Add “tele-coaching” to the list of player development innovations the Nets have embraced. What’s a ‘tele-coach,” you might ask? Well, as Yanir Rubinstein of CloseUp360, explains, it’s “a unique arrangement” that has allowed an Austrian shooting coach to work with Nets players from afar, supplementing occasional visits to Brooklyn with video clips containing pointers for individual players. And for Stefan Weissenboeck and the Nets, it works.
“Stefan is different than a lot of coaches I’ve had,” Caris LeVert told Rubinstein. “He focuses on balance, even on how you grab the basketball, to how long my nails are.