UPDATE: IC talked to Danny Green following the game. He basically said the ankle was injured three weeks ago playing a pickup game and it tweaks now and again. And in all honesty, what do you expect? This is the year of the injury at UNC, it just took a while longer to get around to Green. Seriously, he still plans to push forward and by all accounts he played pretty well before he tweaked the ankle and was hobbled. Of course no Danny Green interview he gives now is complete without delving into breakdown between him and Roy Williams. Dude, let it go already. Do you really have to discuss it every time you talk to the media now?
According to WRAL’s Jay Jennings on site at the draft camp, Danny Green is “limping badly” while playing in the day’s first game. This echos what is being said on the Inside Carolina premium message board. Depending on the severity of the injury, Green might be done at Orlando and I imagine looking very hard at returning to Chapel Hill since there is no way he can showcase his skills if he is hurt. The left ankle injury was previous mentioned by Jonathan Givoy of Draft Express who observed Green working out near his home in New York.
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I had read that he was nursing that sore ankle but didn’t know how bad it was until now. If he is not able to play well in Orlando because of the ankle, then this gives him a legitimate “out” of this whole draft dream (at leaast for this year) and allows him to save face. That is, as long as he exits quietly.
“That is, as long as he exits quietly.”
Yeah, fat chance of that.
We can only hope.
This is an interesting read:
http://cbs.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/story/10844747/rss
C. Michael,
Good link. Some bit of truth to it as well, although I doubt that “most” Carolina fans, as Ty insinuates, are against him. Maybe those disgruntled fans would be more supportive if Ty (and others) had not disappeared almost completely in that Kansas game. And in that Georgetown game for that matter. We’ve been so close the past two years and I think that some can taste a national championship on the horizon and they wish Ty and Wayne and Danny could taste it too. Instead, each of them at some point, understandably, has talked about pontential money and millions, while we are all, understandably, thinking potential championships.
And the internet being what it is, how do you know everyone is a UNC fan who drops a message on your Facebook site.
Wow, it had never occurred to me to look at our players facebook sites. Very interesting to do that.
Danny did point out that he would have a better showing in the individual workouts because his ankle will be better.
I have to say, I think we’re making a bit of a mountain out of a molehill on the disconnect between him and Roy. I mean, he says in the IC article “I don’t know how it happpened, but … when he knew that I wanted to make a decision, he fully supported me and he’s trying his best to help me out and hopefully he continues to do that for me.”
That indicates to me that he has no beef with Roy, and is just flustered that Roy didn’t automatically assume that Danny wanted info along with Tyler, Ty and Wayne. Don’t get me wrong, he shouldn’t have assumed Roy would just gather info for him too, but I think it’s less of a deal than we’re making it. I’m still more annoyed that he won’t just keep quiet, practice and do what needs to be done like Ty and Wayne.
Also, I’m probably one of the few people out there that actually care about lacrosse, but did everyone see that UNC finally canned John Haus, who basically was the lacrosse version of John Bunting? It would be nice if we could get a decent coach in there and actually get back to competing in the ACC and beating those darned Blue Devils.
You might be right but he needs to just drop it as a point of discussion. It has zero bearing on what he is doing now. Talk about your draft possibilities not what happened a month ago.
State Fans Nation linked to the firing of Haus and the quote from Baddour that the goal at UNC is to win national titles. They have been on a crusade to show how bad an AD Lee Fowler is and pointing out the standards UNC uses for all it’s sports is a shining example of the difference between the athletic admin in CH vs Raleigh.
Let’s face it, most (not all) elite level players don’t really want to go to college in the first place. If there was a better or quicker means to get to the NBA that’s where they would go. That being the case, they come in looking to leave at the earliest opportunity. I don’t blame them for that. If Ty, Wayne and Danny can go let them. That is where they want to be. Tyler is a different story. His circumstances are unusual and he really enjoys the college experience which is wonderful for us fans. I hope that our three “testers” realize that most of the personal fan attacks are from a small minority of UNC fans! Where this leaves me personally is that I despise the current 1 year draft-eligible rule and the NBA-serving effect it has on college basketball!
Meant to add that I will still welcome back any of them that want to come back!
THF, don’t be so quick to pile on Green.
“Dude, let it go already. Do you really have to discuss it every time you talk to the media now?”
Interviews are usually led by the reporter’s questions, so you can’t fault Green for answering a question that was probably posed to him.
THF,
I agree with you that Green needs to shut up, but as Wilson pointed out, Danny is simply responding to a question from the reporter. That said, Danny could easily say something like “It’s not an issue at this point,” or “I want to talk about my pro prospects, not what’s led up to that,” or something like that. Again, I think he should just shut his yap altogether and focus on basketball if he’s trying to join the NBA.
I think it’s funny that State Fans are crediting Dick Baddour after all the crap they gave him about the Bunting and Doherty debacles. And I agree with Baddour that with lacrosse, there’s no reason we can’t compete for at least Final Four berths. I mean we have a recruiting pipeline set up for some of the top schools in Annapolis, Md., and Baltimore. It doesn’t get much better than that for lacrosse recruiting.
It did occur to me and I think he needs to deflect that and focus the discussion on what he is doing during the camp not something from a month ago.
A sprained ankle, huh? Sounds like SOMEone is trying to tell Danny something.