Long Island’s new head coach Bret Brielmaier says it’s time to put his ‘finger print’ on a team
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The Long Island Nets are Bret Brielmaier’s first head coaching job. For the past five years before being elevated to “big chair,” he served as an assistant to Kenny Atkinson, then after Jacque Vaughn replaced Atkinson, he served as lead assistant in the NBA “bubble.”
Now he’s back at Disney World for the G League “bubble” and ready for the new challenge. He’s worked with a wide range of head coaches in his 13-year NBA career. In addition to Atkinson and Vaughn, the 35-year-old has worked under Lute Olsen at Arizona, Gregg Popovich in San Antonio and Mike Brown, David Blatt and Tyronn Lue in Cleveland ... where he won a ring before moving on to Brooklyn.