Jason Kidd broke the unwritten rule of the coaching fraternity —
you don’t go after another man’s job. For example, have you noticed how
over the years Jeff Van Gundy’s name comes up in a ton of coaching
search lists but ask him about the jobs and he refuses to discuss it if
said team has not yet fired their coach.
Jason Kidd cut Larry Drew off at the knees in Milwaukee (and since he
got hired directly by ownership without consulting Bucks GM John
Hammond about it at first, Hammond can’t feel too safe about his job
either) and it seems the only question left is compensation.
The Bucks have offered second round picks, the Nets want a first. But
they may want to just move on more, reports Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo
Sports.
Kidd will find Milwaukee a vastly different experience, and we’re not
just talking about butter burgers and fried cheese curds here.
The Nets have spent big on veterans to win now (with limited success
but the effort is there). The Bucks are small market and building that
way — draft well, develop the talent you have, bring in a few mid-level
free agents to round it out and grow all of that into a team over years.
Kidd will have to turn a front line of Jabari Parker and John Henson into something over the next couple years, plus get Larry Sanders’ head screwed back on. Then you have the ultimate test of developing impressive raw talent in Giannis Antetokounmpo.
It’s about patience, teaching, and using the right scheme to showcase
and grow these players. Kidd couldn’t meld the Nets roster into
something that worked well with the best scoring center in the game in Brook Lopez,
he only stumbled into lineups that worked when Lopez got hurt. Kidd
seemed to grow as a coach as last season went on, that is now about to
be put to a real test — the Bucks’ job is about some old-school
coaching.
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