Some more tid bits about Hansbrough
Tyler Hansbrough
As the National Basketball Association draft comes closer and closer (June 25th) more information arrives about the four players that won the national title under head coach Roy Williams. In this post I talk about a couple of pieces I found about power forward Tyler Hansbrough. The first piece is his blog (NBA.com), where once again Hansbrough shows his umility, even when looking for a BMW. The other is an AP piece I found on Yahoo Sports about the power forward. In it is talks about how the young man is ready for the work outs and the rest to be over with and to find out where he is going to play at the next level. I have to say, if it’s killing me to find out, I wonder how the pressure must be getting to players like him.
As I said, in the first piece Hansbrough is looing for a car, and he says this about the search:
But with the BMW, I’m not looking for anything special, something that’s quick and is easier to drive around than a big truck all the time. I’m still trying to keep it low key. I know some of the guys in the NBA have great cars, but I haven’t reached that level yet.
C’mon, if this is not someone who gets it, then I don’t know who does. A truly smart young man, who is looking for a car that will fit his “job”, while not being like the ones that are the “stars” in the business. He could have gone all out, cause in the end we all know he is going in the first round and that means garuanteed money, but instead, once again, showed his smarts and humility in what he is going to get. I know it’s funny, or maybe weird, to say being humble while buying a Beemer, but when you think about it, for a professional player, that is exactly how it is.
The post by Tyler goes on to say that this week is the first time he is going to go from work out to work out without coming back to Chapel Hill (where he is spending his time before the NBA Draft). Just another thing that the forward from Poplar Bluff has to learn as he makes his way to the National Basketball Association. The other article has some very interesting insight on Hansbrough, especially the fact that no one truly knows where he is going to go, not even him:
“It’s a lot of speculation right now,” Hansbrough said Monday after working out for the Utah Jazz. “You really don’t know who to believe. We’ll just have to wait and see what happens.”
That is the cold hard truth when it comes to the draft. You might hear a team wants you, but unless you are in the Top 5, or maybe 10, just one thing needs to happen and your destination might change by 5, 10, 15 picks. For Hansbrough, who has been seen as a mid first rounder to late first rounder, to even a second rounder, all the rumors and speculations just must be adding to the pressure of wanting all of this to be over and finding out which team he would be playing for. One thing that the forward is making sure that all the teams that work him out know is this:
“It’s tough, but you have to understand that’s the way it is,” Hansbrough said. “I’ll continue to work out for teams and see what happens. I’m more athletic than a lot of people think I am. A lot of people see me as just a hard worker, but I do a little more than work hard.”
I agree with that and will add this: how many big men can out run Hansbrough down the floor? (My answer would be very few) You want a player who works like he does if for nothing else because he won’t quit, neither mentally or physically. I can not wait for the NBA season to begin, because I really want to see how the forward will fair against the players at the next level. Granted I doubt that he is going to be at the same level as in college (Player of the Year, All time scorer in the ACC), but I am pretty sure he is going to hold his own because he will hit his free throws and he will work hard on the boards, something that any team that want to have when the game is close.
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