<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>"Judging from his one-sentence reply, Mark Cuban was under the distinct impression that I had been spending quality time with Josh Howard. "You must be smoking the good stuff," Cuban said in an e-mail this past week. That was the Dallas owner's response to my suggestion that coming off another first-round flop, the Mavs should at least look into trading Jason Kidd for Allen Iverson. Cuban must be inhaling Howard's smoke if he thinks Rick Carlisle is going to open up the Mavs' offense and take advantage of Kidd's floor game."</div> Source
Whoa. I think Carlisle's strongest quality is that he does maximize the strengths and skills of his rosters.
These so-called "experts" think they know it all. But we all know they all go both ways. If Kidd was traded, they would criticize Cuban for not sticking to the Kidd situation after giving up a lot. And from Cuban's standpoint, why would he trade Kidd after all that fiasco? You don't choose your coach over a player of Kidd's stature. I just don't believe we saw the real Kidd yet. Everybody keeps saying that he's on the decline. You don't decline that quickly after these same critics said that Kidd was having a career year just before the All-Star break. If they are the experts they say they are, didn't it even occur to them on the different circumstances that Kidd was in? Jason Kidd ran the offense throughout his career. You take the ball away from him, what do you expect? You can't expect him to make plays after giving up the ball midcourt and let him run in a corner. You can't say you want him to be more aggressive without giving him the ball. Posting him up 2 or 3 times in a game does not qualify as "making him aggressive". With the Mavs situation, getting rid of Avery is already doing a lot. The only thing I might have wanted was for Cuban to take a little more time in hiring a new coach. I'm not saying it's a bad move to hire Carlisle, but I would have waited a bit. Carlisle hasn't been the Mavs coach for 1 day and their already dismissing it as a bad move. Maybe these so-called "experts" should try and apply for a coaching job. Goodluck with that.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane @ May 5 2008, 09:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Whoa. I think Carlisle's strongest quality is that he does maximize the strengths and skills of his rosters.</div> I disagree. He gets players to play in his system and doesn't maximize their talents. Jackson and Artest have both demonstrated they were capable of much more than Carlisle ever allowed them to do.
