Bill Simmons and Ryen Russillo briefly talked about the Nick Nurse situation on the pod today
Bill Simmons podcast touch on Nick Nurse and the Rockets rumors briefly! pic.twitter.com/KL0cqTkfeK
— Apathetic (@ftank58) April 3, 2023
by efficientshelter69
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It’s joever
They never heard so many whispers about a coach leaving
The whispers of him leaving were around all season long
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Dunno if this is any importance, but before becoming an assistant at Toronto he was the head coach for the Rio Grand Valley Vipers, Houston’s G league team
Houston > Toronto I guess
Coaches have a shelf life, it appears we’re at Nurses
Eh Woj and others said that all trade roads led through Toronto and we ended up trading a pick for Jak. I don’t think Nick is definitively gone.
That said, his comments recently have been weird as hell and I really wonder if there’s a disconnect between him and the FO.
Nurse is a very good coach, but I don’t think he’s an all time great that is irreplaceable either. We can be good with or without him, but we do need better players.
It was very unusual for NN to talk so openly about his future at a pre-game press conference. He was sending a message to the Raptors FO. I’m sure he had people in his ear about negotiation tactics etc.
I know BS isn’t that popular here but near the trade deadline he did say that finding out NN’s salary was a bad sign and it looks like it’s coming true.
not saying nurse is a bad coach because he’s clearly very talented but if masai is adamant on keeping this roster together it makes sense to change coaches
I know Bill Simmons isn’t very well liked in this sub but he’s usually pretty accurate with this type of info.
He’s been here for a long time and seems to be burnt out. As much as I’d hate to see him leave it’s probably best for him and the team to go their separate ways.
He’s set a high bar when it comes to being a successful coach for any Toronto franchise, so at least he can be proud of what’s been accomplished. I just hate that this is turning into the media and fans turning on him because of one press conference.
Let’s be real, the front office fucked Nurse over. Give him one of the best rosters ever his first year then slowly degrade it into what it is now. Some great players in the starting 5 with zero talent behind them and zero of them being real stars. This is not a team to build around, you need to get off the bigger contracts and just start over already. Nurse was set up to fail with this shit roster and the fact that people are blaming him is hilarious. At least when people call out players the players actually played and played like shit. Nurse coaches the team but if you construct a roster without 3 pt shooting nobody is gonna make 3s. The only known I have against Nurse is the defensive scheme. People acting like if Nurse gave Malachi 20 mins a game he’d be an NBA 6th man or something.
i just don’t get it. presumably FO would have more intel on this yet they chose to be a buy at the deadline?
Giving Nick Nurse this God forsaken team and then saying his shelf life is up makes you a moron. No coach in the league could do shit with this roster.