The teams that enter the playoffs are urgently preparing, and the teams that go home early to fish are not idle, just like the Nets, who have sharpened their knives to the head coach.
After Jacques Vaughn got out of class, the Nets head coach has been assistant coach Ollie, and during this time the Nets have also been looking for a suitable head coach, no, found it, he is Kings assistant coach Hordi Fernandez.
What's interesting is that the Kings are going to continue to play the play-offs, and before the game is over, the backyard is on fire, so let's say the Nets, you didn't mean it.
In fact, Fernandez is not the first choice of the Nets, the former head coach of the Bucks, Budenholzer, is their best candidate, it is understood that it may be because of the salary issue, the two sides have not been able to negotiate, and finally the Nets retreated and chose Fernandez.
Having said that, the Nets have been really tormented in the past few years, counting Fernandez, this is the fifth head coach that Boss Cai has brought to the team in the past 4 years, which is simply a change.
In 2019, Atkinson was the head coach at the time, and it was also his third year with the Nets, this year he had two giants under his command, Adu and Ou Shenxian, but the record was not good, only 28-34, and then fired, in the Nets for three years, his coaching record was 118-190, and the winning rate was only 38.3%.
Then the chief assistant coach Jacques Vaughn was temporarily on top, and after the season, Nash, an old friend of Boss Cai, officially joined the owner, and Deng Ge also followed, but the Nets Big Three did not play the chemistry they should have under the coaching of rookie coach Nash, coupled with injury problems, the Big Three only played 16 games together.
Under Nash's coaching, the Nets made the playoffs twice, with their best result being the Eastern Conference semifinals, and in 2022, as the Big Three fell apart, Nash also stepped down, leaving only the best record in team history with 94 wins and 67 losses.
After Nash's dismissal, Jacques Vaughn was appointed for the second time, and after the last experience, he also led the team to a 12-1 record and won the Eastern Conference Coach of the Month.
But just a year later, that is, this year, Boss Cai couldn't bear it anymore and fired the former, Vaughn's coaching record was 71-61, and the playoffs were 0-8, and the playoffs failed to succeed, which was the main reason for Vaughn's resignation.
After Vaughn was fired, assistant coach Kevin Ollie took over on an interim basis.
Changing 5 coaches in 4 years, Boss Cai is really capricious when he is rich, and he also has to sigh that the head coach is really a high-risk profession.
This year is also the first time in 6 years that the Nets have missed the playoffs, and the frequent change of head coach has not brought a qualitative leap to the Nets, in the past 6 years, they have a total of 5 playoff trips, but 4 first-round trips, including one during the Big Three was swept and 1 was stopped in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
The Nets have a 32-50 record this season, ranking 11th in the East, and the Nets don't have many draft picks in their hands, so there is nothing else to do but mess up in the next few years, but it is unknown when it will be a head.