> In just the sixth game of the season, Brooklyn lost at home to an Indiana team presumed to be rebuilding around the nascent duo of Tyrese Haliburton and rookie Bennedict Mathurin. A grim-faced Nash, at the postgame podium, openly called the loss “a disaster” and said the Nets were lacking in “will.”
> “Without that sustainability of effort, that will, it’s not going to turn, so we’ve got to make some decisions,” Nash stunningly said.
> When the head coach, before we’ve even made it to Halloween, is publicly admitting that he’s not seeing those basics from players, it’s usually over.
> In various corners of the NBA scouting community, furthermore, it had already become clear that Nash was being tuned all the way out. Advance scouts have extensive knowledge of opposing team play calls … and I heard from one club that, in one of Nash’s final games, there were in the ballpark of 10 easy-to-spot occasions that Irving ran something completely different after Nash shouted the play he wanted.
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