I played for a lot of crazy coaches in my life who were hard on me and allowed me to be coachable. It’s youngsters such as Scottie Barnes, Precious Achiuwa, Gary Trent Jr., Dalano Banton and Malachi Flynn that VanVleet needs to keep an eye on. “I have emotions, and there’s times when I have to do it with my voice, there’s times I have to do it with my play, there’s times I need to do it with my body language,” he said. For the first five years of his career, VanVleet watched as Kyle Lowry cast a long shadow over everything the Raptors did. VanVleet doesn’t go that far but he does speak more often than Lowry and has for years.

Source: thestar November 18, 2021 02:01 UTC