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BOSTON \u2014 It was more than a decade ago, the first and only season for Jason Kidd as head coach of the Brooklyn Nets.<\/p>\n
He was a neophyte on the sideline back then, struggling to manage a grumpy point guard and a couple of aging-out Hall of Famers transplanted from Boston. <\/p>\n
Kidd had a lot to learn. <\/p>\n
And he did over the years. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s why he\u2019s coaching in the NBA Finals for the Mavericks, the third stop of his coaching career. <\/p>\n
But you don\u2019t have to learn instincts. They\u2019re instinctual.<\/p>\n
And Kidd is instinctually tactical, calculating. It was the same when he played. <\/p>\n
Kidd was never the most athletic player but he found the angles.<\/p>\n
So down the stretch of his 13th game, the former point guard told one of his own players, Tyshawn Taylor, \u201cHit me.\u201d Taylor obliged by running into his coach, and Kidd\u2019s soda cup spilled onto the Barclays Center court. Suddenly, there was a mess to clean up. You can\u2019t play on wet hardwood. The action stopped. And Kidd used that time to talk to his team about the final nine seconds with a two-point deficit. He needed a timeout, didn\u2019t have one, and found the angle.<\/p>\n
Fast forward to Saturday and Kidd was throwing a verbal soda on the NBA Finals. <\/p>\n
Asked about defending against Jaylen Brown, the Mavs coach made it a point to call him Boston\u2019s best player \u2014 twice.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, Jaylen\u2019s their best player,\u201d Kidd said. \u201cSo just looking at what he does defensively. He picked up Luka [Doncic] full court. Got to the free-throw line. He did everything \u2014 and that\u2019s what your best player does. Just understanding he plays both sides, plays offense at a high rate. And he\u2019s been doing that the whole playoffs. He was the Eastern Conference Finals MVP. And he picked up where he left off.\u201d<\/p>\n
This was no accident. <\/p>\n
There\u2019s long been debate around the Celtics about the hierarchy of the two best players, and, if anybody is No. 1, it is Jayson Tatum. <\/p>\n
Not Brown. Tatum was First Team All-NBA this season. <\/p>\n
Brown didn\u2019t even make it to Third Team.<\/p>\n
But the debate again hit a national stage recently when Brown was voted top player of the Eastern Conference Finals. <\/p>\n
It became an indictment on Tatum, whose biggest knock on his rise to stardom has been folding in the biggest moments. He was a disaster in the NBA Finals two years ago, shooting just 36.7 percent and averaging fewer points than Brown. <\/p>\n
In Game 1, Tatum was just as inefficient while shooting 6 for 16 with just 16 points.<\/p>\n
But he was picked up by Brown and Kristaps Porzingis.<\/p>\n
Kidd was savvy enough Saturday to mention Brown is the Conference Finals MVP. <\/p>\n
He knows what he\u2019s doing. <\/p>\n
Why not give their best players something else to think about, something other than team success? <\/p>\n
Sow discord. Jealousy is never productive among teammates.<\/p>\n
Tatum understands what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s psychological warfare. Now everybody will be talking about Tatum vs. Brown instead of the way Kyrie Irving and Luka Doncic struggled in Game 1.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople try to drive a wedge between us,\u201d Tatum said. \u201cI guess it\u2019s a smart thing to do or try to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been in this position for many years of guys trying to divide us and say that one of us should be traded or one is better than the other. So it\u2019s not our first time at this rodeo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked how he and Brown have handled the \u201cwedge\u201d attempts, Tatum responded, \u201cWe\u2019ve had conversations about it before. In all reality, we\u2019ve just had to deal with it for a very long time,\u201d Tatum said. \u201cI think it\u2019s part of us maturing as men, right? Very, very young coming into this league, and just had to deal with all the ups and downs of, essentially, the success that we\u2019ve had. There\u2019s been positive things and there\u2019s been negative things that come with that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not the first duo to go through that process, and we won\u2019t be the last. So understanding that side of it, and just keeping the main thing the main thing, and focusing on the job that we have in front of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the correct answer. <\/p>\n
Brown was the same when presented with Kidd\u2019s comment, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s a team game and everybody has their own opinions.\u201d<\/p>\n
But it can\u2019t hurt to try something different. <\/p>\n
Perhaps Tatum will have the ball down the stretch in Sunday\u2019s Game 2 and try to beat a double team instead of passing it to an open teammate. <\/p>\n
Or maybe he jacks up a contested fadeaway 3-pointer on a pivotal possession because he needs to be the hero. <\/p>\n
The Mavericks, after all, looked outmatched in Game 1, like a team much closer to getting swept than hoisting the championship trophy. <\/p>\n
Difficult problems prompt creative solutions. <\/p>\n
Like spilling soda on the floor. <\/p>\n
That tactic in 2013 didn\u2019t work, by the way. His fizzy plot went flat because the Nets still lost.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll see if his latest maneuver makes a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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