This means Kidd took no timeouts for 30 minutes and 50 seconds of game time.
A similar thing has happened multiple times during the regular season, and Kidd's explanation was that "he wants to let the players figure it out". I can kinda understand the idea, but in this game we scored a total of 8 points in the entire 2nd quarter, and Kidd did not call a timeout in the last 10 minutes while we were struggling. On the other side, we have seen Ty Lue take a timeout every time we made a run in the 2nd half, then scored on the play out of timeout. IMO this was definitely a game in which he should have taken a few to actually make our offense score.
Source: https://www.espn.com/nba/playbyplay/_/gameId/401654763
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“he wants to let the players figure it out” mean he doesnt know how to fix anything and he is basically useless
Do you not realize that Kidd is a bad coach?
Kidd has admitted he is fine with deliberately losing in certain cases, and so will put the team in a position to lose if they’re not doing well.
I don’t know what his deal is lol, but hopefully we flushed all the losing out of our system tonight.
The disparity in the level of coaching was evident in how prepared and ready each team looked in Q1 & Q2.
Clips looked absolutely locked in and Mavs looked like they just fiddled w their dicks for the past 10 days
Unrelated but is Gaff okay? Didn’t see 2nd half and saw he went out w injury in 1st half on what looked like a pretty unnecessarily aggressive play from PG?
Kind of surprised the clip wasn’t posted here or on r/nba
HIS JOB IS LITERALLY TO FIGURE IT OUT, not the players
Fuck Midd
Coaching was bad but the players’ effort was worse.
They got punked in the first half and didn’t respond. The players were high on their late season success and Kawhi absence likely made them think it was an easy win.
People really think coaches do magic. They can’t put the ball in the net.
Kidd defenders in shambles that man is NOT a serious coach and will actually make us worse in the playoffs when we need him most
If kidd doesnt win a chip fire his ass
good news is we lose this series, we will hopefully hire budenhozier
That challenge could’ve done something. He didn’t. From down 16 to down 24+ in like a minute. Maxi should’ve been more convincing to demand a challenge on that Harden 3 smh
Kidd is playing 3D chess. /s
I get that Kidd is partly at fault for this loss, but honestly I’m glad he managed to somewhat figure it out in the 2nd half even if was for naught. Again it is a team sport, and I can see that the players were just playing out of it in the 1st half mostly due to some of them being inexperienced in the playoffs. I hope Kidd and everyone else can put everyone back on track for the next game, just remember that the series can go to 7, so we can learn from our mistakes and get locked in
It’s ridiculous that Kidd didn’t call a timeout while the mavs had the worst quarter of basketball I have ever seen,
I find it always hard to blame coaches for bad efforts / performance of players like this.
The Mavs (players) didn’t take the fight in the first half at all and didn’t make open shots.
Remember 1 week ago Kidd was our hero and we were super happy with him and now we trash him? He is not the best coach in the league we know that but he made us a good season ending run. Now in the playoffs it started at 0:0 but our players weren’t ready at all today.
The coach is always to blame when you loose but this one goes for me on the players.
“I wanna let the players figure it out” then wtf is he there for 💀 bro they clearly did not figure it out
I’m not playing, I’m just watching
This last modelo is for you doomer fuck you
We still blaming the coach when your players can’t convert layups?
if the mavs lose the series you can actually fully blame it on the coaching good lord. kidd got outcoached **hard** this game
What the fuck J Kidd