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Willie Green is a prime example of how NBA game experience can help a rookie's confidence grow, and, as a result, enable his potential to blossom.
To get to that point, however, the player has to earn the confidence of his coach. Green has done that, as evidenced by situations during the last two weeks when he played a significant role at crunch time for the 76ers.
Despite being a relatively late pick (No. 41) in the second round of the 2003 NBA draft, the 6-foot-4 guard earned the confidence of his first coach, Randy Ayers, as well as his second, Chris Ford, who started the season as Ayers' assistant.
"As a coach, you look to see how he's progressing in practice on a daily basis," Ford said yesterday. "He was getting spoon-fed early in the year by Randy. I think we all as a coaching staff had confidence in him from what we saw from day one in training camp. We were just bringing him along."
Green played the entire fourth quarter in Thursday night's 88-82 loss to Portland, scoring 10 of his career-high 22 points, including a monster dunk off an offensive rebound that tied the game with just over five minutes to play.
He also made major fourth-quarter contributions in wins last week over Dallas and Phoenix. He finished with 19 points against the Mavericks and 18 against the Suns, including nine points in the final period when the Sixers rallied from 12 down.
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It's sucks that Philly.com makes you register, but that's a pretty good article that goes over the positives of Willie Green's play. It's from the Saturday Inquirer, so it's not exactly completely fresh.
The main reason I bring this up though, is while we take every opportunity to badmouth the management and such, we have to admit that it was quite a feat for us to pull whatever we needed to pull to get a hold of Willie Green, and Korver for that matter. We had one pick in last year's draft the 50th selection, and found a way to turn it into two players who have at least solid futures ahead of them in this league. I think that's pretty impressive.
The guy we drafted and eventually traded for Green, Paccelis Morlende, is playing over seas, so I'm not exactly sure how good of a player he is.
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