I’m curious about Draymonds stats in his first couple years.
Oh wait, no I’m not. He was useless.
Okay, admittedly, I've never been any semblance of a Draymond fan and certainly did not follow his career at any point, but in looking over his stats, dude was hardly useless. The only guy who warrants that label from said period with the Warriors is Momma There Goes That Man , who failed to utilize him correctly.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/greendr01.html
Draymond made Smart look like Kyrie his first year as a shooter. 37% from 2 and 21% from 3. Oof.
And yet he somehow still managed to play in 79 games games and receive 13.4 minutes of playing time during his rookie campaign, not to mention the fact that he actually was a starter in Golden State's only win against the Spurs in San Antonio during that 2013 Western Conference semifinal series.
Besides, I'm not comparing Green to Smart, at all. Rather, I'm comparing him to Yabusele.
I’m curious about Draymonds stats in his first couple years.
Oh wait, no I’m not. He was useless.
Okay, admittedly, I've never been any semblance of a Draymond fan and certainly did not follow his career at any point, but in looking over his stats, dude was hardly useless. The only guy who warrants that label from said period with the Warriors is Momma There Goes That Man , who failed to utilize him correctly.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/greendr01.html
His 1st year he was pretty useless. Maybe there were flashes, but 3/3 in 13 minutes with 33% FG, 21% 3PT and 53 total assists in 79 games is pretty useless. He was a decent defender for a rookie, but still... that's bad.
2nd year he became a really good defender and got better at everything else. 6/5 in 22 minutes wasn't amazing, but all of his percentages were up, assist rate almost doubled, and he became a legit defensive force.
3rd year he got starter minutes and another bump on percentages which made for an all-around pretty good year.
4th year he somehow made a leap and doubled his assists to become a triple double threat, and that's about his level now.
Quite the progression, really
Yeah, except that, when compared to Yabusele, Green, as a second round pick, mind you, still managed to receive playing time on a rather stacked team which had hardly suffered the injuries that were endured by Boston, this year.
Plus, and as you said, yourself, at least Green had shown, early on, promise as a defender, whereas Yabusele has yet to show any single quality/skill on which he can hang his hat, so to speak, and as was previously mentioned by another poster, iirc.