Organizational shakeup can’t help Nets against Spurs

“Just, we need a fresh look”.

Seriously. There’s no one here.

Hollins was hired by King before the 2014-15 season as Jason Kidd’s replacement after the latter moved to Milwaukee.

Rondo has played his best basketball with the Kings since tearing his ACL. Hollins was stuck in the past and chose to completely ignore analytics and the three-point shot, Brooklyn is 29th in 3-point attempt rate and 28th effective FG% in the league, per Basketball-Reference.com.

In the words of Westphal’s wife, Cindy, “We literally were out the door and practically into the auto headed for church when Paul received a phone call from Lionel Hollins”. Those are two of their 14 wins by 20 or more points this season, and their leadership under Coach Gregg Popovich and General Manager R.C. Buford matters just as much as the contributions of the players.

It was bad luck that they had to take their first steps in this new phase against the Spurs. It’s really pretty incredible that he lasted for 5+ years.

On John Calipari: “Coach Cal is a great coach, but we won’t be discussing today any name because it’s the first day of our new approach”.

“Coach Cal is a great coach”, he said. The coaching veteran helped buoy the Nets to a playoff berth last season, but that moderate success, combined with a disappointing 2015-16 start, was apparently not enough to inspire from Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov in his ability to lead the team. The reported asking price that he wants is an absurd 10 years $120 Million. “But I’m not going in there and telling them, ‘Hey, we need to make the playoffs.’ Our job is to play a little bit harder, a little bit smarter”.

Second worst team in the Eastern Conference.

Cleveland Cavaliers’ associate head coach Tyronn Lue has interviewed for multiple head coaching positions already and is extremely well-respected among players in the league.

Derrick Rose scored 23 points for the Bulls, who were playing the first of four games in five nights.

Brown said of the biggest adjustment he has to make to become a head coach, “One inch is a long way away, a lot of decisions have to be made”. I’ve seen a lot of different GMs, a lot of different coaches.

There’s a wild card of course, Becky Hammon.

Another name that has been thrown around as a head coaching candidate is Mark Jackson. Brooklyn has nothing to lose. Since acquiring the team, it has always been believed that Prokorov has wanted Vatutin involved with the Nets, as the two have a long history together dating back to when Prokorov was the primary benefactor for CSKA and was funding their Euroleague runs. (Calipari denied rumors of his interest in the Nets’ job earlier on Monday). The one they have been trying clearly isn’t working.