Management, coaching, the players \u002D they all played a role in a season of unfulfilled promise.
And it’s not just that they didn’t fulfill expectations and make another leap forward. This club actually went backwards in 2023.
Management then went to work on bolstering the bench and this is where they collectively failed miserably. Khem Birch, the third veteran among the reserves who might have helped a bench that scored fewer points than every team in the NBA not named the Portland Trail Blazers, also succumbed to injuries, though his were of the cumulative sort on knees that reached the point of no return.
While most of our issues with Nurse were about his late-season handling of his own future with the club, Nurse bears some of the burden for the young reserves’ inability to find their footing.Article contentAs with every head coach, there’s a mix of coaching to win and develop simultaneously but on the development side, Nurse rarely gave things a chance.
As for the players, no one outside of maybe Anunoby and possibly Siakam lived up to the expectations. And that right there might have been the biggest problem. Unrealistic expectations based on what this group did a year ago might have set the bar too high to begin with.Article content Barnes has already talked about getting in the gym and working on his shooting and his handle this summer. Improving those two areas of game will allow him to counter what opposing defences were taking away from him in his second year.Article content
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