With new gamers and new assistant coaches comes a brand new Nets offense.
Head coach Steve Nash mentioned the inflow of recent personnel will enable the crew to make some adjustments to the offense in coaching camp getting into the season.
“We’re gonna change some of our schemes. I think we’re resetting in a lot of ways,” Nash mentioned after the second day of coaching camp on the HSS Training Facility in Industry City on Wednesday. “We also, I think, have made some improvements.”
The enhancements to the roster embrace introducing Ben Simmons to the rotation after lacking the whole season, buying and selling for 3-and-D wing Royce O’Neale, welcoming again sharpshooter Joe Harris and the addition of veteran large man Markieff Morris.
But Nash additionally made new additions to his teaching workers. Trevor Hendry moved from his video coordinator publish of six years as much as Nash’s workers. Adam Capcorn took a job on Nash’s bench after growing a repute as a growth guru head teaching the Long Island Nets, Brooklyn’s G-League affiliate. And Igor Kokoskov joined the Nets’ teaching workers after a long time of teaching abroad and a fast stint as head coach of the Phoenix Suns.
“Just an incredible offensive encyclopedia,” Nash mentioned of Kokoskov. “He was my assistant coach back in the day in Phoenix for many years and just has great experience. He’s been in the league 25 years.”
Nash mentioned on Tuesday he’s “excited by the team’s potential offensively” as a result of they’ve “lots of playmakers and shooters” on the roster. How he and his teaching workers make the most of the weapons at their disposal will decide how excessive the ceiling is for this crew.
HARRIS AGREES: NETS SKIPPED STEPS
Joe Harris agreed with star ahead Kevin Durant’s assertion that the crew skipped the steps wanted to turn into a championship crew final season.
Durant lit into his crew’s method to the season on Monday when explaining his reasoning for requesting a commerce out of Brooklyn through the summer time. He mentioned the crew misplaced respect from its opponents as a result of they didn’t have sufficient battle in video games he was out of the rotation.
Harris mentioned the Nets put the thought of profitable a championship over the precise steps it takes to reach the NBA.
“I think it was just a little bit more of looking down the road and feeling the loss from the prior year in the playoffs [to the Bucks] and wanting to get back to that point in the playoffs and maybe looking past some of the games that we had in the early season, instead of just being as attentive and focus on the present,” he mentioned.
“So I think it’s something that we’re just trying to be really cognizant of where everybody’s focused on — we’re having a good second day of training camp, and then tomorrow, we’ll have another good day, and we’ll just keep having these building blocks that we’ll build off of, but we’re not trying to look too far ahead. And this can be the same thing: preseason games, you’re not gonna take these preseason games for granted, regardless of how much time guys are playing, wherever we’re at. You know, I think the whole focus is just alright, how do we get better today and then just kind of building off of that.”
WARREN NOT YET CLEARED, CURRY EN ROUTE
The Nets have two gamers who’ve recovered from accidents however aren’t but cleared to play.
Forward T.J. Warren won’t be prepared for the preseason or regular-season opener, head coach Steve Nash mentioned after Day 2 of coaching camp on Wednesday.
Warren is coming off two consecutive seasons missed as a consequence of consecutive stress fractures in his left foot. Nash mentioned the crew ready for him to not be able to play to begin the season. They will re-evaluate his standing in November.
“He’s doing great. He’s building up. We knew [he would miss the beginning of the season] going in,” Nash mentioned. “We also don’t want to take big risks with T.J.,” he mentioned. “He’s been out for two years so it’s a process that we want to be very confident in and make a firm decision as an organization not to rush him.”
Sharpshooter Seth Curry has additionally healed from a nagging ankle damage that plagued his 2021-22 season, however he additionally has but to be cleared to play. Nash was extra optimistic in regards to the odds Curry is offered someday quickly.
“Seth has a chance,” he mentioned. “It would be great if Seth could play in one of these preseason [games], maybe the last preseason game. Hopefully be available or close to available opening night.”
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