Following disappointing season finishes and trading away Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and James Harden in the last year plus, the Nets should definitely see Sean Marks’ job as being iffy right now, and for the future. While getting some things reset in the short term, it’s still been a rocky time for the GM.
Doug Norrie takes a look at the situation around Sean Marks, the moves he’s made over his tenure and what things look like going forward. Is his position in jeopardy? Should it be? What does the short and long-term look like for this team with Marks still in the top spot.
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Zero faith in Marks bringing Brooklyn a championship. We may see 👀 the end of civilization 1st
I get the feeling this is the make or break summer for Marks. With all the mid range assets he has at his disposal, there needs to be a strong trade made.
The 2 biggest mistake I'll say Sean made during the KD/Kyrie era was hiring Nash and not doing a physical on Simmons. Hopefully going forward he can do a better job, but he should be on the hot seat, the nets needs some new vision.
Me personally I would rather build around someone younger . Bridges is 26 and turns 27 this summer , I feel it’s easier to do a full reset and rebuild then try to “ contend “
I would sign Bob Myers if the warriors don’t give him a contract
I still believe that the nets would have won in 21 of injury hadn't hit them so hard. Marks got them there. And if anyone knows of any other general managers with a track record of build a championship caliber team just waiting to be hired by the nets let me know. Marks has made a lot of bad decisions and mistakes and we can be pissed about that. But there is no guarantee that someone new is gonna be any better.
One's perception, regardless of whether it's true or not, could have the same effect as reality. In spite of Marks disastrous decisions that's lead the Nets to be in the position they're in, I think the perception is that he's being given preferential treatment because he's white. I'm sure that the majority of blacks, that are Nets fans, feel the same way. It shouldn't be a surprise considering that a large percentage of America's history is steeped in how polarized we are along racial lines. Sometimes sports amplify it..
Disrespecting kyrie Irving Brooklyn boring …lol loving it
Fire his ass. He did a good job until the star era and then it was mistake after mistake. People that can't highlight at least 5 big mistakes aren't trying very hard. Roster construction was poor and Simmons trade was poor and dealing with stars was poor. I am not saying these things with the benefit of hindsight as i said all these things at the time. I remember saying that they had zero chance of beating the Celtics and people laughed but sure enough they got swept. To keep players and play for a hiding in the playoffs instead of tanking for a lottery pick was a farce. You get offered 3 picks for DFS and Royce and you say no thanks 😢. What are we doing?
As far as some trade chatter goes apparently an insider believes Brooklyn would have interest in trading for big man Karl Anthony Towns if he requested a trade in the off-season.
Sean Marks would consider this move if timberwolves would take Ben Simmons contract along with some draft picks.
Karl Anthony Towns has shown flashes of the dominant big man he could be on the court. Unfortunately his defense and foul trouble have hindered him and allowed opposing teams to capitalize on his weaknesses….
But Karl would be joining a strong defensive core of mikal Bridges Cam Johnson Dorian Finney Smith Nic Claxton and Spencer dinwiddie…
Plus Nic Claxton is vastly different from Rudy Gobert in that Clax can guard 1-5 snd enjoys knocking down lobs snd creating his own buckets…
If Marks wanted to make a big move to improve Brooklyn size getting Karl Anthony Towns and pairing him with Nic Claxton could be one interesting way…
However given Karl big contract, defensive troubles and bad foul trouble habits Brooklyn probably wouldn't go all on this move and instead just look from afar…..
Joe Tsai is a smart and dumb businessman at the same time he has a GM that is hiring his friends for positions they shouldn’t have or had and using his money in the process…he allowed him to trade kyrie for pennies on the dollar instead of just sending him to the lakers and getting 2 players back and their picks one being Westbrook or Austin Reaves or walker plus Westbrook would had been off our books this summer…just those moves alone this team would had looked extremely different
He definitely on the hot seat cuz now he has to win the draft. After giving cam his money we coked. Maybe we can find suitors for dfs, joe Harris,patty mills? But what does that get us?
come on man stop sugarcoating everything, you know marks and JV should go … KD mentioned this long ago
It would be more appropriate to say that Sean Marks should be fired heading into this Nets off-season rather than on the hotseat. The reasons have been stated ad nauseam. For the benefit of fans that are in denial and/or have amnesia, I'll state the most egregious ones. He hired KD/Kyrie/Jordan in a package deal. Brook Lopez and head coach Kenny Atkinson "disappeared" during the transition. After Jordan replaced Jarrett Allen, as the starting center, he replaced Atkinson with Steve Nash, who had no coaching experience on any level. He "rescued" Harden from the Rockets by trading valuable assets. When Harden got fed up, in his short stench as a Net and requested a trade, Marks obliged him by not only trading him to a division rival but for a mentally/physically damaged Ben Simmons. Many have been seeking an answer to how did Ben pass the required physical before the trade was completed? The Nets were swept in two consecutive seasons. I'm sure an increasing number of Marks fans and apologist are, probably, having a hard time justifying him keeping his job. I think that the earliest he should have been fired was after we were swept in the playoffs last season and at the latest, should have been after KD gave Tsai the alternative of firing Marks and Nash or trade him.
While viewing the season ending join press conference with Sean Marks and Steve Nash, I wonder how does JV really feel about being passed over for inexperienced Steve Nash for the head coach job by Marks? He's such a high character gentleman, we'll probably never know. We could speculate.
Nice discussion Doug. Maybe I’m naive, but I would think that trades involving superstars need to have the owners fully on board. My impression of Joe Tsai is that he is not basketball illiterate. My biggest question re Marks is His doing thorough due diligence, specifically with Kyrie, Nash, and definitely Ben Simmons (physical and performance evaluation). If Marks job is on the hot seat, I would think Joe Tsai has made it clear to him and has given him a general framework and objectives for the Nets rebuild/retool. I think Marks is going to be very careful or strategic as he calls it, going forward. How this summer’s draft and other moves are handled will be closely scrutinized. Any more big misses will likely cost him his job.
We need a new clearer direction on the team ngl
In his exit interview he said they are going after players who can rebound. Does that means he is going after a all-star centre?
Some things we have (or should have) learned. A player’s character and loyalty are important. Acquiring injury prone players is a HUGE risk. Acquiring superstars has HUGE risk attached to it. When hiring coaches, their experience and ability to relate to the players is important. ALWAYS do thorough due diligence.
I have to think that when an owner allows the GM to extend his guy in this case, Jacque Vaughn before the season even ends that he has a stamp of approval however, I really question Joe on that. However, Joe seems to be a difficult owner for other executives to get along with. Let’s remember during his time I think he’s gone through three CEOs, so maybe Joe simply wants to hold on to an executive who is willing to work with him, and who he does seem to get along with.
However, I almost every objective measure marks, has done everything to solidify himself as a top GM in his tenure and everything to solidify himself as worse than Billy King. And here’s what I will say it is easy to be a GM when nothing is on the line and nobody expects anything from you and the expectations are really really low and that’s where Mark’s was in the beginning of his career with the Nets. But when Mark’s got KD and Kyrie, he simply whiffed on all almost every significant move that he made.
And I know Doug will say you can’t play Monday morning quarterback, the Harden deal you make 9 times out of 10 but these decisions go on your résumé and if they don’t work out, they don’t work out just like they didn’t work out for Billy King and now he never gets a job again. We all get it in order to attain big rewards. Do you have to make big Ris put big risk come with the consequences and moxa see no consequences for the failing moves that he has made along the way. You can’t lose Kevin Durant and James Harden and keep your job, but in this bizarro world with the Nets, this is what we have. Mark’s is Homer Simpson, and all his job was to do is make sure the plant doesn’t implode. Yet not only did it include he caused a nuclear meltdown of epic proportions.
Yet, as I look back marks primary mistake is or was his inability to understand and read Kevin Durant and that’s where it starts. The Nets seem to believe that in someway Kevin Durant would be the type of leader that would hold James Harden and Kyrie Irving accountable, and then handed over the keys to the franchise, believing that would be the case and it never was. Kevin Durant just wanted to play basketball and when the house set on fire, he still just wanted to play basketball and that was a bad calculation on the Nets part and by the time they wanted to take back control it was too late. I will give a lot of credit to the Knicks, reluctantly, because they had an opportunity to get KD and Kyrie and they passed and they seem to understand that there was no controlling Kyrie Irving not even with Kevin Durant.
Im still a supporter of marks, but you're right it was criminal not to move DFS and seth prior to the deadline. Such head scratching moves. He doesnt improve the roster this offseason hes dead to me
Joe Tsai should study on each and every draft/trade in the league history and watch each and every playoff game full at least over the past 20 years during this summer. If he does, Nets might be able to win a championship in the next five to eight years. The same for Ballmer. The owners simply didn’t study the game and doesn’t know how to run it. That’s why they are taken advantage of some incompetent GMs.
I think it’s time to move on. Marks has problems that have continued since he’s been here most notably lack of physicality and rebounding. Time to go in a new direction