The 2023-24 NBA season has mercifully come to an end for the Brooklyn Nets. They struggled mightily after a strong start, as their entire game plan under head coach Jacque Vaughn went down the drain once Ben Simmons was sidelined by yet another back injury.
On Monday night, Brooklyn Nets fans had strong reactions to the news that the team hired a permanent head coach to take over for the 2023-24 season. After a slow start to the season, the Nets made an in-season decision to fire Jacque Vaughn at the All-Star break.
The Brooklyn Nets are targeting Sacramento Kings assistant coach Jordi Fernandez to be their new head coach, ESPN reported Monday night. The Nets fired Jacque Vaughn after starting the 2023-24 season 21-33, and they finished 11-17 under interim coach Kevin Ollie.
The Brooklyn Nets have navigated a treacherous 2023-24 NBA season. After a solid 6-6 start to the year, Brooklyn gradually slid down the Eastern Conference standings and ultimately failed to make the NBA Playoffs.
The biggest news to come out of the NBA All-Star Break was the Brooklyn Nets‘ decision to make a head coaching change. Brooklyn fired Jacque Vaughn amid the team’s massive struggles this season.
The Brooklyn Nets dominated headlines Monday with their abrupt firing of Jacque Vaughn. While Vaughn’s status was in question amid an 8-23 stretch that dropped the Nets to 11th in the Eastern Conference, the timing of the change came as a surprise, so much so that Cam Thomas said he thought it was a prank.
Kevin Ollie led his first practice as Brooklyn Nets interim head coach on Tuesday. His promotion follows an 8-23 stretch that has dropped the Nets to 11th place in the Eastern Conference, resulting in general manager Sean Marks abruptly firing Jacque Vaughn.
Brooklyn Nets shooting guard Cam Thomas said Wednesday that he was in disbelief when he first saw the news that Jacque Vaughn had been fired.
It wouldn't be the first time Simmons has cost a head coach his job.
With Jacque Vaughn’s dismissal from the head coach position in Brooklyn, it was nearly unanimous that Kevin Ollie would be the replacement. The Nets announced that he’ll be the the team’s interim head coach for the rest of the season, a role that Ollie is not taking lightly.
Stability and continuity have not been defining characteristics of the Brooklyn Nets during Sean Marks’ time as general manager. After firing Jacque Vaughn on Monday, Marks is expected to hire his fourth head coach this offseason, a rarity for any GM in today’s NBA climate, especially one with one playoff series win in eight seasons.
The Brooklyn Nets may be going for the only NBA champion head coach of the last decade who is currently unemployed.
In the wake of Jacque Vaughn's dismissal, the Brooklyn Nets have tapped Kevin Ollie as the team's interim head coach for the rest of the season, sources told Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.
According to NBA insider Jake Fischer of Yahoo Sports, Brooklyn Nets players often side-eyed Jacque Vaughn on their way back to the bench. Nets players had grown frustrated at Vaughn’s unstructured offense.
On Monday, the Brooklyn Nets announced the dismissal of head coach Jacque Vaughn after a challenging period that saw the team lose 23 of their last 31 games.
The Nets plan to name Kevin Ollie as their interim head coach in the wake of Jacque Vaughn‘s dismissal.
The Brooklyn Nets are going nowhere fast, but they'll be doing it without head coach Jacque Vaughn.
The Brooklyn Nets fired Jacque Vaughn from his head-coaching position on Monday almost one year to the day after he received a contract extension.
The Brooklyn Nets have fired head coach Jacque Vaughn a day after the NBA All-Star Game. Nets general manager Sean Marks said it was an “incredibly difficult decision” to fire Vaughn.
The team hovered around .500 through December, but it has been all downhill since. They went into the All-Star break with a record of 21-33 and are in 11th place in the Eastern Conference.
The move comes in the wake of a 50-point loss to the Celtics last Wednesday that left the Nets with a disappointing 21-33 record.
Even if his job is safe, the pressure is on Coach Vaughn to get through to his players. JV cited continuity as the issue behind the loss to Boston because of the recent trades and injuries playing a factor in the defeat.
Back in the day, it’s safe to say that Jacque Vaughn had a journeyman playing career. In 12 seasons, Vaughn suited up for five different teams throughout his career.
Jacque Vaughn may have signed a multi-year extension less than a year ago on February 21, 2023, but early returns for his tenure as head coach have been less than promising. Yes, Vaughn was head man when the Nets won 12 straight games last season , including an 18 -2 stretch with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving leading the way.
The Brooklyn Nets have been abysmal from three-point land over the past ten games. During that ten-game stretch, Coach Jacque Vaughn's team has buried the second-fewest threes by a team with only 10.9 three-pointers per contest.
Though they ended up succumbing to their fifth straight game and 10 of their last 12, head coach Jacque Vaughn still sees a little optimism around the Brooklyn Nets after their 112-101 defeat against the Houston Rockets.
It’s hard to know if the Brooklyn Nets are a playoff team, a play-in team or headed toward the draft lottery. But one thing that won’t work is falling short of playing the right way, according to coach Jacque Vaughn.
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