The struggle continues — Nets blown out in Kevin Ollie’s debut as interim head coach
The Brooklyn Nets are back in action on Saturday night when they visit the Timberwolves the Nets are coming off their first game under interim head coach Kevin Ali on Thursday where the team was blown out by the Raptors so let’s talk some Brooklyn basketball I’m
Going to do it with a writer for Nets Daly and Nets Republic Brian Florentine my guy claraa Barton High School alum to here for you right there always got to represent that Brian Brian how’s it going man good morning I’m doing good what’s going on ain’t much man I’m I’m
Doing good a little bit better than the Nets are these days which we are going to get into and Brian I want to talk to you about this because on Thursday Kevin Ali he made his debut as Net’s interim head coach but they were TRS north of
The Border 121 to 93 got to ask you this when you watch that game did it look to you like a Brooklyn team that was playing hard because the effort my eyes just seemed to not be there it feels like for the Nets they they’re a team that really isn’t able to
Withstand storms like if you look at their last couple of losses they’ve LED teams go on one gigantic run and then it’s just over in hurry they think back to the game against Cleveland on February 8th they let up a 210 run right after halftime you just saw them lose by
50 to Boston last week and even in Thursday’s game it was closed for a while and then Toronto just turned the gas on the fourth quarter so I think it’s a situation where the team they they let themselves get down and then they make one like one kind of medium
Push and then everything just falls apart afterwards so I think for the Nets it’s a problem where they’re not doing enough good things they’re not getting out in transition they’re not getting back on defense they’re not really getting into the offense in the ways that they need to and it it winds up
Leading to a snowball where things start going wrong in an instant and then just gets worse and worse and worse in a second yeah and you definitely saw that in Toronto the other night what things just got as you said worse and worse and worse now when you look back at that
Game Ali’s first game cam Johnson and Dennis schroer they both came off the bench in that one what did you make of the move especially with cam Johnson and both players out of the starting lineup and is it a move if they stay on the bench is this a move that can benefit
This net team that’s still trying to make the post season I’m I’m kind of surprised that CJ came off the bench I understand he’s had some like issues throughout the year so you may want to limit his minutes in that regard but the thinking with the Nets this season was
We need to surround Ben Simmons with as much shooting as possible and we need to get spacing we need we need to have space so he and Clon can kind of be able to operate together to see how that works so putting cam Johnson who despite his struggles is shooting about like 39%
From three-point range of the season in favor of Dorne FY Smith who while 37% is good he doesn’t and he doesn’t sort of like engender the fear from deep in the ways that cam Johnson does so I was pretty surprised that the Nets coaching sub did that and I think that going
Forward I would want to play cam Johnson because you need for the Net’s offense is so flat and you need that shooting like you’re going to need some someone who can shoot who can drive to the basket in the ways that CJ does so I think for Kevin noi and the staff they
Have to figure out a way to sort of like maximize those minutes for cam Johnson getting him out on the board and getting him in a situation he can like hit those three point hit those three pointers to open things up for everyone else yeah it’s going to be interesting to see if
He can get back there and open up things for everybody else will this open up more opportunities for Ben Simmons when he plays to a drive and ATT track the rim that’s something Kevin Ali said that he would like to see we’ll see if that happens now Brian the Nets they are in
Minneapolis on Saturday night they’re looking to bounce back with a win against the Wolves who’ve got the best record in the West in your eyes what are the keys to Brooklyn pulling off a big road win on Saturday night well one thing that’s going to help them is that
Minnesota played an intense game last night on ESPN against the Milwaukee Bucks so you may have that National TV hangover in a sense and also I believe Rudy coar left the game last night with a little bit of an injury we’ll see if he plays tonight but I think the key for
The that’s is they’ve got to get out on the run like you’ve got a team who’s on the second leg of a backtack you yourself are starting the first game with three night three games of four nights road trip so you’ve got to have maximum energy tonight you got to get
Out and push you got to get out and run get out get out and transition really try to force the issue because having to deal with like Rudy gobear and Carl towns is going to be a tough task they couldn’t do it when they played them in Brooklyn last month so tonight they’ve
Got to get out and run early run off and really try to force turnover and really try to like not have to deal with Minnesota in a half court because they’re a fantastic team they’re excellent they do a lot of things well Anthony Edwards is amazing so if you’re
Able to sort of force the Wolves into turnovers and sort of play on their tired legs a bit that’s going to open things up for the Nets all right we’ll see if that can open things up for the Nets and it can bounce back and get a
Win in Minneapolis Brian flon he’s going to be all over at the great rider for Nets daily and Nets Republic also clar Barton High School numb doing great things as always Brian appreciate you man we will talk soon thank you appreciate you
Writer for Nets Daily and Nets Republic Brian Fleurantin joins Dexter Henry to talk about the latest news regarding the Brooklyn Nets.
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