durr, who is in the midst of finals week as the Bobcats (2-8) take a breather before a return engagement with Utah Valley State (5-4) at 7 p.m. Saturday.
“I didn’t do well, sometimes, being a role guy because when I was a freshman and sophomore I’d go in and shoot threes and it was hard to do because I didn’t have a feel for the game.
“When you get a feel for the game it’s 100 times different.”
Indeed, the 16 points in a 73-62 loss to Wyoming and then 19 in the 82-77 overtime loss this past Saturday to Fresno State easily were career highs. His previous best was 10 last year at Northern Colorado; perhaps not coincidentally, he played 30 minutes against the Bears — his career high until he played 33 before fouling out against FSU.
“It’s good to see Carson stepping up,” Huse said after the Wyoming game, aware of Durr’s penchant for streakiness.
Needless to say, Durr is eager to see if his newfound accuracy is a sign of double-digit games to come or a three-game aberration.
He’s confident the latter is the case because rhythm — so important to shooters — comes so much easier when being in the flow of a game makes you feel young again.
“It’s just consistently knowing you’re a part of it,” he said.
Of course, for a shooter there’s always the danger of overthinking, which in turn creates streakiness. But for all the perils of such old age, Durr also has a benefit: Increased wisdom.
He knows the key to avoiding shooting slumps, aside from keeping those creaky old bones moving, is to just go play.
“Basically,” he said, “I’m going to focus on working my butt off.”