msiris wrote:I just have a feeling that Middleton is Kidds favorite player. Just a hunch. I agree with you. but I do not trust the Bucks to do the right thing with Kidd being friends with the owners.
No doubt. Khris basically saved his sorry ass coaching career several years ago. Kidd was a joke as Brooklyn's coach and was well on his way to being a trivia question (as a coach, like Sid as a broadcaster). Then people gave him a lot of credit for what Dudley, Zaza, Ersan, Mayo, Knight, Giannis, and especially Khris accomplished in 2015 after Jabari got hurt and Sanders fell apart and most people assumed the Bucks would lose close to 60 games.
It was just one of those weird combinations where the whole was much greater than the sum of the parts. Mayo of all people was a leader, Knight was 50 points above his career 3% on high volume, Zaza had his best year since 2007, Dudley bounced back after being a salary dump the year before, Ersan bounced back, Henson was a decent backup big in a contract year, and everyone's skills complemented everyone else's really well. But most of all, Khris emerged as a likely future two-way star.
Have you guys ever noticed that the coach always get way too much credit when that happens? It's like people don't understand that the whole can be greater than the sum of the parts and a team can "over-achieve" with no help from the coach, so they just assume there must have been something special the coach did to make it happen. Look at COTY votes in any sport and you'll always see the coach/manager of a team doing better much than expected get a ton of votes even if you can't point to a single thing he did right and the rest of his track record is awful.
Kidd is awful and he and Khris are loyal to each other and Lasry is loyal to Kidd and the whole thing makes me sick. I'd like to see if a decent coach could rein Khris in. It's also possible that Giannis will keep maturing into a leader and realize what needs to be done and, for lack of a more appropriate way to word my point, tear his god-damned head off.
Wut we've got here is... faaailure... to communakate.