The NBA season hadn’t even begun and the veteran Raptors point guard could sense there were issues that needed to be addressed head on, and quickly.
He spent much of training camp fighting against them, doing his level best to get them corrected, and now head coach Nick Nurse has taken up VanVleet’s cause.
“I used all my bullets up in training camp. Everybody couldn’t figure out why I was running around like a madman in training camp, cussing everybody out,” VanVleet said Sunday after the Raptors’ morning practice. “I just saw some looseness there … and it came back to bite us, but we’ve got some time to clean it up.