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[mavsluvr]

Kidd is simply living up to his mediocre coaching resume'.  He was hired because he's a former Mav, not because he's been a successful coach.  Some were just hoping against hope that his tenure under Vogel would somehow make lemonade out of a lemon.

Yeah, I get it. I think this whole failure to have a consistent direction just set me off. 

Specifically, now we're talking about trading THJ because he and Luka aren't a fit on defense. (Fine with me if we trade THJ, just talking about the process.) They just re-signed THJ this summer, for big money. Didn't we already know that both Luka and THJ were flawed players defensively? Or, if the issue is that they don't fit in the defensively focused system that Kidd wants to institute, isn't that something that was reasonably foreseeable before THJ was re-signed? Did they think Bullock was some kind of solution, given that the money paid to THJ clearly contemplated THJ as the starter?

First, THJ is the summer's big-money signing. Now, we're talking about trading him because he's not a good defender, something which should have been knowable at the time. Did they just punt on making any decision to deviate from the previous path in the summer because Nico was still learning how to evaluate players? Did they just not know what they were doing? This is the sort of thing that drives me crazy. 

In fairness, I should say that, although we like to talk about doing a 180 on THJ on the board, I have no idea whether the Mavs are talking about anything like that, lol. Even if they are, that's not intrinsically necessarily a bad thing, just raises a serious question in my mind about whether there is a method in the madness.

My issue is really whether Cuban/the Mavs organization really are pulling it together, or whether this is the same pit of dysfunction as ever. Not even so much Kidd or any particular player.