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Daily Dime: No Kidd? Avery Johnson loses without new point man

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com

Thursday, February 28, 2008

AP Photo/Eric Gay Mavericks coach Avery Johnson has pointed teams to success before, but his decision to omit Jason Kidd from crunch time of a 97-94 loss to the Spurs is a move that's hard to get a handle on. 1 Avery Johnson's Decision To Shelve Kidd Puzzling Five games. Or make that four games and one TNT Thursday showdown in San Antonio that had an undeniable playoffs-in-February kind of feel. Either way . . . It didn't even take two w ...

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