[VandaleIndustries]

Just to chime in from the Dallas area... I'm a life long Celtics fan, so this trade doesn't effect me one way or the other, but everyone in Dallas seems to like this trade- except me.

I can't watch the Celtics down here, they're hardly ever on. So I do catch the occasional Mavs game, and although I am no expert, it seems to me the Mavs are just a bunch of soft jump shooters. They get punched in the face (see Golden State), and they just sit back and think about how bad that hurt, and then show they learned their lesson by taking jump shots the defense is happy to give up. Jason Kidd is effective when players go to the net and he can dish, the mavs don't do that. Case in point, Steve Nash. They didn't sign him because Pheonix gave him a huge deal and they thought he was too old to deserve that type of cash. Now look at him. The difference? In Dallas, all the players move around the perimeter, and settle for jump shots. In Pheonix, all the players cut to the net. Pheonix turned Nash from a very nice player into a 2 time MVP.

So now they have Kidd. Unless they change their willingness to settle for the jump shot, nothing will change, at all. The hype is that Kidd will get the players the ball in a better position to shoot. I'm not saying this isn't valuable, but the Mavs are NOT a running type of team, so this means: JUMP SHOTS!!! Horrible trade, all the way around.