Two days after leading his basketball team into the Class 6A state-title game, Lawrence High junior Dorian Green was back on the baseball diamond, covering a bunt. He pounced off the mound, whistled a laser to first base and left his baseball coach shaking his head.

“First day out of the chute,” Lions coach Brad Stoll said. “Chest-high, right on the glove. It’s just so natural for him.”

So smooth is Green with the basketball, driving to the hoop, and the baseball, in the middle of his delivery, that the opponent doesn’t realize how explosive he is until it’s too late.

Green, the projected ace of Stoll’s staff, averaged 24.3 points in three state tournament games.

Sitting in the dugout before Wednesday’s baseball practice at Ice Field, he was asked about a title-game drive to the hoop he punctuated with a dunk in traffic.

“It was just instincts, really,” he said. “I had a clear lane. The defense was spread out. And I kind of cut through the lane, jumped up there and just dunked it.”

Instincts for the games he plays are Green’s greatest strengths.

“Kind of just having a feel for the game, taking whatever comes to me,” Green said when asked them. “It’s really just based on my feel. I don’t really think too much. You think too much, you get yourself in trouble. I just kind of relax and play.”

A right-hander with a long, loose, slender arm, Green was instrumental in the Lions reaching the state semifinals in baseball last spring.

Asked how he was doing in the classroom, Green said he never has gotten anything but an “A” on a report card in his life. He will have plenty of options when it comes time to choose a college, so why stress about it? He doesn’t.

Unlike in some pockets of the country, coaches here don’t pressure athletes to focus on one sport. Quite the contrary, the coaches at high schools in Lawrence encourage students to play more than one sport, an approach that is to the benefit of the athletes. Their minds, bodies and emotions are more balanced as a result. It tends to keep them team-oriented, instead of self-obsessed.

Interestingly, when asked questions with the words “you” and “your,” Green assumed the plural versions of the words.

Example: What did you learn about your game during the state tournament?

“It was just fun to see our team kind of grow up during the course of the year,” Green said. “We kind of matured. It was fun.”

Green doesn’t yet know where he wants to play college basketball, but he knows where he wants that experience to take him.

“If everything would go as planned, I would play college basketball, hopefully become a grad assistant, and then get on a coaching staff somehow, and then I want to be a head coach in college basketball,” Green said. “I want to recruit kids and get them in my program. That’s my dream.”

Given his 4.0 brain and natural feel for the game, it wouldn’t pay to bet against him.