Nets FIRE head coach Jacque Vaughn following a 50-point loss to Celtics | Breaking News | CBS Sports

Nets FIRE head coach Jacque Vaughn following a 50-point loss to Celtics | Breaking News | CBS Sports

We got breaking news in the NBA with the Brooklyn Nets firing their head coach Jac vaugh this morning the move comes with the net just outside of that playin pitcher in the Eastern Conference with a record of 21 and 33 losses on the year in his final game as the head coach of

The Nets it was not pretty they lost by 50 to the Boston Celtics right before the allstar break and here we are the Monday after he is no longer the head coach bond by the way 71 and 68 over two separate stints as a coach in Brooklyn

He was the inter coach if you remember briefly after Kenny ainson was let go in 2020 and then of course replacing Steve Nash early in that 2022 23 season and right now they sit 11th in the Eastern Conference two and a half games back from temp spot with the

ATL what a bringing my guy Sam Quinn and and I think he thought he was going to get some sleep today because we had Allstar on Sunday and you had some time to maybe dive in and chill out jock vaugh is out the door in Brooklyn your initial reaction to that news this

Morning yeah what I want to key in on here is a report from Ian Begley that came out after the firing Ian’s as connect as anyone in New York some within the Nets had concerns about keeping vaugh as it would relate to recruiting another star player this was

A transitional period for the Nets when they initially built their super team around Kyrie Irving Kevin Durant they had a chance to keep vwn who was the interim after they fired Kenny Atkinson they chose Steve Nash initially when they fired Nash there were reports that they were chasing eay udoka ultimately

That didn’t come to fruition they promoted uh v as an interim now they’re getting back into the star Chase and they’ve seem to have decided that jock vaugh is more of a bridge coach he’s not a permanent coach not somebody you want to build a championship team around and

Now they’re moving on you see it now there the numbers they start at 13 and 10 very respectable in the Eastern Conference but since then 8 and 23 you mentioned maybe looking for that star coach they miss out on Doc Rivers by a couple weeks because he’s now in

Milwaukee so where do they go here as they looking for that next leader the first name I would keep an eye on here is Mike buen holer Shawn marks and buen holer both come from the San Antonio tree that’s obviously there are a lot of Coach GM combos that look to stay

Connected after San Antonio the last the first coach that Shawn marks hired in Brooklyn was Kenny Atkinson who coached under Mike buen holer in Atlanta so that’s the big name coach that I would keep an eye on here but I would also expect the Nets to cast a

Wide net remember the last coach they hired was Jac Von who they promoted internally I wonder if they might be looking back on that and thinking wow I wish we would have looked into a few more candidates so I would expect them to cast a wide net but if you were

Looking for a bigname coach to connect them to now buen holer is the name that makes the most sense to me so if it’s Bud there uh you talk about the players is on this roster you got a Ben Simmon that you know sometimes we don’t see him

You got the two cams that came over that trade sending KD to Phoenix with this roster in place how many stars they need to maybe look like a contender in the future I think they’re at least one significant upgrade away I mean the name that we’re all going to connect to the

Nets is Donovan Mitchell he’s been connected to the New York area forever first to the Knicks the Nets are quietly a little bit better positioned to acquire him they have all of those premium draft picks to trade from Phoenix and Dallas they’re going to have

Max cap space in the summer of 2025 when Ben Simmons’s contract expires they can pursue him if he reaches free agency if you put someone like a Mitchell a lead ball handler into a role next to male Bridges who’s not a number one scorer but has improved a lot offensively and

Is a great defender now you really have something you’ve got role players you’ve got Wings you’ve got Defenders you’ve got Shooters but right now they’re clearly one primary ball handler short cam Thomas great scorer not somebody you can run an offense through and as much as they would have loved to have bu

Built a fast-paced offense around Ben Simmons we’ve seen this year and in several years in the past he just struggles to stay on the court it’s crazy to think that we’re a couple years removed from this team having a big three in generational talent and now

Needing a head coach and some help to May begin the postseason in the future we’ll see how that pans out in New York why not Sam Quinn as always appreciate it when you talk about coaches saying bye-bye or maybe shown stage right it’s been a lot this year or maybe just in

The Eastern Conference the wizard of course West sunale shown the door not too long ago Adrien Griffin we know that story Doc Rivers replacing him Brian Kefi there in Washington now the Nets they will be the third team looking for a new HC or at least an interim role to

Take over the rest of the way as we get into the second half of the NBA season

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