12-22-2022, 02:32 PM
(12-22-2022, 02:10 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: The season ended that way, but it certainly didn't begin that way. He started his tenure here trying to play Powell and Porzingis together, when anyone could see that Porzingis should've been played as a solo big.
"...anyone could see..."
"Anyone" doesn't have to deal with the limits and challenges of a 15-man roster, as to how to get minutes allocated in a way that works for all.
I pointed out many times then, and remind now, that the 2021-22 Mavs roster was stupidly assembled, and that wasn't on Kidd. (Thanks, Cuban.) They had SIX centers, 40% of the roster, in other words their C's were filling 2 full positions on their 3-team depth chart.
With it being some of them their better players, Kidd was all but forced to play them 2 at a time. Or, perhaps, to relabel (and play) KP and Maxi as PF.
"Anyone" also doesn't have to deal with the fact they were trying to get KP's head right, turn KP into a star again, and KP didn't want to play C.
As I have said many times, they don't have very good roster-building with Cuban refusing to hire an expert GM, and what a coach can do gets limited by that ineptness.