Nick Nurse says Kawhi Leonard made an impression on Pascal Siakam and Raptors

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00:00Through winning a championship with Kawhi Leonard,

00:04the Toronto Raptors have transformed themselves into a championship team without him.

00:10It surprised a lot of people how good the Raptors are without Kawhi Leonard this season.

00:16I think a lot of people wrote them off and if anything they've shown,

00:19and even shown through this bubble period, just how good they are still.

00:23And Nick Nurse was asked, you know, did Kawhi leave any imprints on this team?

00:28And Nurse said the way that Kawhi handled himself as a professional,

00:33the way to be coachable, really made his job easier.

00:36The fact that Kawhi would have eye contact, nod his head,

00:39do all the little things and make it sure like he was paying attention to a younger coach

00:43like Nick Nurse really made his job as easy as possible.

00:48And in terms of specific players that he believes Kawhi may have impacted,

00:54he said three of them in particular were Pascal Siakam, Oji Anunobi, and Norman Powell.

01:00Granted, he also mentioned that those three were already hard workers to begin with

01:06and that Kawhi may have just rubbed off on him a little bit,

01:09but he still specifically mentioned those three as guys that Kawhi had an impact on.