Good coaching in the NBA is nothing like pornography; we almost never know it when we see it. Coaching is one of the most opaque duties in the NBA, as the vast majority of a coach’s job is invisible to the average viewer. You don’t see the entire role of a coach on the television…
When Jeremy Lin got up to speak, he was embarrassed. This season the nine-year veteran finally recovered from the injuries that plagued him during his prime years, won an NBA Championship with the Toronto Raptors, and was a returning hero to a region in which he is beloved to an unparalleled degree. Yet he still…
Patrick McCaw is an enigma. Writing this review is complicated, because everything regarding his NBA career is nothing short of hilarious. Even how he became a Toronto Raptor is hysterical. The dude won two back-to-back championships with the Golden State Warriors, and when free agency began and the Warriors presented him with a qualifying offer,…
Last summer we all held our heads high after we learned that OG Anunoby wasn’t included in the Kawhi Leonard-DeMar DeRozan trade. After all, after Anunoby’s rookie season, some people had proclaimed him a “Kawhi-lite”. Giddy at the thought of how high Anunoby’s star could rise, we all wondered if he would learn from Leonard,…
He wasn't called on often during games, but Eric Moreland is still an NBA Champion with the Toronto Raptors after a roundabout 2018-19 season.
Last summer, after the Toronto Raptors traded two of the team’s weaker defenders in DeMar DeRozan and Jakob Poeltl for two All-Defensive Team players in Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green, it was clear that the Raptors had a newfound identity: Defense. For a franchise that has been around since 1995, the Raptors on-court identity was…
While most expect the Raptors to start a rebuild after this season when their cap space opens up, the team in fact kicked-off rebuilding over a year ago.
When Nick Nurse was hired to replace Dwane Casey as head coach of the Toronto Raptors in the summer of 2018, he was regarded as an innovative, unorthodox, creative, and ultimately experiential coach who wasn’t afraid to try new things. He said as much during his introductory press conference: “We’ve got to be innovative. We’ve…
At 25 years old, Siakam has the opportunity to become the focal point asset for the Raptors.
The NBA Summer League is a strange viewing experience. Sure, teams are competing against one another and are hoping to ultimately win the championship, but in the end wins and losses don’t really matter. In the grand scheme of things, the value of a team’s holistic performance is superseded by the play of each individual…
It somehow feels like it never existed. That’s how fast the NBA moves. That’s how fast, and agonizingly slow, the NBA playoffs work.
Jordan Loyd knew that he had missed the moment the ball left his hands. After clawing the Raptors back from a 28 point deficit with a foray of tough buckets, Loyd darted open for a corner three to tie the game. The ball took a funky trajectory as it made its way to the hoop,…