http://www.raptorsrepublic.com/2013/11/07/avoidable-loss-in-charlotte-weird-decisions-made-again/
You might be wondering where Jonas Valanciunas is in all of this. He’s an afterthought on offense with not even a simple pick ‘n roll being designed for him, and that happens to be his primary, historical strength. I don’t have any explanation for this and can only speculate that this is coaching error:
The Raptors started the fourth quarter down six and with a lineup of Stone, DeRozan, Ross, and Johnson. Casey made three substitutions in the fourth in this order:
Lowry for Stone – 8:56
Gay for Hansbrough – 6:52
Fields for Ross – 6:52
That’s it. Jonas Valanciunas sat on the bench despite being our best rebounder on the night (team-high 10 reb in 28 min), despite the Raptors struggling to collect key momentum-shifting defensive rebounds, and despite him being our best low-post threat and someone who could contend with Biyombo from a physical perspective. I cannot explain this behaviour.
After electing not to take advantage of a potential 2-for-1, it came down to the final play where the Raptors were down two and elected not to foul with a 2-second shot-clock differential, which is obviously a terrible decision since it takes about 2 seconds for the ball to be in the air, hit the rim, bounce around and the rebound to be collected. Dwane Casey was given a reprieve for his poor decision when the ball went out of bounds with about five seconds left, only for him to repeat his poor decision.
So what's the deal? Almost 4 years later and it's still the same story. I'm not even a huge JV fan at this point but it seems like the 2 of them are always on different pages.
After all these years what can we say that Casey is good at? It used to be that he gets us to play hard... but if we can't even say that then what does he provide? Defense? lol
Btw the comments on the post sounds just like comments we're making now
Raptors should get a new coach before jumping the gun on rudy and hitting the self destruction button. I feel as though Casey only focuses on defense, has no concern about who gets what touches on offense. It even looks like he's only got three or four plays on offense and the rest is ISOs for demar and rudy. WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO P&R PLAYS!!! The bread and butter of basketball. So far it looks like Casey;s offensive playbook has maybe 4 different plays in it...
We need a coach with playoff experience and attitude... What ever happened to yelling at players or sitting players for shooting dumb jumpers when they're 4/15?
Jonax has such a great basketball attitude, to see him pouting on the end of the bench with his feet crossed and arms crossed knowing he should be out there is going to ruin this kid. Somebody better wake up quick and start standing for this kid , if not the coach then the gm. I don't pay money to watch Casey lose games with our best rebounding option on the bench. Don't lose this kid.
morgan c • 3 years ago
Casey has to go... NOW! He was already on thin ice, and through the
beginning of this season, he has shown ZERO improvement in his areas of
weakness (handling the bench, substitutions, strategy of any kind). This
is really starting to kill me. JV on the bench the whole fourth!?
