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Last edited by MixxAOR; Sun May 2, 2021, 01:00 PM.Only one thing matters: We The Champs.
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MixxAOR wrote: View Post
Doesn't explain keeping Stanley
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Yes it does. Stanley was hitting his 3s early on and looked like he was going to have a bounce back season. You need 3&D as a priority to get minutes with Nurse. Plus, Stanley was under a regular contract, while Oshae and Yuta were still scuffling to get a real deal.Last edited by MixxAOR; Sun May 2, 2021, 01:10 PM.Only one thing matters: We The Champs.
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golden wrote: View Post
For sure, should’ve waived Stanley and McCaw last year.
He is still the God around here
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Yeah, Oshae’s 3-pt shooting is not sustainable. But all the hustle, energy stuff is. He’s basically the Canadian version of Yuta with a lot more athleticism but less length.
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Yuta is good on his role, he's an energetic defender, covers a lot of ground, handles the ball well for a big, and is shooting over 40% from 3 this year. The fact a guy we waived is having a hot streak on another team at the moment doesn't negate that.
That said, when brissett got waived I thought on positional need alone he should've been the one to keep as opposed to Stanley/bembry/ McCaw. Now with the hindsight of him playing so well, it's even more evident.
A lot of if comes down to stable minutes though. When brissett was here, Nurse still was on his "quick hook" methodology of development. There were a ton of guys fighting for position in the shortened training camp. He wanted to quickly arrive at his set rotation, so he would play guys in short 5 minutes spurts with with very little tolerance for errors . He didn't get to take a proper look at brissett on stable minutes.
Out of necessity later on (because of injuries/covid), he changed his approach and gave stable minutes to Stanley, Yuta, Malachi & Watson. Stanley didn't quite take off, but we discovered Yuta, Malachi and Watson could grow a lot more playing without a gun to their heads and knowing they'd have stable minutes.
It sounds counter-intuitive, but if you really want to develop/discover a player's true game, you have to give them stable minutes even before they properly "earned" them. You need to give an ample canvas for them to paint, THEN you look at it and decide to shelve or play the guy. brissett didn't get that here. G-league, 2 minute spurts with games already decided, and practice time doesn't count.
Conclusion: If anything good came out of this season is that it forced Nurse to understand that you have to give stable minutes outside your favourite guys, if you want to find out what you really have, and help your role players develop confidence and rhythm.
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inthepaint wrote: View PostYuta is good on his role, he's an energetic defender, covers a lot of ground, handles the ball well for a big, and is shooting over 40% from 3 this year. The fact a guy we waived is having a hot streak on another team at the moment doesn't negate that.
That said, when brissett got waived I thought on positional need alone he should've been the one to keep as opposed to Stanley/bembry/ McCaw. Now with the hindsight of him playing so well, it's even more evident.
A lot of if comes down to stable minutes though. When brissett was here, Nurse still was on his "quick hook" methodology of development. There were a ton of guys fighting for position in the shortened training camp. He wanted to quickly arrive at his set rotation, so he would play guys in short 5 minutes spurts with with very little tolerance for errors . He didn't get to take a proper look at brissett on stable minutes.
Out of necessity later on (because of injuries/covid), he changed his approach and gave stable minutes to Stanley, Yuta, Malachi & Watson. Stanley didn't quite take off, but we discovered Yuta, Malachi and Watson could grow a lot more playing without a gun to their heads and knowing they'd have stable minutes.
It sounds counter-intuitive, but if you really want to develop/discover a player's true game, you have to give them stable minutes even before they properly "earned" them. You need to give an ample canvas for them to paint, THEN you look at it and decide to shelve or play the guy. brissett didn't get that here. G-league, 2 minute spurts with games already decided, and practice time doesn't count.
Conclusion: If anything good came out of this season is that it forced Nurse to understand that you have to give stable minutes outside your favourite guys, if you want to find out what you really have, and help your role players develop confidence and rhythm.
though Remembered that I got one RR resident push back and two likes from his cohorts of that post about Flynn’s and his minutes (“Nurse is just not giving away 25 minutes to Flynnâ€)
bottomline...these developing players needs repetitions and exposure
Still fresh in my memory bank those games McCaw get first dibs from his Coach over TD (after a great game prior), Oshae (while team is needing length in a game), Thomas (team needing a three point spark off the bench) and even at the expense of OG and Norm.
if not for Daddy Flynn...son Malachi would still be rubbing his behind on that wooded bench and possibly McCaw not waived
Saint Nick Nurse is human after all lol
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Bumping this again. I think Yuta can be a rotation player on a good Raptors team in 2021/22. Can play either forward position and his energy is infectious. He is Only 26 so still improving.
Here he is putting in work this off season. Yuta Watanabe improves his shooting skills with family 👀 - YouTubeTwitter @WJ_FINDLAY
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