SAN FRANCISCO – Committing the ultimate professional mistake as part of the Bahamas men’s national basketball team made Buddy Hield quickly realize what kind of head coach longtime Warriors assistant Chris DeMarco would be.

DeMarco can be described in part as a player’s coach. The 40-year-old knows how to keep it light and have fun. He also knows what earns respect, and which cardinal rules cannot be broken, regardless of status.

“I was late for film one day on the national team,” Hield remembers, telling NBC Sports Bay Area. “He locked me out of film. They were like, ‘Yo, Chris says you’re not coming in.’ That was big time. That showed his leadership of we’re going to have fun and play around and all those things, but if you can’t be on time and be respectful, I’m not going to give yo

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