Nets Have to Remind World That Jason Kidd Actually Does Something

Winning solves everything.

The Brooklyn Nets, the only team in the NBA with a payroll currently exceeding $100 million, are 3-8 and descending into the depths of inadequacy fast. Standing at the forefront of their unsuccessful grind is head coach Jason Kidd, his role still new, but the sickly feeling that accompanies losing becoming all too familiar.

One anonymous scout put the onus of Brooklyn's failures on Kidd's shoulders, telling Bleacher Report's Howard Beck that he does nothing:

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He doesn’t do anything. He doesn’t make calls. John Welch does all the offense. Lawrence does all the defense. … I don’t know what Kidd does. I don’t think you can grade him and say he’s bad. You can give him an incomplete.

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Kevin Garnett quickly came to the rookie coach's defense, maintaining that the blame isn't on Kidd alone.

"The blame’s on all of us," Garnett said, according to the New York Post's Brian Lewis. "It’s not just on Jason. You can’t put the [blame] all on him. We’re players who obviously have to be professional, come out here and do our jobs."

Paul Pierce echoed KG's sentiments, defending his head coach as well.

“We’ve got to hold everybody accountable: The players, the coaches, this one big group and we’re all in it together, so it’s not only on [Kidd]," he explained, via Lewis. "It’s on all of us."

No one person can be to blame for the Nets' struggles. Injuries have thwarted once-promising plans and a number of players, including Pierce and Garnett, have underperformed. Recent failures, most notably their current three-game losing streak, are on everyone.

Kidd isn't the one on the floor missing shots, not getting back on defense, blowing rotations and allowing opposing ball-handlers to freely inhabit the paint. He doesn't have a magic wand he can wave that will miraculously cure Brooklyn's subpar execution and apparent lethargy, either.

But devastating times call for a scapegoat. Someone must shoulder the brunt of this mess. New to the coaching scene and piloting a roster that came into 2013-14 with a superteam-type ceiling, Kidd is an easy target. The easiest target. 

Brooklyn is his team. And it's his team that ranks in the bottom half of points scored, points allowed, rebounds and assists per game. His team that's rapidly resembling a high-priced folly. 

His team that hasn't been good enough, suggesting that he, the coach, isn't good enough.

"[There’s] a sense of urgency," the injured Deron Williams said, per Lewis. "We’ve got to turn it around, fast. We’ve dug ourselves a bit of a hole and now it’s time to fight out of it."

Now's also the time for the Nets to remind everyone this isn't on Kidd alone. It's time for Kidd to fix the rotation, run more complicated offensive sets and sift through the rubble until he finds a resolution.

It's time for him to prove that he does, in fact, coach this team.

That he, like the Nets, is better than the hole he currently finds himself in.

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