Irving said: The Nets were skeptical about Nash s coaching period and did not fully support hiring him

According to Nico Martinez, a contributor to US sports media F/W. The Nets' Big Three era should have changed the NBA, but behind the scenes, the cracks formed early. In the new live stream, Irving honestly spoke about the turbulent chemistry of the team, including his concerns about Nash's appointment as head coach. According to Carey, both he and Nash have a private reservation about the collaboration, and it is not the seamless fit the media once hoped. “How Steve ended up being our head coach, and when he’s ready, I’ll let Durant answer that question,” Carey said. "But I have already had my own ideas about how the coaching situation will develop."

Irving admits that he has more preferred candidates in his mind, especially those with mature head coaching experience. While he attributes what Nash brings from the Warriors to Nash, Carey didn’t hide his feelings about the hiring or the bumpy journey that followed. “We’ve solved this problem, but I’m not going to sit here and pretend, yes, everything is easy in Brooklyn,” Owen said. "We're in New York City, the world's media capital, and you just have to go a little differently. I'm not ready to go that route, a lot of things happening, not only in Brooklyn, but with the Nets."

When Irving and Durant came together in 2019, the Nets struggled to find a coach who could play the most in their new Big Three. After careful consideration, they finally chose Nash, but Carey didn't believe it. According to him, it was Durant who pushed Nash's hiring, a mistake that made them pay a huge price.

Nash has a stable record of 94 wins and 67 losses, but lacks substantive content in the playoffs. The locker room soon collapsed and he was eventually replaced by Jacques Vaughn. Although Nash was great as a player (2 MVP, 8 All-Star, 7 NBA selections), he was not successful as the Nets coach and his legacy will forever be controversial as one of the most important figures in a failed super team.

Steve Nash was never the right choice for Irving because he had no championship and had limited coaching experience. Nevertheless, the responsibility for such failure is not just one person. As Kevin Durant and Steve Nash themselves agreed, other obstacles totally doomed them from the very beginning.

Looking back, it is difficult to identify only one area where the Durant/Irving Nets things fell apart, but it is safe to say that a series of mistakes from management to the locker room left Brooklyn stripped of star power and trapped in the second tier of the Eastern Conference. The Brooklyn experiment was full of hope, but it quickly became a case study of how not to build a super team. Despite its talent, the Nets lack cohesion, consistency and the leadership they need to manage big names on a larger stage. As Carey now reflects on what went wrong, it is clear that the wound has not fully healed, and the consequences of those years in Brooklyn are still lingering in today’s NBA conversations.