Change has to come from Cuban

[hakeemfaan]

I get this. Nico had no experience and is learning alongside Finley as he goes. Was that a dumb decision? It might have been. It might not have been. I frankly don't KNOW. 

Maybe the dumb decision was hiring Kidd. Maybe Kidd is doing what he has done at his other coaching stops. Maybe this really has nothing to do with Nico (other than a coach running wild underneath him) and if there was a different coach in place it would be better. 

I personally don't trust ANY of the leadership at the moment. 


But I feel like you are missing my overall point.

Cuban has two options right NOW (he cannot undo the past):

1) Empower Nico to do his job and fix the current situation.

OR

2) Fire Nico and hire someone who can do a better job. 


And yes, someone can sit there and hope Cuban sells the team, but to me that is a waste of hope. 


P.S. The reason I and others are complaining about Kidd is because we do not like the coaching decisions we are seeing on a nightly basis. Cuban is not making those decisions that I vehemently disagree with and that I see costing the team wins. Sure, Cuban is the one who hired Kidd, and as soon as I think there is no more hope for Kidd to change or prove me wrong, then I will complain about Cuban not firing Kidd. But right now firing Kidd is not a realistic option. But empowering Nico to put Kidd in his place IS an option.

You and I had the same complaints about RC. Now it is Kidd.  At least when I read about what was going on behind the scenes during RC’s final days, I realized where the core issue was. It was not with the coach. 

We have threads that talk about how bad Bullock and Dinwiddie really are. We have a weak front line. We have a talent who lost his backcourt mate he trusts and dances to his own tune.  We don’t know who is calling the shots on key personnel decisions  Yet we blame the coach?   When there is no clear talent hierarchy all of us can become great armchair coaches and say that this guy should have got more minutes. It is easy to say but the real issue is the talent level after Luka is so middling that any of us can say whatever we want and not be completely wrong.  When it comes to Wood he is 27 and has been through many teams. Kidd last year and this year has given plenty of chances to Green who has plenty of flaws himself. So do you really think Kidd is not using Wood because he has some flaws?  Maybe Wood doesn’t listen very well which is why he has had many stops in his career despite his offensive talent. 

I trust Kidd more than I trust Nico or Cuban right now. This is not an endorsement of Kidd as a coach. This is just showing how bad the situation is and where the blame needs to start with.