Recently Toronto Raptors head coach Dwane Casey made a switch at power forward by demoting starter Amir Johnson to the bench in favor of Tyler Hansbrough. Johnson says he actually asked for the change in his role on the team.
“I kind of asked to be on the bench,” Johnson told the Toronto Sun on Friday. “I guess everybody didn’t know that, huh? … Yeah. I wanted to see if there would be a difference. I wanted to see if we could get the offence going that way. I had talked to the coach weeks before the decision was made. I just wanted to make that clear.”
Johnson has done well as a reserve over the two games as he played 33 minutes and scored 16 points against Golden State on Tuesday and played 33 minutes and scored 22 points on Friday against Phoenix. Unfortunately both games ended in losses for the Raptors who now have a 6-12 record.
