An anonymous scout calls Jason Kidd out on his competence as a coach

[hpantazo]

If the Nets were 10-2 though would anyone still be pickin on Kidd? Derron looks a shadow of his former self and Pierce, KG, and JJ look older and slower, and now Lopez is injured again. I'm not sure what another head coach could have accomplished so far with this group.

As for deferring to his assistants, that means he's smart. Bird did this and won coach of the year and got his team to the finals.

[sed522002]

So... he's a brand new coach with zero experience, an icon of Nets basketball who was hired largely to be a figure-head... and he's deferring to his [excellent and experienced] assistants... and that makes him incompetent?

... after twelve games?

If he's going to have the title of "coach" then yeah calling him incompetent wouldn't be out of the way, but like the article said if he's not really doing the coaching then you can't really say what he is.

[pearljammer10]

A veteran scout, interviewed earlier in the day and speaking on the condition of anonymity, called Kidd’s bench comportment “terrible,” observing that the play-calling has fallen mostly to his top assistants, Lawrence Frank and John Welch.

“He doesn’t do anything,” said the scout, who has watched the Nets several times. “He doesn’t make calls. John Welch does all the offense. Lawrence does all the defense. … I don’t know what Kidd does. I don’t think you can grade him and say he’s bad. You can give him an incomplete.”

The same scout said he had counted only 15 plays run by the Nets in the games he has watched. Multiple observers have noted that the Nets offense lacks any discernible flow, as if the stars are all simply taking turns with the ball.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1856538-jason-kidds-competence-quickly-becoming-brooklyn-nets-biggest-question-mark

Ouch. I wonder what Paul and Kg think about their coach.

I dont know this doesnt surprise me. This Nets team have had a stagnant offense the last few seasons. I think it has more to do with DWill, Lopez, and Johnson in that offense than it does with the coach running plays. They were horrid to watch the last two season because all the do is iso... That hasnt changed unless they change their clientele.

[BballTim]

Rookie head coach for a struggling team with aspirations is an easy target. I do think he was a bad hire, coaches take time to figure out what works. The Nets don't have that sort of time or leeway even before the trade.

  I think there's something of a "Spoelstra" aspect to this. The newly build team struggles out of the gate compared to the fairly unrealistic expectations of people who aren't as knowledgeable as they think they are so they attribute the discrepancy to bad coaching. Not that Kidd's necessarily a bad coach, and not that the Nets won't improve, but what we're seeing isn't necessarily a shock.

[mgent]

I always saw Jason Kidd as a figurehead in Brooklyn.  I assumed Lawrence Frank was doing the administrative head coach stuff and Jason Kidd is doing the Scalabrine-assistant-coach-type stuff that he's good at (actually connecting with the players and getting them to play better).

One day he might be able to do both, but I think we can all agree you have to actually learn how to be a head coach, there's no jumping directly in.