While that campaign wasn’t the greatest, the experience of playing internationally certainly counts. Speaking of playing internationally, the Pacers are all set to face off against the Sacramento Kings in two preseason games as part of the NBA India Games 2019.
Turner will be entering his fifth season in the NBA this year and was available to answer a few questions on the eve of the two games slated to be held on October 4th and 5th at the NSCI Dome in Mumbai, India.
As mentioned earlier, the experience of playing for your country definitely counts and Turner had the opportunity to work with multi-NBA championships winning coaches in Gregg Popovich and Steve Kerr. He explained what that was like:
Earlier on during the day, head coach Nate McMillan had mentioned how he felt that the Pacers needed to rebound better. Turner delved into how the team is preparing for that.
Turner thinks that the two games are really important as far as the development of the sport of basketball in general and the NBA in particular in India is concerned. He feels there’s a lot to take away from these two games. He elucidated:
The Pacers have seven new players on their roster and a trip to India can help a lot as far as team bonding is concerned to get the chemistry going. Turner concurred with this notion as he added:
Myles Turner finally summed up by talking about what the feeling was like, getting to know that the Pacers would be playing in India.
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