AD interview with Chris Broussard

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Nothing truly revealing in the interview. A couple interesting things, though.

AD opened up about his rookie year struggles:

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The injuries held me back a little. But I don't think I was as confident. Being out there as a rookie going against these 4's -- Pau Gasol, Zach Randolph, Serge Ibaka, David West. It was like, Man, these guys are nice! They can score. They can kill you. And I just wasn't strong enough. They'd pound me in the post and score like three times, and I was just like, Man, I can't stop them. That would mess with my mind, so I'd try to come down and do something uncharacteristic and turn it over or take a bad shot. I felt the pressure. I heard everybody saying, "Oh, he's a bust. He's not even in the race for rookie of the year." I was like, Man, why am I doing everything wrong?

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Also, never heard him tell the story about his recruitment:

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No college was looking at me. My only offer was from Cleveland State. My junior year, I was thinking, Well, I can go to Cleveland State and play four years. It's still Division I. Then I can go overseas, then go to the D-League, and then an NBA team might pick me up. I told my dad I was going to commit to Cleveland State, and he said let's just wait it out and see what happens. Two weeks later, I was in an AAU game. By this point, I was a 6'10" rising senior. I rolled my right ankle and hopped off the floor after scoring six points in six minutes. It was bad. The trainer was like, "You're done for the tournament." I had to use crutches and all that. When I got home, my dad said, "Hey, you've got all these letters from different schools." I was like, What? He showed them to me -- Michigan State, Syracuse, everybody was making me an offer. The offers came just off those six minutes. That was the only time they had seen me play as a 6'10" player. It was the craziest thing. It was amazing to see how everything had changed in the blink of an eye -- off just six minutes.

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