Scouting SCOUT — Insights on Episode One of Brooklyn Nets Pre-Draft Docuseries

“If you want something you never had, you have to do something you never have done.”

In their quest to establish a new brand of “sustainability” as well as recapture a collective buy-in from its fans, that phrase has a dual meaning for the Brooklyn Nets right now. It’s no wonder Jordi Fernández had it up on a whiteboard less than four minutes into the first episode of SCOUT.

While the young coach, focused primarily on that first goal, wasn’t addressing Brooklyn’s media team back in September. His primary audience was the Nets scouting staff assembled before him, but those words could have applied to them all the same — and this new project of theirs.

With this first episode of the docuseries…