Should the Bucks hire Jason Kidd (as coach pg 43)?

[stillgotgame]

So you expect Kidd to waive his magical point guard dust and make a 30 year old Deron Williams, who has been injured, fat, lazy, and on the decline since 2010 to suddenly regain All Star form??

No, not at all. But this lovefest with him turning players around is hysterical. He took a loaded, albeit old team to a 44-38 record in the NBDL, oops I mean the Eastern Conference.
All the potential coaches out there are better than Drew. Let's not settle on one because he's buddies with one of the owners. If we do, we're no better off than we were with Kohl.
Hire a basketball person to make basketball decisions.

loaded is a generous way of describing that team.

the hype before the season was huge, definitely a contender

[Cold Crush 24]

I don't buy Milwaukee being close to Chicago as a strong selling point for Parker. It's a nice perk but it's not like he'll be living in Chicago then driving here every morning for 8am practices.

I do. My gf lived there and I made that drive all the time. I go to Chicago every weekend. You'd have to fly to see family from Cleveland. Jabari can take the train on his down time if he wants. Heading to Chicago tomorrow.

[JEIS]

Weather you like Kidd or not... at least we can finally cross human trafficing with Russians off of our list of possible Bucks storylines

[FlagsFlyForever]

At least we know Drew is toast either way

And I will toast to that.

[Matches Malone]

Sam Amick tweeted Bucks/Nets not at all close to an agreement for Kidd.

Just saw that. We better stay firm on that second round pick. I'll be livid giving up a 1st rounder for him.

A rebuilding team should never give up a draft pick. 1st/2nd...doesn't matter. Those are valuable assets and guys like Redd, Boozer, Arenas, Millsap, Marc Gasol, Ginobili, etc. were all picked in the 2nd. Don't discount those picks.

I'm definitely not discrediting second rounders, but they don't hold up as well. I mean Brooklyn just bought three of them. A first rounder would be crippling to our rebuild. A second rounder not so much. Especially when we have a bajillion of them.

[Max Green]

Final Offer should be 2nd round Pick & Cash, if the Nets don't accept then tell them to have a nice day and wait for them to fire Kidd in the next couple of days. If they don't fire Kidd then fill out the rest of the FO, including a new HC.

[Wooderson]

At least if we trade a 2nd rounder we know Hammond is no longer in charge.

[SkilesTheLimit]

At least we know Drew is toast either way

For anyone who watched the Jabari introductory presser, didn't you get the feeling Drew wasn't all that into it? Besides the wardrobe, seemed like Drew was tired when he spoke and really didn't seem all that excited to have the opportunity to draft Parker. Seemed to me he wasn't all that sure he was safe.

[CanadaBucks]

So you expect Kidd to waive his magical point guard dust and make a 30 year old Deron Williams, who has been injured, fat, lazy, and on the decline since 2010 to suddenly regain All Star form??

No, not at all. But this lovefest with him turning players around is hysterical. He took a loaded, albeit old team to a 44-38 record in the NBDL, oops I mean the Eastern Conference.
All the potential coaches out there are better than Drew. Let's not settle on one because he's buddies with one of the owners. If we do, we're no better off than we were with Kohl.
Hire a basketball person to make basketball decisions.

loaded is a generous way of describing that team.

Considering most of the players are over-paid, I'd say they're loaded

[glenn]

The meeting taking place after Kidd was granted permission to have a meeting shows everything. Just because Kidd decides to pull a power play doesn't mean the Bucks didn't have permission to talk about his possible role. Maybe I'm missing something in your comment.

The formal meeting took place after. Lasry and Kidd are close friends, Lasry very well could have told him before that that he has a place in Milwaukee if he can get out of BKN. Maybe that's why it took so long to hire a coach? Obviously that's conjecture, but I really don't think it's that unlikely.

I reread your post and saw that. Maybe that did happen. No one on earth would be able to prove it.

Edit: Unless Donald Sterling's ex-girlfriend was there.

[MrPerfect1]

It is definitely amusing how Jilted the Nets are coming across. They almost sound like a scorned lover who can't believe they would be left for MIL. It isn't a coincidence that almost all info being leaked is coming from their side.

They are in for a Rude awakening if they think they can just hold out on negotiations until we give them a 1st.

[Wooderson]

I reread your post and saw that. Maybe that did happen. No one on earth would be able to prove it.

Agreed on the latter, so it's probably not worth discussing unless we get more info. Still pretty crazy that we have people angling to get to Milwaukee as others have mentioned. 14 months ago most of our moves induced a yawn.

[BuckFan25226]

If we want to go with the timeline that there was no tampering that's fine.

But then it calls into question why Kidd had his outburst demanding more power. And who and why leaked the story out. I suppose we could take at face value that Kidd blew up at the Nets and then asked to talk with the Bucks. But it would have been stupid of Kidd blow up at the Nets unless he knew he had an ace up his sleeve with Miwaukee.

Therefore my belief is that Kidd is either a stupid and/or volatile personality or we tampered. Neither one bodes well for the Bucks at the moment.....

I'm willing to entertain other theories.

Of course we tampered, but it won't and can't be proven. Kidd and Lasry are boys, I'm sure they have been talking for weeks about this. That in and of itself is tampering. Or maybe before they were officially owners, they spoke and already had a plan. We simply will never know, or at least won't know until we watch it on the "extra's" disc on the 2017 championship blu-ray.

Are you kidding me? An "extra's" disc of the Bucks 2017 championship on blu-ray? Be realistic, that's never going to happen.


Blu-ray is a dying format. We will be watching the behind-the-scenes championship run on Netflix.

I was joking.

[buckboy]

No, not at all. But this lovefest with him turning players around is hysterical. He took a loaded, albeit old team to a 44-38 record in the NBDL, oops I mean the Eastern Conference.
All the potential coaches out there are better than Drew. Let's not settle on one because he's buddies with one of the owners. If we do, we're no better off than we were with Kohl.
Hire a basketball person to make basketball decisions.

loaded is a generous way of describing that team.

the hype before the season was huge, definitely a contender

Just because the hype was huge doesn't mean they were a contender. That team was never a contender despite all the pimping.

[JayMKE]

Lasry and Kidd would have the scoop on their tampering with AK47 if they want to play that game. That's a lot closer to the Joe Smith-type tampering that cost the Wolves five 1st round picks.

[no3dg3]

Why wasn't this thread closed, with new poll? Biased OP?

[Ayt]

Sam Amick tweeted Bucks/Nets not at all close to an agreement for Kidd.

Just saw that. We better stay firm on that second round pick. I'll be livid giving up a 1st rounder for him.

If we give up a 1st for him I'll remove my own kidney, sell it on the black market, and spread the proceeds evenly amongst all of the posters on this board.

[ReasonablySober]

It is definitely amusing how Jilted the Nets are coming across. They almost sound like a scorned lover who can't believe they would be left for MIL. It isn't a coincidence that almost all info being leaked is coming from their side.

They are in for a Rude awakening if they think they can just hold out on negotiations until we give them a 1st.

Eh, I don't get that at all.

Let's be honest. If they had given Kidd the kind of control he wanted, he would be in New Jersey. I think the Bucks are a better situation given the age of their roster and our future assets, but Milwaukee is a fallback option for Kidd.

[Thunder Muscle]

I'm all for staying in the news and getting publicity, but in the end I don't know if Jason Kidd is worth all of the fuss and issues this is causing. If we get him I'm not going to be doing cartwheels. He's not worth giving up picks or a tampering suit. I'm just not 100% sold on the reward in this case.

[JayMKE]

I don't buy Milwaukee being close to Chicago as a strong selling point for Parker. It's a nice perk but it's not like he'll be living in Chicago then driving here every morning for 8am practices.

I do. My gf lived there and I made that drive all the time. I go to Chicago every weekend. You'd have to fly to see family from Cleveland. Jabari can take the train on his down time if he wants. Heading to Chicago tomorrow.

Sonny is on dialysis and probably can't travel too much so it'll be pretty nice for his parents to be so close.