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I didn't see anything special with Kidd's coaching even from last season. He improved the defense. But I'm assuming that's more on motivating players than strategy.

I'm not speaking for the rest of the Kidd critics, but my gripe with him isn't stemming from the Wood handling alone. It's his sloth like reactions during a game. It's his idIOtic "give-it-10-days-and-we'll-see-from-there" trials for McGee. It's his over reliance on THJ, RB and DFS and the late decision to extend Green's minutes. It's his non existing plays. It's his lineups. It's the in-bound plays. It's the fouling game where he turns games into FT shooting contest when even his star player couldn't hit free throws. 

Last second plays are just hilarious. The Mavs are too predictable.

If the Mavs want to move forward, Kidd needs to go.
There's no need to handicap this team even further with a coach who doesn't do his job well enough.

We struggled plenty of times with RC also in late games. Even the season where everyone was raving about the historical offense, I remember us struggling to get good shots off when the games got tight late. Most of our victories seemed to be Luka jacking up a shot with time running out that went in. 

So we would have gone through two coaches. One an acknowledged Xs and Os guy. The other, a savant on the court, but as a coach wants players to figure out things for themselves.  What next?  Don’t forget RC leaving here was also due to him realizing he didn’t have Luka’s ear. Plus other reports came out that he was mocking RC over lineups. 

That’s why I have not got worked up over Kidd’s coaching. Two things need to change here. Better talent so that coaches can call plays that defenses have to respect. Luka’s willingness to be a decoy and move without the ball.  To me the 2nd one directly depends upon the first.  Else the talent disparity is so much that Luka feels even a bad shot he takes is better than a good shot by someone else. 

This is not a defense about Kidd as much as pointing out that many here are either forgetting or ignoring that even with a great technical coach like RC things were not as great as we want to believe, both in terms of close game plays and in terms of the superstar here craving for that type of a coach.