NBA coaches often have varying goals in the preseason. For some, it's about building chemistry with a new team, perhaps learning new plays, players and tendencies. Other teams use exhibition games for conditioning purposes. So Coach Kidd decided to use Wednesday's preseason opener to get some of the guys just trying to make the team some extended run.
Jason Kidd raised the profile of the Dallas Mavericks in his first season as coach, and with a highly anticipated second season on the horizon, Coach Kidd is in high demand.
Coach Jason Kidd continued to preach to his team to believe and to be resilient and they responded by playing smothering defense, along with attacking the basket to create open looks from three, which allowed for them to control the game and secure a 119-109 victory in game 4 of the Western Conference Finals.
In his first season as Head Coach of the Dallas Mavericks, Jason Kidd has led a young and resilient squad to the Western Conference Finals. Dallas punched their ticket to the Conference Finals with a stunning 123-90 rout of the top-seeded Phoenix Suns in Game 7 on Sunday in Phoenix. The [...]
With their backs against the wall, facing elimination, the Dallas Mavericks came out swinging and shooting on Thursday night, and won a game they had to have. Now their Western Conference Semifinals series with the Phoenix Suns will come down to a Game 7. Coach Jason Kidd had his Mavs [...]
The Western Conference Semifinals series between the Dallas Mavericks and Phoenix Suns is now a best of three. Dallas successfully defended American Airlines Center in front of their home fans on Sunday in Game 4, picking up a 111-101 win over Phoenix to tie up the series at two games [...]
The Dallas Mavericks took Phoenix’s best punch in the first two games of the Western Conference Semifinals, falling in a 2-0 hole. But in a pivotal Game 3 at American Airlines Center, the Mavs were resilient and played great defense to secure a huge win. Following a 20-point loss in [...]
The last time the Dallas Mavericks won a postseason series, Jason Kidd celebrated by hoisting the Larry O'Brien NBA Championship trophy. Thursday night's celebration after the Mavericks dispatched the Utah Jazz in the first round of the 2022 NBA Playoffs was more subdued. However, it wasn't lost on anyone that [...]
In what has been a back and forth series, perhaps the best in the first round of the 2022 NBA Playoffs thus far, the Dallas Mavericks finally broke through on Monday night with a monster win in a pivotal Game 5 to reach the precipice of the Western Conference semifinals. [...]
Since taking over as Head Coach of the Dallas Mavericks last summer, in his conversations with the team, Jason Kidd has preached two things: trust and belief in one another. Those two characteristics have become mantras of the Mavs, repeated ad nauseum throughout the season. On Thursday night in front [...]