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Originally Posted by R28J
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Yep
This team excelled without him last year.
I think if you could replace Powell and THJ in the starting lineup you get better as a team.
Both players are weak defenders and if Powell ain't catching lobs he's useless and if THJ isn't hitting 3's he's useless.
I don't think Kidd is a perfect coach, but I give him credit for developing. Josh Green and also getting Wood to put forth effort in defense.
But overall Kidd can't fix the defense or rebounding because the roster overall doesn't have the players to do it.
Yes, he makes some questionable coaching decisions late in games with play calls, but one could also argue that a handful of games that Dallas lost was simply because of poor FT shooting. Kidd can't shoot FTs for Luka, DFS and THJ.
If these guys won't take FT shooting seriously that's not on Kidd.
Besides those same players were bad FT shooters long before Kidd showed up so it's not just an issue with the current coaching staff that issue existed before Kidd.
He needs to find a way to build pieces around Luka, Wood, Dinwiddie and Green.
Those 4 guys are the nucleus and I believe if they somehow added a rebounder and wing defender it would jump start the team.