When Tony Brown was promoted from assistant coach to interim head coach, he was taking over a 10-27 Brooklyn Nets team that had previously lost two of its starters in Jarrett Jack and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson.
Like Hollins, he was dealt a tough hand. Maybe an even tougher one.
Mikhail Prokhorov asked him to play an up-tempo style of play, as he told Brian Lewis in early February.
"I've had conversations with people in the organization," Brown said. "The thought is to try and have a little bit more of an entertaining style of basketball.