Draymond Green calls the 2024 NBA Draft the weakest in 15 years but crowns the Minnesota Timberwolves winners for drafting point guard Rob Dillingham, a game-changing scorer who fits with Anthony Edwards and Mike Conley. GM Tim Connelly also nailed their second pick, wing Terrence Shannon Jr.
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Welcome to the brand new Draymond Green Show YouTube channel. Hit subscribe so you don't miss out on any of our content. The 2024 NBA Draft has concluded and the number 1 pick was Zachary Risacher. Second pick in a row from France to be, well, second number 1 overall pick from France. Only the 4th, I think, in history. There's that. And everybody's like, ah man, the, France and Europe is taking over the NBA. And they did, it did seem that way in that draft last, or last night and today. But might I remind you, y'all said this was the weakest draft in recent history. So don't tell me France is taking over the NBA. And, but because they had so many players drafted this year, or that they, or, you know, international, overseas, however you want to categorize it. Don't tell me that they're taking over the NBA and they're far more superior in the NBA because they had a lot of players drafted. And what, even before the draft started, was kind of dubbed as the worst draft of the last 15 years. The superstars of the NBA and the non-superstars that are from Europe and the superstars from America and the non-superstars from America, it's not even close to non-superstars. Like, the non-superstars from Europe and the non-superstars from America isn't even close. Like, actually isn't even discussion. So that also plays a part in who's superior and all this. You get like the talking heads like, oh, I'm telling you, the US-born players better watch out because Luka, like, Luka is once in a generation. That's why all his stats, like— Yeah. Lineup to the Bronze thus far in the career. Like he's once in a lifetime for sure. Joker, Giannis for sure. But you gotta go through the whole body of work. And so I'm looking forward to that. Please stop with the, they're taking over the league and at the same time saying it's the worst draft in recent history because those two things are, they don't make sense. If I had to say who won the draft, who won the draft to me was the Minnesota Timberwolves. And the reason the Minnesota Timberwolves won the draft is because they drafted their point guard of the future in Rob Dillingham, who I think is a very special player who some of those teams at the top of the draft were afraid of because he got swag and he got game.
Swag.
And they don't know if his game is going to fit into their systems that don't work and get them fired. When you can just get a really good player who can score the basketball, Steph Curry, and figure out how the system works for him. And then all of a sudden the franchise is in territory that it's never been in before. But you know, at times we run into these guards with swag that—
Draymond Green.
They just don't fit in the system. And so teams run away from him. And there's gonna be some teams that's gonna regret passing Rob Dillingham, 'cause he's the best pure scorer in that draft. He wants to be a great pro. If you talk to the young man off the court, great young man, but y'all probably don't know that because you just judged by how he bounced around the court in his game. Very smart young man. Looking for the game, want the game, want the knowledge. And now he about to go play behind Mike Conley, a young Anthony Edwards who he's about to be running mates with for the next 10 years. And I'm just not sure many backcourts gonna wanna see him and Ant-Man. Good luck. So with him and then Terrence Shannon Jr., Who had an incredible 2 years at Illinois after leaving Texas Tech, goes and have an incredible career at Illinois, falls in the draft because he gets lied on. Then he falls in the draft. Everybody run away from him. Minnesota sitting right there, 27, we'll take him. Guess what? Because the way Minnesota's roster is right now, he may help Minnesota next year more than than Rob because he's a big wing, can shoot the ball, can get downhill, get to the free throw line, and he can check. And when you got big wings that can check in this league, Jaden McDaniels, they play. By the way, they make a lot of money. So Minnesota wanted to draft me. Look what they just did. Yeah. After coming off of Western Conference Finals, look what they just did. I like it. Gotta give Tim Connelly a lot of credit. He keep doing special things. And listen, I'm a tough critic. You gotta do special things over and over again for me to be like, wow. Wow. And I've always respected Tim because you see the work he's put in, but he just continues to snatch more and more respect. Like continues to snatch more and more respect because what he just did in that draft, like he couldn't have nailed those two picks better. So Minnesota won the draft to me. And quite frankly, Minnesota didn't need to win the draft, but they won the draft. And that's a team that's poised to try to compete for a championship and you gotta respect it.
Respect.
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