13 Dec 18
Doug McDermott Rumors
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Position: F
Born: 01/03/92
Height: 6-8 / 2.03
Weight:223 lbs. / 101.2 kg.
Salary: $7,333,334
Born: 01/03/92
Height: 6-8 / 2.03
Weight:223 lbs. / 101.2 kg.
Salary: $7,333,334
18 Oct 18
The first lesson didn’t take long upon Doug McDermott’s arrival to the Pacers. Even Michael Jordan should keep his distance. McDermott is not to be toyed with in golf. “I love to golf in the offseason. It’s a good sport to play. It gives you a different challenge,” said McDermott, who has a 6 handicap.
“These guys were just in awe and I wasn’t even hitting that hard. They were calling me Tiger Woods,” McDermott said. “These guys can’t hit it off the tee. I wish we could get a full year weather of golf here.”
“In college, I’ll admit it, I was the man. I was the 4 man. I was trailing every play, posting up,” Doug McDermott said. “I can’t remember the last time I posted up in the NBA. I probably scored 15 points a game in college on the block. In the NBA I’ve become more of a shooter. It’s a transition. There’s great players on every team now. I’ve found my niche, trying to be a Korver.”
In training camp, McDermott made the extra pass rather than taking the open 3. He heard from McMillan immediately. “What do you think I want you to do there?” McMillan said. It was a rhetorical question, of course. “Coach McMillan really stressed to us to shoot those 3s and avoid mid-to-long 2s,” McDermott said. “If we’re open, he wants us to shoot it.”
It wasn’t the type of open-gym session that is popular throughout the NBA, where players come and go at their leisure and mix with players from other teams. … This was different. “That was the first time I’ve been part of something like that as a team in the NBA,” said Doug McDermott, the four-year veteran who signed a three-year deal with the Pacers earlier in the summer. “I thought it was great what Vic did. We did something every night to jell as a team.”
