Dillon Boucher is eyeing his Wellington Saints debut tonight with a mixture of excitement and dread.
Excitement, because he believes the Saints have assembled a roster capable of winning the National Basketball League, and dread, because his new coach is old Tall Blacks team-mate Pero Cameron.
"I'm not looking forward to him yelling at me and stuff," laughed Boucher, who will return to his New Plymouth roots to face the Taranaki Mountain Airs.
"But we've got a great friendship off the court. I realise when we're on the court it's a coach-player relationship, it's not friendship and however he needs to get his message across I have to accept it."
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