The Dallas Mavericks are back to .500 and clearly have some problems, is Jason Kidd the biggest issue? Can he elevate Luka Doncic & Kyrie Irving?
Nick Angstadt & Isaac Harris discuss the job Coach Jason Kidd has done this season with the Mavs. Has Kidd been the Mavs biggest problem this year? What has been different from last season when the Mavs overachieved? Has Kidd done enough this season to be fired?
0:00 Kidd Mavs Biggest Issue?
9:44 Biggest Difference from 2022 to 2023
19:30 Should Kidd Be Fired Based on This Season?
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37 Comments
How would you grade Jason Kidd's coaching job this year?
Kidd if a good coach just need to play more defensive players
I can't stand his coaching. He won't define players role. They simply don't what the coach wants from them. Plus he makes things so personal. We don't give a damn who you don't like, play the best players so we can win.
About fing time someone in the media has said the obvious. 15 games left amazing it has taken this long. Kidd is clueless as a coach. He wins a chip as a player so everybody turns their heads when he while he has ran mavs franchise player into the ground and amazingly has taken only 10 games to cause kyrie to start missing time
Now let's talk about his handling of cwood. Cwood has played his ass off all season. Great teammate and his defense is improving. Gets quality buckets yet is always on bench in closing minutes. Mavs go 9-5 when he starts. Kidd has no clue about rotations he has no balls as he can't talk to luka in private but has to give a coded presser about luka
Kidd is solely responsible for no less than costing team 10 wins. He acts like he will get paid for every timeout he does not use.
His coaching legacy will be this…. mavs miss playoffs with 2 all star starters… kyrie does not resign… cwood will not sign…eventually Luka will leave…mavs will be a lottery team for years to come… the problems with the mavs start and end with kidd
Kidd has to go!! CWood played less minutes than McKinley Wright against Memphis even with Luka and Kyrie out…. Wood is averaging almost a point per minute and Kidd refused to play him.
Once he said at post game presser he is sitting on bench letting ]ayers figure it out while losing a 27point lead vs lakers he should of been fired next day. He is ruining lukas career in many ways. Letting luka continue to complain and not get back on D is inexcusable.
At beginning of season when luka playing lime mvp people were saying no way he could sustain his usage rate but kidd kept riding him hard and now look at results a 23yr old once in a lifetime generational talent is breaking down in so many ways. Kidd has taken ALL of the joy of watching mavs hoops and I hate him for everything he is doing
Ty so much for this episode and to all Dallas sports fans…. when u can honestly say Mccarthy is not the worse coach in Dallas it really says how bad kidd has been. FIRE THIS BUM NOW and there will be hope to keep kyrie and wood. Let this guy continue and kiss this franchise good bye
Problems with the Mavs:
1. Jason Kidd cannot coach. At all. He needs to be fired asap.
2. Powell, Frank, Holiday and McKinley are useless. Reggie, Bertans and Tim are overpaid and wildly inconsistent. All of them should be traded, idc if it's for a bag of chips THEY GOTTA GO.
3. Defense does not exist on this team.
4. Luka's immature attitude and ball dominate playstyle.
I remember how confused I was listening to you guys after the trade talking about getting to number 3 or even 2. I was thinking will we get to playin.
It seems we will probably not. I hoped we would, like OKC and Utah would blow it up to get to the lottery Lakers were done… man were spiraling
Its not just kidd, Rick wasnt either, he was a better coach for 1
we did our worse with the roster for years
I don't think it matters if Kidd is the problem or not. The real question is would Mark ever make that move? Kidd is a HOF player and friend of Mark. He helped bring a championship to Dallas. I just don't see him ever getting rid of Kidd.
Why we still keep some players who doesn't play. FOR EXAMPLE T.P, F.N…. THERE IS SOME CENTER WHO CAN PLAY AND DALLAS NOT BRINGING IN. MOSES BROWN , DOWAIN HOWARD STILL THERE.
I don't get the fact that Wood can't play more for the fact that when everybody was hurt before he got injured he had an incredible run of defense and scoring it's like people have forgotten that. He shows the capability to be able to do that however I feel like it they don't give him the minutes at least 25 to 30 a night he doesn't have the confidence to feel like he can do that or that the coaching staff thinks that he can do that. I don't think that kid should be fired simply because across the league players enjoy him and I feel like we're going to be in the room with great players. The problem with this season Luka played too much basketball. They never address JB and they put too much on him. Dinwiddie was a great three not a great two. Then you add in Kyrie who hasn't gotten a chance to learn our system or everything we want to do. I've said it I think that this season no matter what happens unless we win the NBA finals somehow is a wash. Reality is no matter what happens right now Luka needs to take the summer and actually train And stay away from basketball international and NBA. Then we need to come in with this team next year that actually plays together in camp and learns each other and I will tell you the talent that they currently have assembled will get to the top of the West.
I think Kidd is more interested in sending a message about the roster construction and sending a message to Luka about his effort than he is winning games this year. I don't think that is a good thing at all. But I do believe that is what he is doing. If that is not what he is doing, his rotation decisions are total non-sense and he should be fired yesterday.
I just dont understand why he plays Powell…I mean he is starting the guy who fell out of the rotation last playoffs…C Wood is a 20ppg scorer and no he is not a worse defender than Powell….but Powell cant even hit a Jumper …Its at a point where I think its personal between Kidd and C Wood… Also McGee …yeah he might have been rusty at the beginning of the season but you got to play him…He is most surely a better defender than Powell and just as much of an lob threat…then Kidd has games where he plays Green only 16 min…why? it makes no sense at all…so yes I dont think J Kidd is making the most of the material he has and needs to go …dumb decision to get him and let Mosley go and now you got to fire a man who has a great history with the franchise
Yes Issac of course u don't put blame on kidd. You watch all the games and u don't blame kidd. Like all the media scared to speak up or afraid to whichever it is who cares
Everybody is so blind to kidds terrible poor coaching. Lukas play? MVP after first 2 months until kidd ran him into ground. Kidd has fumbled the cwood situation
All u media have caused me to not want to be a fan anymore. It's so ridiculous how nobody speaks up. Only us fans who pay 500 a ticket to take son to a game and watch kidd fumble away this season. Luka took mavs to WCF not KIDD
Considering that our biggest problem is defense, we had a good defense last year, and defense mostly comes down to player effort I feel like Kidd is the scapegoat here.
This situation situation might turn out like the Steve nash
Dam the mavs lost like 20 games in the last two minutes
If they don't make the playoffs or go out 0-4 or 1-4 in the first round. Than someone will be a Scapegoat and it won't be Cuban and letting Powell walk won't be the answer. So it leaves either Shoes or Kidds. And of course Nico isn't to blame as he's a Yes man to Shark.
kidd hasn’t been the whole problem but he definitely isn’t the answer. his weird rotations have cost us about 5/6 games
Results have been horrible this year. Last years team would have destroyed this team.
Mavs probably have 5 of the top 20 loses in the NBA this season. Literally losing to the worst teams in the league with most of their starters missing(multiple times).
JB was a huge mistake but improved Green with Offensive threat of Wood off the bench should have off set that enough where good coaching could overcome it. Plus JB wasn't a defensive player at all, Yet this years team defense is horrible compared to last seasons.
It's not all Kidd, but someone is gonna be the scapegoat if they can't do something positive from here on out.
And Cubes isn't gonna fire the GM(Him) and he should be ashamed to fire a Yes Man in Shoes.
I actually enjoy watching the Mavs more lately when Luka is not playing. I've gotten tired of seeing him get burnt constantly, flop, and complain to the refs incessantly.
1. Kidd
2. Roster
Fire Jason Kidd and hire Udoka
This is the most stressful season of Mavs basketball probably since 2012/13. The energy is just off, you can tell they don't really like playing with each other. If they don't make it past the first round I expect a mini implosion with some people getting fired
I know they aren't going to fire Kidd because of last year. I am going to give him the benefit of the doubt and wait until after the playoffs. However, if the Mavericks loose C Woods for nothing like Brunson I will change teams and I am an original MMFL. Watching the Memphis game the other night, you cannot tell me those five players on the floor were better than C Woods. You go and get Holiday off thee streets, throw him in the lineup And Hardy, C Woods and Green start loosing minutes. Also, when Luka is in the game the Mavericks are so boring. Hardaway don't play defense, Luka has digressed on defense and Kidd never calls him out.
I would fire his, " I'm watching just like you" azz. Sincerely.
The same mistakes he made with the Bucks he makes with the Mavs. It's the same issues no matter what team he coaches for. TERRIBLE rotations, poor management, awful in game adjustments, and just pure nonsense out of his mouth when he talks. Like when he said wood gets limited minutes bc of depth or the Im not a savior comment. Like wtf are you talking about? THATS the problem. He is without a doubt holding the Mavs back. If the issues were reserved ONLY to this year or he has made questionable decisions that he never made before then sure you can blame other variables like the roster and etc but when he has the same issues on multiple teams? No, that's an problem that needs to be addressed. The roster as is better than a 500 team. I'm a Bucks fan and the same shit he did with the Bucks he's doing with the Mavs. Exact same. He is a problem.
Stop playing ya'll. You know he needs to be fired 🔥 Mavericks play the same game over and over . Don't believe me just watch today. Jason Kid will make you a believer.
" I'm not playing I'm watching just like you guys "….maybe we should be rating ourselves? 🤷🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️😖😯🤢🤮😳
The idea that c wood isn't playing cuz he is bad defensively or something is kinda strange because I don't think Dwight Powell is any better plus he can't score or rebound. He is a master at getting hit in the face