Instead of their identity as being a surprising rebuilding team, the Nets have been given a new identity as a tanking misfit group with no intentional direction other than down.
The Nets’ decision to trend toward what they were expected to be — the worst team in the league — and to put more focus on their long-term rebuild by trading away their star point guard Dennis Schroder on Sunday has left the team floundering. “I definitely still have to do more there. It’s definitely by committee. Dennis got to have the ball a lot of the game,” Cam Johnson said Monday of how to make up for the loss of Schroder.
“Just when you lose a player like that, it’s tough,” Claxton added. “He was like, he did a lot for us. Like, he brought a lot on and off the court. He brought energy, toughness. He brought a lot for us. Like you got to really give him a lot of credit. So now everybody else has to fill in for the areas that he really was helping us.”
“I’m fighting with my guys, and the ones that are here, they’ll have to fight. And they don’t fight, there’s gonna be consequences,” head coach Jordi Fernandez said Monday.
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