Nets Insider: Getting Frank about defense
PHILADELPHIA — As the Nets try to establish a defensive identity without the type of athletes or speed to suffocate opponents one-on-one, they look to assistant coach Lawrence Frank to draw up the...
View ArticleUnknown assistant takes Nets helm as Kidd serves ban
CLEVELAND — Who? That’s likely the question many Nets fans were asking Wednesday afternoon when the Nets announced Joe Prunty would serve as head coach in the team’s season opener that night while...
View ArticleNets assistant Lawrence Frank booted from Kidd’s bench
Jason Kidd sat down at the podium for his pregame press conference Tuesday evening, paused for a moment and sighed. Then he delivered a piece of news few would have expected a few short months – or...
View ArticleNets assistant Lawrence Frank booted from Kidd’s bench
Jason Kidd sat down at the podium for his pregame press conference Tuesday evening, paused for a moment and sighed. Then he delivered a piece of news few would have expected a few short months – or...
View ArticleLawrence Frank retaining counsel after Nets ouster
Nets assistant coach Lawrence Frank is in the process of retaining “high-powered” legal counsel, presumably to settle a buyout with the franchise in the wake of being “re-assigned” by head coach Jason...
View ArticleKidd-Frank breakup no surprise to Byron Scott
The first point Byron Scott emphasized — a point he stressed repeatedly — is he was not around the Nets this season and did not know what went on between head coach Jason Kidd and now-exiled assistant...
View ArticleKidd cursed out Frank in Nets meeting: report
Details continue to emerge explaining why and how the relationship between Jason Kidd and Lawrence Frank devolved to the point Kidd “re-assigned” the man he used to play under in New Jersey and...
View ArticleKidd reading Frank’s reports
Jason Kidd may not be seeing Lawrence Frank on a daily basis anymore, but at least he’s paying attention to his daily reports. When Kidd announced Frank would be “reassigned” from his assistant...
View ArticleKidd’s Nets thrive with ‘simplified’ scheme
Sometimes less is more, and simpler is better. At least, that’s the case with the Nets’ scaled-back schemes that — at least appear to have — helped spark their recent resurgence. “I’ve simplified...
View ArticleKidd simplified Nets defense after ‘long-winded’ Frank demoted
Sometimes less is more, and simpler is better. At least, that’s the case with the Nets’ scaled-back schemes that — at least appear to have — helped spark their recent resurgence. “I’ve simplified...
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