Raptors Fans Are Not Ready For This Difficult Conversation..

Raptors Fans Are Not Ready For This Difficult Conversation..

The Toronto Raptors straight up have been bad this season the roster is poorly constructed some players are underperforming but adding on to the reason why they’ve been so bad is the coaching has been poor as well but a lot of raptors fans aren’t ready for that conversation but ready or not here it

Comes today let’s get into it welcome everybody to amateur sports number two the second channel in the amateur production Network for additional Toronto Raptors content and sometimes in videos just like this one we can do response videos to the discourse surrounding a video I did on the main

Channel and questions that I asked in that main Channel video so an opportunity to rebuttal my stance from the main Channel video where recently I spoke about dark rakovich and how I have lost all faith in him as a head coach I don’t think it’s going to work in

Toronto I don’t think it’s ever going to work and look I’m not saying fire the guy perhaps it looks bad perhaps like you really want to see what it’s like for the season but I don’t think this is ever going to work and he’s been bad as

A head coach this season if you haven’t seen the video perhaps you should go back and watch watch that one if you’re thinking to yourself F that I’m watching this video I don’t want to go see another one well the synopsis of that video pretty much is yes the roster’s

Been bad yes some of the players individually haven’t been great but also the coaching has been bad and it’s time to acknowledge that it has been very bad for the Raptors this season consistently dark rakovich does not come out with any semblance of a game plan and when he

Does often times it’s not good now we had a rare occasion in that loss to the 76ers where the game plan out the gate was good but as adjustments were made by the opposition the Raptors failed to counter that and in the end the Sixers comfortably beat the Toronto Raptors yes

That’s the Sixers but there’s so many examples this season where the Raptors come out flat there’s so many examples this season where they don’t come out with any sort of game plan and I’m sat there wondering like what are we even trying to do on the floor what is this

Team even trying to do not to mention the fact that we have so many good Defenders and this team is very much bottom half of the league and defense I haven’t checked in a while but I assume we’re bottom 10 in the NBA now in defensive rating so things are not going

Well and it shouldn’t be hard for Darko to get good defense out of a team that has OG anobi Scotty Barnes Pascal sakam yakob purle prua Chris bue like Dennis schroer is not even a bad Defender like needi go on with the caliber of defensive pieces year that should not be

Darko’s issue the issue should be on offense and we understand that there there are these offensive issues with the team 100% but he makes it so much harder on himself with the caliber of offense that he plays the brand of offense that he plays he’s coaching the

Team he wants not the team he has and he’s traing Dennis Schroeder like he’s the best player on this team when in reality he probably the fifth maybe sixth best player on this team cakam is an afterthought to any sort of game plan most of the time and even when he was

The focal point of the game plan in the first quarter against the Sixers the Raptors won that the Raptors were winning the Raptors were successful than the rest of the game it was like he was an afterthought once again so all of these things accumulate to me not being

A fan of Darko and thinking that he’s a bad coach and the Raptors got this one wrong as head coach so I asked the community as well their thoughts on the events this season their thoughts on dark rakovich so far this season and naturally I uh I assumed I was going to

Be in the minority with this one I knew this was a bit of a hotter take lots of people want to give Darko the benefit of the doubt I’ve done that too many times this season so again I’m pretty much fed up with it so I asked simply in the

Community on the main channel will Dark rakovich ever succeed as an NBA head coach in Toronto and the 56% of people so the majority of people here say yes he will succeed as an NBA head coach in Toronto um I left this question a bit more open-ended to be like on the no

Side of things now that I’m reading it back here like will he ever succeed in Toronto I think that’s very very unlikely if I had asked you think dark rakovich needs more time to really come up with a proper opinion on him as a coach I think in that sense that most of

The like even more people we maybe even get to like 70 to 80% of people saying that yes he does need more time for for us to really see things because the roster has been so bad which I you know I get it’s fair but I’ve seen enough

Here we’ve had a good sample here and I am I I’m just done with it I made the video about it and to be honest um was surprised by the amount of likes on the video percentage wise I did that video on Darko it performed like decently well from a viewership standpoint and

90.3% of the people who cared to share their opinion uh like the video compared to dislikes that as humbly as possible is on the lower end of things for my typical videos typically I’m in the 95 plus range on average I’d say n so 90%

Is a bit lower and I assume this but but honestly I assume more dislikes would come on this one because of the harsh words against Darko I wanted to try really hard I tried I didn’t want to try I tried really hard to like him as a

Coach you know he’s a likable guy he’s just not a very good NBA head coach and it’s looking like candidates like Jordy Fernandez were the better options and you know I don’t like obviously the Canada stuff in the World Cup in the summer was impressive for Fernandez but

Like we need to stop treating like that’s all he’s done he’s the associate head coach of the Kings he runs an excellent offense with the Sacramento Kings and people always say well he had Shay with Canada he has Deen Fox Damon sabonis with the Sacramento Kings with

Darko in Toronto he’s got Pascal cakam who’s made an All-Star team twice who’s made an all-nba team twice Scotty Barnes if the Raptors had a better record would have a great chance of being an All-Star this season so you’ve Got Talent here You’ve Got Talent on the roster like

Schroeder an anobi Barnes seak and per that’s a good crop of players for your starting five like maybe Dennis sh is not quite NBA caliber starting point guard but you have three excellent forwards three potential Max contract forwards cakam is on a Max and might get

Another one I think OG could creep up towards a Max this summer and Barnes is about to get a rookie Max extension like these are three extremely talented players and you have a very talented Center as well like certainly you know as far as starting center ago in the

NBA perhaps I’d say he’s top 15 but like a very serviceable piece to have there Rim protection wise and scoring wise in yaka purle this team should not be 11 and 17 this team should not struggle to get stops this team should not struggle to score consistently and all these

Things rign true for this team and as much as like you know construction wise there issues coaching is an issue as well like the biggest thing of course is the roster stuff but coaching is an issue but people want to put their blinders up for some reason they don’t

Want to have this conversation because like they think it’s a small sample size like it is like decently small sample size but it’s enough of a sample here now at 28 games where there should at least be progression there should at least be okay this is getting better

We’re starting to do this this is starting to work once we like fine-tune this it’s going to be working we don’t have any of that if anything the team is worse off than it was to start the season certainly like they were hovering around 500 to start the season now

They’re not they’re way behind pace of 500 there’s some easier games coming up yes where you know hopefully you can beat the Jazz hopefully you can beat the the Wizards hopefully you can beat the Pistons and in the mix of that it’s the Boston Celtics game but like certainly

Three of the next four games are very winnable but do I even trust the Raptors to win those winnable games I don’t I don’t have faith in the team I don’t have faith in dark rakovich to get game plans right and for that reason like we’re going to struggle like it’s not

Going to be likely a walk in the park here and a lot of the times even though the roster is bad it’s still good enough to hide darko’s deficiencies like cakam is good enough that when Darko refuses to put him in any sort of game plan

Sakam still finds ways to carve his way through traffic and get to the bucket Scotty Barnes too Dennis Schroeder doesn’t really do it but he stumbles into some good nights from three because he’s always open because teams do not care about him that much on the

Perimeter so a lot of the ways darko’s coaching this team are being masked by the topend talent yeah like you know the bench sucks but we know it’s bad so playing four bench players at once with Scotty Barnes probably isn’t a very good strategy for your lineups there’s just a whole host of

Things Darko is doing to make his life harder it’s using schroer too much using shakum too little it’s the lineups it’s the lack of adjustment it’s the lack of game plan like using a three-game win streak buying guys dinner they win three games in a row as a motivational tool I

Don’t know I just feel like there’s better ways in the NBA to work on this motivational aspect that clearly is lacking like it was lacking in that Sixers game the Raptors in 15 out of 28 games this season have been down by 10 in the first half 10 or more in the

First half in 21 out of 28 games they’ve been down by 10 or more at some point in the game so many issues that you a tribute to coaching along with the front office so to me let’s not like waste these years here people are saying I’d ra I want to see

Darko with you know a good core a good young core that he can work with and develop I’d rather see a better Coach with that core I don’t want to waste a good potential young core of the future that we don’t have yet but if we get it

At some point I don’t want to waste that young core on darko’s coaching CU I don’t think it’s very good and that’s all there is to to it on my end so people are you know afraid to make these bold claims usually I stay I I don’t I

Don’t shy away I I usually try to give people time not make bold claims like this but I I have no choice here it’s been bad and dark ray yakovich is a big reason why and 56% of people thinking he’ll succeed in Toronto like what does success look like finishing 10th and

Losing the first round of the playing tournament that might be what success to find for some people this season seon but to me that’s not I want to see progression the wins losses like whatever that’s 1117 is bad but I can forgive that if I see progress and I see

Good performances but even in games the Raptors win this season I’m leaving the game stressed and upset because they played so poorly and Darko is not doing anything in regards to solving those things so that’s why I have to say it’s been bad he has been bad and my faith in

Him is gone because even when the game plan is staring in the face that would work he doesn’t go to it so what do you guys think do you think this is ever going to work do you rate dark rakovich as an NBA head coach give me your

Thoughts and opinions in the comments down below smash that like button if you enjoyed um I guess smash that dislike button if you didn’t and uh I’ll see you guys soon on this channel for some more videos going to take a bit of the holiday period off so uh won’t be I mean

There hasn’t been consistent videos here anyways but doing my best happy holidays Mery Christmas if you celebrate check out my other channels check out this video you might like and I’ll see you again very soon for more from amateur sports 2

Is it time for Toronto Raptors fans to face the hard truth about the coaching struggles this season? In this video, we delve into the issues that have surfaced under head coach Darko Rajakovic’s leadership. While it’s evident that the roster may have its challenges, there’s a growing concern that Rajakovic’s coaching deficiencies are contributing to the team’s struggles.

Join us as we break down the performance of the Toronto Raptors this season, addressing not only the poorly constructed roster and underperforming players but also shedding light on the aspects of Rajakovic’s coaching style that might be hindering the team’s success. It’s crucial for fans to acknowledge these concerns and have an open conversation about the changes that may be needed for the team to thrive.

Have you noticed any specific coaching issues with Darko Rajakovic? Share your thoughts and opinions in the comments below. Let’s engage in a respectful discussion about the Toronto Raptors and the path forward for the team.

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