In Brooklyn, youth empowerment involves hard times

The crowd at the Barclays Center will have to wait a little longer before they can taste victory, but their charges are making progress. And despite that conceded defeat against the CelticsJordi Fernandez wants to stay positive.

“I wasn’t happy with our level of competition a few games ago” explains the Nets coach. “And now we’ve been playing respectable basketball, competitive basketball for four games. If that’s the case, we’ll continue on this path, and we’ll accept the results. We want our fans, especially at home, to be proud of what we’re doing. And I think tonight they can be proud of the young people, or the whole group, for that matter, because this is how we go into the next game.”

A young man who failed in the “time of money” in the face of the experience of the Celtics. “We made a lot of mistakes” continues about the failed last quarter. “So it’s harder to run when you’re giving up free throws. … We gave up nine second-chance points, so if you don’t get rebounds, you can’t run. … All of those things affected our ability to play in transition.”

Beginners don’t make more mistakes than others…

A perfect contrast to the first half where his players spent time running to the point of 22 points on the counter attack. But the defense is on its heels in the final act, and it doesn’t want to incriminate anyone, especially its rookie Egor Deminin difficulty against Peyton Pritchard and Derrick White.

“I see a different match than you, and I don’t see a player in difficulty on the pitch” answered the Spaniard to journalists, when asked why he chose Ziaire Williams and not Denim in the 4th quarter. “I just see everybody losing balls, everybody missing shots. He’s not the only one… I make mistakes when I substitute, and I live with my mistakes. I live with it, and I’m very pleased with the way they played, and the way they fought… And I’m very, very pleased and proud of the starters and the whole team.”

And to those who might think the Nets are in “tanking” mode after watching him dump Nolan Traore and Danny Wolf in the final two minutes, he adds: “Playing a match at this level against a very good team is important. Many of you will not see the wins on the table, but we have high standards… Obviously we want to win and play to win. But the wins are the future Nets who will be playing on a winning team in a few years, and they are getting their minutes and getting better. We are looking for how they improve and our players are important. responsibility »