2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[TXBamanut]

Couple things:

1) Super impressed with Nico evaluating Pinson and Chriss for their fits.

2) Super impressed with Kidd integrating them on the fly in a winning effort.

Agreed.

Me when I first heard the signings:  "Pinson?  Who the crap is that?  Chriss, well...he was a lottery pick...annnhhh, maybe."

Me after looking them up:  "I guess we lost 3 point shooting and defense..."

Me after the game:  "I'll shut up now.  Do your job, Nico and Kidd."

Let's be honest though about Jason Kidd as a player.  He was always the best thinking on the fly and coming up with some creative advantage.  I go back to him running into Mike Brown who was on the court at the time...sheer genius.  We'll see how he turns out over time, but I'm not down on him as a coach.  There's some definite improvements to make, but there's also some promising things.  I think he started this year giving everyone a clean slate and has held to that, allowing people to play their way into and out of the rotation, at least, where we could.  If a position group is just sucking so bad that you have to have a bad player on the floor, you can't fix that as quick as a rotation change.  I'm willing to give him a season or two at least.