Q&A With Andrew Bogut <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Q: Has Milwaukee told you it will draft you with the No. 1 pick? A: No. It's me and [North Carolina's] Marvin Williams at the moment. I'm competitive, so I want to be No. 1 all the time. I'm not going to lie to you guys --- I want to be No. 1 --- but if it doesn't work out, I'll be No. 2. Q: Why should you go No. 1? A: I feel like I'm the most experienced. I have the all-around game. What people don't understand is that I'm 20 years old. Marvin Williams is 19 years old. I'm 20. I'm 1 1/2 years older than him, and people say he has a lot more potential. That may be the case, but I still have potential, too, and I'm still relatively young. I can come in and improve my game year by year and go from there. Q: What did you show the Hawks in this workout? A: I showed them I'm athletic and that I can jump. A lot of people, especially East Coast media, say I'm not athletic, but as you've seen, I'm one inch [in vertical leap] behind Marvin Williams. You say he's super athletic, so I'm athletic. Q: Would you prefer to work out against someone? (He worked out Friday by himself.) A: My agent wasn't going to let that happen, obviously, because of injuries. But I've been wanting to play 5-on-5 for a while now. Keeping score 1-on-zero is getting a little old. I've been wanting go and kick someone's [butt] for a little bit. And he won't let me. He said he'd resign if I played 5-on-5. I'm competitive and I miss the competitiveness of playing against someone. Q: We heard you brought your resume to meet Milwaukee's owner. Bring it here? A: Yes, I did. Q: What's on it? A: The same thing as yours. The past --- where I've worked out, where I've played ball for, what I've accomplished. I've won a gold medal for my country in the under-20 World Championships and things like that. I'm not sure if people realize that. I'm more experienced than anyone in the draft. Q: Do those international competitions mean a lot to you? A: Definitely. That's huge. I'd rather get a gold medal in the Olympics than win the NBA title. Q: What's it say about the state of basketball around the world when Argentina wins Olympic gold, the NBA MVP is a Canadian, and you, an Australian, might be the first pick in the NBA draft? A: It just says Europeans can play with the USA and so on. When [the 2006 World Championships] comes around again, the USA will be much more prepared next year. [Phoenix Suns CEO] Jerry Colangelo is taking over. Europeans work at it because they're not as athletic as Americans. Q: Got your suit picked out for draft night? A: Yes. It's a plain suit, nothing fancy. Q: Have you been asked any strange questions during these workouts? A: Stupid Australian questions, about crocodiles and kangaroos and things like that. Usually I get something cracking about Utah. </div> Source
