The Toronto Raptors front office is reportedly not happy with Nick Nurse due to certain comments he made over the course of this season. Additionally, a league insider indicated “significant changes” are coming to the Toronto Raptors this off-season. Furthermore, we have an unfortunate report regarding Raptors fans and DeMar DeRozan’s daughter. Ben Rogers breaks it all down and more!
SHOW INDEX:
0:00 Intro
0:26 Raptors NOT HAPPY With Nick Nurse
4:38 “Significant Changes” Coming to Raptors
7:31 Absolutely Disgusting Report Regarding DeRozan’s Daughter
9:33 Blazers Fans Really Want Siakam and O.G.
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35 Comments
I thought Bobby Webster, and Ujiri press conference was supposed to be today?
This fan base seats can't handle losing Siakam, he is the heart. Another great way to lose seats at TO next year is to keep FVV. MLSE first needs profits, fans 90% can see that it is FVV, and NN holding this team back with there selfishness.
These reporters definitely know there facts, risk alot, wouldn't report it if there wasn't some facts.
Biggest one here is this team didn't prove it was better after Masai Ujiri called them out. He said it big changes will come if it doesn't improve
trade siakam before we give a 3rd option a albatross max contract, imagine giving hype beast julius randle 50 million per year we're in basketball hell for years.
extend o.g now and rebuild.
scrub fred's history on the team we don't want future players learning from his self centered "me me me" approach.
Nurse needs to gone. Don’t resign Vanvleet, Trade Siakiam and OG for proven younger players that can start right away.
Man that sucks, NN at his happiest was great to have as a coach. He was never exceptional.. we meme'd the hell out of his face. But we also put up a shrine for the guy. We all enjoyed how he beat coach Bud with a healthy lineup with our 905/bench as starters. But this year was something… I feel like he made Scottie a wedge rather than embracing him and letting him fly. Scottie was ready for it, Freddie and Skills weren't. I don't think our culture flourished the way it should have and that's a shame.
I think the next year will honestly require some patience. We obviously won’t have our pick for next year (just so we can push for the play in and lose 🙄🙄🙄) so there isn’t any incentive to tank, but at the same time we know that we aren’t doing shit next year. Resign who will still retain trade value in the next offseason like GTJ and Poetl. Fred needs to be gone, he will be overpaid and be a bad contract to whatever team eventually overpays him. As far as trades this offseason, If there’s a good deal for OG or Siakam then you take it, if not then they will just have to play it patiently and wait until the deadline when a team gets desperate. But they WILL have to be traded, especially since siakam will be a UFA in 2024. OG would likely decline his player option for a 25-30 million dollar contract depending on his production. Don’t make the same mistake that they’ve already made with FVV and not trading them when their value is somewhat decent and eventually having to let them walk
I heard it was Ryker sending threats to the 9 year old.
NN is no longer a lovable character, he turned into an arrogant and dare I say bad coach. We have good talent on this team. Canada is n#2 in NBA players, and NN haven’t done squat with Team Canada as their coach. Sign and trade FVV and GTJ for Kyrie and Bullock
On an other note, Barnes played baaad
I have a front office connection and they were questioning Nick's ability half way through LAST year.
Some people on the team GOT to go. Need to bring in new people who can hit free throws and 3s consistently. Starters AND bench players. This has been a long time coming.
Im not going say a change is not needed but its not all nn fault. Theu like last in 3 point shooting in this day of age is crippling…
Raptors Front office cares a lot about player development. and lets be honest, there was absolutely zero player development this year, and Nurse is to blame for that. He has got to go
You have to remember the raptors got a lot of bandwagon fans after the championship so those people might not have any real attachment to guys like Demar and these are likely the people online making threats to his daughter. That being said this group was trash!! The fact you had people out there that strongly believed in this group to the point they were willing to make threats to 9 year old speaks to the delusional section of this this fan base. When the raptors loss this game I felt no major let down because I knew this team wasn’t good. You guys had all season to watch this team and yet some of you still convinced yourselves this team was good enough to go somewhere which is baffling. What were you watching all season ? 🤷♂️Come on now . The season ended in a way that should not have been shocking because this team was never good and that’s why they were in the play in. Pat Beverly didn’t tell a lie when he told Bobbly I knew they were trash. I’ve been saying this for months on here because I sat and watch this team closely and knew this team wasn’t good. People need to stop saying “our record doesn’t indicate how good we are” 😂😂😂 what ? You had the whole season to watch this team and you’re still talking this nonsense ? We had good moments but this team wasn’t good, and major changes are needed. This team plays a boring style of basketball even when they win. They can’t make shots in big games in winning time, and I’m sick of the constant 5 minutes scoring droughts that’s now part of the identity of this core. it’s been like this with this core since Kawhi left and it’s time for major changes with this team. We need to change the way we draft and start drafting players that can actually score the ball, and not just these guys that can play defense but “ we’ll teach them how to shoot later” This is why we don’t have any real clutch shot makers and we struggle to make the big shots in big moments. Very rare you will find a player that could never really shoot that turns into a clutch shot maker. We have enough of these guys already.
Yata, yata, yata, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out NN and FVV! Since the Bulls lost last night, who is going to join me in trolling their YT fans comments sections? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Trade Siakam for a lottery pick lets go for the full rebuild. I don’t understand why this is still a discussion to keep Siakam in his prime years when were not good enough to contend or bad enough to tank when we have no pick next year. Go all in this draft
You trust the report? What they said during trade deadline?
Ignore the signifigant changes talk. Why? Simply because like in Utrah most of the reallygood american players do not want to play in CANADA. Masi and Bobby draft try to draft players that won't leave for free agency and the USA as soon as they can. The other team want our good players to leave so they can sign them . They are still embarrassed by how we won the Championship
I watched last night how the fans in Miami were making plenty of noise when Miami took foul shots against the BULLS. If the Raptors fans did that, then Derozan's daughter could not have won the game for the Bulls. Basketball is not GOLF! Cheering when the Raprtors take foul shots is not distracting
What do you expect when he only plays 6 man rotation
I’m sure DeRozan doesn’t love Toronto anymore at all now after that
Let NN and his son Fred go will be the right moves to make.
Vanvleet is the cancer, he doesn't belong in the nba
For everyone calling for Nurse`s head, I`ll be interested to see how he does coaching Canada at world cup with a potential good roster. SGA,Murray, Barrett, Olynyk,Dort and maybe Brooks and Mathurin if they want. No excuses, should challenge for a medal, will Nurse press the right buttons though.
it’s the internet, it’s the Wild West. Anybody anonymously could have sent a threat. Judging by the reaction from Demar post game, he seemed like he felt his daughter was safe
I'm not happy with FO. They have soooooo much accountability for where the Raps are currently and no one is addressing that. At all. Who do you think was responsible for Raps to overachieve last year? 48 win team and no one says anything about NN. Offseason deficiencies are NOT addressed. No centre after Embiid just wrecked us, no backup PG for the minutes police. (shooting was addressed but thwarted by OPJ's toe). Now here we are. Raps went 18-12 since trade deadline. With a proper center they were good enough. But damage was done. GTJ was done. NN saying what he said prior to 76ers game, he's done. Getting absolutely destroyed on the 2nd b2b game vs Boston with no resistance, team chemistry done (something wrong with the team for sure). But on paper they were good enough now with Jakob.
In fact they were good enough to beat the Bulls. But losing by 4 points and missing 18 EFFIN' Free throws?! Raps bitch, moan and complain about NEVER getting the whistle to go their way. And finally when it does…. FINALLY when it does and they have a shot at potentially over 30pts at the charity stripe…?! WTF. No. Apparently they are not good enough. 18-36 and you lose by 4 points. No. You are not mentally tough enough to go on.
Blow it up. Draft a Point Guard. Let GTJ walk and take the huge L… but then again, he may sign the option at current value and then trade him. You cannot lock into a 4yr contract unless he is a starter, if not he seems to disconnect. Get Freddie to sign the Option then trade him. He is getting blown by. I love FVV but you cannot lock into 29yo a PG that has suddenly become slow of foot for 4 more years at over 30M. Keep him at 25M or get draft capital. I love Pascal but he cannot stay on this team for the next couple of years; he is win-now material. Trade him for draft/youth capital. He will win another chip i'm telling you. BUT it will not be on the Raps in the next 2 years that i am sure. One of Pascal or FVV needs to go imo. Rebuild the focus around Scottie that way.
Keep OG and develop both he and Scottie and work their strengths in tandem. OG as shooter, Scottie a passer. Both are physical bodies that can and should dominate paint with tighter handles and aggressive into the chest attempts at buckets. Scottie complained that he needs conditoning, hell yeah you do if you are expected to play 35+min per game; MY GOSH STOP RUNNING OUR STARTERS DEAD AND GET SOME RELIABLE BENCH PIECES FINALLY!!! My gosh, Masai, how many more times are we gonna scream this? Do you think there is some kinda coincidence that NN runs his starteres to the ground and never plays bench? After a 48 win season you expect all a sudden this to be a DEVELOPMENT year? WTF no. It was a win-now year and he was NOT provided with any competant and consistant SCORiNG bench players. GTJ experiment offa the bench was a bust I'll admit. But when shoehorning Vison 6'9" was an even bigger bust.
Poetl is the centre I've been hoping the team got and finally they did. Sign him and my gosh get Koloko to understudy and flourish under him. And oh yeah, i hope Downtin just goes nuclear in training camp and proves they made a mistake in not just eating it and converting his contract. Weiskamp anyone??
Anyways theres my end of season rant. My gosh but those missed free throws. Still. Assist goes out to Diar. Her scream needs to be immortalized and given an end of season Scottie Barnes Award lol
Go Raps!!
I like that Portland deal now more than I did last summer featuring OG. If we can bring in Anfernee Simons to pair with Scottie and let these two grow together with some added bench pieces, that'll be great for us going forward. The one thing that I'm trying to figure out is if we should trade Siakam, Fred, and OG all in one offseason or keep one of them? I'm willing to trade all three, but we need a lottery protected draft pick for next year as well.
The thing that makes me happy is because, right now as an offensive system player Draymond Green is better by his defense but there is virtually no difference between Scottie and Draymmond green and Scottie is only 21 yrs old, can play iso moves can find mismatch because 6-9 and I strongly believe he can accumulate much more basketball IQ and moves in his career.
If you want my opinion, Scottie has surpassed Draymmond green, by his offensive ability and he is already adding more offensive moves.
As an offensive system, one is younger one is older in age. but there's virtually zero difference between :
Domantas Sabonis ( 18 pts, 10 rebonds 6 assists + DeAron Fox ( 20-25 pts)
Scottie ( 28 pts and 12 assists against Philly ) + Giddey ( with at least one or two shooters )
Scottie ( 5assists per game) + Simon's
Scottie+ Sharpe
Scottie + Poole
Scottie+ Tre mann ( from OKC)
Scottie+ Jaden Ivey
Scottie + Cam Thomas
The only difference is can we keep our defense by keeping OG ? I believe Yes. OG can be our Kevin Huerter, lights out from three, the way he did throughout the month of March.
Will we keep the defense with Pascal stating? I believe not. Siakam no longer plays defense.
Could we even improve the defense by getting JK ( from warriors) Dieng or JRE ( From Warriors) , DFS ( from Brooklyn Nets)
If portland doesn’t land #1, they are said to trade their pick away, I would love a siakam trade for a draft pick + sharpe + filler
Fake news
Online threats to a 9 year old… real mature. Not a good look guys.
sportsnet published threatening comments on their website the day after the game. they read these comments and then go ahead and publish them …disgusting. fans at every nba game try everything to disrupt foul shooters from the visiting team. raptor fans are led by super fan doing this. then when a 9 yr old figures out a brilliant way to disrupt the raptors brave internet thugs threaten her.
I'm getting the vibe that Nurse has already checked out in his mind. If that is the case then there is no point of bringing him back.
Lol i want dame
After the Tampa season raptors front office said in 3 yr The Raptors would be in championship contention… next year is year 3
It’s so funny how our fan base is filled with casuals that don’t know anything until it’s too late, I was one of the fans angry we traded our pick for an old washed Thad young and our Craptors fan base was saying “We’re only moving down a few picks” ya those few picks costed us Kessler which is the best defender in the league rn🤡