Evaluating Jacques Vaughn's Firing and the Future for the Nets
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00:03 - Jacques Vaughn obviously has not had a ton of success,
00:05 win and loss record.
00:06 Your record is what you say it is.
00:08 Like that's his record.
00:09 He'll probably get another shot at some point.
00:12 I feel like he'll be an interim, you know,
00:13 like assistant somewhere and that guy gets fired.
00:16 So Jacques will be coaching again.
00:17 I love them as a player, but is this fair
00:20 or is this just like the Nets looking at it like,
00:22 hey, you know, we're already in sort of teardown mode.
00:25 Let's just bring it all the way down.
00:28 You know, when you look at this folks,
00:30 very rarely do you get a GM that's been
00:33 in the spot of Sean Marks.
00:35 Why do I mention Sean Marks?
00:36 He's been through multiple owners.
00:38 Mikhail Prokhorov hired him.
00:40 Now he's with Joe Tsai.
00:41 He's been through a multitude of coaches.
00:43 And let's be honest folks,
00:46 everything was great with Sean Marks
00:48 until they started going in
00:50 and they went with the big three, right?
00:52 The big three of obviously of KD, Kyrie and James Harden.
00:56 It flames out, right?
00:58 They get rid of Nash.
00:59 They get rid of some of the moving parts.
01:01 They give the job to Jacques Vaughn
01:03 and it's still the same problem.
01:04 And I think when you look at a team like Brooklyn,
01:06 they're stuck in the middle
01:08 and there's nothing worse Craig to be
01:10 than stuck in the middle in the NBA.
01:12 You're winning or you're rebuilding.
01:14 The Nets after making the trade of Kevin Durant,
01:17 when he got back to the Cal Bridges,
01:18 let's be honest folks,
01:20 hasn't been as good as he was last year
01:22 at the end of the year and in the playoffs.
01:25 Cam Johnson hasn't been as good
01:27 as they thought they were gonna get.
01:29 So, and then obviously Ben Simmons can't stay healthy.
01:32 At some point, do we start blaming the players?
01:36 Do you stop blaming the coaches,
01:38 meaning Nash and Jacques Vaughn?
01:40 And do we look squarely at Sean Marks?
01:43 Should he be the leader of this Brooklyn Nets franchise?
01:48 I think he's got one more shot and it may be the summer,
01:51 which would also affect who could be the next coach.
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