Despite being guaranteed to be drafted second overall, Milicic still wasn’t sure he would be picked by Detroit at no. 2 . “We were in the VIP section, and I just didn’t care, you know, he’s really going to call me, you know, because I really couldn’t believe that he would guarantee me the second pick. How to say, I wasn’t me for a single moment. Looking back, I really had traits to become something in that territory,” he said. “When I went there, I was full of confidence. I mean, I saw that they were really good guys. Obviously, I saw where they came from and what they did, they were good. I was full of confidence. I had no problem playing with anybody. However, only now when I look back, I switched off at one point, I literally switched off,” Milicic recalled. “I don’t know in what period it happened exactly, but I just switched off.”