We posted about this earlier today, but here’s the Toronto Sun with more on the latest batch of Raptors injuries:
Losing three key rotation players including two starters hasn’t managed to sap Nick Nurse of his sense of humour.
Arriving for his pre-game news conference, Nurse looked down at the podium at some left-behind tools of the trade and remarked, “Just what we need: Some duct tape.”
Nurse lost Pascal Siakam to a groin stretch, Norm Powell to a left shoulder subluxation and Marc Gasol to a left hamstring strain in Wednesday’s win over Detroit.
He might have walked out after that duct tape line, but there was this little thing about a season which had to go on without the services of his leading scorer in Siakam, his lead defender in Gasol and the red-hot Powell, who is either his lead source of offence off the bench or a guy he was considering promoting to the starting five.
One thing we’ve learned this season, however, is to not underestimate the Raptors. Even in cases like this.
