It’s time for Nick Nurse to get back in the lab.
Having shown an entirely unexpected new look to start their last game, the Raptors coach may now enter an all-out experimental stage with the lineups he trots out each night.
The relatively gigantic starting five of Kyle Lowry, OG Anunoby, Pascal Siakam, Serge Ibaka and Marc Gasol that played Wednesday night in Oklahoma City may give way to a more guard-dominated group Friday at home against Washington, and who knows what that group will look like Saturday evening in Minneapolis.
“I really think you are going to see us shift the lineups around over the course of the next 10 games,” Nurse told reporters in Oklahoma City, before the Raptors beat the Thunder 130-121.