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Kyrie Irving’s hiatus undid the Nets season. To maintain the star guard from hurting them once more down the highway, he wants each an angle adjustment to co-exist with Steve Nash and sure an extended sitdown with Kevin Durant to get him there.
It’s straightforward to dismiss that as a scorching take coming from any individual exterior HSS Coaching Middle. However when it’s coming from Amar’e Stoudemire – who spent the previous two years as a Nets participant growth assistant – one has to take word.
“It positively harm us as a result of we didn’t have the consistency with Kyrie sufficient to construct the chemistry for the group of the staff, proper?” Stoudemire mentioned Thursday on ESPN. “Performs solely the away video games relying on which metropolis it's. Can’t play in New York. So subsequently we now have completely different lineups and completely different matchups relying on the sport scheduling.
“And so it made it troublesome for us as coaches to determine, ‘Effectively, who’s going to play regardless of Kyrie?’ The chemistry will not be fairly there [how] we want it to be, so [it was] troublesome for us to handle that.”
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