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Dallas Mavericks Assistant Coach Igor Kokoskov Expected To Join Brooklyn Nets
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Deep playoff runs often include prices. The Dallas Mavericks are experiencing one now after an unlikely journey to the Western Convention Finals.
Assistant coach Igor Kokoskov is anticipated to pack his luggage and depart for the Brooklyn Nets, Marc Stein reports. There, he’ll serve on Steve Nash’s employees.
Kokoskov was the person behind the Mavericks’ offense in his first yr with the crew. His schemes, centered on the brilliance of Luka Doncic, led Dallas to a 112.5 offensive score through the common season and a 113.9 mark within the playoffs.
“For the teaching employees, we have spent a whole lot of time in conferences. So, that chemistry goes properly,” Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd stated of his employees early in the season. “I believe Igor [Kokoskov] is doing nice play calls offensively, after which Sean [Sweeney] is doing an ideal job on the defensive finish. And so, everyone is doing their half.”
The offense was not the one motive Kidd introduced in Kokoskov to affix his fledgling teaching employees. He additionally did so due to his relationship with Doncic.
Kokoskov coached the Slovenian nationwide crew, of which Doncic was a member, from 2016 to 2017. Slovenia received the gold medal at EuroBasket 2017. One other member from that championship crew, Goran Dragic, performed for the Nets final season. Dragic is now an unrestricted free agent.
In Brooklyn, Kokoskov will discover acquainted faces. He and Nash know one another from their time with the Phoenix Suns through the heyday of Mike D’Antoni’s “seven seconds or much less.” Kokoskov was an assistant there from 2008 by means of 2013.
Nash isn’t the one member of the Nets he has a relationship with. Kokoskov was a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers teaching employees through the 2013-14 season on the similar time Kyrie Irving was there.
Whereas Kokoskov is about for a number of reunions in Brooklyn, his departure leaves a gap in Dallas. This would be the first time that Kidd should fill a emptiness attributable to a departing coach since assuming the highest teaching spot with the Mavericks.