This tweet from David Locke has really stuck with me throughout the last week:
Curious to see the trickle down effect of Nick Nurse getting Toronto job. Casey was very gracious in giving his assistant lots of publicity and credit for offense and this is the end result. Not saying Nurse did anything wrong but coaches are naturally paranoid they notice this
— David Locke (@Lockedonsports) June 12, 2018
Dwane Casey has been the head coach of the Detroit Pistons for more than a week now, and he’s spent that time visiting Pistons players in California, telling the media he expects this team to contend right away (in the East, in the East, calm down), and kinda sorta apologizing to Stephen A.