Dallas 0-7 against winning teams since trade via ludden

[Findog]

Fin... I'll agree it was a longshot. In the long run, I actually liked their team pre-Harris trade. It had already defeated that Spurs nucleus and had made the Finals, where they really should have won. In fact, I liked their team very much. Diop and Harris made them much better defensively. But we've already gone over this.

I liked that team too, and I was opposed in principle to trading Harris for Kidd, because I felt the team's nucleus had earned the right to play one more time for a le. I wanted to be wrong about the trade if it meant my team succeeded. But Kidd doesn't appear to be the right point guard for a team that doesn't like to run, isn't that athletic, and relies heavily on iso sets in half court play. But Dirk was apparently bigtime in favor of this, so that's hard to argue against. And there was a feeling among club insiders that the current team had gone as far as it could and a change needed to be made. Harris' inconsistency and fragility when it comes to injuries did not work in his favor in terms of staying.

They can go in one of two directions: They can deal Kidd in the offseason since his expiring contract would be attractive to a number of teams. Or they can try to build a team around him and Dirk that complements their talents. Kidd is of course more effective in that Princeton offense that New Jersey runs. The half-court sets Dallas uses and the plodding players they have don't complement him well.

[TampaDude]

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