New Brooklyn Nets head coach Jordi Fernandez may have had a disappointing summer coaching the Canadian national team at the 2024 Paris Olympics (they didn’t win a medal), but he’s still impressing his future players with some of the changes he’s already implemented.

According to Brian Lewis of the New York Post, Fernandez hopes to adopt a more run-and-gun, fast-break approach in 2024-25. And to be fair, Fernandez did help the Canadian national team defeat the U.S. national team at the 2023 FIFA World Cup, taking bronze.

Jalen Wilson, a second-year power forward for the Nets and No. 51 overall pick out of Kansas, explained Fernandez’s approach.

“I think the most important thing is to play fast and confidently,” said the 6’9″ man. “Not just standing out there and not being insecure. But doing everything at full speed and understanding that you have to attack everything… whether it’s shooting, dribbling, finding the open teammate, running down the field and sprinting to the corner, all those different things.”

In 43 healthy games last season (three starts), Wilson averaged 5.0 points on .425/.324/.826 shooting, 3.0 rebounds and 1.0 assists per night. In a faster offseason, he has a chance to improve on that output. More playing time will help, too.

After the groundbreaking transfer of small forward Mikal Bridges from the All-Defensive Team league to the neighboring New York Knicks, Brooklyn signaled that it would rely on a tank.

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The Nets’ youth development should bring more playing time to Wilson, fourth-year shooting guard Cam Thomas, fourth-year center/power guard Ron Sharpe and second-year forward Noah Clowney.

“We want to play fast and hard,” Clowney noted. “We want to be disruptive. We know we have to be a great defensive team if we want to have a chance to win games, and that’s just the reality. Nobody has to sugarcoat that for us. We understand that.”

The 6-foot-10 big man, selected No. 21 in the 2023 NBA Draft out of Alabama, appeared in 23 games for Brooklyn, averaging 5.8 points on .538/.364/.700 shooting, 3.5 rebounds and 0.8 dimes per night. However, he impressed at the G-League level with the Nets’ NBAGL affiliate team, the Long Island Nets. In 19 appearances (all starts), Clowney averaged 17.5 points on a .500/.339/.772 slash line, 7.9 rebounds, 2.1 passes, 1.7 blocks and 0.6 swipes per regular season game.

After the Nets went 32-50 and missed the playoffs last season under former head coach Jacque Vaughn and his interim replacement Kevin Ollie, it became pretty clear that even with Bridges, they weren’t good enough to compete for the playoffs in the Eastern Conference.