Nick Nurse had some pointed words for Precious Achiuwa on Wednesday night — “He’s got to play better, man” — but the Raptors coach wasn’t saying anything publicly that he hadn’t already expressed privately to the too-inconsistent young big man.
And those one-on-one meetings are laying bare the too-frequent faults in Achiuwa’s game.
“He just needs to play better, man,” Nurse said before the Raptors beat the Houston Rockets 116-109 at the Scotiabank Arena. “I’m always talking about playing hard on D and not executing and he’s just having too much inconsistency.
“Some nights he’s unbelievable, he’s into the game and doing it all; some nights he’s not doing very much of it.