Junior not Senior.
Danny Green was interviewed by Draft Express and most of it is your normal fare of being exited about the process, trying to showcase your skils, yada, yada, yada. Then there is this particular quote:
DraftExpress: With the team that could potentially be coming back to North Carolina next year, how much does the possibility of a championship play into your decision to declare?
Danny Green: I don’t know; if everyone came back it would be great. But also just looking at the statistics, everyone that tests the waters at North Carolina doesn’t always come back. So if everyone came back, with guys like Ty [Lawson] and Wayne [Ellington] I think we’d have a great chance to win a championship, but I just don’t see that coming. Of course I want to win a national championship, but my decision is going to reflect a lot off of what their decision is also; but we’ll see what happens.
It is interesting that Green does not think everyone is coming back which also means winning a title would be difficult on the basis of an incorrect assumption. Green says “looking at the statistics, everyone that tests the waters at North Carolina doesn’t always come back” which would be inaccurate since no one has ever tested the waters at UNC before. On top of that the process, in it’s present incarnation, is new. Brandan Wright declared and never intended to return despite not hiring an agent when he made the move. Everyone before him was either in the draft or not, there was no option to return. So I would be curious to see which “statistics” Green is using here.
I also happen to believe that if Wayne Ellington stays in the draft and Green has fairly low stock he will return since he knows he will be a starter which will garner the playing time he wants to make himself more marketable in next season’s draft.
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At this point, it sounds like the Greens are trying to pump Danny’s stock before the draft (and even the pre-draft camp). It will be interesting to see his quotes after they start playing in Orlando.
Ugh…
I have to say that after the Sr. quotes and now the Jr. quotes I am sticking a “dog that bark don’t bite” label on this story. I think that if Danny Green was ready for the NBA neither the dad nor him would be talking, they would be waiting for the camp and the work outs. I think all of this talking is just so that someone “notices” DG before the camp.
I just can not wait to see the games from Orlando on ESPNU (if they show them) and see what the commentators have to say. That to me will be the biggest key in all of this way too long process.
AEM
Obviously, we all have our reasons as to why they should play another season. But Green, who has been a 6th man in many games, has the best opportunity to become a starter next year, and remove all 2nd round talk from the table in next year’s draft. I imagine a Green that starts for UNC will be a Green that is a lock for an NBA contract.
Chad Ford dropped Ty out of the first round.
See:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/draft2008/columns/story?columnist=ford_chad&page=MockDraft-080527
At this point, June 16 can’t come soon enough. At least then we’ll know, good or bad, and not have to suffer through speculation on a daily basis.
And STILL, as of Tuesday, May 27, 2008, Ty Lawson, Wayne Ellington, and Danny Green are members of the North Carolina Tar Heel basketball team.
Believe.
From the quotes posted on IC, Danny does not sound like a happy camper. They all WANT to leave.
Mmmmm…okay, I’ll give you that they all want to play pro ball, but I think that Ellington will be back. Lawson may still come back due to his ever-shifting position in the mock drafts. I don’t read Danny Green as being unhappy, I just think that he can’t get past the money, regardless the quantity. I don’t know what it is like to be in his shoes, but he probably just wants to earn a steady paycheck playing basketball. Does anyone know what the average salary is for players in the European basketball league?