In early November, you started to see these weird avatars on people’s Twitter accounts. They were of a bald man with some fire and green accents, yet, it was hard to make out what exactly they were. As you looked closer, they were a cartoon cartiture of Jason Kidd with the words ‘Fire Kidd’ underneath it. Those have become more popular as the days have went on, and it has never been more clear that Milwaukee needs a new head coach.

Milwaukee is 18-16 currently and they’re the seventh seed in the Eastern Conference with Miami and New York nipping at their heels. It’s probably too early to worry about playoff position, but this team should be a top four group in the Eastern Conference. Eric Bledsoe was brought in to make that a reality, but what ended up happening is Kidd mismanaged the rest of the team. He cannot figure out how to actually construct a roster, it’s maddening. It happened again last night with Milwaukee’s worst loss of the season to the Chicago Bulls.

DeAndre Liggins was the first player off the bench. That’s alarming. Liggins is a decent player, but Kidd thinks he’s the second coming of Bruce Bowen off the bench. Liggins adds nothing to the offense and his defense is average at best. Why he’s getting increased minutes while Sterling Brown and Rashad Vaughn ride the bench is beyond me. Both players have shown little glimmers throughout the year. Not to mention, Sean Kilpatrick had a very nice game on Saturday night, and Kidd decided to leave him on the bench. It makes zero fucking sense. Let’s not forget that Jon Horst had to release Gary Payton II, so Kidd would stop playing him. This is a clear problem.

The frontcourt isn’t much better. John Henson and Thon Maker are in a split for time which is puzzling to say the least. Henson did not have any foul troubles, yet, he only saw 21 minutes out there while Thon had 17. I do thinK Maker has a future with this team, but it’s clear he’s not ready for that amount of minutes. He’s ineffective on both sides of the ball where Henson should really be playing more like 30 plus minutes.

Milwaukee lost five of their last seven games with a daunting schedule coming up. Maybe, Bucks ownership can finally start smelling the coffee and realize they need to move on from Kidd.

Charlie.