April 16, 2025 • 30 mins
In Episode 25 of The Backcourt, YES Network’s Sarah Kustok and NetsDaily’s Lucas reflect on the Brooklyn Nets' season, sharing standout moments, highlighting player development, and evaluating the team’s overall performance. Their discussion also explores the evolution of the team’s identity and culture, ultimately setting the stage for what lies ahead in the offseason.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You are now in the Backcourt a Brooklyn Nets podcast
presented by Ticketmaster. This is episode twenty four and Sarah
Coustock and I will be recapping another Brooklyn Nets season
in the book. Sarah, how are you feeling do.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm feeling bittersweet? I think we talked about this a
little bit last week, But yeah, it's always interesting when
you wrap up a season and kind of reflect back
on the highs and lows, the good and bad, really
bad portions, but just challenges that obviously you watched and
you covered and you saw so many of these individuals
go through. But yeah, it was a really fulfilling year.
(00:47):
I think we've talked about a lot of just watching
the development of some of these players, coaching staff, and
just some of the changes that had occurred will occur,
and just kind of the direction of this Brooklyn Nets organization.
So yeah, so it's I think it's an exciting time.
It's an uncertain time, but it's an exciting time.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yes. The Jordy Fernandez has mentioned it a couple times
as this upcoming summer being the most important one of
our lives, which I love, and that really does you know,
I'd like make a little poke a little fun at it,
but it is reflective of just the day to day
to read every day like it's your last process that
I think we've seen from the Nets this year since
(01:29):
we recorded last. The Nets closed out the twenty twenty
four twenty twenty five campaign with three games, three losses
against the Hawks, Timberwolves, and Nick's a fun finale to
the year at Barkley's Center. I just wanted to get
your quick opinion before we go more big picture. Anything
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you saw from the last week, maybe that last game
against the Knicks, anything that stood out to you, not from.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
In particular that stood out. I think it was a
lot of the things that we had talked about with
this group through the year. I think the end of
the season there was some really challenging moments I think
for this group of just making sure to continue to
you know, be in line with all the things that
they have been about the whole year, and it's it's grooling.
(02:18):
An eighty two game season is grueling, and I think
for me, the watching those last few games, the opportunity
for so many players to get some whether it's their
first NBA minutes, whether it's extended roun whether it was
more time in different roles, maybe outside with some of
the responsibilities were I think that's always a really I
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guess you could just say like it is something that
you really feel like you're curious to see how players
react to that and how they show up, and I think,
you know, just getting a chance to kind of evaluate that,
watch that, see that, see that opportunity given circumstances for Brooklyn,
I think was something you know, for all of us,
that was fun to watch and fun for them to
have those moments, and you hope that they're able to
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build upon those in the future.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, definitely. I mean, I think you know that was
going to be the story of this season. Exit interviews
were on Monday, and there were some quotes from that
that I'm sure we'll talk about. But this was pretty
much the sort of season that we expected. And I
am curious as to your, you know, evaluation of the
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season and what you just mentioned maybe relative to your expectations,
Like is this kind of what you thought it would
look like six months ago when we started seven months ago,
or did you know things kind of jump out and
leave you feeling surprised.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
That's an absolute question, because I think it feels like
there were so many iterations of this season, and I'm
not even sure what the expectations. I think it was
very unknown going in one. You had a new head
coach and new coaching staff and Geordy Fernandez, So what
the expectations were of what that may look like where
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the group would go. I think from the start that
we understood that it was going to be, in some
sense a rebuilding year. But they exceeded my expectations. I
think we may have talked about this Lucas very early on.
Training camp had pressed me so much. The organization, the execution,
the enthusiasm, a sense of purpose, seeing guys with like
real motivation and chips on the shoulder of what they
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wanted to accomplish. The level of belief of this group
was to me something that I like, I'll still get
chills at certain moments of and I we'll get into it.
But the earlier parts of the season are just what
they were able to put together and how they played
for one another despite so many different challenges of injury
or trades or you name it, the uncertainty around a
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lot of parts. I love that about this group, and
so in that sense, I think they exceeded my expectations
of just this was. I know it was a hard
one for what they endured at certain points, but it
a fun one just because they were inspiring in so
many different situations or circumstances or games and whether it
resulted in wins or losses. But I think it's hard
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to evaluate it in a certain sense of expectations because
I think, you know, there was moments that you wish
probably went a different way, and then there was others
that I think they all gave us a lot of
a lot of moments that we appreciated with how they
were able to come together as a group with so
many different lineups, so many different players, so many different
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opportunities that were grabbed and taken hold of, And to me,
that was the fun part of watching what this group
laid the foundation and kind of the identity that they
laid early on.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, and we talked about how their season really felt
kind of segmented. You know, they were I think ten
and thirteen. They were nine and ten early in the season,
and they had gotten out to a really strong start
on offense. They were a top half of the league offense,
top ten offense in the half court. You know, for
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the first two months of the season. I'm looking at
the stats here up to you know, the very middle
of December, and then they make some trades. Dennis Shrewder
Dorian Finnie Smith, who I think, you know are no
longer with the nets, but are worth shouting out as
to you know, the beginnings I think of their seasons,
and from there they kind of struggled that that January period,
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there was a two and fifteen stretch, and then they
found the identity on defense. And when they started winning
games in February and you know, around that All Star break,
they did it on defense, and so they won games
in a variety of ways. This year they end up
twenty six and fifty six, but with a slightly better
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clutch record than that, So that was good for twenty
fifth in the league, but the their clutch stats were
twenty two to twenty three in terms of win percentage.
So it all kind of evens out, you know, the
underlying matter. But it's funny you never really think of
a season that way. You think of the wins that
could have been losses, the big comebacks. You know, we'll
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talk about our favorite moments, but some of mine were
the West Coast comebacks. I got to be on the
road for those. There's a three game winning streak in Sacramento,
Golden State, and Phoenix, and all trailed by double digits,
I think, except for the Phoenix game, but some major comebacks.
There were a couple losses late, you know, I remember
the game against the Nuggets at home early, but kind
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of all evened out to a competitive season for the Nets.
And I just kind of told you my favorite moments.
You know, that included Tyres Martin dropping thirty in Phoenix,
an incredible comeback led by Dennis Shrewder and others in
Golden State. Noah Clowney had a breakout performance in that
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Sacramento win. So I want to ask you if you
have a favorite moment, stretch, play, whatever, from from this season. Now.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I feel like it's repetitive given the fact that you
just brought it up, but I don't think it's indicative
of what that felt like, because that if you remember
that road trip just right before Thanksgiving, the Sacramento, Golden State,
Sacramento Phoenix road trip it was coming off of. It
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started in Philadelphia, was the first game and it was
a very tough loss. In Philadelphia, and I think leading
up to that, whether it was windsor of this group,
it had such an excellent vibe and feel good about
what they were doing and how they were starting to
put things together play for one another. I think at
that point they were they really were exceeding expectations in
a sense of like how many, whether it was actually
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coming away with wins or games that were very close
in their level of compete, and the Philadelphia one felt
just grimy of like, Okay, maybe it's they're not going
to be able to put it together. Maybe some of
those early wins, you know, were things that you're not
gonna necessarily see consistently. And Golden State Sacramento, and then
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capping it off with that Phoenix went to me was
just the high of a high of really watching beautiful
basketball and the mix of with the coaching staff led
by Jordi Fernandez, how they were able to get a
buying in a belief. And then the veteran players you
had mentioned it, you know, Dennis Shruter during Phinney, Smith,
Cameron Johnson, how everyone really just played for one another,
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and whether it was the big Game, a Tyree s
Martin or different guys picking one another up. I just
remember feeling such a like extraordinary appreciation love of calling
those games because I'm like, this, this is why we
love the game, this is why we love basketball, and
this is why you are inspired by what these guys are
doing on the floor, because you know the work they
put in behind the scenes, playing for one another, all
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of those things. And to me, even in those moments,
I know it was not sustained in that level of wins.
I know that there were moving parts with the group.
To me, that was the stampus of if you want
the culture for an organization, if you want foundation laid, like,
this is what it looks like. You're tangibly to me
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watching what it is you want your identity to be,
and I think those guys put it together in such
a really special way. And to me, there's still that's
part of the bricks that you're putting down now that
you hope will continue on in the future, and that stretch,
to me is something that will resonate and like continue
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to have me think about when I think about what
this season was.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, and it felt I'm I'm glad you kind of
brought it to full circle because with the Philly loss
leading into that road trip, and then as you reflect
on their season as a whole, it felt like Jordi Fernandez,
who you know this season was going to be about
rookie head coach, wanted to see what you had. It
felt like you was able to enforce a standard because
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you know, Tey Vegas didn't pick them win a lot
of games. They weren't expected to, you know, be very competitive,
you know, national media wise at all. And they started
maybe a little hotter than expected. We're six and nine
and whatever, and they lose, like you said, that game
in Philly, and it was just not acceptable because it
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was one of those days where they didn't have they
just didn't play well. They had a lot of turnovers
in that one, like the energy was down, and they
respond with three straight wins and playing as hard as
they had and that it felt like that early West
Coast road trip really, I know they had some wins
before that, but really set the tone for what this
season would be like you had a standard and you
were going to play to it. And you know, even
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through the end, like the guys that were on two
ways or G league contracts are like true, Timmy not
on the team came in and embraced that standard. Obviously,
the other moment we have to shout out is the
which was the other real win streak of this season,
which in early February, beating the Houston Rockets at home
down four with like seven seconds left in hitting two
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threes back to back. I would say that was the
loudest Barkley Center was this season. Were you in the
building for that moment?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, yeah, I was calling that game when it was incredible.
It was absolutely incredible, and it's wild. It's funny you
said that. We actually just showed that. I don't want
to some of our end of your plays, best place
in the year, and yeah, the six points and six
seconds and yeah, but but to your point, like that,
that's what this to me, that's how I'll remember this
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group like there was a there's there's words you say,
and there's cliches you throw out of like right until
the final balls are never given up, and continuing to play,
playing for one another, to me, consistently throughout the exemplified that.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I also wanted to ask, because we've said it at
the beginning of the season. I remember you saying it,
where wins and losses and you know they went twenty
six and fifty six won't be the telling the telltale
sign of how this season and went kind of unlike
twenty twenty four where they did go thirty two and
fifty and it felt disappointing that they missed the playoffs.
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This season, you know, they go twenty six and fifty
six and missed the playoffs. I don't think anybody is
viewing that as a sign of distress. And so Jordi
Fernandez started saying at the end of the year, you know,
these wins and losses that were racking up aren't just
on the scoreboard. Not to take away from anybody's competitiveness,
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but he said in his exit interview yesterday, We've got
a lot of wins that what we consider wins from
players getting better. Right, So I'm giving you an example.
I put Tyrese Martin in a tough situation at times,
I put him at the point, and he ended up
with an almost two to one assistant turnover ratio. That's
pretty impressive. Sayer shot. I think his best percentage in
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the NBA from three at a little over thirty four.
Jay Will almost thirty four, Noah and Kean turned themselves
into big attempt shooters, not exactly his words. So I
want to ask you what was a win like that,
you know, a nugget of development, whether it's team wide,
individual wide, that stood out to you.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I would more go team wide, just in the sense
of I think you can go down every single player
and point to those type of things. I think in
certain circumstances, everyone was asked to do maybe a little
bit more than I don't even want to say what,
but more than than what they were accustomed to doing,
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more than what would be expected of them, more than
and I think it was the idea of like to me,
the takeaway is like, don't put don't put players in
a box, don't look and I think Jordi had said
looting something in this so the players will show me
what they can handle, what they can do. And I
think for all of us, like it's easy to say,
oh yeah, you want to season that you see growth.
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And but to that point, Zire Williams, from what we
saw from a at Memphis, a former lottery pick, the
three point shooting, you know, having always been a question,
the fact that he took that on and he went there,
you know, there was different points throughout the season where
those type of shots he was making or the stretches
he was on the level of confidence added on to
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the other things. Tyree Smartin you said it like, I
think people just assume, well, yeah, you're playing, you an
NBA player, Yeah, you bring the ball for your initiating offense.
What's what's the difference? You can there are certain roles
in certain things being asked of players that I think
just for all of us watching, like he don't fully
understand some of the challenges that presents, and then when
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players do it, the expectation of how they should be
able to handle it and what they should do consistently
with it. I think we talk a lot about Cam
Johnson and the season that he had a career year.
Like to me, there was things about his game and
how he played and I don't even know if you
want to call it development or growth because I think
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he had it in them, but the opportunity to showcase
with an added responsibility, uh in so many different areas
and it wasn't just to me, like, it wasn't just
about his his growth and his game in a more
you know, complete way of what he was as a
facilitator in what was happening defensively and obviously the three
level scoring, but just like as a leader, like to me,
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he grew as we watched him in his leadership role
of not just having him be by example and a
vocal leader, but he took that role. And then Dangel
Russell coming back. I mean, I'm going through a lot
of guys, but I think you can go player by player,
and you saw ways that they were able to expand
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their game and expand it outside of what you saw
early on. Noah Clowney being another one of those guys.
Really everyone and again I'm I don't want to miss
out on any players because I think in every turn
you look and you're like, okay, even Dayron sharp.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Again.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Now I'm gonna I should have kept it as a
team though, Start thinking about players, and I think about
what Dayron did you know, and dealing with some injury earlier,
but then when he was healthy and he was playing
in different moments that he was asked to do a
whole lot more, or when he got a start, or
just the way in which you felt like things were
starting to click a little bit more. The game was
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slowing down some and how he was playing roles in
situations he was playing in on both ends of the floor.
That's my long winded way of saying that's fact. Like
guys taking jumps, guys developing. Those weren't just words that
you talk about in a season that the win lost
record isn't you know, isn't what we've seen in the past.
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Like there was a real growth and I think that's
something that you should count absolutely as a success.
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Speaker 1 (18:15):
The crazy thing is, before I get to that Jordy
quote you alluded to, Dayron said because of his early
season hamstring injury, he said he never in his exit
interview said he never really got back to the plane
weight shape that he was at last season what he
considered ideal, which is crazy to me considering how often
I've talked about his improvements. So you can only imagine
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what a healthy offseason and exactly just year five will
do for him. He'll be twenty four next year. And
the Jordy quote you mentioned, which I really liked, you know,
he said it at the beginning of April. I asked
him kind of about a general just philosophy question on
long term player development, and he said, I think there's
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a good balance between what coaches playing for a player
and what a player can show you that he can do.
When you give a player minutes, sometimes you may see
it in different lineups, and then you maybe get to
run a play for him that maybe in a different
situation you wouldn't, and then he shows you things that
you're not that you wouldn't know that he can do.
And that's always positive. If they show you whatever they
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got to show you, then you have to learn from
it as a coach and then probably put it in
the development plan too. End quote. That's just a really
interesting and kind of revealing, you know, quote from Jordie,
and I think we saw it a lot this year.
Like Tyreese Martin, maybe his NBA future is kind of
more so as a ball handler than just purely like
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an off ball wing. You know, maybe Noah Clowney is
gonna shoot ten threes per one hundred possessions and draw
all these closeouts. We weren't sure these things before the season,
but you know, this was definitely a season of learning
and folding that into the development plan for all these guys.
I want to ask you a big picture for your
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big picture Brooklyn's Finest Award. I know it's tough to
you know, single out anybody from the season because you
talked about team wide development. But if there's one player
that just, you know, not the finest, but that you
were just really impressed by, and then you'd like to
give a shout out here on our end of season
pod for their efforts for a game they had for whatever,
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what would you say, who does your mind go to?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Wait? I think initially, I think there's a lot of
players to point too. I'm glad early on you had
had shouted out during Finney Smith, Dennis Schroeter. I think
those guys were important facets of the growth of the team.
But I think on top of the coaching staff we
talk about the belief of the resiliency, I think a
big part of that was a consistent veteran presence. And
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so I know I've talked about him a lot throughout
the course of the year, but to me, like the
Brooklyn's finest would be Cam Johnson and what he did
both on the floor off the floor just kind of
pitomizing the type of organizational player, in disposition, in leadership
and how you come to work every day and then
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the play on the floor. And there's a handful of
guys who had career years, but I think at this
point it felt like a pivotal point in the professional
that he will be Yeah, And so I think to me,
there was a different level of a trajectory that allowed
for a base and allowed for a glue and allowed
for a consistency through this whole year.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I think, yeah, And when we do our end of season,
when we do some individual player wrap up, episodes, we'll
talk about, you know, kind of what we've mentioned all year,
what he got better at. I'm sure I'll have some
specific stats. He had a bunch of interesting quotes on
exit interview day, but I think that is probably a
very fine choice for Brooklyn's finest. In the spirit of
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shouting out one more guy, I'll say day Ron shar
He just impressed me a lot this year. I have
a lot of specific stats, and obviously just the eye
test would match it. How much better he continued to
get in year four. And you know, now we really
have a two year sample over the last two years
of him having carved out, you know, a real role
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at a real valuable presence. You know, he's going to
be a restricted free agent, but it's great that he
has proven himself to be a valuable NBA player, whether
in Brooklyn elsewhere. We obviously hope he's back. Here's one
stat though, this is why offensive rebounding. And we had
trivia last week where I talked about his offensive rebounding.
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Here's why it's so important thinking basketball. Just put out
a video and he dropped his stat. NBA teams score
an average of one point per possession on the first chance,
on second and third chances after an offensive rebound whatever.
They have a one to twenty two offensive rating, one
point two to two points per possession. So that right
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there tells you how valuable it is that day Ron
attacks the glass like that, and then he got so
much better on defense. Then they played him in aggressive coverages,
they played him up the floor. He shot a couple threes.
So he's my Brooklyn's finest and I'm sure we'll get
into more of it. We obviously can't go without doing
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Brooklyn's Next Net, you know. Again, taking it all the
way back to the beginning half a year ago, Sean
Mark said this season was about finding the next nets,
and as the general manager of the team, that was
really his job, especially as they you know, kind of
pivoted really building something from the ground up here. So
who would you give a next Net award to? Which
is just dang, you know, he really maybe surprised me,
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like I want to keep watching him play. He got
some stuff to him whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Again, I think there's a handful of players you would
point to with this, but the ones like that immediately,
I know we've talked a lot about day On sharp
but the ones that jump out to tyres or looking
at what you know, you look at what trendon. Watford
was able to do it at this point in just
some of his growth, the final stretch, a little bit
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of the final push of Jalen Wilson in his continued development,
Noah Clowney being one of those guys. I'm not sure
I can pick just one. I mean Zion Williams we
have obviously said as well, who I think was a
huge part of this, but I think everyone kind of
took a little bit of a jump to showcase areas
of their game where they have shown strengths that they
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already have that they can improve upon, and some that
have been question marks that I think they started to
solidify in some consistent way. So I don't know if
I have just one, but I think all of those
players showed in ways of their ability to really impact
impact a team and impact how a team plays. And
so that's all things I think that you want to
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keep an eye on as the off season progresses, as
next season comes into play, and just kind of what
it looks like, because I know there could be a
lot of shakeups in what these rosters and what this
NETS roster looks like. But I think more than anything,
it's about, Okay, what does the next step of their
NBA career look like? And I think all of those
guys had put themselves in a really solid position for that.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
A guy I would also mention is Keon Johnson was
not in the rotation to start the season. He got
one chance early in a win home win against the
Chicago Bulls. He threw down like a one to eighty
dunk on the baseline and that just sprung him into
a career season. I remember talking to him at Summer
League last year and he was playing on the team,
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and he was like, you know, I hope I can
get a real contract, a standard contract. I mean I
was on a two way last year. I have no
more two way eligibility. And not only did that did
he get that contract, but he was in the rotation
playing huge minutes and showed some stuff and showed how
he can be kind of a defensive minded, smart off
ball cutter, shoot enough threes, get out and transition. That's
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a real NBA role for him. And you know, he
didn't have he didn't have a home last summer, and
so I hope he really finds one, especially if it's
in Brooklyn. He had a fantastic exit. My favorite exit
interview quote of the day. What do you think this
isn't This isn't real trivia? I guess we'll do two
rounds of trivia to close. What do you think Keon
Johnson does in the off season and what do you
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think he wants his post plane career to be.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Well, I'm I'm familiar now with your idea, so I
think you can tell the people that he has was
a goat. It's goats. It's a farm with.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Goats, twenty five goats on twenty acres, so they have
a lot of room. As he said, uh he said.
He told me his major in Tennessee was agriculture, and
that's really kind of what he wants to He wants
to be a farmer once basketball is over. I think
that's incredible. Yeah, own Land have my own vibe. The
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goal specifically to eventually get into aquaponics, hydroponic, you know,
fish farming, to be a fish farmer. I didn't.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I didn't know. Again, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
For well, I saw the fish farm and I should
have put it two and two together with the aqua
but continue.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
On makes sense. He was Ben simmons fishing partner on
a road trip earlier.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah, so hey, we got a very multi cultural, multi
just you know, faceted team over here in Brooklyn. Uh,
we're going to wrap up with trivia, although that nothing
can top that. Thankful to Keyon for sharing that. Do
you know who and when the last Brooklyn Nets lottery
pick was As we shift our attention to the offseason, Wait,
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are is.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
This a lottery pick that that they were not talking
about the Tatum the Boston Celtics trade.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
No, a lottery pick that they made and suited up
for the Nets.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I know this.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
It's been a while. It's been a while. That's why
a lot of fans are excited. Ndy Martin, No, not
quite that long. It was another power forward though big
It was Derek.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Derek's Oh I should have remembered that about Derek. I know.
So now I'm going way back.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Okay, that is fifteen years. It is the longest streak
in the NBA currently between lottery picks, and that's obviously
been in the playoffs a lot of times, and they've
also had to trade some picks to build those teams.
So the next eight NETS fans should be looking forward
to is the draft lottery on May twelfth. We got
the NBA Draft after that, Uh, and we got a
(28:33):
whole off season full of free agents trades. I'm sure
you know whatever, Sarah and I will have you covered.
I'll have you covered. I'm sure we'll have some NETS
film focused episodes on end of season. You know, trends
and guys that really took a step up this year,
as Sarah and I alluded to, there's a lot of them.
Uh and yeah, just thank you guys for rocking with
(28:54):
us all season long. Thanks to Sarah who has a
lot less free time on her hands than I do,
but made this podcast possible, which was awesome. Thanks to
everybody who edited the clips got us together. Yeah, they
know who they know who they.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Are Brooklyn nets Social content team. That's and that's that
there is best.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
In the business. They know who they are.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Oh and uh, do you want to shout out Frank
to Grace. He had his last games Yes Network producer
NETS on Yes on the season finale. Sarah obviously worked
with him pretty closely. I want to end with the
shout out to him. Because he's been a pretty integral
part of the Nets for the last US.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Integral he's got and he's gotten a lot of love, deservedly,
so deservedly so twenty six years. Yeah, no, that'st and
the best he's he's moved on to to run things
over with with NBC, with NBA on NBC.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
So yeah, but he's going to be dearly messed. But
his his presence and just everything that that he has
put forth towards the Brooklyn Nets, towards the Yes Network,
all of that, of course we'll steal. We'll still be
a part of all the broadcasts and everything that we do.
So yeah, he has beloved, no question.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Not a goodbye, to see you later, and we will
see you pretty soon. Then that's a very busy offseason,
as you all know. But this has been the backcourt
of Brooklyn Net's podcast presented by Ticketmaster regular season edition.
Obviously we have stuff coming, but we will have more.
Thank you guys for listening this season to this episode,
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it is time for the off season. We will see
you guys,
You are now in the Backcourt a Brooklyn Nets podcast
presented by Ticketmaster. This is episode twenty four and Sarah
Coustock and I will be recapping another Brooklyn Nets season
in the book. Sarah, how are you feeling do.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm feeling bittersweet? I think we talked about this a
little bit last week, But yeah, it's always interesting when
you wrap up a season and kind of reflect back
on the highs and lows, the good and bad, really
bad portions, but just challenges that obviously you watched and
you covered and you saw so many of these individuals
go through. But yeah, it was a really fulfilling year.
(00:47):
I think we've talked about a lot of just watching
the development of some of these players, coaching staff, and
just some of the changes that had occurred will occur,
and just kind of the direction of this Brooklyn Nets organization.
So yeah, so it's I think it's an exciting time.
It's an uncertain time, but it's an exciting time.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yes. The Jordy Fernandez has mentioned it a couple times
as this upcoming summer being the most important one of
our lives, which I love, and that really does you know,
I'd like make a little poke a little fun at it,
but it is reflective of just the day to day
to read every day like it's your last process that
I think we've seen from the Nets this year since
(01:29):
we recorded last. The Nets closed out the twenty twenty
four twenty twenty five campaign with three games, three losses
against the Hawks, Timberwolves, and Nick's a fun finale to
the year at Barkley's Center. I just wanted to get
your quick opinion before we go more big picture. Anything
(01:51):
you saw from the last week, maybe that last game
against the Knicks, anything that stood out to you, not from.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
In particular that stood out. I think it was a
lot of the things that we had talked about with
this group through the year. I think the end of
the season there was some really challenging moments I think
for this group of just making sure to continue to
you know, be in line with all the things that
they have been about the whole year, and it's it's grooling.
(02:18):
An eighty two game season is grueling, and I think
for me, the watching those last few games, the opportunity
for so many players to get some whether it's their
first NBA minutes, whether it's extended roun whether it was
more time in different roles, maybe outside with some of
the responsibilities were I think that's always a really I
(02:41):
guess you could just say like it is something that
you really feel like you're curious to see how players
react to that and how they show up, and I think,
you know, just getting a chance to kind of evaluate that,
watch that, see that, see that opportunity given circumstances for Brooklyn,
I think was something you know, for all of us,
that was fun to watch and fun for them to
have those moments, and you hope that they're able to
(03:01):
build upon those in the future.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, definitely. I mean, I think you know that was
going to be the story of this season. Exit interviews
were on Monday, and there were some quotes from that
that I'm sure we'll talk about. But this was pretty
much the sort of season that we expected. And I
am curious as to your, you know, evaluation of the
(03:25):
season and what you just mentioned maybe relative to your expectations,
Like is this kind of what you thought it would
look like six months ago when we started seven months ago,
or did you know things kind of jump out and
leave you feeling surprised.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
That's an absolute question, because I think it feels like
there were so many iterations of this season, and I'm
not even sure what the expectations. I think it was
very unknown going in one. You had a new head
coach and new coaching staff and Geordy Fernandez, So what
the expectations were of what that may look like where
(04:02):
the group would go. I think from the start that
we understood that it was going to be, in some
sense a rebuilding year. But they exceeded my expectations. I
think we may have talked about this Lucas very early on.
Training camp had pressed me so much. The organization, the execution,
the enthusiasm, a sense of purpose, seeing guys with like
real motivation and chips on the shoulder of what they
(04:24):
wanted to accomplish. The level of belief of this group
was to me something that I like, I'll still get
chills at certain moments of and I we'll get into it.
But the earlier parts of the season are just what
they were able to put together and how they played
for one another despite so many different challenges of injury
or trades or you name it, the uncertainty around a
(04:46):
lot of parts. I love that about this group, and
so in that sense, I think they exceeded my expectations
of just this was. I know it was a hard
one for what they endured at certain points, but it
a fun one just because they were inspiring in so
many different situations or circumstances or games and whether it
resulted in wins or losses. But I think it's hard
(05:09):
to evaluate it in a certain sense of expectations because
I think, you know, there was moments that you wish
probably went a different way, and then there was others
that I think they all gave us a lot of
a lot of moments that we appreciated with how they
were able to come together as a group with so
many different lineups, so many different players, so many different
(05:32):
opportunities that were grabbed and taken hold of, And to me,
that was the fun part of watching what this group
laid the foundation and kind of the identity that they
laid early on.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, and we talked about how their season really felt
kind of segmented. You know, they were I think ten
and thirteen. They were nine and ten early in the season,
and they had gotten out to a really strong start
on offense. They were a top half of the league offense,
top ten offense in the half court. You know, for
(06:03):
the first two months of the season. I'm looking at
the stats here up to you know, the very middle
of December, and then they make some trades. Dennis Shrewder
Dorian Finnie Smith, who I think, you know are no
longer with the nets, but are worth shouting out as
to you know, the beginnings I think of their seasons,
and from there they kind of struggled that that January period,
(06:26):
there was a two and fifteen stretch, and then they
found the identity on defense. And when they started winning
games in February and you know, around that All Star break,
they did it on defense, and so they won games
in a variety of ways. This year they end up
twenty six and fifty six, but with a slightly better
(06:46):
clutch record than that, So that was good for twenty
fifth in the league, but the their clutch stats were
twenty two to twenty three in terms of win percentage.
So it all kind of evens out, you know, the
underlying matter. But it's funny you never really think of
a season that way. You think of the wins that
could have been losses, the big comebacks. You know, we'll
(07:08):
talk about our favorite moments, but some of mine were
the West Coast comebacks. I got to be on the
road for those. There's a three game winning streak in Sacramento,
Golden State, and Phoenix, and all trailed by double digits,
I think, except for the Phoenix game, but some major comebacks.
There were a couple losses late, you know, I remember
the game against the Nuggets at home early, but kind
(07:31):
of all evened out to a competitive season for the Nets.
And I just kind of told you my favorite moments.
You know, that included Tyres Martin dropping thirty in Phoenix,
an incredible comeback led by Dennis Shrewder and others in
Golden State. Noah Clowney had a breakout performance in that
(07:52):
Sacramento win. So I want to ask you if you
have a favorite moment, stretch, play, whatever, from from this season. Now.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I feel like it's repetitive given the fact that you
just brought it up, but I don't think it's indicative
of what that felt like, because that if you remember
that road trip just right before Thanksgiving, the Sacramento, Golden State,
Sacramento Phoenix road trip it was coming off of. It
(08:22):
started in Philadelphia, was the first game and it was
a very tough loss. In Philadelphia, and I think leading
up to that, whether it was windsor of this group,
it had such an excellent vibe and feel good about
what they were doing and how they were starting to
put things together play for one another. I think at
that point they were they really were exceeding expectations in
a sense of like how many, whether it was actually
(08:44):
coming away with wins or games that were very close
in their level of compete, and the Philadelphia one felt
just grimy of like, Okay, maybe it's they're not going
to be able to put it together. Maybe some of
those early wins, you know, were things that you're not
gonna necessarily see consistently. And Golden State Sacramento, and then
(09:06):
capping it off with that Phoenix went to me was
just the high of a high of really watching beautiful
basketball and the mix of with the coaching staff led
by Jordi Fernandez, how they were able to get a
buying in a belief. And then the veteran players you
had mentioned it, you know, Dennis Shruter during Phinney, Smith,
Cameron Johnson, how everyone really just played for one another,
(09:28):
and whether it was the big Game, a Tyree s
Martin or different guys picking one another up. I just
remember feeling such a like extraordinary appreciation love of calling
those games because I'm like, this, this is why we
love the game, this is why we love basketball, and
this is why you are inspired by what these guys are
doing on the floor, because you know the work they
put in behind the scenes, playing for one another, all
(09:49):
of those things. And to me, even in those moments,
I know it was not sustained in that level of wins.
I know that there were moving parts with the group.
To me, that was the stampus of if you want
the culture for an organization, if you want foundation laid, like,
this is what it looks like. You're tangibly to me
(10:11):
watching what it is you want your identity to be,
and I think those guys put it together in such
a really special way. And to me, there's still that's
part of the bricks that you're putting down now that
you hope will continue on in the future, and that stretch,
to me is something that will resonate and like continue
(10:32):
to have me think about when I think about what
this season was.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, and it felt I'm I'm glad you kind of
brought it to full circle because with the Philly loss
leading into that road trip, and then as you reflect
on their season as a whole, it felt like Jordi Fernandez,
who you know this season was going to be about
rookie head coach, wanted to see what you had. It
felt like you was able to enforce a standard because
(10:57):
you know, Tey Vegas didn't pick them win a lot
of games. They weren't expected to, you know, be very competitive,
you know, national media wise at all. And they started
maybe a little hotter than expected. We're six and nine
and whatever, and they lose, like you said, that game
in Philly, and it was just not acceptable because it
(11:18):
was one of those days where they didn't have they
just didn't play well. They had a lot of turnovers
in that one, like the energy was down, and they
respond with three straight wins and playing as hard as
they had and that it felt like that early West
Coast road trip really, I know they had some wins
before that, but really set the tone for what this
season would be like you had a standard and you
were going to play to it. And you know, even
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through the end, like the guys that were on two
ways or G league contracts are like true, Timmy not
on the team came in and embraced that standard. Obviously,
the other moment we have to shout out is the
which was the other real win streak of this season,
which in early February, beating the Houston Rockets at home
down four with like seven seconds left in hitting two
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threes back to back. I would say that was the
loudest Barkley Center was this season. Were you in the
building for that moment?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, yeah, I was calling that game when it was incredible.
It was absolutely incredible, and it's wild. It's funny you
said that. We actually just showed that. I don't want
to some of our end of your plays, best place
in the year, and yeah, the six points and six
seconds and yeah, but but to your point, like that,
that's what this to me, that's how I'll remember this
(12:30):
group like there was a there's there's words you say,
and there's cliches you throw out of like right until
the final balls are never given up, and continuing to play,
playing for one another, to me, consistently throughout the exemplified that.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I also wanted to ask, because we've said it at
the beginning of the season. I remember you saying it,
where wins and losses and you know they went twenty
six and fifty six won't be the telling the telltale
sign of how this season and went kind of unlike
twenty twenty four where they did go thirty two and
fifty and it felt disappointing that they missed the playoffs.
(13:08):
This season, you know, they go twenty six and fifty
six and missed the playoffs. I don't think anybody is
viewing that as a sign of distress. And so Jordi
Fernandez started saying at the end of the year, you know,
these wins and losses that were racking up aren't just
on the scoreboard. Not to take away from anybody's competitiveness,
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but he said in his exit interview yesterday, We've got
a lot of wins that what we consider wins from
players getting better. Right, So I'm giving you an example.
I put Tyrese Martin in a tough situation at times,
I put him at the point, and he ended up
with an almost two to one assistant turnover ratio. That's
pretty impressive. Sayer shot. I think his best percentage in
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the NBA from three at a little over thirty four.
Jay Will almost thirty four, Noah and Kean turned themselves
into big attempt shooters, not exactly his words. So I
want to ask you what was a win like that,
you know, a nugget of development, whether it's team wide,
individual wide, that stood out to you.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I would more go team wide, just in the sense
of I think you can go down every single player
and point to those type of things. I think in
certain circumstances, everyone was asked to do maybe a little
bit more than I don't even want to say what,
but more than than what they were accustomed to doing,
(14:35):
more than what would be expected of them, more than
and I think it was the idea of like to me,
the takeaway is like, don't put don't put players in
a box, don't look and I think Jordi had said
looting something in this so the players will show me
what they can handle, what they can do. And I
think for all of us, like it's easy to say,
oh yeah, you want to season that you see growth.
(14:56):
And but to that point, Zire Williams, from what we
saw from a at Memphis, a former lottery pick, the
three point shooting, you know, having always been a question,
the fact that he took that on and he went there,
you know, there was different points throughout the season where
those type of shots he was making or the stretches
he was on the level of confidence added on to
(15:16):
the other things. Tyree Smartin you said it like, I
think people just assume, well, yeah, you're playing, you an
NBA player, Yeah, you bring the ball for your initiating offense.
What's what's the difference? You can there are certain roles
in certain things being asked of players that I think
just for all of us watching, like he don't fully
understand some of the challenges that presents, and then when
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players do it, the expectation of how they should be
able to handle it and what they should do consistently
with it. I think we talk a lot about Cam
Johnson and the season that he had a career year.
Like to me, there was things about his game and
how he played and I don't even know if you
want to call it development or growth because I think
(15:57):
he had it in them, but the opportunity to showcase
with an added responsibility, uh in so many different areas
and it wasn't just to me, like, it wasn't just
about his his growth and his game in a more
you know, complete way of what he was as a
facilitator in what was happening defensively and obviously the three
level scoring, but just like as a leader, like to me,
(16:19):
he grew as we watched him in his leadership role
of not just having him be by example and a
vocal leader, but he took that role. And then Dangel
Russell coming back. I mean, I'm going through a lot
of guys, but I think you can go player by player,
and you saw ways that they were able to expand
(16:39):
their game and expand it outside of what you saw
early on. Noah Clowney being another one of those guys.
Really everyone and again I'm I don't want to miss
out on any players because I think in every turn
you look and you're like, okay, even Dayron sharp.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Again.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Now I'm gonna I should have kept it as a
team though, Start thinking about players, and I think about
what Dayron did you know, and dealing with some injury earlier,
but then when he was healthy and he was playing
in different moments that he was asked to do a
whole lot more, or when he got a start, or
just the way in which you felt like things were
starting to click a little bit more. The game was
(17:15):
slowing down some and how he was playing roles in
situations he was playing in on both ends of the floor.
That's my long winded way of saying that's fact. Like
guys taking jumps, guys developing. Those weren't just words that
you talk about in a season that the win lost
record isn't you know, isn't what we've seen in the past.
(17:36):
Like there was a real growth and I think that's
something that you should count absolutely as a success.
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Speaker 1 (18:15):
The crazy thing is, before I get to that Jordy
quote you alluded to, Dayron said because of his early
season hamstring injury, he said he never in his exit
interview said he never really got back to the plane
weight shape that he was at last season what he
considered ideal, which is crazy to me considering how often
I've talked about his improvements. So you can only imagine
(18:36):
what a healthy offseason and exactly just year five will
do for him. He'll be twenty four next year. And
the Jordy quote you mentioned, which I really liked, you know,
he said it at the beginning of April. I asked
him kind of about a general just philosophy question on
long term player development, and he said, I think there's
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a good balance between what coaches playing for a player
and what a player can show you that he can do.
When you give a player minutes, sometimes you may see
it in different lineups, and then you maybe get to
run a play for him that maybe in a different
situation you wouldn't, and then he shows you things that
you're not that you wouldn't know that he can do.
And that's always positive. If they show you whatever they
(19:18):
got to show you, then you have to learn from
it as a coach and then probably put it in
the development plan too. End quote. That's just a really
interesting and kind of revealing, you know, quote from Jordie,
and I think we saw it a lot this year.
Like Tyreese Martin, maybe his NBA future is kind of
more so as a ball handler than just purely like
(19:39):
an off ball wing. You know, maybe Noah Clowney is
gonna shoot ten threes per one hundred possessions and draw
all these closeouts. We weren't sure these things before the season,
but you know, this was definitely a season of learning
and folding that into the development plan for all these guys.
I want to ask you a big picture for your
(20:00):
big picture Brooklyn's Finest Award. I know it's tough to
you know, single out anybody from the season because you
talked about team wide development. But if there's one player
that just, you know, not the finest, but that you
were just really impressed by, and then you'd like to
give a shout out here on our end of season
pod for their efforts for a game they had for whatever,
(20:24):
what would you say, who does your mind go to?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Wait? I think initially, I think there's a lot of
players to point too. I'm glad early on you had
had shouted out during Finney Smith, Dennis Schroeter. I think
those guys were important facets of the growth of the team.
But I think on top of the coaching staff we
talk about the belief of the resiliency, I think a
big part of that was a consistent veteran presence. And
(20:50):
so I know I've talked about him a lot throughout
the course of the year, but to me, like the
Brooklyn's finest would be Cam Johnson and what he did
both on the floor off the floor just kind of
pitomizing the type of organizational player, in disposition, in leadership
and how you come to work every day and then
(21:11):
the play on the floor. And there's a handful of
guys who had career years, but I think at this
point it felt like a pivotal point in the professional
that he will be Yeah, And so I think to me,
there was a different level of a trajectory that allowed
for a base and allowed for a glue and allowed
for a consistency through this whole year.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I think, yeah, And when we do our end of season,
when we do some individual player wrap up, episodes, we'll
talk about, you know, kind of what we've mentioned all year,
what he got better at. I'm sure I'll have some
specific stats. He had a bunch of interesting quotes on
exit interview day, but I think that is probably a
very fine choice for Brooklyn's finest. In the spirit of
(21:57):
shouting out one more guy, I'll say day Ron shar
He just impressed me a lot this year. I have
a lot of specific stats, and obviously just the eye
test would match it. How much better he continued to
get in year four. And you know, now we really
have a two year sample over the last two years
of him having carved out, you know, a real role
(22:20):
at a real valuable presence. You know, he's going to
be a restricted free agent, but it's great that he
has proven himself to be a valuable NBA player, whether
in Brooklyn elsewhere. We obviously hope he's back. Here's one
stat though, this is why offensive rebounding. And we had
trivia last week where I talked about his offensive rebounding.
(22:40):
Here's why it's so important thinking basketball. Just put out
a video and he dropped his stat. NBA teams score
an average of one point per possession on the first chance,
on second and third chances after an offensive rebound whatever.
They have a one to twenty two offensive rating, one
point two to two points per possession. So that right
(23:00):
there tells you how valuable it is that day Ron
attacks the glass like that, and then he got so
much better on defense. Then they played him in aggressive coverages,
they played him up the floor. He shot a couple threes.
So he's my Brooklyn's finest and I'm sure we'll get
into more of it. We obviously can't go without doing
(23:20):
Brooklyn's Next Net, you know. Again, taking it all the
way back to the beginning half a year ago, Sean
Mark said this season was about finding the next nets,
and as the general manager of the team, that was
really his job, especially as they you know, kind of
pivoted really building something from the ground up here. So
who would you give a next Net award to? Which
is just dang, you know, he really maybe surprised me,
(23:42):
like I want to keep watching him play. He got
some stuff to him whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Again, I think there's a handful of players you would
point to with this, but the ones like that immediately,
I know we've talked a lot about day On sharp
but the ones that jump out to tyres or looking
at what you know, you look at what trendon. Watford
was able to do it at this point in just
some of his growth, the final stretch, a little bit
(24:09):
of the final push of Jalen Wilson in his continued development,
Noah Clowney being one of those guys. I'm not sure
I can pick just one. I mean Zion Williams we
have obviously said as well, who I think was a
huge part of this, but I think everyone kind of
took a little bit of a jump to showcase areas
of their game where they have shown strengths that they
(24:30):
already have that they can improve upon, and some that
have been question marks that I think they started to
solidify in some consistent way. So I don't know if
I have just one, but I think all of those
players showed in ways of their ability to really impact
impact a team and impact how a team plays. And
so that's all things I think that you want to
(24:51):
keep an eye on as the off season progresses, as
next season comes into play, and just kind of what
it looks like, because I know there could be a
lot of shakeups in what these rosters and what this
NETS roster looks like. But I think more than anything,
it's about, Okay, what does the next step of their
NBA career look like? And I think all of those
guys had put themselves in a really solid position for that.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
A guy I would also mention is Keon Johnson was
not in the rotation to start the season. He got
one chance early in a win home win against the
Chicago Bulls. He threw down like a one to eighty
dunk on the baseline and that just sprung him into
a career season. I remember talking to him at Summer
League last year and he was playing on the team,
(25:32):
and he was like, you know, I hope I can
get a real contract, a standard contract. I mean I
was on a two way last year. I have no
more two way eligibility. And not only did that did
he get that contract, but he was in the rotation
playing huge minutes and showed some stuff and showed how
he can be kind of a defensive minded, smart off
ball cutter, shoot enough threes, get out and transition. That's
(25:58):
a real NBA role for him. And you know, he
didn't have he didn't have a home last summer, and
so I hope he really finds one, especially if it's
in Brooklyn. He had a fantastic exit. My favorite exit
interview quote of the day. What do you think this
isn't This isn't real trivia? I guess we'll do two
rounds of trivia to close. What do you think Keon
Johnson does in the off season and what do you
(26:19):
think he wants his post plane career to be.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Well, I'm I'm familiar now with your idea, so I
think you can tell the people that he has was
a goat. It's goats. It's a farm with.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Goats, twenty five goats on twenty acres, so they have
a lot of room. As he said, uh he said.
He told me his major in Tennessee was agriculture, and
that's really kind of what he wants to He wants
to be a farmer once basketball is over. I think
that's incredible. Yeah, own Land have my own vibe. The
(26:53):
goal specifically to eventually get into aquaponics, hydroponic, you know,
fish farming, to be a fish farmer. I didn't.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I didn't know. Again, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
For well, I saw the fish farm and I should
have put it two and two together with the aqua
but continue.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
On makes sense. He was Ben simmons fishing partner on
a road trip earlier.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah, so hey, we got a very multi cultural, multi
just you know, faceted team over here in Brooklyn. Uh,
we're going to wrap up with trivia, although that nothing
can top that. Thankful to Keyon for sharing that. Do
you know who and when the last Brooklyn Nets lottery
pick was As we shift our attention to the offseason, Wait,
(27:41):
are is.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
This a lottery pick that that they were not talking
about the Tatum the Boston Celtics trade.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
No, a lottery pick that they made and suited up
for the Nets.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I know this.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
It's been a while. It's been a while. That's why
a lot of fans are excited. Ndy Martin, No, not
quite that long. It was another power forward though big
It was Derek.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Derek's Oh I should have remembered that about Derek. I know.
So now I'm going way back.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Okay, that is fifteen years. It is the longest streak
in the NBA currently between lottery picks, and that's obviously
been in the playoffs a lot of times, and they've
also had to trade some picks to build those teams.
So the next eight NETS fans should be looking forward
to is the draft lottery on May twelfth. We got
the NBA Draft after that, Uh, and we got a
(28:33):
whole off season full of free agents trades. I'm sure
you know whatever, Sarah and I will have you covered.
I'll have you covered. I'm sure we'll have some NETS
film focused episodes on end of season. You know, trends
and guys that really took a step up this year,
as Sarah and I alluded to, there's a lot of them.
Uh and yeah, just thank you guys for rocking with
(28:54):
us all season long. Thanks to Sarah who has a
lot less free time on her hands than I do,
but made this podcast possible, which was awesome. Thanks to
everybody who edited the clips got us together. Yeah, they
know who they know who they.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Are Brooklyn nets Social content team. That's and that's that
there is best.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
In the business. They know who they are.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Oh and uh, do you want to shout out Frank
to Grace. He had his last games Yes Network producer
NETS on Yes on the season finale. Sarah obviously worked
with him pretty closely. I want to end with the
shout out to him. Because he's been a pretty integral
part of the Nets for the last US.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Integral he's got and he's gotten a lot of love, deservedly,
so deservedly so twenty six years. Yeah, no, that'st and
the best he's he's moved on to to run things
over with with NBC, with NBA on NBC.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
So yeah, but he's going to be dearly messed. But
his his presence and just everything that that he has
put forth towards the Brooklyn Nets, towards the Yes Network,
all of that, of course we'll steal. We'll still be
a part of all the broadcasts and everything that we do.
So yeah, he has beloved, no question.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Not a goodbye, to see you later, and we will
see you pretty soon. Then that's a very busy offseason,
as you all know. But this has been the backcourt
of Brooklyn Net's podcast presented by Ticketmaster regular season edition.
Obviously we have stuff coming, but we will have more.
Thank you guys for listening this season to this episode,
(30:27):
like rate watch, subscribe all of that good stuff, and
it is time for the off season. We will see
you guys,
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