No help Jason Kidd.
Or, I guess I should blame Donnie Nelson or Mark Cuban or whoever makes personnel decisions for the Dallas Mavericks.
I thought the Mavs would rue the day they traded for Jason Kidd. Mainly because Kidd wasn't helping them win a championship NO MATTER WHAT. And they were having to deal Devin Harris. I like Harris, but I understand that he has holes in his game and I see where people may not like him.
However, he was young, good defensively, goes to the basketball and, right now, he has 100 times more trade value with the awful New Jersey Nets than Kidd does for a "good" Mavericks.
What if Harris were here? He'd be the starting point guard on a good Western Conference team. If you decided to trade him, if you thought you needed a new direction, you could possibly turn him and a Caron Butler contract into a marquee, superstar-type player.
Instead, you have an untradeable Kidd.
Why do I blame Kidd? He has absolutely sucked. This is fine when Butler, Dirk Nowitzki and Tyson Chandler are your best three players on the floor. But when they go out, Kidd has to step up his game. Instead:
33.5% -- FG
32.1% -- Three-Point
0.9 -- Free Throws Per Game
His shot isn't going. And he's not doing anything to get points on the board. Bottomline is that Kidd had to step up the last three weeks with the injuries happening and he didn't mostly because he can't.
In yesterday's humiliating loss to the Detroit Pistons, 103-89, Kidd went 0-7 from the field. All seven attempts were three pointers.
Furthermore, Detroit's point guard Rodney Stuckey barely broke a sweat in getting 20 points (just eight shot attempts!). This goes towards Kidd's defense.
Kidd's not getting any bad press. He mostly won't. He's a Hall of Famer and all that jazz.
Granted, the blame doesn't solely lay on his shoulders. Brendan Haywood sucks too.
