UglyBugBall wrote:Maverick41 wrote:It's clear as day at this point that Wood is not being treated fairly by Kidd. Does he make mistakes on defense from time to time? Sure but so does everyone else on the team. I don't see Powell being taken out for the millions of times he forgets to box out for defensive rebounds. Or THJ when he chucks like crazy and is an even worse defender then Wood. Or Spencer who gets lost on rotations often. Or Luka who is the most prone in the NBA to not getting back on defense and not rotating whenever he's tired. The second Wood makes a mistake, Kidd pulls him and puts him on timeout like he's a child. At this point, it's no longer coaching. It's punishment.
Wood is in contract year though. Kidd needs to keep his minutes and role reduced so that they can resign him on a favourable contract. We don't want him balling out too hard and then he walks like Brunson did, or we have to overpay him and hamstring our future. Best thing we can do is keep him at 25-30mpg and hesitant of his role. If things break right well have him locked up for 4-5 years on a much better deal than if just gave him the green light and let him impress the league and create a bidding war. They've learned from the Brunson situation. You can't let guys have career years on their contract year. They want to suppress Wood this year and let him ball out next season. We could save 20-30M if we keep him a sweet zone production wise.
He's already not happy in his reduced role, how much longer you think he'll be on his best behaviour before he just asks for a trade?
Also, Mavs desperately need his production, they can't even afford to think about that kind of stuff. Kidd is just terrible this year.
