1-5 Nets hold players-only meeting after ‘disaster’ vs. Pacers initially appeared on NBC Sports Boston
Is it already time to press the panic button on Brooklyn?
After falling to 1-5 with a 125-116 house loss to the Indiana Pacers on Saturday, Ben Simmons revealed the Nets held a players-only assembly.
That is proper, a players-only assembly six video games into the season.
“We had a dialog that clearly I am not gonna speak about. However it was sincere,” Simmons instructed reporters. “That is what successful groups do — maintain one another accountable, be capable to be open and speak to your teammates, and respect that.”
Kevin Durant, in the meantime, downplayed the assembly.
“We’re in fixed communication on a regular basis,” Durant mentioned. “If it is a scheduled assembly or not, I feel all of us speak about what we have to do as a group every single day. So regardless if it is after a loss or it is checked out as a ‘assembly,’ we’re all the time in fixed dialogue about what we have to do as a bunch. So I would not say it was something particular.”
As you might keep in mind, the Boston Celtics held a players-only assembly seven games into last season following a 2-5 begin. The Celtics finally turned their season round and reached the NBA Finals.
However in the mean time, it is exhausting to imagine the Nets are able to pulling off the same turnaround. They boast the NBA’s worst rebounding proportion (45.2%), second-worst defensive score (121.6) and third-worst internet score (minus-8.6).
Of their defeat to the rebuilding Pacers, the Nets allowed 23 3-pointers, 17 offensive rebounds and 19 fast-break factors. Head coach Steve Nash known as his group’s efficiency within the fourth straight loss a “catastrophe.”
“It was a catastrophe,” Nash mentioned. “How else do you say it? I did not see the need. Did not see the need or the connectivity essential to get stops and get rebounds.”
“We’ve got to look deep inside ourselves and what we need to do. What we need to accomplish,” Nash mentioned when requested the place the Nets go from right here. “Can we need to hand over on this as a result of it has been tough early? Or will we need to keep the course and begin to construct one thing?
“We have had lots of actually good days right here early within the season and we have misplaced a pair video games that shook our mentality exhausting. We’re not seeing the identical aggressive spirit, similar goal and if we do not clear that up it isn’t gonna get higher. That is the one technique to get out of inauspicious positions is to have character and aggressive spirit.”
Yikes.
Gamers-only assembly. Lack of want and aggressive spirit. Not precisely the sorts of stuff you need to hear a few group with championship aspirations lower than two weeks into the season.