Everything Patrick McCaw

[Jclaw]

You could see how McCaw was trending on twitter the other day. This may be the Everything McCaw thread but almost every other current thread has been directed to a McCaw discussion. It's like he's the new DeMar

[grindhouse]

Mccaw is the fastest guard on the team that’s why he gets minutes

[G__Deane]

What's missing with all the McCaw hand wringing is where is Masai on all this? He must be OK with it or you must think Nurse is defying his orders to sit him lol. Gotta trust Nurse and Masai a bit longer?

[bertarapsfan]

Wonder when this guy is going to get on "How Hungry are You"? Hopefully serge can get him he can use the pull of having 2 time champs KD and Kawhi on in the past to get Mr.3-peat onto the show

[The Claw Reborn]

Patrick McCaw is dominating twitterverse and forums these days.

He is like the Guiliani for Trump, henchman and does the evil bidding for Nick Nurse

lol

[DanH]

Nah McCaw on his 6th year in the league playing 27 minutes a game with crashing down advanced metrics, the growing pain excuse is lame. Midget Fred less than 6 feet averaged more rebounds than this moron. No additional development is needed to understand where the ball would fall after a miss.

This is McCaw's 4th year. There is every bit of logic behind hoping that he can improve, he is young and has relatively little playing time.

I personally hold out little hope that he could develop to such a degree that it would be worth the current detriment to the team his minutes represent. But the logic isn't that he's established. It's that he's so bad now that even a significant improvement would leave him as a bad player. It would require a massive leap to make him a sure fire rotation player.

[DanH]

It's not impossible for him to make some progress through these growing pains to the end of the season. Not drawing a player comparison, but I seem to remember a couple of you livid that Casey was starting Pascal in his rookie season - sometimes these things pay off.

Pascal should not have been starting that season, even Casey eventually relented and started Patterson before the team went and got Serge to start at PF. Pascal's development took a leap because he was at that point sent down to the 905 to be able to expand his offensive game beyond runouts and not get his confidence shelled every night as the team fell apart defensively around him (he was quite bad in terms of team defence at that point). He additionally made his next leap as a key contributor off the bench where he could actually play a key role in those lineups, with a variety of responsibilities.

[S.R.]

The Patrick McCaw experience is like Luis Scola x John Salmons x 3 large doses of WTF. I don't even know what this is.

[The Claw Reborn]

It's not impossible for him to make some progress through these growing pains to the end of the season. Not drawing a player comparison, but I seem to remember a couple of you livid that Casey was starting Pascal in his rookie season - sometimes these things pay off.

Nah McCaw on his 6th year in the league playing 27 minutes a game with crashing down advanced metrics, the growing pain excuse is lame. Midget Fred less than 6 feet averaged more rebounds than this moron. No additional development is needed to understand where the ball would fall after a miss.

[SkywalkerAC]

It's not impossible for him to make some progress through these growing pains to the end of the season. Not drawing a player comparison, but I seem to remember a couple of you livid that Casey was starting Pascal in his rookie season - sometimes these things pay off.

[The Claw Reborn]

https://twitter.com/raptors/status/1...957388288?s=12

in the pic, his body contortion says it all...”i dont deserved this ring, like the other 2, i am still trash and will remain as trash”

[golden]

Don't McCaw's continued struggles (and I use the term loosely) basically throw that theory out the window?

Not at all. Even Nurse himself was quoted recently saying something like.....the talent gap between the 25th ranked player in the draft and the 95th player was getting thinner. McCaw is simply proving that he's not even in the top 100, or whatever that needs to be to crack a rotation and be a positive contributor. Some guys, like Boucher, have to work really hard to earn their minutes. If McCaw can't even look decent surrounded by Lowry and Pascal then he's just showing that he doesn't even belong in the league.

Guys like Terence Davis, Chris Boucher, Kendrick Nunn and Duncan Robinson are exactly those fringe level players Nurse speaks of, who do have the talent and whatever else it takes to make the NBA. Those are the guys worth giving development minutes to.

Anyway, I don't want to continue the McCaw bashing. If he keeps being the negative difference maker between winning & losing, even Nurse won't be that stubborn to keep playing him or Masai will simply trade him. Until then, I'm just rolling with trust in Nurse & Masai to figure things out and hopefully it doesn't adversely impact our playoff seeding in the end.

[DanH]

Everybody looking for reasons, I think its just a case of a coach liking a player for reason unbeknownst to the rest of us. We saw it with Casey with guys like John Salmons, Luis Scola, no James Johnson, theres been other puzzling minutes decisions just as bad as this one over the years. Other teams go through the same shit, we just don't see it.

Well this made me feel much worse.

[GLF]

Yea guys I've been saying this for a while but Nurse just really likes McCaw. I don't think we will ever know the real reason which is frustrating because every statistical date shows he's not good so no explanation truly makes sense. But he's CLEARLY (as someone else said) ahead of RHJ and TD in the pecking order. So even with Fred back and us being 100% healthy he would be the 8th man. He's gonna get playing time so we all are going to have to learn to accept that.

All we can hope is it goes down to like 10 minutes a game or so. Or we can hope he finally starts to play better, but I wouldn't hold my breath with that part. I do think every team probably goes through this where a coach loves a player that's no good and gives them more playing time than they deserve. It's soooo annoying though. Especially for us because we usually have better players we can play over them. I was hoping this would stop when Casey left but here we are.

[slaw]

I suppose Nurse and Masai feel like they can catch lightning in a bottle twice and McCaw can follow the FVV development path until the lightbulb finally turns on. A fully realized McCaw could potentially fit the mold of the type of 2-player they're looking for. But then again, so could a lot of fringe NBA players, if given the same unconditional opportunities as McCaw and FVV.

Don't McCaw's continued struggles (and I use the term loosely) basically throw that theory out the window?