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Topic Started: Jun 14 2018, 03:14:47 AM (11 Views)
lasky1994
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Whatever the case, the Bay Street palace intrigue will be a footnote by the time Nurse gets around to coaching his first game (unless his first game Nike Air Max Tavas Femme is against the Pistons). Which doesn’t mean Nurse’s arrival won’t be met with a skeptical eye.

Toronto’s Adidas Nmd Dames Plan A, don’t forget, was Mike Budenholzer, whose brief interaction with Ujiri ended with Budenholzer taking Milwaukee’s head-coaching job (and a timely ESPN report that the Raptors didn’t offer Budenholzer theirs). Plan B was a month-long coaching search that saw Ujiri interview a hefty list of candidates, among them four-year Spurs assistant Ettore Messina, who was the finalist in what became a two-man race with Nurse.

Hiring the 58-year-old Messina, who built a reputation as one of Europe’s sharpest tacticians during his run to four Euroleague championships as a head coach, would have been an intriguing, bold choice. Hiring the guy who has spent five years sitting beside Toronto’s head coach — after insisting Toronto’s Nike Air Max 2016 Womens problem against the Cavaliers in the playoffs was coaching — is something less than that.

Not that Nurse doesn’Nike Air Presto Femme t deserve a good, long chance to prove himself; that goes without saying, and he’ll get it. But it’s worth wondering what measurable new value Nurse can bring to the situation. He was clearly empowered as the team’s offensive co-ordinator. He took an in-season victory lap when U.S.-based writers pointed to Toronto’s newly designed offence — which Nurse got credit for authoring — as the key to an unexpected performance bump that saw the Raptors win the East’s No. 1 seed for the first time in franchise history. But if Nurse was calling out the magic adjustments necessary to beat LeBron James — if he had the answers that could have halted that ugly Cleveland sweep — nobody seemed to be listening.

One league source suggested Nike Free 5.0 Mujerthat on a bench occupied by the defence-first Casey and defensive co-ordinator Rex Kalamian, Nurse’s offence-forward suggestions were never fully heard nor understood. So that’s the argument for making the change. Nurse, the line of thinking goes, couldn’t be the innovator he’s capable of being with an old-school head coach at the wheel. If that’s true we’ll only know the extent of Nurse’s talents when he’s fully strapped into the driver’s seat. Nurse’s supporters expect he’ll find a way to hold players accountable in a ways Casey couldn’t. Wish him luck, because he’ll need it.
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