Draymond Green Almost Committed to UM
Interesting story from Draymond about how he almost committed to Michigan out of high school but was dissuaded by a lack of chemistry with the team when he practiced with them during his visit. His HS recruitment story starts around 17:00 and the part regarding Michigan starts around 22:00.
Also, Izzo continues to seem like an ass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1564&v=2vxvQY1GSTw&feature=emb_logo
Donkey sucks without Curry, Klay, and Durant. Average player at best.
Start at 18 minutes unless you need to hear “fuck” and “like” 500,000x
Draymond is an adobe average NBA player, no where near a star. But that’s pretty amazing, he wasn’t a very high recruit. He has made the absolute most of his ability. Would have been good to have him at uofm, although he would have been gone before the national title contender Beilein teams came. So in the end not super relevant in that sense. Also with the ego Draymond has, I’m surprised he let Izzo slow play him like that.
People keep repeating this false narrative that Green was some low-level recruit. He was 36th in ESPN's rankings, 122nd to Rivals, and a 4* to Scout. He wasn't an upper-echelon HS player but, by comparison, Caris was a much less regarded player coming out of HS.
Draymond is obviously a very good player and has been better than I expected out of HS. But he wasn't some who-dat recruit that Izzo plucked out of obscurity and turned into a superstar.
April 24th, 2020 at 10:45 PM ^
Bronxblue. To me 122 in rivals is a relatively low recruit. His recruiting profile in no way indicated NBA starter. I wasn’t saying he was a mid major recruit. I’m just saying he wasn’t a highly sought after star.
He can PDF like a motherfucker.
April 25th, 2020 at 12:14 AM ^
Holy shit this made me laugh so hard. thank you
I’m old...portable document format?
JB would have had Draymond in the lottery.
JB would have benched his ass for going around dong punching everyone
I almost got a hole in one weekend before last so .... yea. There ya go.
Club? Distance?
156 yrd 8 iron. don’t hit ‘em as far as I used to
stopped 6-8 inches from the cup
Humble brag supreme! That's a strong 8! Hope you're playing as much as you want in these times.
168 with an 8...beast in my book, 8 for me is about 120 /125 ?
Dude's a psychopath.
Just think if we wouldn’t have invited him to the open gym he could’ve been with us for a half a season before he transferred. Izzo was the perfect coach for him and he made the right decision. Coach B and him would’ve done as well as Coach B and the cavs.
This had nothing to do with an open gym. When Izzo offered, he committed. That was back when everybody in the state still wanted to play for Izzo.
I distinctly remember reading a quote that his mom said the Michigan visit was "the bomb". I remember that because that is something my mom would have said.
The Denzell Valentine recruitment was the same way. When Izzo offered, he committed.
Now they both act like none of that ever happened.
This is how I remember it going down as well. It seemed like he was coming to Michigan, then Izzo offered and it was over.
I also remember watching when he played in the state final game, thinking he had unusual court awareness/vision for a guy his size. He also looked like didn't spend much time in the weight room and spent most of his time off the court eating donuts. I think it took him a year before he saw much time at state.
What an ugly turn of events.
Yeah, that was back when Beilein kept unearthing gems and then big-name coaches would swoop in and steal a lot of them away.
And I’m glad he didn’t. Dude is plain unlikeable.
Thank God. Thank God. Amen.
My favorite draymond moment is a tie between him bricking a game-winning shot and losing to Michigan for the 3rd straight time and when Conor McGregor embarrassed him on social media.
The McGregor / Draymond social media encounter is one of the all-time roasts for me. Just phenomenal.
Is that something you can post?' Would be curious to read it.
I was curious as well and found the article below. It’s worth a read.
https://www.businessinsider.com/conor-mcgregor-draymond-green-instagram-meme-war-2017-7?op=1
Ty (twice....)
Meh, hardly worth a read but it’s pretty funny how he linked Draymond. Not a McGregor fan tho. Man sports are rife with douche bags
April 24th, 2020 at 11:31 PM ^
Let's all be honest. We would have LOVED Draymond as a Wolverine. Grit overload with him and Novak on the court together.
I wouldn't love him kicking people in the crotch.
As a player? Yeah dude was incredible. But we have less tolerance for clownish behavior than MSU does. Maybe being in a program that holds people accountable would have drilled some sense into him though
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I enjoyed the whole interview and thought Draymond came off as thoughtful, especially the stuff about comparisons between eras and the relative coaching styles of Mark Jackson and Steve Kerr and how they affected the Warriors' trajectory. I see where people hate the guy, but I genuinely respect the way that he approaches the game, and it's undeniable that he's a phenomenal defensive player.
At least he would have learned the earth is not flat.
I guess you haven't seen Scheme, even though the guy that got busted on the Scheme documentary on HBO was a michigan fan etc.. They funneled all of his dad's players to izzo whether it was via money or otherwise..
He wasn't shy about talking about it
Fuck Draymond. If he’d have gone to Michigan, I’d feel differently. But he didn’t, so fuck Draymond.
Bullet dodged
Draymond was looking for the type of chemistry that combines magnesium and fire.
April 24th, 2020 at 11:29 PM ^