Former Top PC Recruit Garwey Dual Signs with Seton Hall

Former Top PC Recruit Garwey Dual Signs with Seton Hall

Former top Providence College recruit Garwey Dual has signed with Big East rival Seton Hall.

Dual entered the transfer portal in late March.

In April, GoLocal's sports analyst Kevin Stacom wrote a detailed analysis of Dual, his tenure at PC, and his transfer.

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Stacom, the former PC great and an NBA champion with the Celtics spent more than 30 years as an NBA scout.

Read Stacom's analysis:

 

Garwey Dual and the Art of the Transfer

This brings up the topic of Garwey Dual.

Garwey is a talented 6’5”, 190lb freshman guard who has entered the transfer portal, and his situation is a good illustration of how dramatically the college basketball landscape has changed. In a perfect world, a player such as Dual would have the luxury of developing and refining his game - letting his software catch up with his size, length, and athletic ability. There is a rawness to his game that suggests time is going to be needed to develop his talents. That is not meant to be a negative - if your upside is limited, you can reach your peak earlier.

Dual would show flashes of creativity and the ability to make plays and was willing to apply his length and lateral quickness to be a very promising defender. Like a lot of young players, his shooting needs to improve, as evidenced by his percentages-33% from the field, 25% from the 3pt line, and 67% from the FT line. As mentioned, he needs time to refine and work on his game, and time in today's new reality is in short supply in terms of making decisions on both sides of the equation- for players and coaches. Especially now with a considerable amount of money at stake.

The player has to decide relatively fast. Is this my best pathway to get where I need to be?  And, the coaches likewise have to make decisions on the type of team, the style of play they want to implement, and how to fill out a roster accordingly. When Coach Ed Cooley left abruptly, new Coach Kim English was under a lot of pressure to pick up the pieces and secure what remained in the program, besides what to add by way of recruiting and by way of the transfer portal.

One piece of unfinished business was Dual, who originally was recruited by Cooley, then decommited when Cooley left. Coach English reengaged and was successful in getting Dual back in the fold, thereby lending some much-needed credibility to a program that was still shocked by Cooley’s departure. It was fairly certain that Bryce Hopkins and Devin Carter would stay as the foundation but the best thing Coach English and his staff were able to do was convince Jayden Pierre to stay at PC to hold down the point guard position.

The leap Pierre made this year in his development at the point guard spot for Providence, and given the fact that he has two more years of eligibility, might have entered into Dual’s calculation that his best opportunity for a place to shine would be somewhere else.

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