Re: 2018 Off-Season Thread
That question was asked AFTER Lowry basically said he's not answering Raptors questions and he just wants to talk about the USA basketball stuff. So Lowry probably gave attitude back for someone asking a question about a topic Lowry literally says he's not commenting on.
Regardless, the attitude DeRozan has had since being dealt, and even the one Lowry has had for years, just makes you wonder what really goes on off the court. If DeRozan gets so upset about something like this, how did he handle the high pressure situations that are the playoffs, and more specifically, how did he react when things weren't going his way/Raptors lost. All this could explain how/why Raptors were so mentally weak in playoffs.
Breaking news. Kawhi spoke. And apparently couldn't stop talking?!
That question was asked AFTER Lowry basically said he's not answering Raptors questions and he just wants to talk about the USA basketball stuff. So Lowry probably gave attitude back for someone asking a question about a topic Lowry literally says he's not commenting on.
Regardless, the attitude DeRozan has had since being dealt, and even the one Lowry has had for years, just makes you wonder what really goes on off the court. If DeRozan gets so upset about something like this, how did he handle the high pressure situations that are the playoffs, and more specifically, how did he react when things weren't going his way/Raptors lost. All this could explain how/why Raptors were so mentally weak in playoffs.
Breaking news. Kawhi spoke. And apparently couldn't stop talking?!
“I sat down and said, ‘Do you have any questions?’ And he started firing them,” Nurse said. “And it just led us to a really easygoing (conversation). Not what I was expecting. Very smart. Very intelligent. Very engaging. Really enjoyed it … (Management) had to drag us out of there in the end because they had to go do something else. But it was great.”
Surely, as the basketball talk with Leonard went on for some 45 minutes — and Leonard, in Nurse’s words, “lit up like a Christmas tree,” at one point rising to join Nurse diagramming schemes on the whiteboard — Nurse must have been breathing a sigh of relief. The incommunicative enigma who somehow had a falling out with the gold-standard franchise in San Antonio wasn’t some petulant nightmare. Instead, he sounded very much like a typical NBA player concerned about how he’ll fit with his new team, not to mention an elite NBA player deeply hooked on the game’s intricacies.
“We could have gone forever. (Raptors management) kept knocking on the door and I was like, ‘A couple more minutes.’ Because we were really into it,” Nurse said. “It was fun to listen to his take. He asked me, ‘How are you going to use me? Where are you going to get me the ball? What do you see?’ And I told him, ‘Listen. To me, you can do pretty much everything. You can post. You can drive. You can handle it up the floor. You can play screen and roll. You can come off pindowns.’ I said, ‘Did I miss anything?’ He’s like, ‘No, that’s about it.’ I said, ‘You’ll probably be doing all that stuff.’ ”
Surely, as the basketball talk with Leonard went on for some 45 minutes — and Leonard, in Nurse’s words, “lit up like a Christmas tree,” at one point rising to join Nurse diagramming schemes on the whiteboard — Nurse must have been breathing a sigh of relief. The incommunicative enigma who somehow had a falling out with the gold-standard franchise in San Antonio wasn’t some petulant nightmare. Instead, he sounded very much like a typical NBA player concerned about how he’ll fit with his new team, not to mention an elite NBA player deeply hooked on the game’s intricacies.
“We could have gone forever. (Raptors management) kept knocking on the door and I was like, ‘A couple more minutes.’ Because we were really into it,” Nurse said. “It was fun to listen to his take. He asked me, ‘How are you going to use me? Where are you going to get me the ball? What do you see?’ And I told him, ‘Listen. To me, you can do pretty much everything. You can post. You can drive. You can handle it up the floor. You can play screen and roll. You can come off pindowns.’ I said, ‘Did I miss anything?’ He’s like, ‘No, that’s about it.’ I said, ‘You’ll probably be doing all that stuff.’ ”
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