From JLew1050: Raptors’ Lin still adjusting to his new team:
TORONTO – It was 1 p.m., roughly 45 minutes after the Toronto Raptors’ Thursday morning practice session let out, andThe newest member of the team was the only player left on the court, even outlastingLin launched jumper after jumper from various spots around the three-point arc as John Corbacio – Toronto’s 6-foot-7 video coordinator – closed out on his shots and other staffers rebounded.
He’s had to get used to the climate as well as a new jersey number , but the biggest hurdle has come on the court, where he’s had a tough time fitting in. “We’ve gotta get him more comfortable,” Nurse said, as Lin was still taking jumpers on the other end of the Raptors’ practice facility. “He’s just a little uncomfortable with me, I think, more than anything. I like to let those guys [have freedom]. I say to him, ‘Jeremy, hey, call something. You know, you get the ball in your hands and you look like you don’t know what you want to do out there.’ I say, ‘You don’t have to look at me, just call this, this or this, pick one’.
“That is kind of how I always played,” he said. “I was always more of a free space, free-flowing playmaker. That’s just kind of who I am by nature. That’s my personality. That’s probably what attracted me to this team and obviously vice-versa. We got to just make the pieces fit and [we] will.”
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