He's a straight-up trash coach. One of the worst in the league.
- He was literally playing Luka entire second halves earlier in the season, and that has now caught up with Luka where's out every other game with some injury (I even predicted this at the time that Luka would break down before the end of the season)
- Literally no offensive gameplan besides letting Luka do everything, to the point where he just stands by and watches Luka get blitzed and does nothing to counter
- Refuses to utilize Christian Wood properly and has alienated an already volatile personality from the squad (both Luka and Kyrie were out last night and he only plays Wood for 15 minutes)
- the Mavs have one of the highest-rates in the entire league at giving up double-digit leads (most of which can be stemmed from Kidd refusing to make adjustments and calling timeouts)
- the Mavs have one of the lowest points per possession rates after timeouts in the 4th quarter.
But this is most telling of all -
Here Luka identifies that the Bucks have already sniffed out the ATO play that Kidd has drawn up, and Luka looks over to Kidd to get him to realize this, but Kidd is none-the-wiser as he's not even paying attention to what's happening - as per usual. The same damn action that Kidd has run multiple times this season late in games and it has failed every single time; it doesn't stop him from running it though.
The hilarious thing about this is, Kidd used to run a similar set for his guards in Milwaukee too, and they had the same low-rate of success.
Here's another instance of an ATO play back in 2016 when he was coach that Draymond speaks about how easy it was to identify and snuff out -
"I already knew what play they were running," Green said. "They have two plays that they run in situations like that. Once Giannis was down on the block, I already knew what they were running, so I was just waiting on them to pass the ball in. I wanted to make it tough and make Tony Snell think about it. I knew once he thought about it that he would throw the lob pass. Then I just went after the ball."
All these years later and Kidd is still getting outsmarted by opposition players and doesn't even know it.