I was fooled. We were all fooled. Doug McDermott has made fools of us all.
“B-b-but Dee Tee Bee”, you stammer as you push your glasses up your nose, “I knew Doug McDermott was going to suck in the NBA, because his substandard athleticism would render his prodigious shot-making ability useless.”
Shut up. No you didn’t. That is a lie. You are a liar. Everyone thought he was going to be a beast. EVERYONE. There was no one who wasn’t taken in by his college/summer-league highlights. The ease with which he decimated the doomed competition placed in front of him, well, let’s just say I was thinking Larry Bird was going to be a forgotten man in 20 years. I actually don’t feel so bad about being wrong on this one, given the unanimity of his support
Despite his poor rookie year in defiance of the expectations of every human in existence, a rookie year made poorer by Thibs’ crazy rotations, there is still hope for him. 10 ppg off the bench isn’t unrealistic, is it? I mean, compared to what I thought his stats were going to be, that’s positively meager.