From JLew1050: Nurse firing indicates Raptors are ready to move past their championship glory. ARTICLE:
Apr 21, 2023 at 10:12 PM ET
On Friday, following a week-long deliberation on the heels of their season-ending play-in game loss to Chicago, the Raptors announced that they had relieved Nick Nurse of his duties as the club’s head coach. It wasn’t an easy or obvious decision for team president Masai Ujiri to make, but it could indicate that they’re ready to start moving forward and embracing that change.
There are theories, ranging from a flawed roster to a coaching staff that lost the trust of the room to selfish play and individual aspirations that didn’t quite align with the collective goal. But one thing that stood out all the way through was the hubris within the organization, from top to bottom, on the court and off.
Privately, Nurse had been voicing his frustration with the criticism that he faced from the media over the final months of the team’s lost season. Ujiri also believes he’s drawing an unfair share of the blame. It’s not hard to imagine several players feeling the same way. “I think we’ve just got to find another identity, whatever that is,” Fred VanVleet said last week. “We can’t try to do that by osmosis and try to carry over a championship from four years ago and expect to add that to a group that we have now.”
He’ll land on his feet quickly, whether that’s in Houston – a job that he has been tied to – or elsewhere. He leaves Toronto with a record of 227-163 – second in franchise history in wins and first in winning percentage. He has a championship under his belt, has won the NBA’s Coach of the Year award, and is considered to be one of the league’s best tacticians.
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