To use a chess term, Nurse & Toronto get opponents “out of book” better than any defense.

In chess, the opening dozen moves or so go by quickly bc during prep you have time to game plan responses to common opponent moves. You can analyze w/data & deep thought how to react.

When you’re “out of book” you’re facing something you don’t have a prepared response for.

Out of book operating under pressure thinking quickly is suboptimal.

What TOR does schematically will take away something but make them vulnerable to counters.

But they’re usually creative enough that it’s not part of the normal back & forth teams are ready for.

You can beat their stuff, but they do an good job making sure the answers aren’t what you’ve been taught is the automatic response.

Because of that, you’re in trouble as an offense if you’re not prepared, aware in-game to spot the opportunities, and able to execute counters.