Let’s talk about Kyrie Irving and his thoughts on the new Brooklyn Nets head coach, Steve Nash. Kyrie made it pretty clear that he wanted a coach with championship experience to lead the team, and not Steve Nash.
It’s understandable that Kyrie wanted a coach with a proven track record to guide the team to success. After all, he’s played under some pretty top-notch coaches in his career. But then Nash got the job as Head coach for the Brooklyn Nets.
On paper, Nash seemed like a perfect fit for this group. He came up under Steve Kerr, his basketball IQ was unquestionable, and he was once a superstar himself — he understood how superstars operate. However, the project quickly fell apart, and from the start, it felt like it may have been too much for the former two-time MVP to handle in his first coaching job.
“I already had my own thoughts on how the coaching situation was gonna go. I felt like there were other candidates out there that could have definitely been our head coach that had championship experience,” Irving said on Twitch. “I think Steve had championship experience in his own way in his role that he played at Golden State, but as far as being head coach, I had my own thoughts.”
“He even admitted to me that he had his own reserves on coaching me and I had my reserves on being coached by him. We had already hashed that out, but I’m not gonna sit here and pretend like yeah, it was all easy around everything in Brooklyn.”
He also stirred things up with comments like not seeing how the Nets even had a head coach, claiming that both he and KD could take on that role. And while Irving is now choosing his words more carefully and not directly calling Nash out, it was clear there was never real chemistry in their relationship.
An anonymous scout told the New York Post that during the one game where the Nets lost to the Indiana Pacers, he watched Irving ignore Nash’s play calls and do something else instead, numerous times.
“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” the scout said. “Nash would call something, and he’d run the opposite. I’ve never seen anything like that.”
Was Kyrie Irving right about Steve Nash since he couldn’t prove himself during his time as Head coach at the Brooklyn Nets?
