The news Friday is that Nick Nurse and the Raptors are on the verge of getting some important players back to full health, which could mark the first time this season they'd operate at anything approaching full health. michaelgrange | WeTheNorth
have all heard Nurse be frank about shortcomings in their play. The results have been good and have arrived in short order, in part because to the extent you can be in Nurse’s ‘bad books’ he’s willing to turn the page quickly.. He played eight inconsequential minutes in the Raptors loss to the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday and, when asked, Nurse said he had played him “five minutes too many.”
“Sometimes I’m maybe a little too forthright or pissed off or whatever it is,” Nurse said. “Somebody says ‘Why didn’t you play him more?’ and I thought the question should have been ‘Why did you play him so much?’ I don’t know. There are lots of ways of communication. Lots of ways of getting your message across. We’ll explore all those options until we can hopefully help these guys. Like I said, it’s only for their best interest and the best interest of our team.
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