BREAKING: Nets fire Jacque Vaughn less than 1 year after multiyear contract extension | FIRST TAKE

BREAKING: Nets fire Jacque Vaughn less than 1 year after multiyear contract extension | FIRST TAKE

News at to First Take the Nets have fired head coach Jac vaugh the former NBA guard was in his second season as coach of the Nets who are 21 and 33 they sit in 11th place in the East Stephen A it has been tumultuous times with this

Franchise after the exit of the big three and how that didn’t pan out and now this your thoughts on the firing of jacqu vaugh I’m sad about it uh Shawn marks and those guys know what they’re doing I I I would say to you that you

Know you lose 18 to 24 you lose five of your last six you just lost to Boston by 50 um that that spells Doom no doubt about it and um it’s it’s sad for me personally because jacqu vaugh you know it’s amazing to me you know Steve

Nash gets an opportunity to coach a team that had KD Kyrie and ultimately James Harden on it if jacqu vaugh had those dudes what would he have done but he didn’t really when all all was said and done because Kyrie got into some stuff and obviously KD had to carry the Low by

Himself James Harden wanted out because he wanted to be with Daryl mury and then you’re stuck with what you’re stuck with I love Mel Bridges I love cam Thomas um Ben Simmons has done nothing for them he’s been stealing money as far as I’m concerned for a couple of years now no

Matter what kind of issues he may have had it hasn’t stopped him from making sure that the check is in the account you know every every every every two weeks so so I don’t want to hear anything about him it’s just sad I mean I understand why they did what they had

To do because of the momentum and the trajectory of the franchise right now but I I wish that Jacques vaugh had been in a better situation yeah didn’t really get a fair Shake there at all uh back to the West guys LeBron played in a record

20 we got breaking news from the NBA the Brooklyn Nets of fire the head coach Jac vaugh today the move comes with a Nets just outside the playing pitcher in the East with a record of 21 and 3 three so far in his final game coach in Brooklyn

They lost by 50 to the Celtics before that All-Star break last week Von was 71 and 68 over two separate Stines coached there in bkn uh check this out he was the interim coach briefly after Kenny ainson was let go in 2020 and then replacing Steve Nash early in the 2022

23 season they were off to a pretty good start this season 13 and 10 but since then 8 and 23 you can see the difference here when it comes to point a young Squad in Easter Conference but when it comes to the conference as a whole they are not sitting pretty as I

Mentioned they’re on the outside of the play in at 11th in the race there with the Raptors Hornets Wizards pistons in other words postseason not likely for Brooklyn but of course now looking up to others of course this is a team that had the big three not too long ago but now a

Young team and Von is out the door looks like another rebuild there in Brooklyn their head coach Jac vaugh this morning the move comes with the next just outside of that playin pitcher in the Eastern Conference with a record of 21 and 33 losses on the year and 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 All-Star 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 interim 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 want to bring in 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 Fawn who was the interim after they fired Kenny ainson they chose Steve Nash initially when they fired Nash there were reports that

They were chasing eme Oka ultimately that didn’t come to fruition they promoted uh v as an interim now they’re getting back into the star Chase and theyve seem to have decided that jock Von is more of a bridge coach he’s not a permanent coach not somebody you want to

Build a championship team team around and now they’re moving on you see it now there the numbers they started 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’re looking for that next leader the first name I would keep an eye on here is Mike buen holer Shawn marks and buen holes are both coming from the San Antonio tree that’s obviously there are

A lot of Coach GM combos 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 vongh 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 hoer 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 Cy 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 play 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 who can run an offense through

And as much as they would have loved to have 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 talents 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 byebye or maybe shown stage right it’s

Been a lot this year or maybe just in the Eastern Conference the Wizards of course West sunale shown the door not too long ago Adrian 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 since I’ve been there we’ve had you know coaches leave um moving across the the country you know I’ve been on the west

Coast my whole life with my whole family right there you know just a tight group always in place uh and I think this anytime you have these types of uh experiences where you have an adversity and things not just flowing like you expected to or like you would wanted to I think that’s

Time that you got to just show you know who you really are you got to keep doing what you do keep believing and uh uh when you do that usually it comes back to you you know it’s some type of reward that comes for it but you just can’t

Forward and that’s that’s what my mentality is um and I did come into the weekend you know and I knew I was doing a three-point I was like I’m I’m going come to win you know I ain’t going to come be casual and try to be cool about

It I’m going to try to win it again and I’mma come in the allstar game my first start I know I’m going be on the floor a lot and um you know I’m a vet in this game at this point so um why not try to

Go go get an MVP you know since I’ve been here enough and um I saw the ball start to go in and I did that but I wouldn’t say it was validation I would just say it was just a something that I put my mind on and I was like I’mma you

Know that’s going to be what what my intentions are this weekend and I was able to do it yeah that was crazy for Dame it was the first time that he was a starter for the All-Star Game and now here he is becoming the first person to win the

Three-Point Contest and be named the All-Star game MVP in the same season only one to ever do that he joins Steph Kyrie Glen Ry and Larry Birds the others to have done that at some point in their career but a pretty good weekend for Dame

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BREAKING: Nets fire Jacque Vaughn less than 1 year after multiyear contract extension | FIRST TAKE