Toronto head coach Darko Rajakovic impressed with Raptors’ determination during rough season
Most fans would describe the Toronto Raptors’ 2023-24 season as tumultuous, even chaotic, with a series of trades significantly remaking the roster and then a raft of injuries and other challenges directly contributing to a 15-game losing skid.
Rajakovic was introduced as Toronto’s new head coach on June 13, with team president Masai Ujiri emphasizing at an outdoor news conference that changing the Raptors’ culture was his mandate. All those absences contributed to 15 consecutive losses, second-worst in team history, and Toronto lost 19 of its last 21 games of the season.“If you would ask me about this 12 months ago, when I was interviewing for the job, I could probably not foresee everything that came our way. If you had asked Phil Jackson, he would tell you the same thing,” Rajakovic said with a smile.
Barnes said Rajakovic was the first person to call him after he had surgery on March 4 to repair a broken hand.
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