The Toronto Raptors have never been an organization at the leading edge of basketball theory. Innovations like “7 seconds or less”, the triangle offense, or sitting players to gain some rest…you don’t think of our team as having added much to the modern game. But there’s nothing wrong with borrowing others’ ideas, which is exactly what coach Dwane Casey did last night against the Brooklyn Nets.
While the norm, if there is one, for resting players is to do so on the second night of a back to back, Casey gambled that his squad could live without sparkplug point guard Kyle Lowry on night 1.