“Sergio Scariolo will meet with the Toronto Raptors leadership in the coming hours. This is reported by Walter Fuochi di Repubblica The Brescia coach, running for the Canadian bench, will fly to Toronto after the series with Derthona”
June 2, 2023
“Sergio Scariolo will meet with the Toronto Raptors leadership in the coming hours. This is reported by Walter Fuochi di Repubblica The Brescia coach, running for the Canadian bench, will fly to Toronto after the series with Derthona”
28 comments
I think this means a final interview
Ok fuck it give me Sergio and his slick back hair italian mafia style.
YESSSS
It’s over lol
Sergio it is!
Don’t like this.
Serge is old and and I question if American players will respect him given the cultural differences.
Why do people like Sergio so much?
If we hire Sergio I expect Masai plans to run it back with mostly the same team 👎
Well shit, can’t see the context being anything but him brought over as coach (at the very least an assistant if he still wants to do that).
Welcome to Toronto. Again.
How about Sergio as HC for a season or two, and Jordi as lead assistant in line for the succession?
I don’t mind Sergio, but I’d much rather have someone who hasn’t been a part of our coaching staff over the last few years.
If the point is to ‘change the culture’ then we need to hire someone who hasn’t been here recently, IMHO. Go with Jordi, Edelman, Lee, or someone else and make Sergio our lead assistant.
Don Scariolo.
Bentornato a Toronto, Sergio!
It’s gonna be Scariolo or Fernandez.
I hope it’s Fernandez honestly. I watched [this interview ](https://youtu.be/GA4lKTDJN-4?t=737)and I thought he touched on a few philosophical differences that are perfect. First, he says he cares about both ends of the ball a lot (unlike NN who mainly focused on defense), and on offense he likes high pace and ball movement in the half court. Obviously we play with pace, but our offense last season was one of the most isolation heavy offenses in the league… this would be a breath of fresh air for a team that is thin on talent. Secondly, he talks about positionless basketball but mentions how its limited by how well the players can do it, so it’s not always great. I think our team really suffered from that this year… just because Siakam is theoretically switchable doesn’t mean he actually is – when he’s pushing 30% USG on offense, maybe switching him onto fast guards on defense is a stupid idea. Nick Nurse didn’t give a shit about that kind of thing but it matters. Similarly, Barnes is theoretically switchable, but he gets beat by most guards.. stop switching him. I like the more nuanced view.
Also, maybe this is bad of me to say, but Fernandez’ English is a lot better than Scariolo’s and i think it matters. I think Americans are pretty disrespectful towards people who don’t speak English well, the same way French people are usually annoyed by people who don’t speak French. There’s a lot of ego at play and especially with a team that has a lot of maturity problems (specifically Barnes), I’m a little concerned that an international, old coach (Scariolo) with poor English is not gonna be able to connect with a 21 year old with a giant ego and work ethic issues. He might be great from a basketball perspective, I just don’t know much about him on that end, and Fernandez seems good enough.
I worry Sergio won’t gel with the younger players on the team, is that wrong of me to assume? It kinda seems like there going for the closest thing to Nick Nurse style instead of changing things up.
Let’s go great hire
Superstar coach in the euros
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s both Sergio and Fernandez as associate head coaches, one is offense the other is Defense.
They coached Spanish national team together in 2017.
I would be very happy with Scariolo, though I would have preferred Quinn or Jordi. Scariolo is a proven winner and develops players.
That being said, a vet coach wouldnt come here for a complete tear down. I hope that if we do hire him that we still make at least one large move (Siakam or OG) and one smaller move (OPJ + Boucher etc) to get a little younger and deeper
I hope this won’t end up like David Blatt. I would rather them hire Jordi.
I feel like if Juancho was still here Sergio would actually get him to play better lol
Please no old timers. Want a young up and coming coach!
People in the comments are finding the most ridiculous reasons to not like the Sergio hiring.
Scariolo head coach, Jordi head assistant with Pep Guardiola as an assistant aswell 💯💯🔥🔥
I do like the potential here. I think one advantage we had that was kinda squandered the last couple years was that we had two excellent high-post passers, but we entirely failed to use that as an advantage because we have so little off-ball movement and screening, with Nurse allowing guys to run a relatively freeform offense a lot of the time. Both Siakam and Barnes are ideal Sergio players, and he’s got a solid track-record of finding ways to turn seeming redundencies into advantages (specifically thinking about the Gasols on the national teams, even before either of them had good outside shots).
The next few seasons of Raptors basketball is going to be painful to watch,this screams run it back which is insanity
If we hiring the Euro basketball godfather we probably ain’t tanking.
Sergio would be the first head coach in NBA history to spend almost their entire career overseas and then be successful in the NBA.
28 comments
I think this means a final interview
Ok fuck it give me Sergio and his slick back hair italian mafia style.
YESSSS
It’s over lol
Sergio it is!
Don’t like this.
Serge is old and and I question if American players will respect him given the cultural differences.
Why do people like Sergio so much?
If we hire Sergio I expect Masai plans to run it back with mostly the same team 👎
Well shit, can’t see the context being anything but him brought over as coach (at the very least an assistant if he still wants to do that).
Welcome to Toronto. Again.
How about Sergio as HC for a season or two, and Jordi as lead assistant in line for the succession?
I don’t mind Sergio, but I’d much rather have someone who hasn’t been a part of our coaching staff over the last few years.
If the point is to ‘change the culture’ then we need to hire someone who hasn’t been here recently, IMHO. Go with Jordi, Edelman, Lee, or someone else and make Sergio our lead assistant.
Don Scariolo.
Bentornato a Toronto, Sergio!
It’s gonna be Scariolo or Fernandez.
I hope it’s Fernandez honestly. I watched [this interview ](https://youtu.be/GA4lKTDJN-4?t=737)and I thought he touched on a few philosophical differences that are perfect. First, he says he cares about both ends of the ball a lot (unlike NN who mainly focused on defense), and on offense he likes high pace and ball movement in the half court. Obviously we play with pace, but our offense last season was one of the most isolation heavy offenses in the league… this would be a breath of fresh air for a team that is thin on talent. Secondly, he talks about positionless basketball but mentions how its limited by how well the players can do it, so it’s not always great. I think our team really suffered from that this year… just because Siakam is theoretically switchable doesn’t mean he actually is – when he’s pushing 30% USG on offense, maybe switching him onto fast guards on defense is a stupid idea. Nick Nurse didn’t give a shit about that kind of thing but it matters. Similarly, Barnes is theoretically switchable, but he gets beat by most guards.. stop switching him. I like the more nuanced view.
Also, maybe this is bad of me to say, but Fernandez’ English is a lot better than Scariolo’s and i think it matters. I think Americans are pretty disrespectful towards people who don’t speak English well, the same way French people are usually annoyed by people who don’t speak French. There’s a lot of ego at play and especially with a team that has a lot of maturity problems (specifically Barnes), I’m a little concerned that an international, old coach (Scariolo) with poor English is not gonna be able to connect with a 21 year old with a giant ego and work ethic issues. He might be great from a basketball perspective, I just don’t know much about him on that end, and Fernandez seems good enough.
I worry Sergio won’t gel with the younger players on the team, is that wrong of me to assume? It kinda seems like there going for the closest thing to Nick Nurse style instead of changing things up.
Let’s go great hire
Superstar coach in the euros
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s both Sergio and Fernandez as associate head coaches, one is offense the other is Defense.
They coached Spanish national team together in 2017.
https://preview.redd.it/nwr7ce249n3b1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=58231a5813f2f26c97f4ac5c7ef783bbd683592e
I would be very happy with Scariolo, though I would have preferred Quinn or Jordi. Scariolo is a proven winner and develops players.
That being said, a vet coach wouldnt come here for a complete tear down. I hope that if we do hire him that we still make at least one large move (Siakam or OG) and one smaller move (OPJ + Boucher etc) to get a little younger and deeper
I hope this won’t end up like David Blatt. I would rather them hire Jordi.
I feel like if Juancho was still here Sergio would actually get him to play better lol
Please no old timers. Want a young up and coming coach!
People in the comments are finding the most ridiculous reasons to not like the Sergio hiring.
Scariolo head coach, Jordi head assistant with Pep Guardiola as an assistant aswell 💯💯🔥🔥
I do like the potential here. I think one advantage we had that was kinda squandered the last couple years was that we had two excellent high-post passers, but we entirely failed to use that as an advantage because we have so little off-ball movement and screening, with Nurse allowing guys to run a relatively freeform offense a lot of the time. Both Siakam and Barnes are ideal Sergio players, and he’s got a solid track-record of finding ways to turn seeming redundencies into advantages (specifically thinking about the Gasols on the national teams, even before either of them had good outside shots).
The next few seasons of Raptors basketball is going to be painful to watch,this screams run it back which is insanity
If we hiring the Euro basketball godfather we probably ain’t tanking.
Sergio would be the first head coach in NBA history to spend almost their entire career overseas and then be successful in the NBA.