09-16-2026, 01:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-16-2026, 02:03 PM by Scott41theMavs.)
(09-16-2026, 09:02 AM)Chicagojk Wrote: Sort of weird, I am still confused by Kidd as I was when he was hired. I did not like the hire. I thought early on he proved me wrong. His team played hard. He seemed to treat the players like professionals and never embarrassed them. He gave the players freedom. Players seemed to like him. But then, we had years were he really seemed disengaged. When extreme measures had to be taken, he almost seemed like it was not his responsibility. Then when players left Dallas it always felt cold and impersonal. You will always have hurt feelings when you move on but it felt particularly cold by Dallas.
Then after the Luka trade you had all these weird or hidden comments by him. It was just exhausting.
Whether he is/was a good coach is debatable. What is not debatable is how bad things would have gotten if Kidd weaseled his way into a front office position.
He's angled for a front office position every place he's been, no?
What surprised me about the hire is that they "mended fences" with him after he left them in the lurch for essentially no reason (career visibility?) in '13.
In any event, he burnt all remaining bridges with me with that recent anecdote of him acquiescing to LeQueen that the Mavs "got lucky" in '11. Horse puckey. No one should allow Queen Jane to say that, least of all one of the guys who beat his butt when he had already been crowned by the media.