""Every year there's one or two teams like this ... there is this feedback loop of 'all right, we all have to buy into playing a little bit differently, a little bit out of our comfort zones' ... and then we start winning and the feedback loop kicks in of like 'oh, this works.' The buzz is building. All boats are lifted by winning, I'm going to lean even more into playing this way.""
""Rajakovic's odds of winning what would be his first-ever NBA Coach of the Year award, and the franchise's fourth, have jumped up in recent weeks - eighth-best at plus-2000 currently (per BetMGM). Lowe went on to commend the third-year head coach for finding "the right rotations" through the Raptors' strong start, mixing and matching starters and reserves around star forwards Scottie Barnes and Brandon Ingram. "Scottie gets his minutes alone with a bunch of bench guys, and he gets his minutes with other perimeter guys other than Ingram ... and B.I. gets the inverse minutes and B.I. gets to kind of cook in those minutes."""
The Toronto Raptors improved to 9-5 after a 110-108 win over the Charlotte Hornets and have won seven of their last eight games. The team ranks eighth in offense, 10th in defense and holds the league's 10th-best net rating. Zach Lowe labeled Darko Rajakovic an early-season Coach of the Year candidate and credited the coach for creating a feedback loop that encourages players to buy into new roles. Rajakovic has mixed starters and reserves around Scottie Barnes and Brandon Ingram, and his Coach of the Year odds have risen to eighth-best at plus-2000 (per BetMGM).
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