Jordi Fernandez puts emphasis on conditioning with tough Nets camp

SAN DIEGO — After the Nets underachieved last season — enough so that they’ve embarked on a tear-it-down rebuild — new coach Jordi Fernandez has come in intent on resetting the culture and conditioning.To that end, he’s been running one of the toughest training camps even his most experienced players have ever seen.“Probably one of the most unique, and hardest training camps I’ve been through in these 12 years now,” Dennis Schroder acknowledged.“Like it, though, so far.

Everybody’s buying into it.Coach and coaches are doing a great job of keeping us organized and together.

It’s been great.”With a team-high 11 prior NBA seasons under his belt, that says a lot coming from Schroder.But other veteran teammates concurred.“It’s been good,” Cam Johnson said.

“It’s been high effort, high intensity … we’ve been getting after it.”Forewarned is forearmed.Dorian Finney-Smith had asked around the NBA about Fernandez, and been told he’s all about hard work.“We’re going to be well-conditioned,” Finney-Smith laughed.

“The people I talk to around the league, they all had great things to say about him, so I knew what to expect.I heard he was a hard worker and he’d want us to compete.

That’s what he’s been asking us.”Both Jacque Vaughn and then Kevin Ollie had asked the same last season.Both failed.The end result of that failure was a 32-50 mark so disappointing that the Nets traded Mikal Bridges and started a rebuild.

But while the front office contemplates lottery positioning, Fernandez is intent on building a positive culture from the start.Sign up for Inside the Nets by Brian Lewis, exclusively on Sports+.

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