While many journalistic voices point out that the Brooklyn Nets will dismantle their current team sooner or later, Jordi Fernández is dedicated to training, making his men play and win games; so in recent days he made a three-day trip where he covered California twice.
The merit is great. While the New Yorkers were called one of the worst teams of the season, the Spanish coach lined up first in Sacramento against the Kings, and then in San Francisco against the Warriors, to get two victories and make it clear that if they allow something this to compete. But it is clear that the franchise knows this and prefers to take another path, knowing that this is the ideal to achieve success.
While Jordi Fernández looks forward to the events, the reality is that the Nets are eighth in the Eastern Conference with a record of 8-10. Far from being a classic tank group that leaves the final result of the games in the background, a culture of commitment has been created in Brooklyn that will bear fruit not only in the present, but also looking to the future.
Last night, against the Golden State Warriors who live in the upper part of the West, they did not stop even though they were down by 20 points in the middle of the third quarter. The Nets fought tirelessly and completed the comeback with an excellent fourth quarter where they won 28-41 before winning 120-128.
Brooklyn is playing well, but they also have multiple versions of some of their players. Dennis Schroder was the leading scorer with 31 points and added 7 assists, while Cam Thomas scored another 23 points. They are good, but for this reason they, and also others like Cam Johnson, are looking to move before the February deadline.
Kerr was impressed
Even if we admire the work of Jordi Fernández, it has little weight, but if Steve Kerr, who has won four rings as coach of the Warriors, does such a different story. This is how the technical graduate describes the work he sees the Spanish coach doing.
“He’s a very good coach. You can see how he organizes the plan of attack. You can see perfectly how the pieces move to get shooting positions… It’s about instilling in one culture which is impressive considering that it needs to be rebuilt… I am really impressed,” he said.