Ime Udoka to help fulfill Steve Nash’s top priority: defense

Photo by Garrett Ellwood/NBAE via Getty ImagesDespite his and Mike D’Antoni’s revolutionary “Seven Seconds or Less” offense, Steve Nash said in this week’s “Town Hall” that he’s pinpointed defense as priority No. 1, saying it’s been the big topic the “last few weeks” in team discussions. Meet Ime Udoka, the Nets’ newest assistant who will be the defensive maestro.

Udoka, who spent the 2019-20 season as the Philadelphia 76ers top assistant and the previous seven years under Gregg Popovich in San Antonio, brings that defensive philosophy the Nets are hoping for.

In his most recent stop with Philadelphia, Udoka was one of the league’s highest-paid assistants, serving as the defensive…