Of course, when you listen to Morgan and Canales talk about McMillan, it doesn’t sound like they needed much convincing.
When asked if there was a moment when the two of them came to the realization that he was their guy, both of their faces lit up.
“I felt like it was about like every time we watched him,” Morgan said. “We’re just like, another great catch. And just the way that he’s effortless, the way he catches the ball and he catches everything outside his frame, and he and he’s just a great receiver that is super-fluid, his body control’s some of the best I’ve seen in a while, so yeah, he’s exciting.”
“And, the one thing that that I really learned from Dan just through the process is the biggest challenge, which is all still new to me as a head coach, is to get into the horizontal comparisons of offensive players versus defensive players,” Canales chimed in. “And when you start looking player for player and the dynamic way that they move, the dynamic way they play and having to try to compare them across different positions, apples to oranges, was really kind of where we came back in the process and kept putting him on.
“And then you’re like really excited, and you almost can’t turn the tape off. So it’s like it stood out in such a special way that, you know, he made the decision easy for us.”