Dave Feschuk: Load management isn’t an option for the Raptors, whether it works or not
ranked fourth and sixth, respectively. The Raptors, only a few seasons after their kid-glove treatment of Leonard helped popularize load management, are now asking their best players for load maximization.
Which was the point of a Twitter beef from former NBA coach Stan Van Gundy the other day. Van Gundy made the point that in the 1990s, NBA teams practised “more often and harder,” played a schedule that featured more back-to-back sets and were staffed by a modest contingent of player-performance specialists, usually a trainer and a strength and conditioning coach.
Durant tweeted two words in reply: “Stan spittin’” — short for “spittin’ facts.” In other words, K.D. agreed. Van Gundy, unwise to the slang and assuming Durant was disagreeing, assured Durant in an ensuing tweet he wasn’t criticizing players, merely pointing out what he sees as a league blindly following a standard of player deployment that, at least anecdotally, doesn’t seem to be producing desirable results.
It’s a great question. But for the Raptors, it’s a big-picture concern best saved for teams with the luxury of using the regular season as a runway to bigger things.— a half-game out of the final play-in spot — the Raptors won’t be in a position to pace themselves unless they shift into tank mode and begin to invent reasons to rest their best players, a bit of self-sabotage they performed during their Tampa residency a couple of seasons back to improve their draft lottery odds.
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