PostSportsPlus: Will Steve Nash’s reunion with Igor Kokoskov be the key to unlocking all the Nets’ offense can be?
The Nets’ coaching staff has suffered some serious churn in Steve Nash’s first two offseasons. But Igor Kokoskov,Nash is coming off a summer that saw his resident superstar Kevin Durant, and walking into a season with enough unrest that he was recently booed by Nets fans at the team’s annual Practice in the Park. He’s going to need every ally and stalwart he can get, and Kokoskov qualifies as both.
Steve Nash tried to recruit Igor Kokoskov to the Nets in 2020, but the longtime NBA veteran assistant decided to remain with the Turkish club he had just taken over.Nash had seen defensive coordinator Ime Udoka and offensive coordinator Mike D’Antoni leave after that first season, then another offensive coordinator Jordan Ott and Amar’e Stoudemire depart after last season’s tumultuous campaign.
Kokoskov — expected to move the Nets’ away from being completely isolation-reliant to more of a motion offense — had been an assistant under D’Antoni’s successor, Terry Porter, and then Alvin Gentry for the tail end of Nash’s prime. The pair clicked largely from seeing the game the same way and having similar offensive philosophies.
A team with Irving and Durant is always going to use isolation, but offensively they’re trying to find easy baskets by getting out in transition and thriving in early offense. Even in their losses this preseason, they’ve moved the ball in the halfcourt — it’s just been sloppy at times. “They want to put us in certain spots spacing-wise, but then a lot of it is just up to reading and reacting and playing off of one another; because that’s typically when you get your best offense, when you’re able to free flow, play with good pace. But when we need to run stuff, we can. We have the sets in place, motion sets or specific actions.”
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