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Evan Fournier Rumors
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Position: G
Born: 10/29/92
Height: 6-6 / 1.98
Weight:190 lbs. / 86.2 kg.
Salary: $17,000,000
Born: 10/29/92
Height: 6-6 / 1.98
Weight:190 lbs. / 86.2 kg.
Salary: $17,000,000
He finished the regular season shooting just 43.8 percent from the field, the second-lowest shooting percentage of his career, and shooting only 34.0 percent from 3-point range, the lowest of his career. “Obviously, I’m disappointed in the way I shot the ball this year,” Fournier said. “It was like my worst year as far as just making shots. But somehow I feel like I’ve never been better, whether that’s defensively, being active on the floor, being a leader or just making plays. It’s just for some reason I couldn’t make freakin’ shots, and I’m going to fix that. But it’s a part of it.”
Orlando’s new coach, Steve Clifford, often referred to Fournier as his team’s best pick-and-roll defender and occasionally picked Fournier to guard lightning-fast point guards such as John Wall. In the meantime, Fournier also dished out a career-high 3.6 assists per game. “I thought he would be a good defender,” Clifford said. “He’s a much more versatile defender than I realized. He guarded point guards, and he can guard bigger guys, which he’s always done in the past, anyway. I knew he was a good competitor. I think he’s a terrific competitor. He badly wants to win. He didn’t shoot the ball as well as he has in other years, and again, that’ll be a lot of the film work this summer.”
When the Raptors face adversity, they can turn to their superstar, Leonard, or to their ascendant star, Pascal Siakam. “It’s not just Kawhi, actually,” Magic swingman Evan Fournier said. “But every time we made a run, he came right back at us with a big play — a 3, offensive rebound, steal — and we could never gain momentum.”
