At Media Day over one season ago, (then) Head Coach Jacque Vaughn and Sean Marks sat at a joint podium, fielding questions on the 2023-24 Brooklyn Nets and how they would steer the ship toward a playoff spot.
Despite some optimism around the squad, there was one pressing concern, one that had existed since the Nets had played in Newark. They were a skinny bunch, and predictably, seemed doomed to struggle on the glass, the one issue that predated, plagued, and postdated the Clean Sweep Era.
Vaughn mentioned one player as part of the potential solution: “I think Day’Ron Sharpe gets an early look and see how he can impose his will not only helping us, I don’t know, put things back to neutral by offensive rebounding, but at the same time, being big and a force for us at the rim.