It was a chance for Nick Nurse to try some stuff, but not stretch his creativity too far. He needed the Raptors to play hard and compete, but it wasn’t the biggest game of the season and he knew it.
So, some stuff was OK.
“Maybe in things we’d like to try defensively that we need to work on, or look at some different schemes and things like that, depending on ... how creative I want to be with some of that stuff,” he said.
But not too much stuff.
“I mean, we’ve got a bunch of stuff that we’ve put in that we haven’t used, but that’s not unlike any other season (when) you’re going into the playoffs,” Nurse added.