Raptors coach Nick Nurse takes some of the blame for Lowry’s poor shooting night
TORONTO — If Kyle Lowry had played in Toronto’s final game of the regular season, would his shot still have been M.I.A. against Orlando? Or could he have used the rhythm of a game just five days before the post-season tipped off?
Mulling those questions over on Monday, Raptors coach Nick Nurse pointed the finger at himself for Lowry’s offensive woes. The five-time all-star guard scored zero points in Toronto’s 104-101 loss to Orlando in the series opener on Saturday, suddenly switching the script on this much-anticipated post-season run.
Should he have let Lowry play in Minnesota last Tuesday night?
“Well, considering (how Game 1 played out),” Nurse said. “Hindsight is of course 20/20. Any time you go back and you look at something and now you’ve got the result of something, you say, ‘Yeah, maybe it wasn’t the right idea.’”