“Knew all our strengths and weaknesses”

Despite being assaulted as one of the most talented teams ever gathered by 2021-22 Brooklyn's nets He ended up shocking his season with a first -round playoff departure. Almost three years later, Kyrie Irving spoke candidate about team struggles and offered his perspective Kevin duringThey take on the subject.

During he had joined Lebron James and Steve Nash on Note the game Podcast, where he reflected on the failures of that season. One point he emphasized was the mention of during the former Brooklyn coaches who worked with rival teams.

Irving doubled in the comments during, pointing specifically to IME Udoka. Udoka had served as a coach helping with the networks during the 2020-21 season before turning into the main coach of the Boston Celtics The following year.

“He is talking about coaches who go to the team,” Irving explained. “Ime Udoka literally went to the Boston Celtics after training with us. It was crazy, brother.”

“ Do you have coaches leaving other teams. And it wasn't anyone's fault. It's just the opportunity. But we're in the same division. You imagine you go against the coach who literally saw all our strengths and weaknesses, and now we're playing against them? You know what I'm saying? So Boston was ready for us.Imei had them ready, the Celtics had ready, dog. ''

According to Kyrie Irving, Udoka knew the Brooklyn Game Book gave Boston a huge advantage. Even with a list full of stars such as during, Kyrie Irving, James Harden, Blake Griffin, Lamarcus Aldridge and Andre Drummond, nets could not overcome the disadvantage.

Finally, they suffered a loss of the 3-1 series to the Celtics, followed by 4-0 in the first round of the playoffs.

Kevin during explained why collaboration with Kyrie Irving on Brooklyn's networks was not successful

During a conversation with Lebron James and Steve Nash, Kevin during the numerous challenges that affected Brooklyn's networks during the 2021-22 season. Beyond the many changes in technical staff and the office, many players also added to the instability.

“I just signed this agreement. You just signed an agreement. I feel like we were safe, but everything around us would go to s **,” he said during.

“We have players who force the shops … And I feel that their hands were very tied, because as a coach, you had to deal with so much. I think we did not get the Steve Nash Complete as I wanted … we brought to Ben Simmons, it has returned. There were so many bulls ** around us.”

The injuries also significantly damaged the team's performance. During, Kyrie Irving and Aldridge were limited to 55, 29 and 47 games, respectively. In the meantime, James Harden, who was marketed in the middle of the season, appeared in just 44 games before his departure.