Samson Folk is joined by Michael Grange to discuss the latest in Raptors news, Canada basketball, and the league at large.
0:00 – Introductions
1:00 – The Nick Nurse Situation
8:46 – The Raptors failing strategy
11:40 – Why is the Raptors roster underperforming?
14:54 – The Raptors bet on shooting development
21:50 – How do the Raptors build going forward?
23:50 – Trading Pascal Siakam
27:25 – Scottie + Jakob pairing
31:40 – Is Nick Nurse returning?
36:00 – How has the league changed while Mike has covered it?
39:00 – Has the rise in skill helped bring about parity?
43:15 – Will Rings Culture die off?
45:30 – Team Canada Basketball
55:55 – Basketball in Canada
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10 Comments
The Raptors can't draft or sign blank slates, basically non-shot making forwards expect turn them into KD in the PG, SG, SF, PF, C position, it's like cooking rice in water only and expect full coarse meal with meat, vegetables, desert and beverages etc., but none was prepared…I digress.
Fantastic stuff Samson 🙂
Samson + Grange! Finally! You guys are great. Keep it up :))
Really appreciate the time stamps
Thank you for giving Nurse a break. Aside from his unprompted presser about his job, I don't really him doing anything wrong. Look at GSW with generational talent and really high draft picks, they still cannot incorporate great picks with the current core and win so how is Nurse supposed to do it with no shooting and fake All-stars
yessir Samson is the man
loved the talk of Canada basketball, pumped for World Cup. Glad to see you mentioned kassius Robertson who is an absolute sharpshooter and looked so good in the red and white. I`m really hoping for at least 8 or 9 NBA players. As much as I like the wintercore guys didn`t work out so well in the 2019 World Cup with only 2 NBA players.SGA,Olynyk, and Barrett are much needed along with role players like Dort and Nickeil Alexander Walker to have chance to maybe medal or at least get out of pool and advance to Olympics. Chris Boucher would be great coming off bench and taking Khem Birchs spot. Just watched Canada China game from Pacific Rim exhibition games in Vancouver from 2018 on youtube and Boucher was electric in game 1. Crowd was buzzing with him on court as he was swatting shots and had some baskets. Figured i`d mention that because heard lots say even in the media that he has never played for Canada.
Enjoyed that wire-to-wire and enormously. Two of my favourites chopping it up, at such an interesting time in Raptors' history and Canadian international basketball. Wide range of topics and some (tactful) candour from Michael, too. Always appreciated.
Like the Dean of a faculty and everyone's favourite grad student. 😉
A three-way with Eric Koreen would be awesome! 😊
Great interview, basketball in Canada is on the cusp of something really special
Grange is saying what we all see. Gotta make a trade to get some serious talent to this roster.