Steve Nash’s second season at the helm of the Brooklyn Nets has been much rockier than his first – but through injuries and ineffectiveness, big trades and vax mandates, Nash’s Nets now have two chances to win one game and earn a playoff berth.
The first is Tuesday night, when they host the Cavaliers at Barclays Center, and although the team is still trying to gel after the March 10 deal that sent James Harden to Philly, Nash is excited for what’s to come.
“We’re all excited. We’re still getting to know this group, so there’s confidence in there, but there’s also excitement to try to continue to grow and build and compete,” Nash said at Nets shootaround on Monday. “We don’t really know a ton about the group relative to the other teams that have been together for longer periods of time and had more continuity this season.”
The Nets will have Seth Curry back, as the guard bluntly said “I’m playing” despite missing a good chunk of games recently with an ankle sprain, so the team will be more complete than it has been – but Nash is excited for what could come over the next few weeks.
“When you don’t have the same continuity or history as a group, that’s fine,” Nash said. “We should be excited about what we can build and accomplish in a short period of time and how difficult we can be to beat in a playoffs situation."
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And, there’s apparently still a chance, in some minds, that Ben Simmons could join that group, but that seems to be, to the Nets, a “cross that bridge when we come to it” situation.
“We’re worried about the play-in game right now, we can’t worry about when Ben is coming back,” Curry said. “If he becomes available, we’ll deal with that then and try to integrate him as much as possible, but we’re locked into this play-in situation right now; we have to worry about who we have out there and focus on Cleveland.”
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