Luka Doncic gave the Raptors fits when they had a mostly healthy and full roster to defend him two weeks ago.
In that game Nurse had Siakam, Barnes, Achiuwa and OG Anunoby to throw in waves at Doncic and he still torched them.
“I think it makes it hard to do that only because of what happens if O.G.’s not out there, subs out or he’s in trouble,” Nurse said. “Like, you’ve got to be careful because he’s our absolute number one option on offence right now too. Right?tap here to see other videos from our team“So, will he have his moments where we let him guard ?,” Nurse began. “Yeah, I would imagine so. But we’ll have lots of schemes put in to do some things. I’d imagine that to be the case as well.
Instead, he’s going to have to piecemeal it together with Anunoby and potentially a returning Fred VanVleet and maybe Thad Young and Khem Birch.Article content “I think that that’s my thought in general is we’ve done a heck of a job, man, we’ve really played some good basketball, we did not in the second half the other night, and most of that came down to execution,” Nurse said.
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