It was the perfect deadly storm from a Raptors’ perspective.
NO FUN AT ALL
Nurse, who loves a challenge as much as the next competitive guy, was asked if there was even a small part of him that actually enjoyed trying to defy the odds on a night like Wednesday when half his scoring was either in street clothes on the bench or at home in bed sick. “Once in a while, you might enjoy the challenge, but not for three weeks in a row here,” Nurse said. “It’s getting, it’s not that enjoyable. Listen, it’s not the end of the world, and it’s not like we haven’t played very well, because I think we have. If you look at some of our metrics, which I know you guys love to do, I think we’re still top 10 in offence and defence in the league and all that stuff, with all these injuries we’ve had for multiple weeks.
Then Nurse got to what exactly it is that a steady rash of injuries takes away from his enjoyment of the game. “It causes so much other time spent away from focusing on the game,” he said. “On trying to figure out when this guy is back, where this guy is, when his treatment is, when his MRI is, where he is, is he traveling, is he not traveling? There’s just so much. Is he sick? Is it COVID? “There are so many other things that you’re spending and occupying, and that’s not what you really want to do,” Nurse said. “We want to focus in on the games and putting all of our energies there.
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