Dereon Seabron’s evolving versatility is a boon to NC State’s offense

You may or may not have noticed, but Dereon Seabron is pretty good at basketball. The sophomore guard came into the season largely a one-dimensional player, but his ability to get to the rim and finish was so absurd that it almost didn’t matter. You could sell out to stop it and he would still hang twenty on you.

The potential a guy like that has if he starts to diversify his game is off the charts, and at some point, Kevin Keatts recognized that he had to bet on Seabron doing just that because none of his other guards could put any fear in a defense by attacking the basket. When you run an offensive scheme that’s built entirely around dribble penetration and you have one guy on the team who…