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The NBA fined Raptors coach Dwane Casey fined $25,000 on Thursday after he unloaded on the referees and questioned the NBA’s officiating review system following a 93-92 loss to the Hawks on Wednesday night. SI.com

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Not long before Colangelo spoke, Casey let loose, after the officials declined to call a foul at the end of Toronto’s one-point loss when DeMar DeRozan clearly was mauled. “I’m tired of losing games because of missed calls at the end of games. I know the league is going to come down on me, but I don’t care,” said a seething Casey, smoke practically billowing out of his ears. “These guys have fought their hearts out, played their hearts out and at the end of the game, we get cracked, (league sends out an) apology, go back to Canada. I’ve been in this league 18 years and I’ve never seen so many missed calls at the end of the game to cost us the game. We’ve got great officials in this league, and too good to miss calls and short-change young men like this. It’s not right. I watched the replay three or four times, hoping that they (somehow made the right call) but they didn’t,” he said. Toronto Sun

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Eric Smith: Casey says rumored players won't dress Twitter @Eric__Smith

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Head coach Dwane Casey was also disappointed in the officiating, particularly the non-call on Johnson. "I hope the league looks at that last play of the game when Amir Johnson gathers the shot going up," said Casey. "I don't know who he's passing to, but I just hope they watch it. I hope they watch it. "That's all I'm going to say about it, because it's a very questionable, marginal call at the end of the game." Casey then added: "We'll see what the ruling is." cbc.ca

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Dwane Casey knows how changes can be made abruptly in the NBA. So the Toronto Raptors coach was not too stunned to hear that Jim Boylan was replacing Scott Skiles as Bucks coach a few days ago. Boylan's Bucks meet the Raptors in a Sunday matinee, Canadian style. "Nothing surprises me in the NBA," Casey said in his remarks to reporters about an hour before tip-off. "I've been there before, seen it, done it, been in that situation. "That's our league. Not trying to be flippant about it. There's different situations, circumstances or whatever it is. I do know Scott has done a good job with that team. They've got his personality. They play hard; they scratch, they claw. So you're in for a 48-minute fight. "That's what we're going to face today." Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

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It all stemmed from a play with 15.6 seconds left and the Raptors with the ball, up 16. It certainly would appear to be a time when Toronto would hold the ball and run out the clock. Instead, guard Jose Calderon threw an alley-oop pass to Landry Fields, who threw down a dunk. Sixers coach Doug Collins stared down at the Raptors' bench, where, when the game ended, coach Dwane Casey waved at Collins. The Sixers coach didn't respond and a couple of minutes later, as the Sixers approached their locker room, words were exchanged. In the Raptors' locker room, both Calderon and Casey said they wanted to apologize, saying they didn't know how much time was left. Perhaps the fire that Collins' players showed after the late-game incident will carry over to the next game, which is Saturday at home against Houston. Right now, they need to look anywhere and everywhere for some answers. Philadelphia Inquirer

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Raptors coach Dwane Casey said Friday he intended to speak to Bargnani about his remarks but said he would be "surprised" if the comments had not been "lost in translation." Sacramento Bee

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Ryan Wolstat: Casey hasn't been told he's the problem so says he's still working hard. Has been under pressure in past nothing new Twitter @WolstatSun

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Yet two people with knowledge of the Raptors' thinking who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue told USA TODAY Sports that Casey is not in jeopardy at the moment, and the more relevant question is how long it will be until Colangelo makes a roster move that helps his own situation. USA Today

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Bruce Arthur: Colangelo also said that no coaching change has been contemplated, and Dwane Casey isn't in danger of losing his job. Twitter @bruce_arthur

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Toronto coach Dwane Casey, currently in his fourth season as a head coach, admitted Friday he almost joined a hospital company rather than joining the coaching ranks coming out of Kentucky in the late 1970s. Casey was a backup point guard on coach Joe B. Hall’s UK team that posted a 30-2 record on the way to winning the 1978 NCAA championship. The Morganfield, Ky., native spoke fondly of his days playing for the Wildcats, who beat Duke in the ’78 finals. But he also said he had no intention of becoming a coach. “I wasn’t going to be a coach,” he said. “My senior year I walked into coach Hall’s office and I was lost. There was a company called Humana and a guy named Wendell Cherry was the owner. He was a Kentucky grad and he wanted to hire me.” Standard-Examiner

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Dwane Casey is happy the NBA admitted its officials made a mistake at the end of Wednesday’s loss in Charlotte, but knows the admission won’t change the fortunes of his team. “We have some of the best officials in the world, bar none. But people make mistakes,” Casey told the Toronto Sun on Friday morning. “But our system, the NBA system, proved to work (with) the fact that, if the officials make a mistake, they have a system in place where we can send plays in and they can review plays (which Toronto has done several times over the course of the season). Toronto Sun

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“I respect the NBA for saying: ‘Hey, we made a mistake.’ We all make mistakes. It still doesn’t help us at the end of games (because the result won’t be overturned), but it shows a system is in place.” The NBA said the officials missed a Michael Kidd-Gilchrist foul on Andrea Bargnani in the dying seconds of Wednesday’s one-point loss. Bargnani should have been sent to the free throw line for two shots. Toronto Sun

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Prior to Wednesday’s game against Dallas, Toronto had jumped to 10th in the league in pace, thanks largely to Lowry. Bargnani, no longer the top option, has found it difficult to find his role in the offence and to locate quality shot attempts since the team’s point guards are no longer focusing on setting him up. Dwane Casey talked earlier in the week about the adjustment and about how he had given Lowry the freedom to make calls on offence on the break (pre-injury of course). “The offence we’re running is more of a random type offence where it’s in flow, the push is more random … (the) hardest thing to do in the NBA is to guard random play so that’s why we try to be unpredictable.” Toronto Sun

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Bargnani shot just 33% from the field through the first three games of the year, but, interestingly, was a spectacular 46.7% from three after shooting just 29.6% from outside last season, the third year in a row he had declined. But that’s largely because most of his threes had been open looks, the result of him standing unguarded while opponents focused. Before Wednesday’s game, Casey added, “We need him to step up and, most of all, be aggressive offensively and get that bounce, enjoy playing again. I think a lot is expected of Andrea, undue pressure, he puts on himself because he wants to play so well.” Toronto Sun

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Casey reiterated that after practice on Friday, praising the veteran more for how he carries himself than for anything he does while on the court. “He’s a man’s man. I respect him to the utmost. The most important thing is his heart is in the right place, whether he’s the fourth guy coming off the bench, he’s starting, his approach has been impeccable. He’s the same way,” Casey said. “He’s a pro. Every team should have a Jose Calderon on it because he plays the game the right way. He represents everything you want a NBA player to stand for. I love him as a man. He does anything we ask him to do with a good heart.” Toronto Sun

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Ryan Wolstat: Dwane Casey said he has great respect for John Hollinger. Wants guys to use 33 wins as motivation Twitter @WolstatSun

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ESPN’s John Hollinger pegged the team as a 33-win outfit this week and Casey noticed. “I saw today someone predict we’re going to win 33 games, so, with that lack of respect, that should get us motivated to come in this gym each and every day to bust our tails,” Casey said. “(The) Hollinger report or whatever it was. That right there tells us how much lack of respect the league has for us and how much we’ve got to continue to work each and every day we walk on the floor.” Toronto Sun

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Eric Koreen: The Raptors seemed vaguely grumpy today. Dwane Casey was not happy with the practice. Hypothesis: latter caused former. Twitter @ekoreen

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Eric Koreen: “It was one of those hump days where guys were going through the motions a little bit. I had to get them going. We need games.” - Casey Twitter @ekoreen

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