Preseason is here, but Steve Nash isn’t resting his healthy players. All in all, hope everyone stays healthy and training carryover from his camp continues, making him his 3-star limited run.
The Nets head coach will start Ben Simmons, Kyrie Irving, Joe Harris, Kevin Durant and Nick Claxton in the preseason opener. Nash has a favorable starting five to start the regular season, but the star’s minute load is low — “somewhere in the 15- to 20-minute range,” Nash said.
The challenge for Nash is to give the Nets’ big three (Simmons, Irving, Durant) enough opportunities to start building cohesion in a limited number of shows without overburdening them. In his mind, he wants to take advantage of the trio’s time on the court, but in an unofficial contest he wants to make sure all three are healthy.
“It’s great for them to play together and take the opportunity to develop a better understanding between them. “It’s about everyone landing safely at night. If they get to spend a lot of time together, that’s a bonus,” Nash said. We’ll try to find a spot. But at the same time, we won’t over-research the group, at least before the first day.”
Even if it’s a preseason contest under Brooklyn’s roof and one that doesn’t feature the Philadelphia star, it might be a good thing for Simmons to put a matchup against his former team behind him. In Nash’s eyes, I’m not sure if that’s still affecting Simmons heading into the contest.
“Why not? That’s probably a question for Ben, but some people like it, some people don’t care. I think we’re all affected by it in different ways.” “Maybe it’s a positive thing to get out of the way and just play,” Nash said.
when Sixers When asked to think about coaching Simmons, head coach Doc Rivers quickly responded: I am more focused on us. ”
Unlike Brooklyn, with James Harden, Joel Embiid, PJ Tucker and Danuel House out for the Sixers, Doc Rivers is in danger of playing his star or major role player on Monday night. does not affect
Player expectations are low for Nash and his coaching staff in the preseason opener. The Nets head his coach just wants to see his camp moves in training and full effort on both ends of the floor.
“I just want to see them do what they worked on that week and start building both ends of the floor,” Nash said of his expectations for the preseason opener. “We played together. The pre-season is a little bit more important than for many clubs because there is nothing to do.A lot of the players in our team are rookies or didn’t play last year due to injuries. It’s a good time to rehearse everything we’ve done and prepare for opening night.”
All things considered, the Nets have planted a new offense in training camp. This offense has similarities, but it’s also an offense that the Nets head and his coach see as different. Brooklyn couldn’t reach their full offense last season due to sporadic major injuries throughout the regular season, but Nash added a deeper layer. You can catch a glimpse of the attack.
“Yes there is,” said Nash. “I think last year was very challenging for us with the different teams.We had James, we didn’t have James, we didn’t have Joe, obviously Kevin was injured, Kyrie got the vaccine. It was very difficult to run the same thing all year long, so different parts of the season caused different things. , never went to the deeper layers of aggressive understanding. I think.
