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Most former player coaches dont go from playing one day to head coach the next. They spend years being assistants. Many of those that jump straight to head coach dont do all that well. Avery Johnson comes to mind, as well as Magic Johnson, who was one of the best players of all time and a complete flop as head coach. This seems like more of a stunt than a legitimate move to me. Someone like Brian Shaw seemed like a MUCH better option. Perhaps Kidd will work out, but the odds of that would be much higher if he had spent time being an assistant first

Mark Jackson maybe ?
PG are well known as coaches on the field and Kid has enough of that intelligence.
But its better for him to use Teletovic more then his past coaches,Nets need ofense.

Kidd will be the perfect coach, i am from dallas and he played here and i think he will send the nets to the finals on the first year.

Crazy things happen, but the Nets in the finals next year over Miami or Chicago I can't see happening.

I agree with most of your post.
Still their entire roster is so limited.(atleast in this season)
Their starting lineup have 3 good scorers ( D-Wil,Joe,Lopez) and two not egzistent scorers (Evans and Crush)
Starting lineup maybe can play but their bench atleast this season is ridicolus.Those players arent so bad but they are yust bunch of street players ( I dont know right word on english ) .Whenever someone from the bench enters the game their offensive flow is dead. Blatch,Brooks,Humfries,Bogans. Non of them isnt passing the ball and it look like they all in their heads have some number of shoots they have to attempt and arent going to pass till then.
Mirza is not selfish and he rearly got a chance this season ( probably ok since this is his first season,he wasnt in training camp etc...) but when he got a chance, mostly with bench players he cant got a normal shoot. ( Greg Popovic also noticed that when they were playing against Nets ).Isolations and noting else.
This season it should be better , atleast Kid is smart enough to try everything and the right stile Nets can play.
Atleast Russian owner isnt afraid to change things.And if they menage to rid of Humfries contract they can be in good situation.And also Jason Kids name sells the ticket, and they will have better atendance because of that.

Kidd will be the perfect coach, i am from dallas and he played here and i think he will send the nets to the finals on the first year.

Basing someone's coaching ability on their playing ability is unproven at best, and ridiculous hopefulness at worst.

I just want to comment here. How many, coaches are there on a NBA team? I mean, I'm sure it varies team to team, but my point is, I see these benches, they have 15 players, 12 suited, and like 7 assistant coaches. Why have teams been after Kidd, to help mentor their PGs, if they have so many coaches? Apparently he can teach things that all these other coaches can't. So he's basically been an Assistant Coach for the last 3 or so seasons.

I just want to comment here. How many, coaches are there on a NBA team? I mean, I'm sure it varies team to team, but my point is, I see these benches, they have 15 players, 12 suited, and like 7 assistant coaches. Why have teams been after Kidd, to help mentor their PGs, if they have so many coaches? Apparently he can teach things that all these other coaches can't. So he's basically been an Assistant Coach for the last 3 or so seasons.

Great theory. Since he has never been a coach for even 5 minutes, we have no idea what kind of coach he will be, we only know what kind of player he was. Magic Johgnson was arguably the greatest point guard in the history of the NBA. The guy knew more about facilitating and defending and game planning than most could ever hope to. He was a COMPLETE flop as a head coach.