Nick Nurse has projected a sense of calm and cool despite the high expectations. Now he will have to show he can give the Raptors a better chance in the hand-to-hand combat of playoff coaching. (michaelgrange)
Nick Nurse doesn’t do exasperated. He can barely muster grumpy. He’s been a professional basketball coach for more than half his life, but his eyes don’t have the requisite small bags of coal underneath them. He has all his own hair. It’s not grey. Rather than a ragged coach’s rasp, his voice remains discernible after an 82-game schedule.finished second in the NBA in wins, but Nurse undoubtedly led the league in giggles.
“I think just his demeanour,” Lowry said when asked what has impressed him about Nurse in his first year as an NBA head coach after five years as Dwane Casey’s assistant. “He’s kind of been like, ‘Hey, we’ll come in, get our work in, go about our business.’ Get in, get out, do this, figure it out as we go. I think that’s been the difference. I think he’s been very solid on knowing what he’s capable of doing and what we’re capable of doing as a team and not forcing anything.
It all sounded great, but as Mike Tyson said when he was in his terrifying prime “everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” It has worked out better than OK, even though the Raptors had talent but almost no continuity. When a family emergency pulled OG Anunoby away from the team in training camp, it was the beginning of a nearly unprecedented string of lineup disruptions that was the running theme of the season. Lowry is the only returning starter from the team that finished with a franchise-record 59 wins a year ago. Nurse has drawn up 22 different starting lineups.
“My thing is I don’t know if this call is right or that coverage is right or this play call is right, but let’s go out of the timeout on the same page and find out,” said Nurse.
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