POSTED 3-25-08

There are rotisserie heroes and fantasy goats. But some performances are so ugly, egregious or plain perplexing they demand a closer look. Here is Update's seriously twisted moment this week.

The Dallas Mavericks bold acquisition of Jason Kidd at the trade deadline this year has raised some eyebrows. Owner Mark Cuban & Co. were hoping Kidd would be the player to push them over the top. Instead, the Mavericks are just 9-8 since the trade and have yet to beat a team over .500 with Kidd in the lineup. So, what's the problem? For starters, the Hall-of-Fame ready point guard is averaging just 8.4 points with his new team. Jason Terry has struggled to adapt to Kidd's style at the point, and the team has been relying heavily on the aging Jerry Stackhouse to provide offensive punch. Dirk Nowitzki — last season's MVP — suffered a bad ankle sprain on Sunday against the San Antonio Spurs. He's out of the lineup indefinitely, and though nobody's mentioning it much, the Mavs are in danger of missing the playoffs. They've slid to the seventh seed, where just 1.5 games separate them from ninth place Golden State. How did a team that won 67 games last season fall on such hard times? Cuban better start worrying because Kidd isn't getting any younger and time is running out. One thing's for certain: if the Mavericks don't make the playoffs, the Jason Kidd blockbuster will go down as one of the worst trades in NBA history.