Game 5: Houston Rockets (2-2) vs. Dallas Mavericks (3-1) | 7:30pm CST

[KillerLeft]

One of my biggest gripes with Kidd is that he never takes a timeout and lights a fire under the team. He just lets them decide when to play hard. Just bench guys when the effort isn't there, no matter who it is.

This bothers me, too, but to play devil’s advocate, two western conference finals berths in three seasons might indicate that there is method to this madness. To be clear, I’m not confidently claiming correlation there, merely pointing out that it might exist.