Doedee excelled as a junior basketballer from the age of six playing as a Point Guard in the Geelong Supercats junior teams. He also played junior football for St Joseph's in Geelong Football League. He played for Victoria Country in the 2012 under-18 Australian basketball championships. He sat out the Geelong Falcons 2014 preseason to concentrate on basketball, hoping for a possible scholarship in the United States. He played for Victoria Country in the under-18 Australian basketball championships in Canberra. He averaged six points and two assists from nine games. He returned for the 2015 preseason at the Falcons but was hampered by injury and almost didn't make the cut. It forced him to start the practice matches in the equivalent of a Falcons’ reserves side. However once injury free Doedee impressed at Centre Half Back for the Falcons and played for Victoria Country in the AFL Under 18 Championships. Doedee was also invited to the Draft Combine where he finished fifth in the agility test and ninth in the relative vertical jump. Prior to the 2015 AFL draft Doedee was regarded as the one-on-one defender in the TAC Cup by Geelong Falcons talent managerMichael Turner and was tipped to be drafted around 35-40 overall.
AFL career
Doedee was drafted by Adelaide with their second selection and seventeenth overall in the 2015 national draft. In 2018, he made his debut in the twelve point loss to at Etihad Stadium in the opening round. In his second match, the thirty-six point win against at the Adelaide Oval in round two of the 2018 season, Doedee recorded twenty-five disposals and six marks to earn the round AFL Rising Star nomination. In 2018, Doedee extended his contract by two years after missing just two games of the season. He placed second in the 2018 AFL Rising Star after averaging 18 disposals and two intercept marks per match. However, during the first round of the 2019 season, he ruptured his ACL in the second quarter of the 32 point loss to Hawthorn and will not return for the remainder of the season.
