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Give me Ime all day every day 24/7
How different would the Raptors record have been this season if Otto Porter hadn’t been injured early on, and Jakob had been here a full year, I wonder?
Key word is accountable. Nurse barely gave the bench players any minutes. No growth with the bench players. Draft has been poor also. No development from 905. Free agency has been bad also. Not many wants to come here. It’s no secret. Letting serg walk wrong. Also not holding pascal for his mistakes. Giving up 1st rounder for thadius young was really bonehead move. Giving up first rounders is wrong. Can’t go this route especially when most players look to stay in USA.
Good points made guys
We put olive oil in a Lamborghini and got mad when it didn’t perform up to the standards of a Lamborghini…I gurantee firing Nick nurse won’t benefit our team unless we also trade Fred and Pascal. It starts with their play on the court, they don’t have the requisite mindset or leadership qualities to actually benefit the rest of their team the way our stars of the past did. What was the number one difference last year to this year? Pascal had the ball more then anyone and everyone else was consistently out of rhythm.. coincidence? Idk
We fired a COTY when he won COTY and we were better for it.
I don't worry ONE BIT about anything this organization does, when it does something.
I'd be in full panic mode if we lost Masai. That's it
Will! “Toronto doesn’t have anyone close to a Jayson Tatum on their roster right now?” I’d argue that Pascal is pretty damn close. Perhaps I’m biased, but I think he deserves more respect than that.
Dowtin Jr needs to get signed
Define accountability. What didn’t Nick do? Bench Fred?
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I LOVE Nick Nurse and want to thank him for everything he’s done. I also think Nurse is more of a finished polish coach. We need a reset of player culture and development. Someone who’s gonna push the players to play HARD every night but also develop. Since I first heard about the possibility of Nurse possibly being fired one coach I’ve thought would really be a fit is Kenny Atkinson! His teams always play super hard and he’s really good at developing talent. Not to mention he’s got winning experience now and is assisting under a fantastic coach in steve Kerr so you know he knows how to deal with locker room friction and differences. He’d be my choice. Thoughts?
Nick Nurse certainly isn’t the best steward of any developing players’ growth. All tacticians are not good managers and motivators. This is an urban-minded league.
Scottie’s ascent is our priority now, and we will be just fine having moved on from Nurse as long as Scottie reaches his potential. We have the opportunity to build an incredibly dynamic system around his special skills – as he is a true unicorn. Seems like the life had been sucked out of this team under the current coaching staff.
We have a really deep frontcourt of the right physical profiles to be competent defensively at high intensity. But we are sorely lack perimeter shot creation and penetration. Fortunately we’ve got a lottery pick and the best scouting program in the league. I see us as a 50 win team if Fred is traded.
Clearly Masai is saying he is going to intervene in the roles the current roster has, for players they decide to keep. He let Nurse allow Fred to do whatever…. to take too many shots for example. Masai isn't going to let this continue to happen, based upon his comments.
Easier to blame the coach and fire him then actually look at your roster and improve it
Not surprised.
I truly believe NN didn’t want to come back..
He did all he could coaching, and the players didn’t produce.
That’s the main story.
He was a scapegoat for the bigger problem. Which is player talent
Kawhi got the Raptors that championship, which led to Nurse getting COTY the following year.
Going back to last year, Nick instituted a hell bent playoff style frenetic defense that was fun to watch. the thinking was, from the coaches perspective, without a whole lot of shooters, offense was going to come from the defense This lasted maybe 25 games and the players gave up on it. It wasn't sustainable and all the players realized it. This was repeated at the beginning of this year and lasted maybe 10 games and the players said "uh uh" . You can't play playoff style defense for 80 games. And over the last two seasons, Raptors starters lead the league in minutes. To talk about the players lacking accountability is not really seeing the whole picture. Masai said last year were here to win….he said the same thing starting this season…only, it was a flawed roster. I am not saying NN is a perfect coach but when your boss says "WIN" your going to ride your starters beyond reasonable limits and shorten your bench. In hindsight this should have been a rebuilding year.
Nick was tuned out by the end.
I wish we tanked, but now we wont have to wonder 'what if'.
Fred is next because if you watched things after the deadline, Fred didnt really come through. He can earn 30mil somewhere else. Regardless of a new coach, I dont see his comradre with anyone on this team.
Masai has not mentioned GTJ at all in this presser, and similarly in previous pressers. I would be very surprised if they sign him this summer.
Kawhi Leonard push the team to be better was a bigger upgrade than Dwayne Casey.
Flynn needed to play more sometimes in development you lose as you are striving to get to the top living with mistakes and growing is apart of life playing a guy 40mins because you don't want the growing pains is dumb scared ego-driven. The Raptors needed to tank naturally trying to develop players more.
Terrible effin move….
@Jason Choy Go cheer for the leafs then. Raptors Nation can do without fans like yourself.
Home wrecker would be a great coaching hire.
As far as accountability, why were you guys not as frank with your comments during the year? Media needs to be part of holding the organization accountable.
Masai and the players also has to be held accountable.
Pascal, Fred and OG as our core have run its course. It’s time for big changes.
30:00 — 3:20 I never thought of it that way. I've always assumed stars are created by giving promising young players a high number of reps as the top options on a bad teams.
That pistons slander is going to come back to haunt you when they get wemby
Why do you keep looking on the screen or monitor, Will? So annoying 😂
Wasn’t given the proper tools this season to win and it showed. Great coach, he will succeed somewhere else.
Dominant defence, quick transitions and stellar bench are the key elements of the Raptors. Have to improve distance shooting.
Raptors are delusional. They treated Terrence Man and Serge like 🐕 🛷 🐶 🦮 🐕🦺 🐩.