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Among the options publicly considered with regards to the Nets job, both current general manager Kiki Vandeweghe and renowned/retired coach Del Harris figured prominently. As it turns out, New Jersey got them both on Tuesday.Vandeweghe agreed to take over Lawrence Frank's well-worn gig if the team agrees to hire a veteran assistant, with Harris as the preferred choice. Marc Stein of ESPN.com reports the new coaching team "will take over at Thursday's practice and coach the Nets beginning with Friday's game against the Charlotte Bobcats."
Interim coach Tom Barrise, who coached the Nets in their record-tying 17th straight defeat, will have the reins on Wednesday when the team's next opportunity for Win No. 1 comes against the Dallas Mavericks.
As it goes, Vandeweghe might be the best choice, given his knowledge of the roster and assumed willingless to lean on Harris, who Stein reports is a friend from their days together under Don Nelson in Dallas. Certainly the GM/coach combination has worked to a degree in New Orleans, where Jeff Bower understood that Byron Scott had been wasting Darren Collison and Marcus Thornton, and where Tim Floyd found ways to implement them into the Hornet rotation. (Amazingly, this simply involved telling them to get on the court, and telling Bobby Brown and Morris Peterson to get off the court. Coaching ... more an art than a science, I suppose.)
Of course, Vandeweghe and Harris won't find the languishing options Bower and Floyd did, unless Bobby Simmons is the one and true messiah. (Free Trenton Hassell!) The job left to Vandeweghe should be one of motivation, of enthusiasm installation. Harris can handle the schemes and a good part of the teaching, and I suspect will work heavily with Yi Jianlian upon said forward's return to the line-up. Meanwhile, Tom Barrise, the career Nets coach and scout who filled the vacancy in Loss No. 17 in L.A. on Sunday, can only hope his Russian lessons go well these next few months.
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