Glen Grunwald, who is now McMaster Univesity’s Athletic Director, was on TSN 1050 talking Raptors, here’s a quick summary:
- How much success boils down to luck? Says Masai “has benefiited form his dealings with the Knicks” over the years, and preferes to call it “good fortune”. This is in response to the host suggesting the current success is due to luck (Gay trade, not trading Lowry)
- Do you ever look at another GM and get cold feet since, maybe because he’s fleeced you before (reference to Dolan backing out agains Ujiri in the Lowry trade). Says it may have come down to the Knicks not wanting to give up the extra draft pick, perhaps more than Dolan being afraid of Ujiri
- Was asked about him interviewing before Dwane Casey before he hired Kevin O’Neill. Says “my gut told me that Casey probably the right guy….but sometimes when you’re trying to change a situation, you may go too far in one direction and we probably went too far towards the harder coaching style of Kevin O’Neill than the more balanced coaching style Dwane Casey would bring”
- Says “Toronto Raptors fans are too often underappreciated”, says “we didn’t have Maple Leaf square in 2001 to show off” but 2001 was similar to 2013, maybe even more dramatic than the 2013 turnaround
- Asked about the risk in making trades, says it’s tough to match team needs and does think nobody ever planned for the effect of the Rudy Gay trade because that was impossible to see
- Who does he cheer for? Raptors or Knicks. Says Raptors.
- Grunwald’s really into the Vanier Cup.
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