Oldham County senior Max Green is a lot of things: a Holy Cross signee, KHSAA's leading scorer and a contender to win Mr. Basketball.

One thing he won’t be is overlooked. Not with the way he has emerged as a versatile offensive player, averaging 32.4 points a game on 52.1% shooting from the field through Tuesday. Green also is making 44.2% of his shots from 3-point range.

"Yeah, I did," Green said matter-of-factly when asked if he saw this kind of production coming. "I have put in a lot of work. Not a lot of teams have an answer for a 6-foot-7-inch point guard, so I think I saw something like this coming. I didn't know what everybody else was going to do, so I didn't know if I was going to be the state-leading scorer or not, but this was what I expected."

Since becoming the face of Oldham County boys basketball, Green has evolved from a sharpshooter to a total offensive player who can play inside and outside.

Green embraced a message Colonels coach Josh Leslie gave him over the summer.

“'You don’t have to take more shots,'” Leslie told Green. “'You can get easier shots.' Teams are so concerned with his ability to make 3s, and he has unlimited range, but percentage-wise you can sneak in another 10 points a game.

“As teams get so close to him, he now has that one dribble move and can finish multiple ways at the rim. It seems like he at least gets a dunk every game from the defensive standpoint just running through passing lanes. So we just try to make him a more rounded scorer instead of just a shooter.”

Leslie also told Green he doesn't need to be a one-man show.

“'For us to go where we wanna go, you have to empower some of these other guys, too,'” Leslie said.

Leslie said Green has gotten more enjoyment when his teammates have bigger scoring games than he does.

Junior Luis Nava scored 30 points against Williamstown on Jan. 9.

“He’s cerebral about things,” Leslie said of Green. “To where he’s like, 'I know (Luis) is getting up there, let's get him some more touches.' He’s all for it, let's get him to 30 points. Because he sees that giving a vote of confidence to those other guys is going to help us down the road.”

Green credits much of his success to the Oldham County coaching staff and his AAU team — Grand Park Premier — but his family's competitiveness plays a big role, too.

His parents played basketball at Oldham County, too. Anna (Rufra) Green, Max's mom, played alongside Kentucky women’s basketball coach Kyra Elzy in the state tournament as a sophomore. Eric Green, Max's dad, narrowly missed a region championship as a senior. Steve Green, Max's paternal grandfather, played basketball as a walk-on and earned a scholarship to play football at Kentucky after he graduated from DeSales.

“Yeah, (we’re) super competitive,” Green said. “I was playing my mom 1-on-1 in the driveway growing up. I still haven’t beaten her, but she stopped playing me when I knew I (could) beat her. My dad does an (excellent) job pushing me even after I have a good game. (My dad and I) will do some shootarounds; he can still shoot the lights out. I don’t think he wants me on 1-on-1.”

Eric is confident his son — despite leading the state in scoring — isn’t a finished product.

“There’s lots of other kids in this state who have been full grown for three or four years; they have man bodies,” Eric said. “They’re finished products. Max isn’t, by any means. There’s a ton he will be able to add to his game once he adds 15-20 pounds of muscle, which is eventually going to happen."

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This article originally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: KHSAA basketball: Max Green becomes complete player for Oldham County