Everything Dwane Casey

[Bendit]

Will Casey go upscale with that contract and move to the BridlePath area?

Congratulations to him. I suppose it was inevitable with the record this year. Also sends a message to the NBA coaching fraternity about how the Raptors treats their coaches/personnel.

[Cody73]

I'm not happy how long the extension is, but I can deal with him being here still.


The issue is if we lose an assistant coach. can we find a guy to match what they brought to the team? We have some really good coaches here, even on our D-League staff as well.

I bet Casey relied on his assistants more this year, hence us going so far.

The real issue is when the ball sticks. We need to be able to develop plays on the court if one isn't working out or a guy isn't where he needs to be. Allowing DeMar to shoot contested mid-range jumpers is awful. However, using a catch-and-shoot system with the mid-range & DD would be nice to see. If a mid-range jumper is part of a guy's game, learn how to get that guy space. That's not as hard as some might think, as my HS team ran a play for me with my mid-range post shot and we also used it with a few other guys. It was really efficient.

Congrats, Case. Prove us all wrong and bring the title to TO!

[thead]

I hear Bargs is available

I've always wanted to give a fellow mod an infraction

[thead]

If the move to include JV more in the offense is not just lip service and we get a healthy DeMarre Carroll back... I am okay with this signing. As I still see room to grow over the next three years.

[KeonClark]

It's very hard for me to shake the feeling that we are going to be mired in neutral for the next few years, but I'll try to stay optimistic. Good luck DC.

Let's at least start the offseason before we go too GLF

[Demographic Shift]

Really? This season, where our starting SF missed most of the season and was playing hurt for the playoffs, and our young, promising starting C missed chunks of the season and playoffs, and we were starting Luis freaking Scola at PF, is the ceiling?

Some people would bitch about the withholding tax if they hit the million dollar slot payout in Vegas. Just how they are.

JV is now ready for his bigger role and those words have come out of the coaching staff, his hands are softer,his decisions are much quicker and he can hit that 12 -14 jumper without taking several hundred pump fakes. Nurse will most likely incorporate JV plays into his offense if he isn't scooped up for a head coaching gig.

Raps should be able to get better production out of the PF slot than this year. It was OK.. but still below league average. I think we can upgrade that spot without too much difficulty.
Raps also should benefit from a full year of a healthy Demarre Carroll and an improved Powell.

The the gap between where they are and the ceiling is still a ways off.

[KeonClark]

I'm not happy how long the extension is, but I can deal with him being here still.


The issue is if we lose an assistant coach. can we find a guy to match what they brought to the team? We have some really good coaches here, even on our D-League staff as well.

I bet Casey relied on his assistants more this year, hence us going so far.

The real issue is when the ball sticks. We need to be able to develop plays on the court if one isn't working out or a guy isn't where he needs to be. Allowing DeMar to shoot contested mid-range jumpers is awful. However, using a catch-and-shoot system with the mid-range & DD would be nice to see. If a mid-range jumper is part of a guy's game, learn how to get that guy space. That's not as hard as some might think, as my HS team ran a play for me with my mid-range post shot and we also used it with a few other guys. It was really efficient.

Congrats, Case. Prove us all wrong and bring the title to TO!

Well if your canadian high school team ran it efficiently what are we waiting for? Nba defenses won't know what hit them!

[Axel]

JV is now ready for his bigger role and those words have come out of the coaching staff,

The same staff that said keeping Lowry's minutes down was priority as they increased his minutes.

The skepticism between what is said and what is done is well founded.

[MixxAOR]

Disaster

[Just Is]

The same staff that said keeping Lowry's minutes down was priority as they increased his minutes.

The skepticism between what is said and what is done is well founded.

That actually turned comical for me. As it ended up with him (post injury) leading the league in minutes per game.

I think someone's also posted that they've talked about making JV a larger part of the offensive for the last 3 off-seasons as well.

[DanH]

That actually turned comical for me. As it ended up with him (post injury) leading the league in minutes per game.

I think someone's also posted that they've talked about making JV a larger part of the offensive for the last 3 off-seasons as well.

To be fair to that latter point, JV's usage has gone up every year. Just not as fast as some (myself included) would like.

[slaw]

It's very hard for me to shake the feeling that we are going to be mired in neutral for the next few years, but I'll try to stay optimistic. Good luck DC.

If neutral is 56-wins, and conference finals games, then sign me up for neutral cause that's awesome.

Anyway, given that we've yet to see the best from any of JV, Powell, Joseph and Carroll, coupled with a lotto pick, I'm fairly optimistic that there's plenty of room for this team to improve. Not to mention, it's not like any player overachieved this year to the extent that his performance is unsustainable, in fact, you could probably argue they got less than expected from a few quarters and still were pretty great.

[Axel]

To be fair to that latter point, JV's usage has gone up every year. Just not as fast as some (myself included) would like.

With less minutes. His offensive rebounding increases might be enough to account for the usage.

[slaw]

Dwane casey will soon have a net worth of over 40 million dollars to do what danH does better and gets compensated with likes

With all due respect to Dan, who seems like a smart guy, this is fucking ridiculous.

[DanH]

With all due respect to Dan, who seems like a smart guy, this is fucking ridiculous.

Yep!

In all my self-indulgence, I might consider my theoretical rotations better than what Casey puts together, but that's a very small facet of what a coach is responsible for.