Jonas Valanciunas of the Toronto Raptors shakes hands with head coach Nick Nurse during a team practice in Burnaby, B.C., on September 26, 2018. There are few coaches -- or maybe no coaches -- on the planet who know Jonas Valanciunas's basketball game better than Nick Nurse.When Nurse was hired as an assistant with the Toronto Raptors six years ago, his first assignment was to work with the 27-year-old Lithuanian. And whether they were in Toronto, Lithuania, Los Angeles or Las Vegas, the two were virtually tied at the hip until the big man was traded this past February to Memphis. THE CANADIAN PRESS Jonathan Hayward