Draymond Green Quotes

When you've got guys touching the ball on the offensive end, they're really into the defensive end.

Coach K tried to implement a style where we passing, moving the ball, the open guy gets the open shot, running in transition.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

Street basketball is all about shakes and fakes, crossing your defender up. The NBA is more strategic.

Teams that just play on one side of the floor are going to struggle against defenses that load up on that side.

When you're in the playoffs, you have to get easy baskets and you have to limit their easy baskets.

When teams are crowded in the paint, it's very hard to get in there and penetrate, but you got to find ways to get into transition and get into your strengths. It's a lot of thinking out there, you got to make sure you think and strategize.

I like playing size per position defensively.

When you're running next to a guy who's about to lay it up in transition, you just get out of the way because you know Giannis is coming to block it.

It starts the fast-break a lot easier when I get the ball. I don't have to wait for big men to give me it. Just get it and go.

I believe in getting the ball up the floor and trying to take advantage of transition opportunities.

Running in transition and scoring in transition, prevents you from setting your defense up on the other side.

I'm never going to be a point guard, but you always have guards that get the rebound and take it coast-to-coast.

I like to get the ball in transition and go and everything, but I'm also not as dependent on having the ball all the time as I was maybe in college and when I first got to the NBA.

Without the hand check rule, players are more likely to work their way open.

If you see the NBA now, a lot of it is in transition. Most people now try to get an easy shot off in six or eight seconds before the defense gets set.

I like playing in the post, so a system that plays to my strengths is important.

Any time you can get easy baskets, it's a big deal.

It used to be every single time you got the rebound, you handed it to the point guard, or you outlet it to the point guard, or everyone cleared, and you waited until the point guard brought the ball up the floor.

The contention is if you don't do it in the first quarter, if you don't box out and control the glass in the first quarter, you are not going to do it in the fourth quarter and overtime.

Not all players want to play defense. You get in foul trouble, you're going to be on the bench.

I have a pretty good idea of what makes NBA players great - especially at the different positions, and where the biggest problems lie that you have to address in defending those people.

I'm always open. As soon as I cross the half-court line, I'm open.

I like to get out in transition. That is one of my favorite aspects of the game.

A 7-footer who hits a step-back jumper - that's a pretty unicorn-like thing. Or someone who blocks a shot off the top of the backboard, pushes it in transition, and finds a shooter in the corner - that's pretty unicorn-like.