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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4658690, member: 1969"]
If the Clippers are still purely in win-now mode, Nurse might make a good choice.     (yes it will likely compromise the development of the youth that are not firmly established in the rotation yet).   
 This is assuming Nurse largely abolishes his current defensive system which I think he would do with the Clips - no way Kawhi and George could play that way -- they can be good defenders but not in a chase / create chaos system, where injuries would be a real concern

Nurse and Kawai were a pretty good fit in 2019 - and he works well with veterans -- I suppose guys like Siakam, Anunoby, FVV did continue to get better under him as well, but they were all established rotation players before he became head coach.    Other than those guys since 2019, there has only been one homegrown player that has really cracked the rotation in 4 years (Chris boucher) -- part of that is on management, part of it is on Nurse.

I don't think Nurse is a bad coach.. neither is someone like Bud.    But he had issues with mgmt. and his defensive approach and minutes mgmt. were just a poor fit in terms of how he managed the current Raptors personnel.   He had lost his touch with this team, and players were tuning him out -- which makes sense when you have guys, who are good defenders, play a hard mileage defensive system that is not working in part because of the scheme.
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