The Darko Rajakovic buy-in has been apparent in numerous ways, from the upbeat practices to the words themselves from those he now directs.
It’s readily apparent, talking to players and people around the Raptors through this first month and a half or so that they have been together, that new head coach Darko Rajakovic firmly has their attention and their respect.Maybe he wasn’t the best known candidate among those interviewed to take over from Nick Nurse, who has taken his clipboard to Philadelphia, but early indications are that Masai Ujiri, Bobby Webster and the rest of the management team have chosen wisely.
“He’s his own person,” the third-year Raptor said. “He’s a one of one. He’s tough. He knows what he wants to do. He gives us the ability to kind of give him feedback and talk to him about certain things and to make tweaks here and there. And then he has the ability also as a coach — sometimes coaches get stuck into their schemes and stuck in their ways. But he recognizes the personnel and he recognizes how stagnant a play may look and then he’ll say, ‘OK, I effed up.
“He’s been around,” Young said. “He understands the game. He knows it. It doesn’t feel like he’s first-time . But obviously there’s going to be things that first-time coaches have to kind of adapt to, like the structure of our practice schedule is a little bit different than the norm around the league or anything I’ve played for. But those are all things that are easy tweaks and stuff like that. … But he’s been great. It’s like he’s a veteran out there.
“We got a lot of smart guys on this team that know how to play basketball; coach makes it easy for us, he communicates to us what he wants us to do out there,” Scottie Barnes said when asked about Rajakovic’s half-second offensive philosophy. “He makes it specific on what he wants us to do with moving, passing the ball. That’s what he emphasizes over and over and over again. He makes it easy for us and we’ve got a lot of smart players on this team to execute it.
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