THE CRUCIFIX: Cato: Wood isn't thrilled w/ his role...Will depart in the summer

[Scott41theMavs]

Your premise is based on your assumption that there is nothing to rationally explain and justify Wood's minutes being limited, other than a unilateral Kidd power play. That is so absurd, and nonsensical.

What a farce it would be, for Kidd to sabotage his own game results, which is the very thing that would or wouldn't give him any voice of influence in the first place. In fact, Kidd's power base (if he were looking for one) is best served by him MAXIMIZING the potential of Wood, in such a way that Kidd is adding incredible value to the Mavs' franchise and to their ability to win games.

My takeaway is that we see the tip of the iceberg re player development and situations. There can be way more going on than we see or understand from the games, and the dynamics of personal maturity and accountability are a big part of the team picture. An assumption that we know all, and have more insight than coaches whose lives are intertwined with these guys and see the whole, is very narcissistic imo.

I don't subscribe to the clause afterwards, but the bolded seems pretty transparently clear to me and the vast majority of informed Mavs fans, and without that subsequent clause, the Occam's Razor is that Kidd is a really awful and dumb basketball coach. However, given the additional info of how well Kidd did with last year's team until his lack of adjustments in the WCFs, if the bolded is wrong, those attitude and coaching issues you cited as potential explanations would have to be simply elephantine beyond our imagining to justify Wood's minutes. It boggles the mind, but perhaps you're right and there is a library's worth of issues we simply don't know about.