Nick Nurse picks Kyle Lowry as the greatest Raptor ever, citing his six All-Star selections, Olympic gold medals, and championship. They discuss Lowry's competitive fire and the box-and-one defense Nurse used against the Warriors in the 2024 Finals.
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Kyle Lowry.
I agree.
Yeah.
I agree.
Kyle Lowry.
It's unbelievable what Kyle was able to do going to Toronto, kind of finding his footing. I think what, Kyle got to Toronto in like year 7 or 8 or something like that. Had never been an All-Star, finds his footing. Can you talk to me about, love Lo by the way, as you know, had the opportunity to win a gold medal with him.
Appreciate that by the way, thank you for that.
Absolutely, like, can you talk to me about just what Kyle Lowry brought to the Raptors organization?
Yeah, listen, I think I got there right at that kind of start of that. He was just kind of a part-time starter. This would've been 2013, I think, so a while ago. Man, I don't know, he just, his competitive fire, he's one of those guys, you know, I throw him in the same bucket as you that they just can't help themselves when it's time to compete. Like there's no way they're not competing at something, you know, like something's gonna turn on and it's gonna happen. It's just so deeply ingrained in him. Yeah. I think he brought that. I never seen, I mean, again, comparisons to you, right? Like, I never seen a guy like in a flurry of 4 minutes, like, do so much, you know? Like, bang a shot, you know? Come down, get charged, come down, you know, knock somebody over, lay it in, come steal one. Like, it's just like this whirlwind of winning, you know? Like a whirlwind of winning in like 90 seconds or something, right? And I just— Mm-hmm. You just can't help but love that. It's like, you know, I— people ask me, who, you know, he's number one. Who you ever seen play the hardest in your life? And for me, it's him, you know, like that I've coached, right? So that's it. He brought that. I think he brought— once he started, you know, getting better, progressing, the team started winning, the success just kept expanding on all that and just kept riding that wave. And I think he continues to do it. I mean, I think 6 All-Stars and 2 gold medals. I mean, that's unbelievable, I think, for him, right? And it's just, he continues to just do a lot of it. I mean, he's like 6 foot tall, right? He does it all with a lot of heart and toughness.
Absolutely. And let's not forget NBA champion. That's a big one.
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Yeah.
And you guys go boxing one on Steph and it threw the entire rhythm of our offense off. And I just wanna know whose fucking call was that? Because no one does boxing one in the NBA and outta nowhere you come with a boxing one in the NBA Finals. Whose call was that?
Well, like all that stuff, Draymond, since we were just talking about Kyle, I'm gonna pull him into this. Like, listen, I coached in a lot of funky places, right? I coached in Brighton, England, Ostend, Belgium, Birmingham, England, you know, you name it. Des Moines, Iowa, Enid, Oklahoma, McAllen, Texas. And sometimes when you're in some of these places, you're just like, you know, this guy's all, this is, this time we gotta hop, let's try this box one. So, it isn't like I hadn't used it before, But in saying that, I kind of grabbed Kyle and I drew up the— I said, you're going to go here and I put Fred on. I'm going box and one. I'm put Fred nose to nose on Draymond Green, 94 feet. And you're going to be in the top of the 2-2 zone. And he goes, let's do it. So he kind of, he kind of, he kind of gave me the— and he took it to the timeout and said, we're doing this, man. Watch this. You know?
So. Yeah.
You know how that goes. You need to buy in from the guys. And so 50/50, me and Kyle maybe, I don't know.
That's great, man. I'm telling you, when we saw that box, it's like you couldn't hit a shot. Like no one was accustomed to it. I think people have gotten a little more accustomed to it now. Like I know we have things now to attack the box and one, which I mean, you kind of gotta have something to attack the box and one after it costs you a championship. Like the nightmare of seeing the box and one. You guys are using it now. Now you guys are using it now. We most definitely use it now. It cost you a championship. You better start using it. Right? Like, I just cannot believe. And it's like we forgot how to shoot. We forgot how to dribble. We forgot how to pass. It was unbelievable, the timing of it. And I don't know, to make that call, I don't think you get enough credit for it. To make that call, and quite frankly, most people that'll be talking about basketball don't have a, probably don't even remember you did that 'cause they don't have a fucking clue. But to make that call in the NBA Finals, to go boxing one, man, that took some balls. And I tip my hat to you. By the way, you used to wear your Nick Nurse hat. I'm happy to see you with your 76er hat because when you wore your Nick Nurse hat, I just used to try to find shit to piss me off. And I'm like, that coach got on the hat that says his name. Like, let me just find something to piss me off.
You ain't the only one that got mad. I just wanna let you, make you feel better.
All that stuff from that Nick Nurse hat went to the Foundation.
So the money was, the money was channeled in a good place.
All right.
Yeah.
That's funny, man.
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