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How hometown of Plymouth, Ind., shaped Magic coach Scott Skiles

PLYMOUTH, Ind. — The drive north from Indianapolis along U.S. Route 31 is peaceful this gray autumn morning.

Farmland often dots the landscape as the road winds through, or around, towns and cities called Kokomo, Peru, Rochester and Argos.

After an hour and 45 minutes, you reach the exit, a left turn onto Michigan Road.

A sign sits along the right shoulder of that street.

"Welcome to Plymouth," it reads. "Home of the Marshall County Blueberry Festival."

This is it: the small, northern Indiana city where Orlando Magic coach Scott Skiles lived from the time he was 12 years old until he went off to college.