By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Darko Rajakovic got his first headcoaching job last summer, taking over Toronto Raptors from Nick Nurse. He had a succesful debut, as his side defeated Minnesota Timberwolves.
He was extatic after the match in the locker room, with players dousing him with water during celebration.
“Not champagne,” Rajaković clarified. “A lot of ice water. A lot of ice water.”
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Serbian coach was pleased with his side’s game plan execution.
“I thought that our guys did a really good job with the gameplan, did a really good job on Edwards especially. I thought they fought for every single possession,” Rajakovic said.
Former Memphis Grizzlies assistant coach like his team’s urgency in transition, but wants more pace in the halfcourt as well where things seemed to bog down too often.
“I thought we still needed to play faster. What I mean by that is there were moments that we were coming past half-court, and then we did not get into offence early enough and quickly enough. That’s something that we are still going to work on. It’s one of those things like, we cannot just be watching each other. We’ve gotta be able to cut and drive and collapse defence and find open people. [There were] moments we were really good and moments we did not do a great job today with it.”
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