03-31-2024, 03:42 PM
(03-30-2024, 11:55 AM)youzigizag Wrote: I dont understand GIF's like this.
Provide the information that validates the GIF. Is that what I am supposed to ask for?
Or is the incidents in the links supposed to paint him as evil?
Kind of a weirdo post. Nothing against you...just a weird post.
Wow - trying to wrap my head around this post.
My basic point, which I believed to be self-evident to the extreme, was that suggesting that Kidd "wasn't a bad dude" was a ridiculous take on its face.
However, sometimes people are defining terms differently or using different criteria. The long list of abominable character moments on Kidd's part have been well-catalogued here. Surely I don't need to cut and paste for you. In terms of character, evaluated based on the events we have seen and heard about, it would seem that Kidd's character is pretty toiletsville and he's a confirmed degenerate by the criteria by which most folks judge such things.
On the other hand, I can see two potential caveats to that - 1) people can certainly be given forgiveness and a latitude to change regardless of how poor their past has been. I think we as Mavs fans have certainly undergone that as our experience with Kyrie - at least so far. Perhaps Kidd deserves the same, in terms of his character as well as some latitude to grow as a coach (two massively different issues). 2) Perhaps I could presume that your sense of surprise at my gif was that you were talking about "not being a bad dude" in some other sense. In terms of how he treats the guys in the locker room, handling himself in a gentlemanly way in dealing with them, etc. If that was the sense in which you meant it, then I certainly apologize for the gif. In that sense, Kidd has a rock solid reputation as a player's coach, and guys don't get to become player's coaches without a track record of dealing in a respectful and genial way with players. Compare this to Carlisle, who is a far better X's and O's guy than Kidd (at least at this stage of Kidd's coaching development), but whom Luka evidently felt was disrespectful to Salah and some others.