Brooklyn Nets head coach Jason Kidd needed to pull out a win over the Lakers and with no timeouts left to draw up a play he thunk fast and came up with a plan. While holding a drink he told Nets’ guard Tyshawn Taylor to “hit me”, spilling the drink and giving him that extra timeout while workers cleaned it up. Kidd initially denied he did it purposely even though the video clearly shows him saying “hit me” but after a $50,000 fine levied by the league, he fessed up.
via Newsday:
“It’s about trying to win and those guys in that locker room,” said Kidd, who had Tyshawn Taylor run into him so he would spill the drink and said he learned the trick from listening to other coaches. “I tried to put those guys in position to get a basket or a good look, and we did.”
Lakers coach Mike D’Antoni wasn’t at all pleased, telling reporters in Detroit before Friday night’s game against the Pistons: “That’s not very savvy or cool . . . You can’t do that. That’s crazy.”
Kidd’s pockets are lighter now, but he basically said it was worth it.
After the Nets diagrammed their play, Paul Pierce missed a potential tying three-pointer. “Paul got a great look,” Kidd said, “but the league fined me for something I probably shouldn’t have done, and we move on.”
Well the Nets lost the game 99-94 and Kidd is $50,000 in the hole but hey that’s just minor details…
