Joe Johnson on Nets coaching changes: 'It's like starting from ground zero'
Veteran swingman Joe Johnson talked about Brooklyn's coaching carousel on Friday.
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Joe Johnson joined the Brooklyn Nets in the summer of 2012. Avery Johnson was the head coach. Twenty-eight games into that season, Brooklyn decided to fire him and have assistant coach P.J. Carlesimo take over. After that, the Nets hired Jason Kidd fresh off his retirement as a player. Now, as Johnson enters the third year of his Brooklyn tenure, Lionel Hollins is in charge. On media day, he commented on the coaching carousel:
Joe: "Every year we start with a new coach. It's like starting from Ground Zero." #Nets
— Rod Boone (@rodboone) September 26, 2014
There's value in continuity, and the Nets really haven't had much of it since their big move to Brooklyn. Hollins will give them a fresh start, and he could be a great fit, but it must be sort of exhausting to keep pressing the reset button and learning new systems. Each coach has a different way of doing things. One example is practice time:
Johnson says of Hollins liking to practice more than Kidd: "Under Jason Kidd, we practiced ... but not really."
— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) September 26, 2014
Johnson also laughed when, as part of the same question, subject of Hollins loving to have his teams practice came up: "I've heard that."
— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) September 26, 2014
The Nets have a veteran-heavy group, and they now have a veteran coach who is preaching toughness. No one quite knows how quickly they'll come together or how they'll fare against the East's elite, but, like most of the things that have happened in Brooklyn over the past few seasons, it'll be interesting. That's just about the only constant there.
