Scottie Barnes’ Toronto Raptors will have a distinctly different flavor in the 2023 season. Not only is Darko Rajakovic replacing Nick Nurse as the team’s coach, but Gradey Dick and Dennis Schroder have been added to the backcourt mix to counteract the loss of Fred VanVleet in free agency.
The Raptors knew they needed to get more juice on the offensive end, so adding a proven veteran sparkplug like Schroder on an MLE deal while using their first-round draft choice on Dick shows that Masai Ujiri and Bobby Webster were proactive in addressing these issues.