re: Fletcher's "sources" are speculating Jason Kidd to NOLA

Positives:
1. Can turn a cup and some ice into free timeouts
2. Not Mark Jackson

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What are the positives with Kidd here?

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Learn how to beat your wife and avoid jail time?

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Does he get credit for the development of Giannis, Middleton, and Brogdon? Some shitty guards like MCW did pretty well under him. His coaching didn’t seem to produce great results but it seems like he has some ability to develop young players.

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I think that’s an argument for why he would be better suited as an assistant. A head coach is the one that needs to put together a holistic organizational structure and strategy from players, staff, and leadership, then get the optimal execution out of it to produce wins over losses and build the team forward. Kidd really failed at that core responsibility. He oversaw some guys develop, but is that on him or assistants? And if it is on him than it seems his core competency is better suited around developing guard talent, so let him do that.

Agreed, just venting about how much I would absolutely despise that move and why. Since it refused to go away, and I think there is probably some “there” there. Though I think the fact it was so quickly reported we reached out to Doc suggests we aren’t sold on Kidd, or Lue, or any other of the worst case scenarios. That if it’s not a Doc, this will be a prolonged and arduous process is my guess.

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Exactly dude might get a rehab job with a totally rebuilding team, but he shouldn't get one with our positives.

He has some baggage.

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With the overprotection of Zion, the under utilization of Jrue/BI's minutes in the Bubble when we had a legit chance to make the playoffs, throw in a Jason Kidd hire, and I'll be all the way out on Griff.

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it’ll be up there.

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Feel free to join my impending all caps melt thread if it does happen.

By the way, who the frick does Fletcher "know" as his source? Because if he's just milking his ticket rep for info like the rest of us....

I'm not worried about this in the least bit.
I refuse to believe this is even remotely believable. Just like the Mark Jackson being the 2nd favorite odds to get the job. It's so unbelievable i won't even waste my time thinking about it.

Welp, this organization clearly aren’t looking to win if after all this time Kidd is their choice.

more of the same ole same ole I guess.

You guys are reading too much into it. All the tweet said was a guy in the industry “thinks” where the names will land. It’s an opinion NOT some kind of inside information.

You’re right. I think most in here believe that too, just getting some practice melts in during the offseason or posting tongue-in-cheek. The pool of decent candidates is large enough, and the job is attractive enough that we’ll do much better than Kidd. I think we are/were actually interested in MDA and Doc, but they’ll pass. So I think it’s either going to be Atkinson or one of the up-and-coming assistants. The only retread (other than Atkinson) that I think is even remotely plausible is McMillian, and even he is unlikely. This Kidd/Jackson stuff is from people throwing stuff against the wall looking at betting lines (which are more of a reflection of public perception than based on actual info) and agents leaking out info to try and drum up interest in their clients.

Remember that we had one of the most popular and followed players mysteriously miss over ten days before the bubble during the most important stretch of the season at the height of NBA frenzy, and the reasons still have not leaked out. Griffin clearly runs a tight ship, and any “info” is agent posturing and twitter speculation.