Media Draymond Green lands spinning attack in NBA game: A-Level athlete with MMA potential?

[Fjord]

FYI, there was a video going around on IG a few days ago. I never knew this about Draymond but apparently he played football for Michigan State too.

He looked absolutely terrible in that video. It only showed a couple of plays, but he didn't look coordinated at all and looked like he didn't know what he was doing on the field. You'd never have thought he would be a NBA player based on how he looked in that video.

Edited. Found the video! Does the link work for you? It's from fdssportsbook on IG.

 

[checktheknuckles]

I'm not saying that soccer players are whimpier than basketball players, but soccer player flops are in general more dramatic and with even less contact. Not because they're bigger pansies, it's because of the further distance to the referees. They have to make grander gestures like throwing themselves into the air and rolling on the ground in pain because refs can't see more subtle flops.

So at least by looks, soccer player look like bigger pansies than basketball players.

I think both sports can agree that either way you slice, Lebron is the biggest pussy of all.

 

[checktheknuckles]

Green is a huge d-bag on the court and needs to be slapped down hard by the league for this one.

Of course many NBA players could be great fighters if they trained full-time from an earlier age. Many pro-level athletes with the mental strength to succeed at the NBA level clearly have skills that would transfer beyond basketball.

Oh no you didn't. Now you don't pissed off 80% of the shertards with this statement. They think that the only people who can be good at fighting are those who couldn't hack it to make millions of dollars a year playing in the real sports.

 

[JohnMandick]

I'm amazed that no one has beat his ass yet

Where is Charles Oakley when we need him.

Well he's a fairly tough guy among NBA players

True, for today's game, which is so soft.

 

[storeybuckle]

Last night Draymond Green landed an impressive spinning attack in an NBA game. The month before he showed off a sneaky choke attack that impressed the basketball world.







How far could Draymond go in MMA? Could he challenge for a LHW / HW title with 6-12 months of training?

NBA players lack the testicular fortitude to be fighters! They’re good at bouncing a ball though!

 

[storeybuckle]

Oh no you didn't. Now you don't pissed off 80% of the shertards with this statement. They think that the only people who can be good at fighting are those who couldn't hack it to make millions of dollars a year playing in the real sports.

Basing hypothetical fighting skills on how well people play ball sports is hilarious. And your comment about couldn’t hack it making millions dollars a year playing real sports is your measuring stick? Gymnasts are probably the best athletes in the world and they barely make living wages.

Aren’t you getting tired of these could’ve should’ve would’ve threads? I get that they’re athletic, and so are world-class ping-pong players. They have great speed, hand eye coordination and foot work just like you said with the basketball player example. On the same token do you feel that professional ping-pong players would make amazing fighters?

If you’ve never seen people fight how do you know they make great fighters? It’s all hypothetical.

Let’s not pretend a guy like LeBron would be a great fighter either, and that the only thing holding him back his his big paycheque lol. He’s one of the biggest pu**ies out all of professional sports!

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

I reckon Charles Barkley would have been good, he'd have a tough time making 265 though

 

[Natural Order]

Draymond Green vs Metta World Peace in their primes is a fight I'd pay big money to see.

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Just googled Ron Artest and his name is now Metta Sandifort-Artest.

 

[Hdfi]

Basketball players don't seem to be athletic enough to be good fighters. Or at least their athleticism doesn't translate to MMA. Plenty of former college football end up in the UFC when NFL is not interested but I never see "former basketball players" ever make it into the UFC. Isn't that sport supposed to be just as popular as football? And they would be all heavyweights which is the easiest division to make it into, several football players go to 185 and 205 along with 265.

I think Travis Browne was the only one that played basketball. I'm not sure anyone else. But I heard many times the words "defensive lineman" or "offensive lineman" whatever that means. Football is what you want to look, not basketball. Basketball players sounds like a bunch of lanky feeble dudes that can't fight.

This.
and Giant Silva was a pro basketball player. He's 2-6 in MMA...

 

[SideKickPro24]

Basketball players don't seem to be athletic enough to be good fighters. Or at least their athleticism doesn't translate to MMA. Plenty of former college football end up in the UFC when NFL is not interested but I never see "former basketball players" ever make it into the UFC. Isn't that sport supposed to be just as popular as football? And they would be all heavyweights which is the easiest division to make it into, several football players go to 185 and 205 along with 265.

I think Travis Browne was the only one that played basketball. I'm not sure anyone else. But I heard many times the words "defensive lineman" or "offensive lineman" whatever that means. Football is what you want to look, not basketball. Basketball players sounds like a bunch of lanky feeble dudes that can't fight.

Basketball players are athletic as shit, and probably resemble the body type of mma fighters more often than not. However, one thing about basketball, is that it’s very much a skills sport. Where it requires a certain amount of athleticism, it doesn’t always require a lot of strength. (Before you post your Lebron, or Ben Wallace pics) Don’t get me wrong there are strong NBA guys, but not compared to a NFL level of strength. It’s like Tyson fury is a strong guy, but he couldn’t beat Francis in the clench the way he did wilder. Wilder is more of a basketball player frame/type. This is my point.

They’d do very well I think in the lighter weight classes, but at an average nba height of 6’7” you gotta go against the big boys.

 

[SideKickPro24]

Draymond Green vs Metta World Peace in their primes is a fight I'd pay big money to see.

Edit:



Just googled Ron Artest and his name is now Metta Sandifort-Artest.

Draymond vs Meta vs Rodman. Ultimate round robin tournament.

I remember about 7 or 8 years ago, a dude I met asked me if it was for your life, which one of the three would you rather be locked in a room with… lol at 5’9 and only 170 at the time I said it’d have to be meta. Because he’s the only one I could trust not to R*** me before he killed me.

 

[Natural Order]

Desmond vs Meta vs Rodman. Ultimate round robin tournament.

Might as well round it out with Charles Barkley and make it a proper one!

 

[chiefwiggum]

He would be good at any sport he applied himself to.

He runs and jumps like a deer. Has hands tye size of a gorilla.
I’m sure only a Derick Lewis could get a couple title shots as he has no fighting background and got two title shots.

Nobody applies themselves to mma as even the goat of all time. Makes a couple million. After being a champion at 22.

 

[SideKickPro24]

I'm just stating facts. Why do we have so many former colllege football players and we don't see former basketball players anywhere? We have a lot from football and nothing from basketball. That's just how it is.

You think all the former collegue basketball players decided to collectively never try out MMA and that's why we only see former football players? Come on, dude. Maybe, it's not as easy as "just start training MMA", maybe there's something else going on that you are not seeing...

In the US. A lot of football players wrestle too. Which is a good transition to MMA. Not all of them do, but at my HS back in the day football players were encouraged to wrestle in winter, and do track in spring (depending on the position you played). However a Basketball player couldn’t wrestle, because they were both winter sports.

Not saying this is it for sure. But because before my junior year I always played basketball, and in my experience basketball players are almost the last American sports athletes I’d want on my side in a fight. The size is there. But having seen a decent amount of fights in high school, I’d say it goes hockey players, football players, (surprisingly) baseball players, then basketball. As far as guys that I wouldn’t want to tangle up with.


Honerable mention to rugby players. Never met a rugby team until college. But damn….. I would never want to get caught at one of their parties with beef. Even with a few guys on my side.

 

[Marko Polo]

nba players are sissies, they are all about being friends than actual competitors these days. Draymond is a real one, a bit irrational at times, but mostly due to being very emotional and involved during games, and playing with passion. He is more of an ode to older generation of players, than current divas.

Draymond is a real one? How can you say that after watching him assault another person whilst being protected by cameras? And then his response claiming he was pretending to be fouled? You need to re evaluate your thought processes.

 

[Ace70 V2]

Well he's a fairly tough guy among NBA players

He needed to play

Where is Charles Oakley when we need him.



True, for today's game, which is so soft.

Give me Ben Wallace. Zach Randolph. The game has definitely gotten softer.

 

[Fjord]

He needed to play


Give me Ben Wallace. Zach Randolph. The game has definitely gotten softer.

Got to go a little farther back than that to when you could just about take anyone completely down to the floor and just get called for a regular foul. Some of those 80's and 90's game were craaaaazy.

 

[swarrrm]

Green’s neck choke on Gobert last month was a lot more impressive. Wish KAT put Green in a neck choke instead of just trying to pull him off Gobert! Ha!

Towns with his touch of death might have killed him..

 

[Ace70 V2]

Got to go a little farther back than that to when you could just about take anyone completely down to the floor and just get called for a regular foul. Some of those 80's and 90's game were craaaaazy.

So go back to McHale and the crew in Detroit. They'd eat him alive.

 

[Fjord]

So go back to McHale and the crew in Detroit. They'd eat him alive.

Haha. You’re right tho about Wallace. That was just about the end of the best era in the NBA where guys would actually bang and play physical basketball without flopping.