By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
The Brooklyn Nets held a players-only meeting after Saturday night’s 125-116 loss to the Indiana Pacers which dropped them to a 1-5 record this season.
“It was a disaster,” Nets coach Steve Nash said of the loss. “How else do you say it? I didn’t see the will, didn’t see the desire, or the connectivity necessary to get stops and get rebounds. … We just got to make a bigger commitment and it’s got to mean more and we got to care more.”
The Nets’ locker room, which usually opens right after Nash finishes speaking, was closed long after Nash’s news conference was completed. Once the locker room finally opened, the mood was somber as players dressed quietly.
“We’re in constant communication all the time,” Durant said. “If it’s a scheduled meeting or not, I think we all talk about what we need to do as a team every day. So regardless of if it was after a loss or a meeting, we always have that. We’re always in constant dialogue about what we need to do as a group, so I wouldn’t say it was anything special.”
Meanwhile, there’s also an off-court issue with Kyrie Irving posting on his social media accounts about the movie called “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” which includes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
“I’m not here to argue over a person or a culture or a religion and what they believe,” Irving said asked on the issue. “Nah, this is what’s here. It’s on a public platform. Did I do anything illegal? Did I hurt anybody? Did I harm anybody? Am I going out and saying that I hate one specific group of people? So out of all of the judgment that people got for me posting, without talking to me, and then I respect what Joe [Tsai] said, but there has a lot to do with not ego or pride of how proud I am to be [of] African heritage, but also to be living as a free Black man here in America, knowing the historical complexities for me to get here”.
Simply put, Irving is not going to change: “So I’m not going to stand down on anything that I believe in. I’m only going to get stronger because I’m not alone. I have a whole army around me.”