Kyrie Irving Reveals Nets' Primary Focus This Season

The Brooklyn Nets are focused on themselves only this year

Joey Linn | Oct 8, 2022

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After a very disappointing 2021-22 season, which was followed by an excessively dramatic offseason, the Brooklyn Nets are shifting their focus to themselves only this year. Rather than worrying about what other teams are doing, what the refs are doing, or what critics may think, Brooklyn is refocusing their attention on themselves.

Star point guard Kyrie Irving returned to practice on Saturday after missing time for the birth of his child. Upon his return, Irving admitted that the team sometimes gets out-hustled, and is working to change that. His comments were detailed in their entirely by Brian Lewis of the New York Post.

"The low-hanging fruit that we could honestly all agree on, is sometimes in possessions we're not playing hard enough," Irving said. "You saw it against Miami the other night. They were really physical, and we don't want that to be our stigma or M.O. in the league."

Irving continued, saying, "We've got to be comfortable with being uncomfortable at times. We're going to mess up things, but we don’t want it to carry over to the next possession."

Recognizing what his team needs to do better, Irving is hoping that improvement can be made in these last two pre-season games, and carry over into the regular season. Brooklyn has yet to reach the heights they envisioned when Durant and Irving joined in 2019, and now entering another year with that duo, the team knows they have to be better than they have been.

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Published Oct 8, 2022

JOEY LINN

Title: Credentialed writer covering the NBA for Sports Illustrated's FanNation Email: joeylinn32@sbcglobal.net Education: Communication Studies degree from Biola University Location: Los Angeles, California Expertise: NBA analysis, insight, and reporting Joey Linn is a credentialed writer covering the NBA for Sports Illustrated's FanNation. Covering the LA Clippers independently in 2018, then for Fansided and 213Hoops from 2019-2021, Joey joined Sports Illustrated's FanNation to cover the Clippers after the 2020-21 season. Receiving a media credential during the 2021-22 season, Joey has experience interviewing NBA players, and developing exclusive stories from these interviews. Having appeared on several different NBA podcasts over the last four seasons, Joey is now hosting his own podcast for The Sporting Tribune. Graduating from Biola University in 2022 with a Communication Studies degree, Joey served as Biola's play-by-play announcer for their basketball, baseball, softball, and soccer teams during his time in school. Joey's work on Biola's broadcasts, combined with his excellence in the classroom, earned him the Outstanding Communication Studies Student of the year award in 2022. Now graduated, Joey is covering the NBA full-time across multiple platforms. Credentialed by the Clippers, Joey covers the team daily with articles, podcasts, and video breakdowns on YouTube. With four years of sports media experience, Joey provides expert insight and analysis for NBA fans across the league.

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