The Toronto Raptors head coach seems to be changing up the Raptors’ rotations amongst the team’s recent struggles as Will Barton is the new backup point guard and Precious Achiuwa is moving away from the centre position. Additionally, Pascal Siakam speaks out on his current slump, and a former Raptors player is now becoming a head coach.
SHOW INDEX:
0:00 Intro
0:21 Raptors NEW Backup Point Guard Will Barton
4:20 Pascal Speaks out on Recent Slump
8:15 Precious Changing Positions – Koloko Back in Rotation?
10:49 Former Raptor Now a Head Coach
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38 Comments
Do we really want Barton to be our back up point I would rather have Dowtin as the back point and have Barton as a shooting guard great vid Ben
Flynn is always in the dog house. Barton as PG an act of desperation I think but whatever works. NN has burnt Pascal out again at the end of this year, too many minutes. I am a Pascal guy , too! He will bounce back. Banton back from G league, NN will glue him to the bench anyway. Good to see Koloko back as the backup centre. He has the potential of a Nic Claxton. Changes needed to be made but next year will bring the real change. We will see what happens hopefully the Raptors can finish strong here in the next 14 games.
Mighty Mouse to save the day!
I just want Pascal plays solid D, nothing else. He hurts the team defence, we have plenty of guys can put numbers on the board seriously. We miss his defence more than his offence.
Re Pascal, my biggest complaint with his play is his constant wining after each miss on a drive to the hoop. I can hear him so clearly on my TV not only just see him. It is a very fixable issue, he just a strong willed coach or player to stand him up and let him know how it affects the team in a negative way.
Nick nurse just needs to stop playing this iso offence and get some off ball screens for our 3pt shooters
Trade siakam off season
Jeff Dowtin should be Raptors' backup PG. Jeff plays better defense and has better assist capability than Will Barton.
When you need Pascal he seems almost indifferent. Can't blame him. What are the Raps doing? Battling for the play in game to inevitability lose in the first? The Nets even as constructed may be better than the Raps, even with Poeltel. Saw that Milwaukee even minus Giannis and Middelton are 9-6, which is better than the Raps. Management fumbled it big time. Nurse has lost the team. Not getting a C to start cost a lot of games. At the deadline there should have been 2 guys traded and Raps recoup assets and let the youngins play. They may not even make the play in. Lol. Now we got a hungry Denver team tomorrow on a 3 game slide and looking to hold on to their top spot. Going to be hard game to win. If they have any balls they win tomorrow to make up for last weeks bad taste and they to go on a run. Wouldn't bet a dime though.
I rather have Siakam be quiet then ISO and brick half his shots and lose the game. Between him, Fred and GTJ they waist a lot of hard earned possessions.
Nick nurse has to go
Pumped beyond belief if Young David Robinson Christian K is back in the lineup. Players should be judged by Clutch Shooting, Pascal is good at scoring, but in those last two minutes of games the winning time he doesn't show up. Congrats Staudimare
What a waste of a development opportunity for the young guy who could be playing bartons minutes
Siakam needs to be gone, please!
To be honest, this team needs a new coach aswell…
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Unless they have two bigger bigs CB can be a backup C if you want to give PA more SF mins.
Bench Will, GTJ, PA, CB. Maybe have one other forward or KC out there . This was dumbest thing at Trade deadline at least try and move Flyy for 2nd round pick and convert Jeff D.
It's time for Nurse to go. He never developed the bench in the last 3 years because he is coaching every game as if it was a playoff game. I also get a feeling that Nurse has lost respect from the bench who are mostly bench warmers. Not a good look on the franchise that prides itself for player development. Raptors needs a major haul of it's roster and next couple of years won't be pretty. Use the next year to develop young talents besides Barnes.
Pascal is an indifferent, play for myself stat padder. Need to trade him
NN continues to treat Malachi Flynn like an unwanted step child…while continuing to distribute minutes among his rotation in an unhealthy manner for an 82 game season. Furthermore, the season is almost over and many Raptors players still don't know their roles- when they will play, how long they will play from game to game.
Pascal is not HIM and never will be. The sooner the front office realizes that the sooner we will stop being a middle of the pack treadmill team.
From the way the raptors have been playing, I think that there going to go on a run for the play-in spots.
Nurse is the problem
I said this as soon as he was signed it makes no sense to play him as a back up 2 guard when we have no depth at pg
Pascal is not slumping he's playing really good teams right now and their D is shutting him down. The rest of the team has to play better.
Koloko should have been a backup C bbthis whole time. Precious couldn't ever really play centre lets be fucking real.
Seems like a political move for discussing Fred’s extension. Dowtin will be fine
nothing change… same bad team… if team want to change… start from pascal and Fred…
Nick Nurse has never seemed to be able to get the best out of this lineup. His idea of how the offence should run isn't working consistently, and he hasn't been able to come up with anything different. Is the problem the team, or is it the coach?
The issue was giving Pascal the max years ago when he clearly wasn't a #1 option, then giving Fred the sympathy bag
Let’s see what happens next 13 games if we can’t make the play in , clean house . I say let nn try anything he wants but if it doesn’t work than we can complain
Pascal such a sad man. He was told he's not HIM now he's tanking the Raptors. He's all about his stats only and getting pay like his buddy VV
Precious is a 6'8 centre so not big enough and does not play with the same force as a centre. His advantage in the C position is his speed. Playing him in the Wing will negate his strength in speed since everyone is fast in that postion and he won't get that advantage on offense because his handle is non-existent. he can only go north and south with the ball
The season is not done hopefully..but it sure looks like it. Now NN wants to adjust? I think we need a new coach
The back-up should be Dowtin Jr, he is hungry and wants to play and plays well. Barton is a specialist like Dell Curry back in the day, and NN doesn't know how to utilize three point specialist with his "willy-nilly" free-for-all, do you want you, offensive scheme. Must let NN go, this team badly needs a new voice. Must trade FVV and PS, and replace them with three dynamic guards. Keep GTJ as the 6th man – this team is lacking a strong 4 guard rotation. Now they can move forward. You want to keep NN, FVV, PS and this team sits in the basement.
Lord, this team is a hot mess.
Watch the video when Scottie won ROTY. There’s an eerie clip where the whole team is huddling and congratulating Scottie and Pascal is just outside of the huddle clapping and smiling like he could sense his time with the Raptors is coming to an end. I wont be surprised if FVV and Pascal are moved this summer for young pieces. I think Masai is just milking his time with those 2.
Toronto will go nowhere with the duo Pascal-Fred.I will rather play Lory and Derozan than these two.Why Nick Nurse does not give a chance to young players?People says that the bench is not good,I think that NN style of coaching and his utilization of players are not good.He has not been good for players development.His team does not have any identity.They play by guessing.