sometimes, i seriously wonder why i don't like jason kidd and the new jersey nets

i mean, almost every basketball fan i know likes jason kidd...

and i ask myself, why don't you?

casual fans like him because he seems to find people out of nowhere...

devoted fans like him because he's not only a very unselfish player, as a passer rather than a scorer, but he's also a very good defender; this past season he was on the 1st all-nba defensive team.

first of all, i don't HATE kidd... i merely have a LOT more teams i like compared to the nets. but lemme give some possible reasons why i don't like the nets more...

-nets have never really been a team with bigs that i really liked. used to like kenyon martin, but then he left. i tend to like bigs who are either good all-around, or monsters on the defensive end.

-in some strange way, the more i think about it, i like players who can score more than those who can pass. yea, i was surprised when i initially thought about it, but the more i think about it, i think it rings true. it's not that i don't like players being unselfish; no, otherwise, i'd be a laker fan by now. i like players who can pass AND create shots by themselves. i think i can sum it up this way:

when it comes to offensively-efficient players with the ball, i like:
the scorer who can pass rather than the passer who can score; the 1st would be like billups, the 2nd would be like kidd.

of course, a good passer needs to have court vision, but i just feel in more ways than not, that when you are a scorer more than a passer, the passing oppurtunities tend to create themselves. if you have a reputation for being virtually unguardable 1 on 1 in the waning seconds of the 4th quarter, the help defenders know they can't simply just stick out an arm in order to throw you off; they must actually come over and commit. that means someone is going to be WIDE open.

(it's also a more inspiring story when you hear of a scorer becoming more and more selfless trying to find others rather than a passer trying to become more of a clutch player)

put it this way; hypothetically, suppose you are a power forward defending against a pick-n-roll situation at the end of the game; the power forward on the other team is robert horry; classic example of a role player who can't create his own shots, but leave him wide open at the end of games, and you just buried yourself.

his teammate is either jason kidd or chauncey billups, and has the ball. your point guard teammate is a decent defender, not a lockdown defender, not like nash. all of your other teammates are guarding well, not intending to double.

i personally would rather face the kidd/horry combo than billups/horry. just because i would have a little more faith in letting my teammate guard kidd one-on-one. if i do need to double, i wouldn't necessarily need to run all the way over with my hands up, just stick my hand in there.