In their first game since the firing of head coach Lionell Hollins and general manager Billy King, the Brooklyn Nets fell to the visiting San Antonio Spurs via a 106-79 blowout on Monday (Tuesday in Australia).
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-Each of the last four times the Spurs have made their trip to Brooklyn for their annual matchup, there have been four different head coaches: P.J.
After narrowly maintaining their ideal home record, the San Antonio Spurs hit the road trying to establish a season-best overall winning streak when they face one of the NBA’s worst home teams that’s fresh off a coaching dismissal.
King was reassigned and coach Lionel Hollins was sacked on Sunday.
He spoke at a news conference Monday, a day after shaking up the organization.
“Frankly speaking, I deserve a championship now much more than six years ago”, Prokhorov said. “They ferret out guys, watch them to see if they have the characteristics we’re looking for”.
Dwyane Wade scored 20 points and Chris Bosh and Gerald Green added 15 apiece for the Heat, which had won eight of its previous 11 games at Oakland.
“It’s consistency”, Aldridge said.
Ramon Sessions had 16 points, Gary Neal added 11 points and Drew Gooden finished with 10 points and 12 rebounds, all off the bench.
Prokhorov took the blame for the Nets’ poor play and called for a “small reset”, at a news conference on Monday, a day after shaking up the organisation.
Even if the reports are true that it would take a 10-year, 0 million Godfather offer to lure Calipari to Brooklyn (which Calipari vehemently denied via Twitter), Prokhorov, though he refused to rule out any specific individuals from consideration other than comrade Andray Valutin, stated that he wants to keep the GM and head coach jobs separate.
“You’ve got to give them a lot of credit first”. “They’re one of those teams that’s a solid veteran team that you have to be on top of your game”.
“We had to do a great job for 48 minutes and obviously in the third quarter they opened it up”.
Fans cheered loudest for 7-foot-3 Serbian Boban Marjanovic, who finished 13 points and was on the floor in the final seconds when a “Go Spurs Go!” chant broke out.
Aldridge shot 12-for-17 from the field and posted his 12th double-double.
The inefficient Nets offense (29th in the National Basketball Association with an offensive efficiency of 98.0) will square off against the stingy Spurs defense (first in the league with a defensive efficiency of 93.9).
Nets: Sloan made his first start since January 4, 2015, for IN against the Lakers…. He also served as an assistant with the Los Angeles Clippers under Mike Dunleavy in 2009-10, the Miwaukee Bucks in 2007-08 for Larry Krystkowiak, the Boston Celtics from 2004-07 for Doc Rivers, the Toronto Raptors in 2003-04 for Kevin O’Neill, the Detroit Pistons from 2001-03 for Carlisle, and the Portland Trail Blazers from 1997 to 2001 for Dunleavy.
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Lopez had clashed with Hollins at times, but he said it wasn’t fair to blame the team’s struggles exclusively on the former coach.
