Golden State Warriors big man Draymond Green understands how to be a player analyst and not be overly critical of another player’s game.
On a recent episode of The Draymond Green Show for The Volume, Green told ESPN NBA analyst Jalen Rose that some affirmation that he was doing a good job in the media space came back in 2020 in the bubble.
Green broke down a play from a Denver Nuggets game and in his analysis he called out Nuggets star Nikola Jokic by name.
Draymond said the next time he saw Jokic, the two-time MVP told Green that he appreciated what Green said and that he took the comments to heart and tried to improve his game. Green said it was all in the way he presented it.
“I tried to do it in a way of not bashing him but letting the world know this is an issue,” he said. “It gave me so much confidence in TV. That was a very huge moment for me.”
Rose said former players have to scale it back when they are on TV as analysts.
“Anytime you see a player doing this job, we’re only really saying like 40 percent of what we really know,” he said. “If I’m on TV, and I’m talking about somebody had a bad game, I know where they was at last night. I know who they was with. As a matter of fact I probably was with them.”
“If I’m speaking on what happened in the game, they know it ain’t personal,” he added. “But they know I ain’t saying everything that I could say.”
