Nick Nurse is more focused on out-coaching his peers than he is about beating them for individual awards. (loung_s)
“Those guys obviously did a great job,” Nurse said of Budenholzer and Donovan winning. “You can’t argue with the Bucks’ record and how great OKC did after everybody had lower expectations for them. So those guys are very deserving.”
said of Toronto constantly flying under the radar. “We did it all last year and we got a lot of attention when we got Kawhi, and then we got talked down for the whole year and then when you win you get all the credit you could ever ask for, and more.”Take Monday’s game as an example. The Raptors and Heat are two very evenly-matched clubs, blessed with talent and a scrappiness that ensures they’re always in games.
With 14.9 seconds left in the contest, Miami had the ball down just two and were looking to tie or even win the game, but they never got the chance because of what has now become the Raptors’ signature in the Nurse era: Scrambling, switching, suffocating, all-out defence that here resulted in a turnover andAfterwards, Nurse spoke glowingly of his team’s defence down the stretch before that final, stifling sequence you can see above.
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