{"id":511294,"date":"2026-01-02T06:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/511294\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T06:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:40:15","slug":"nolan-traore-latest-nets-rookie-to-get-some-tough-love-from-jordi-fernandez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/511294\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolan Traore latest Nets rookie to get some tough love from Jordi Fernandez"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nets trailed for the final 28 minutes of Thursday night\u2019s loss to the Rockets<\/a>. <\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t mean those minutes were meaningless.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Coach Jordi Fern\u00e1ndez gave rookie Nolan Traore some tough love coming off the court after some ill-advised 3-point heaves made that clear. <\/p>\n

The French teen is a good penetrator and downhill player but had just two assists to two turnovers, and shot just 1-for-8 overall, 1-for-5 from deep on shots he was mostly lured into.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI need him to use his superpowers and touch the paint. And it felt like he got caught shooting the unders. And a lot of times it didn\u2019t go \u2026 because that\u2019s what they want you to do,\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez said. \u201cAnd if you keep shooting and missing, then sometimes, if you keep doing the same thing and seeing the same results, that\u2019s the definition of insanity. And I know how good he is.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"NolanNolan Traore of the Brooklyn Nets puts up a shot in the second half at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, Thursday, January 1, 2026. JASON SZENES\/ NY POST<\/p>\n

\u201cHe can play pick-and-roll; he can touch the paint; he can reject pick-and-rolls; he can play with a pass. Two assists and two turnovers is just not good enough. That\u2019s why I needed him to understand: that I need more. I\u2019m OK with a pull-up 3; I don\u2019t love it because he hasn\u2019t shown that he can make it consistently. He can shoot as many catch-and-shoot 3s as he wants, but I didn\u2019t think he played the game the way I wanted to play the game. If he gets 1 percent better [Friday] that\u2019s what I want to see.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Nets were missing three-fifths of their starting lineup.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Michael Porter Jr. was out with an illness, Terance Mann was out with a right hip contusion, and lottery pick Egor D\u00ebmin had lower back soreness.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s been throughout the games, and obviously me playing him more minutes and making sure that he can continue to play. So, that\u2019s something that popped up, but we believe he\u2019ll be fine soon,\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez said. \u201cHe\u2019ll be supporting his teammates and ready for the next one.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The next one is Friday in Washington.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Nets moved up to fifth in the lottery standings, percentage points ahead of the Hornets. They\u2019re 2 \u00bd games behind the Wizards.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Nets have played the fewest games in the league so far, but now enters into a stretch where they\u2019ll have four games a week for five consecutive weeks. It remains to be seen how the team will handle Porter (and D\u00ebmin) on back-to-backs during that stretch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nets trailed for the final 28 minutes of Thursday night\u2019s loss to the Rockets. But that doesn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,3803,248,6,671,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-511294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-nets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-nets","11":"tag-brooklynnets","12":"tag-jordi-fernandez","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nets","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115824140349785060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}