Scott Stinson: Nick Nurse was the ideal coach for the Raptors of 2018-19, but the Raptors of the past couple of seasons needed someone better suited to work with a roster that had a lot of youth
Nurse was the ideal coach for the Raptors of 2018-19. But the Raptors of the past couple of seasons, it seems evident now, needed someone better suited to work with a roster that had a lot of youth.Article content
“This is an opportunity for us to reset, to refocus, to put into place the personnel and the players who will help us reach our goal of winning our next championship,” Ujiri said in a statement released by the Raptors. But if Nurse, unwilling to give much rope to bench players like Malachi Flynn, Dalano Banton and Christian Koloko, wasn’t the perfect coach for a group that needed some of its young guys to grow even at the expense of short-term difficulty, there’s no guarantee that the next coach will be able to do much better. The Raptors that ended their season with a Play-In Tournament loss to the Chicago Bulls are a team that lacked shooting in a league that prioritizes shooting.
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