Top three tasks for new Raptors coach Darko Rajakovic as training camp starts Monday
Top three tasks for new Raptors coach Darko Rajakovic as training camp starts Monday
For the first time in more than a decade, the Raptors will have an entirely new coaching staff with no familiarity with, connections or pre-conceived notions about the players.
Toronto Raptors hired Darko Rajakovic to be
The big trade that Raptors fans wanted never materialized in an uneventful summer.
But to suggest team president Masai Ujiri “did nothing,” as social media howlers are contending, is to ignore reality.
What he did was bold and it will change so much around the team and alter its fortunes. It’s put an inordinate amount of pressure and responsibility on one man and represents true sea change.
For the first time in more than a decade, the Raptors will have an entirely new coaching staff with no familiarity with, connections or pre-conceived notions about the players.
No, Toronto did not trade for Damian Lillard and they didn’t make anything remotely close to a “blockbuster” move. But swapping out Nick Nurse for Darko Rajakovic is a big, big move.
It’s the first time in Ujiri’s decade-long tenure that a completely new voice and philosophy will be at the helm. Ujrii kept Dwane Casey when he returned to Toronto 10 years ago and re-signed Casey when he had the chance.
And even when he moved on from Casey, it was to a trusted assistant in Nurse, who had his own style but only because he knew the capabilities of the players after spending five years on the bench.
Rajakovic?
