Raptors All MVP Team
Terence Davis (centre): New great kid on the block, Raptors block.
Coaching for the unknown.
That is Steve Kerr’s quandary. How does he brief his Golden State Warriors in this 2019 NBA playoffs, when he is clueless about what coach Nick Nurse and his Toronto Raptors have up their sleeve? It’s much better to lay down logistics if you know the opponent’s arsenal.
Let’s borrow from the ancient Zulu idiom: ufihle induku emqubeni loosely translated into, hiding a big stick in the compost heap. That is what Nick Nurse is doing, has an ace up his sleeve, an English equivalent.
How about previous games? Can they give the Warriors’ coach an indication of where the sticks are buried? That is where he faces a cul-de-sac. Raptors have a new game plan for every game, literally. What Kyle Lowry did in Game 1 as the courier, sending coded messages to the likes of Kawhi Leonard was not what he did in Game 3, where he was a free agent to the basket every time the coast was clear.
Steve Kerr also faces the Most Valuable Player (MVP) syndrome. Raptors don’t have any, because they are all potential sticks. Conventional wisdom: the man running towards the basket will score. Not necessarily. He flips the ball to another Raptor that dunks it and the basket says, much appreciated.
Who will be the next stick Steve Kerr should find and break for Game 5, at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto? Tough call because Raptors don’t have ‘all stars’ that should be guarded like a U.S. president. They have a one game at a time plan, manned by undocumented MVP’s and ‘all stars’ Warriors should regard as lethal sticks, designed to beat them at their own game, basketball that is.
Steve Kerr must ignore the sports media excuse that he is having problems because of injured players. Raptors are not worried about who comes back from the sick bed who doesn’t. They will stick to their game plan, which is buried in the compost heap.
By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.
That is Steve Kerr’s quandary. How does he brief his Golden State Warriors in this 2019 NBA playoffs, when he is clueless about what coach Nick Nurse and his Toronto Raptors have up their sleeve? It’s much better to lay down logistics if you know the opponent’s arsenal.
Let’s borrow from the ancient Zulu idiom: ufihle induku emqubeni loosely translated into, hiding a big stick in the compost heap. That is what Nick Nurse is doing, has an ace up his sleeve, an English equivalent.
How about previous games? Can they give the Warriors’ coach an indication of where the sticks are buried? That is where he faces a cul-de-sac. Raptors have a new game plan for every game, literally. What Kyle Lowry did in Game 1 as the courier, sending coded messages to the likes of Kawhi Leonard was not what he did in Game 3, where he was a free agent to the basket every time the coast was clear.
Steve Kerr also faces the Most Valuable Player (MVP) syndrome. Raptors don’t have any, because they are all potential sticks. Conventional wisdom: the man running towards the basket will score. Not necessarily. He flips the ball to another Raptor that dunks it and the basket says, much appreciated.
Who will be the next stick Steve Kerr should find and break for Game 5, at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto? Tough call because Raptors don’t have ‘all stars’ that should be guarded like a U.S. president. They have a one game at a time plan, manned by undocumented MVP’s and ‘all stars’ Warriors should regard as lethal sticks, designed to beat them at their own game, basketball that is.
Steve Kerr must ignore the sports media excuse that he is having problems because of injured players. Raptors are not worried about who comes back from the sick bed who doesn’t. They will stick to their game plan, which is buried in the compost heap.
By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.
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