Hansbrough will have company in the “Green Room”
As the months turned into weeks and then into days and now are just hours, tonight the end of the road arrives. The four players from Chapel Hill will finally find out where they will play in the pro’s. Two of them, Tyler Hansbrough and Tywon Lawson, will be at Madison Square Garden (in the “Green Room”) for the event. That means to me that a lot of people “in the know” feel they will be going earlier than later (because I doubt that the NBA wants to have a fiasco like the NFL and Brady Quinn). Hansbrough decided to have extra company while waiting for his name to be called, as he asked head coach Roy Williams to join him in the “Green Room” tonight.
From a very small article on ACC Now it says that not only his ex coach will be with the young man from Poplar Bluff. Both of his parents will be at the table with him, as well as his older brother, and of course his agent (who should be busy from tomorrow on). Also, amongst the crowd, will be some ex team mates, as Bobby Frasor, Marcus Ginyard and Dewey Burke all came to New York City for the event. Joining the three Heels is Frasor’s father. I have to say, if this don’t show the “Carolina Way/Carolina Family” I do not know what does. Players coming to cheer/root on for other players, a coach being there for a player, they say that blood is thicker than water, if this don’t prove it, I am will have a hard time finding another good example to prove that theory.
In the end, when it comes to the power forward, some think that he could be a lottery pick, while others still believe that he is going to be a late first rounder. One thing is for sure, while other players might have moved up or down in the draft, Tyler Hansbrough’s rising is due to the hard work and dedication. That same hard work and dedication that anyone that has followed his career at UNC knows that has been there game in, game out, practice in, practice out. I can not keep myself from coming back to this one point: any team taking Hansbrough knows what they are getting here and now. If a team need a hard working player, who is going to give 100% everytime he is playing (or even just practicing) why would you pass up on Tyler? If I was one of those GMs I would not, and while it might not be the “cool pick” it’s going to be the pick that will push my team towards being better next season, and I won’t be waiting to see if the player develops.
As I do with all the Heels moving to the next level, all the best to both Tyler Hansbrough and the other three ex team mates in the draft tonight. Without a doubt, with four more UNC players in the NBA next season will have just a bit more of carolina blue in it!
