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

[mvossman]

Idk, man. I think that sells the uphill battle short. 

Truly great coaches can decide to go anywhere. If you were Eric Spoelstra, would you even consider moving to Toronto when you factually know you'd get offers from at least five other cities? If you were Nick Nurse NOW, would you even consider going back? I wouldn't, but maybe you would. I'm sure there's a "case by case" element to it, but I'd bet it's tougher than you think to get someone excited to go. Much less so when the opportunity you're offering is the applicant's first chance to coach in the league. 

And, agreed on free agency, but I think it factors into the draft, even. We see guys at the top of the draft class attempt to maneuver their way to certain places each year. I bet that kind of thing goes on much more than we know, and there's also the angles of "who can I get to stay after his rookie contract" or "who's going to be so miserable here they won't even work hard" to consider. 

Seriously, I'm not trying to overthink, but I believe there are NBA franchises/cities where building is easier than others, for a variety of reasons. TOR is one of the more difficult jobs in the league, I believe.

All I'm saying is this: Ujiri's success in Toronto proves that he's qualified, and in some ways it might even be more impressive than we realize, but this opportunity in Dallas is next level for him, even with the fan emotional baggage and lack of draft capital. It's a clean cap sheet with some decent players on reasonable contracts, with the main piece already identified. AND, last but certainly not least, this is a place where people want to live and play. Maybe not like LA or Miami, but it's on the short list of "easy" franchises to build, imo. We MIGHT see an entirely new chapter of Ujiri's playbook.

Its a good argument than Dallas would be more of a destination than Toronto for head coaches, so his pool of options might be bigger now than what it was.  Its possible that his pool of draft options was somewhat limited, but he definitely seemed to have a player type when he drafted, and I don't think that was impacted by those limitations.  Of course now we have Schmitz to muddy those waters.  I try to look at what Masai has done and what Schmitz has said to get an impression of what they are looking for.  I do realize I'm mostly pulling it out of my ass, but its fun to speculate.