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Has anyone read Nick's book about his basketball travels. Just wondering what your impressions are. I gave a copy to my daughter for Christmas and am arranging to borrow it for a personal read.
Or his book on Shooting the ball? Available from his foundation website.
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Puffer wrote: View PostHas anyone read Nick's book about his basketball travels. Just wondering what your impressions are. I gave a copy to my daughter for Christmas and am arranging to borrow it for a personal read.
Or his book on Shooting the ball? Available from his foundation website.To be the champs you got to beat the champs
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bertarapsfan wrote: View Post
I read it. The stuff before he got to the nba was pretty interesting. Once the book begins to journey the raps Era of his it nothing anyone who would be on this board wouldn't know. Aside from a locker room quote or 2 from kawhi
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golden wrote: View Post
Unfortunately, Nurse has been on a losing streak since he released the book about "how to win anywhere." lol. (1) Didn't defend the championship. (2) Finished in the lottery the next year. (3) Lost with Team Canada at home, despite having the best talent in the pool, by far. That's karma.
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golden wrote: View Post
Unfortunately, Nurse has been on a losing streak since he released the book about "how to win anywhere." lol. (1) Didn't defend the championship. (2) Finished in the lottery the next year. (3) Lost with Team Canada at home, despite having the best talent in the pool, by far. That's karma.
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Look how much Team USA struggles, they win because they are a team of superstars. Winning in international competitions is very difficult if you don’t have continuity that the Euro teams have. It’s not just throwing a bunch of NBA players on the court, and it’s not Nick Nurse’s coaching.
Team Canada has identified that they need guys to commit now for the Paris Olympics.
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saints91 wrote: View PostLook how much Team USA struggles, they win because they are a team of superstars. Winning in international competitions is very difficult if you don’t have continuity that the Euro teams have. It’s not just throwing a bunch of NBA players on the court, and it’s not Nick Nurse’s coaching.
Team Canada has identified that they need guys to commit now for the Paris Olympics.
As for Euro continuity.... Schilb only joined the Czech team a few years ago as a naturalized citizen. He's an American - he never played with them growing up. Satoransky stayed in Chicago after the NBA finished and never joined the team until they were in Canada.
One of our problems was single game strategy and execution in the Czech game. We couldn't guard either the perimeter or inside, especially in the first half. You can't give up 3-point shots AND layups. Worst case, you need to pick your poison. Coaching could have helped there.Last edited by golden; Mon Aug 30, 2021, 09:13 AM.
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Scraptor wrote: View PostNo jinx but if we keep this up then Nick has got to be the favourite for Coach of the Year.
Guy is a fucking genius.
Had a shit last season, no Kyle, Scottie exceeding expectations, OG and Fred getting better and they get a solid seed? Nurse will deserve a lot of credit.
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A.I wrote: View Post
If Raptors get a good seed like 4th, I can see it happening.
Had a shit last season, no Kyle, Scottie exceeding expectations, OG and Fred getting better and they get a solid seed? Nurse will deserve a lot of credit.
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Nick seems to be coming around more and more to the whole Birch thing. We've upgraded Birch to that FVV in the chip run role, where Green was just a nominal starter and by halftime Fred was playing with the starters. Just giving up the game and starting him has to be soon I think.
For now Nick is playing the team expertly, able to dig out of early holes by doing sneaky stuff like playing both OG and Fred with the bench for stretches (which essentially puts our starters up against their bench since Birch is out there) and closing games with the right lineups. Against better opposition we may not be able to dig out of those holes, so we'll see how the rotation develops over the next little while.
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