What coach Jason Kidd has noticed about his team is that they’re having a good ‘ol time when it comes to playing defense.
“I think they are having fun,” Kidd said after Monday’s practice. “It’s alright to play defense in this league – if you want to win championships.”
And the Mavs definitely want to win championships. That’s why when Kidd became the Mavs’ coach last summer, he knew he had to change them from being a team that was setting records on the offensive end of the court into a team that was more fundamentally sound on defense.