Joe Tsai sounds ready to start over. To build the Nets the old-fashioned way — by accumulating assets and developing young players. The way the Nets have operated in recent years hasn’t worked, and the owner seems intent on changing the plan coming off a dismal 32-50 campaign that resulted in the hiring of a new coach, Jordi Fernandez, after Jacque Vaughn and Kevin Ollie were dismissed.
“I want to build a winning mentality and culture that’s sustainable,” Tsai said at the J.P. Morgan’s Global China Summit in Shanghai on Friday.
“Those two are very different things. If you just want to be win-now you could ruin your future by trading away all of your assets, but I think what I want to do with the Brooklyn Nets is take a longer-term approach and build a sustainable, winning culture.” “I want to build a winning mentality and culture that’s sustainable.
Those two are very different things. If you just want to be win now you could ruin your future by trading away all of your assets but I think want I want to do with the Brooklyn Nets is take a (Continued) pic.twitter.
com/KgWtQIaYJq That hasn’t happened since the Nets moved to Brooklyn. They haven’t advanced past the second round of the playoffs since the move. There was the ill-fated trade with the Celtics for Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett — which happened under previous owner Mikhail Prokhorov — that led to Boston drafting current stars Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum.
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