{"id":60101,"date":"2020-09-04T02:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/steve-nash-as-nets-coach-should-not-come-as-big-surprise\/"},"modified":"2020-09-04T02:09:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T23:09:00","slug":"steve-nash-as-nets-coach-should-not-come-as-big-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/steve-nash-as-nets-coach-should-not-come-as-big-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"#Steve Nash as Nets coach should not come as big surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Steve Nash as Nets coach should not come as big surprise<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n This was early January 2019, fifth floor of the Oakland Convention Center, long after the rest of the Golden State Warriors had cleared out their afternoon practice. Two solitary figures remained on the floor, and they were both dripping with sweat, conducting some serious business and some serious trash talk.<\/p>\n

\u201cSee that?\u201d the taller man said after he\u2019d drained his 10th straight 3-pointer. \u201cThat\u2019s what you call a shooter\u2019s touch. Take a good look. I know you\u2019ve never seen that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The smaller man gathered each ball as they swished through the net, and while there was a thin smile on his face, he wasn\u2019t laughing.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what I was just thinking about?\u201d he roared, firing off one perfect pass after another, one left-handed, the other right-handed. \u201cHow would your MVP trophy figure out a way to guard my two MVP trophies? That\u2019s a tough matchup.\u201d<\/p>\n

This went on for 20 minutes, 25 minutes, neither man stopping, the taller man shooting, the smaller man feeding him, the jawing endless, and finally, 35 feet from the basket, the taller man squared up and as his partner chided him once more \u2014 \u201cWhat are you, planning on taking all of Steph\u2019s shots, now, too?\u201d \u2014 he drained the 35-footer.<\/p>\n

Then the two men embraced.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019m talking about,\u201d Kevin Durant said with a smile.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t think you\u2019d ever go home,\u201d Steve Nash said.<\/p>\n

Nash was serving as a consultant for the Warriors at the time, but he has been unofficially coaching players all across the NBA ever since his Hall of Fame playing career ended in 2014. For years he has been something of an NBA pied piper, a guy other players didn\u2019t only admire, but sought out \u2014 for advice, for app<\/a>roval, for teaching.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd why wouldn\u2019t you seek him out?\u201d asks Lloyd Pierce, the head coach of the Hawks, who goes back with Nash all the way to the backcourt of the Santa Clara Broncos. \u201cHe\u2019s only one of the best players to ever play the game<\/a>, with so much knowledge and so much willingness to share it. He\u2019s my friend but this was an inspired choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back at Santa Clara, Pierce, a San Jose, Calif., kid, was two years behind Nash, who was born in Johannesburg and raised in Canada. Together they played in back-to-back NCAA Tournaments and Pierce received a full education in the art of being a good player and a better teammate.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe was fun to hang out with, fun to drink with, fun to converse with and fun to play with,\u201d Pierce says. \u201cAnd what more would you want than that?\u201d<\/p>\n

There were, not surprisingly, some stunned expressions when the news<\/a> hit. However much unofficial coaching Nash may have done his entire basketball life, he never has been a head coach before. Then again, neither had any of the three men to most recently win NBA titles: Nick Nurse, Steve Kerr, Tyronn Lue.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all know that relationships are extremely important and he has a great relationship with one of the greatest players alive right now,\u201d Pierce says. \u201cHe was an MVP. That means something to players. That admiration and respect is a perfect blend.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next coach of the Nets was always going to have one thing prominently placed on his r\u00e9sum\u00e9: Durant was going to want to be coached by him. That isn\u2019t a criticism, simply a statement of fact. Durant was the singular offseason acquisition of some very busy recent offseasons despite his balky Achilles, a $160 million all-in play for a banner by Brooklyn. It would be ludicrous not to pair him with a kindred spirit.<\/p>\n

Between them, they have those three MVPs, Nash\u2019s two coming back-to-back for Phoenix in 2005 and 2006, Durant\u2019s in Oklahoma City in 2014. Nash never won a title, but he played on a batch of championship-caliber clubs with the seven-seconds-or-less Suns. Durant has his two rings with the Warriors.<\/p>\n

If this inspires difficult memories of the time the Nets handed the car keys to another coaching neophyte named Jason Kidd, it really shouldn\u2019t. Nash has never exhibited a whisker of the Machiavellian machinations Kidd has specialized in since he was 19 (and, besides, it\u2019s worth pointing out that the one playoff series<\/a> the Nets have won since 2007 they were coached by \u2026 Jason Kidd).<\/p>\n

Only the games will tell for sure, of course, and who knows when those will begin again. For now, Nash\u2019s old pal Pierce will enjoy the chop-busting text threads he, Nash, and their old Santa Clara teammates engage in. And if he\u2019s looking forward to the first time the Hawks play the Nets next year, it\u2019s for one reason only.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to beat the [bleep] out of him,\u201d Pierce says. \u201cBut let me tell you something: He\u2019s just as competitive as me, and he\u2019d say the same exact thing. That\u2019s what the Nets are getting. I think they\u2019ll like what they see.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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