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Raptors won’t have Triano as head coach in 2011-12

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Jay Triano (Bing Images)

The Toronto Raptors won’t have Jay Triano as their head coach next season.

Triano will take on a new role as Special Assistant to Raptors’ President and General Manager Bryan Colangelo.

The Raptors were the third worst team in the NBA this season with a record of 22-60. Only the Cleveland Cavaliers (19-63) and Minnesota Timberwolves (17-65) were worse.

Triano, from Niagara Falls, Ontario, cannot be blamed exclusively for the Raptors’ downfall this season. The Raptors were not in a great position to win, having lost their best player, Chris Bosh to the Miami Heat last summer.

The Raptors were just not in a financial position to go on the free agent market and replace a player of Bosh’s talents last year.

Injuries were also a major factor. Jose Calderon, Andrea Bargnani, Leandro Barbosa and Linas Kleiza all missed significant time due to various ailments.

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The Hoop & The Harm: Notes from the Hardcourt

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

Beyond The Arc

It hasn’t been a banner season for Jay Triano and the Toronto Raptors, and that was more than evident on Monday night.

A shorthanded Raps team fell prey to some last-second heroics from Rudy Gay to win the game for the Memphis Grizzlies, an eighth straight loss for the fourth-worst team in the entire NBA. The hurt doesn’t end there though.

When you’re not winning and things aren’t really going well, you try to hang onto the small victories out there on the court, to give you something to feel good about. Well, the Raps have one less accomplishment in the works as a streak of consecutive games with a three-pointer came to an end on Monday too.

Before going 0-for-13 in that loss to the former Vancouver Grizzlies, the Raptors went 986 straight games with at least one swish from beyond the arc – an NBA record dating back to February 26th, 1999. To put into perspective just how long ago the streak began, here are some tidbits from the Raps website (from when the streak hit a decade in 2009) and some of my own. (more…)

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