Jason Kidd OUT! Who will be the Mavs' next HC?

[mvossman]

I love Jimmy to death and while I think he deserves a ton of credit, I do tend to believe people oversell his influence as a way to diminish Jerry's role.  Jerry is easy enough to dunk on without doing that.  And as good as Jimmy was, his ways wouldn't work today and were diminished greatly with the advent of free agency in '93.  In a perfect world, I'd rather have a different owner/GM and for that to be two different roles, but where Dumont was asleep at the wheel, Jerry has the opposite problem of being two involved and between those two, give me Jerry.  Jerry wants to win, but he also wants to do it his way.  And as bad as Jerry often is, I do think it's going to get much worse when Stephen finally takes over who has the media presence of Jason Kidd.  This isn't a could be worse situation, it's a will be worse situation.

Now that I've defended Jerry twice in the last few days, I'm going to go take another shower.

Based on all of the evidence, I am fairly confident Jimmy is the one that orchestrated the Hershal Walker trade, including cutting the players traded to get the draft picks.  He had a tight control over that roster (including cutting a guy in the middle of a game).