<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>"I don't know if there's anything the coach could have done," Kidd said. "It was more or less the group of guys. We just lost our identity. And it happens. When you look at any great teams or franchise, they have an identity that doesn't disappear after two or three or four years. It kind of continues, because they have a blueprint and they follow that. "That's all I'm saying. We could never regain our identity as a whole. It happens. We just (failed) to find a way to rekindle or find a way to get that back." Let's make it clear, for those of you in coach-bashing mode. He believes it was beyond the coach's power to change it, right? "Yeah," Kidd said. "The team changed so much after the K-Mart trade. We went through a lot of different players who played a lot of different ways. Coach tried to adjust to those different players. . . and he still got us in the playoffs six years in a row."</div> Source
