System and personnel: the Raptors’ defensive woes
Raptors are struggling to execute Dwane Casey’s hyperactive defensive schemes.
Raptors are struggling to execute Dwane Casey’s hyperactive defensive schemes.
With the team struggling and opponents adapting, Casey has a choice to make: diversify or stick to his guns.
Here’s audio from Dwane Casey, Patrick Patterson, and Greivis Vasquez after Toronto lost 103-95 to Charlotte.
Despite a bizarre group-think that began spreading across Raptor-land last night, the start of a prolonged west coast road trip does not somehow mark a tipping-point on the season.
Here’s audio from Dwane Casey and Amir Johnson after Toronto’s 105-91 loss to Cleveland.
Congrats to coach Casey, who guided his team to a 13-4 start to the season.
Here’s audio from Dwane Casey, Kyle Lowry and Lou Williams after Toronto hung on to beat Phoenix 104-100. Grab the iTunes feed or check us out on Stitcher on Android. There is also the plain old feed. You can also download the file (08:52, 8 MB). Or just listen below:
Jonas Valanciunas is struggling on defence, which has made it hard to the Raptors to rely on him in the ways that they had hoped they could.
There's no stopping the 11-2 Raptors as they send a signal of intent with a clean sweep of the week, with victims including LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Here’s audio from Dwane Casey, Bruno Caboclo, DeMar DeRozan, Greivis Vasquez and Jonas Valanciunas after Toronto’s 124-83 win over Milwaukee.
The podders look to make sense of Dwane Casey's rotations in the aftermath of a week that saw the Raptors punch out the Magic and Jazz, but fail another early Eastern test against the Bulls.
Tim Chisholm looks at the Raptors hot start to the season, and examines why it's commendable despite it being early.