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Does Kanter show Jazz made mistake in these playoffs ......

Only thing I regret is I wish we would have got more for him in the trade. I don't really miss having him on our team or anything like that. He's playing really well tho.
 
tleikheen said:
Golden State does have a good defense but their extraordinary shooting led them to beat Cleveland
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You're just making sh!# up.

The Warriors eFG% was a pedestrian 50.3%, their 2P% was 43.6% (Lakers were 43.5%, 25th in NBA). How "extraordinary."

Warriors defense held Cavs to horrific 43.2% (lower than this year's Lakers at 46%, last in NBA).
 
Kanters 2015-2016 playoff stats are off the charts efficient..(in 22.5 mpg) 17.8 ppg, 3.8 Orebs, 78% from the field, 84% from the stripe..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1lEgpB4tQs


look at this finish at 2;03... might be the best I've ever seen from him..
 
Carbon13 said:
Only thing I regret is I wish we would have got more for him in the trade. I don't really miss having him on our team or anything like that. He's playing really well tho.
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Jazz were offering Kanter up for a while. I wonder if they ever had better offers than OKC's, or if Jazz stuck themselves in a buyers market at the trade deadline. It is telling that it was the thunder who came calling for Kanter. OKC has a track record of gambling on players who the rest of the league has given up oN.
 
Obviously in hindsight we should have maxed out Kanter and used him as a trade chip. Even with hindsight though, would Kanter have performed this well off our bench? Would he even have agreed to a max (with us or from another team during RFA) instead of taking the QO?
 
I think we probably got as much as we could for him. Don't miss him a bit, he was a malcontent and needed to go.

His #'s say it all in OKC here this year. Max player, seemingly great stats...plays 21 mpg. He's an interesting case.
 
gona get torched by the gsw though
They won't make it past San Antonio, who they match up with next.
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And this is based on winning two games at home against San Antonio ,losing two games at San Antonio (one game in overtime).........what do you base this on ,your expert opinion?
 
tleikheen said:
And this is based on winning two games at home against San Antonio ,losing two games at San Antonio (one game in overtime).........what do you base this on ,your expert opinion?
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Make me a bet then. I'll lay $1,000 that the Spurs win the series.
 
Fact.
: we didn't have a big enough sample size on Enes, especially playing alongside Rudy and Dante.

We also never had a PG who looked for him. Enes played most of his time here (when he was actually getting minutes), with chuckers like JLIII, and Trey Burke (who never liked Enes).

Trey made Enes look bad, and vice versa. Between the two of them, we couldn't stop anyone. A horrible pairing. Add in Trey's lack of passing, and...



We ****ed up. It's pretty clear.
 
Sexual Favors said:
Fact.
: we didn't have a big enough sample size on Enes, especially playing alongside Rudy and Dante.

We also never had a PG who looked for him. Enes played most of his time here (when he was actually getting minutes), with chuckers like JLIII, and Trey Burke (who never liked Enes).

Trey made Enes look bad, and vice versa. Between the two of them, we couldn't stop anyone. A horrible pairing. Add in Trey's lack of passing, and...



We ****ed up. It's pretty clear.
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None of this has anything to do with the fact that he sucked on the defensive end of the court in a historic way. Could we have gotten more for him? Sure, except he and his agent were douches who hurt that chance and perhaps many other teams simply had no interest in overpaying for a one-dimensional player. Either way, as a GM, you're not going to win every move. DL's won most.
 
Cunning Linguist said:
None of this has anything to do with the fact that he sucked on the defensive end of the court in a historic way. Could we have gotten more for him? Sure, except he and his agent were douches who hurt that chance and perhaps many other teams simply had no interest in overpaying for a one-dimensional player. Either way, as a GM, you're not going to win every move. DL's won most.
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Kanter sucked defensively, but that sucking was exacerbated by Trey's and JLIII's own inability to stop annyone. We had the perfect PG's to exploit his worst weakness. We never played, or developed him up until that point, and then faulted him for having the same weakness we knew about when drafting him. Smart.

Of course he was unhappy here. After being completely ignored, then suffering Corbin's whip, he was told he'd play, and get the development he needed, only to find himself losing minutes to scrubs like Trevor Booker and Jeremy Evans.


Sure, he was a douche and asked for a trade, but I'm not so dense that I can't imagine why.
 
Spurs will probably win the series but it mostly depends on how much less chaotic the Thunder will play them and how much less they'll break down on the defensive end. They can score against the Spurs enough to win it, but if Spurs become the passers they were against Miami and if Kawhi remains Kawhi in his defensive matchup with KD, then Spurs gets it in 6 or 7.

On the Kanter side of the series, I don't think he will look bad. I think he will do great things. The reason for that is Enes is playing postseason for the first time on a team that might go deeper and maybe with a little chance to the ring and he is incredibly motivated to win games. Enes is the type that plays a lot better when he is hyped about something. So I think he'll be OK.
 
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: we didn't have a big enough sample size on Enes, especially playing alongside Rudy and Dante.

We also never had a PG who looked for him. Enes played most of his time here (when he was actually getting minutes), with chuckers like JLIII, and Trey Burke (who never liked Enes).

Trey made Enes look bad, and vice versa. Between the two of them, we couldn't stop anyone. A horrible pairing. Add in Trey's lack of passing, and...



We ****ed up. It's pretty clear.
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Everybody who posts here knows that too. Of the 470 NBA players ,the Jazz had 3 players finish in the 400's (400's being the worst)in defensive ratings (Burke,Burks ,and Kanter).Kanter never got to play with Exum and Gobert.Now what ...Burke all but gone and not wanted ,Burks if he can't stay healthy ,his poor disinterest in defense might follow.
Quin Snyder is suppose to be a PNR genius and all this time the Jazz had maybe the top big man to work the PNR with.Once again Trey Burke being run out of town because he's not a good facilitator in the PNR.
The potential of trading Kanter ,can go down as the Jazz biggest f**Kup trade they've done and OKC's best trade ever.A 23 year old Center blossoming in the playoffs in front of the basketball world.
 
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And this is based on winning two games at home against San Antonio ,losing two games at San Antonio (one game in overtime).........what do you base this on ,your expert opinion?
Make me a bet then. I'll lay $1,000 that the Spurs win the series.
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I didn't say OKC would beat San Antonio ....but I wouldnt be surprised at all .I think San Antonio is vulnerable on the boards.If they can't keep OKC off the boards it becomes a offense series and not defense. Another thing Westbrook is dishing out a lot of assists
 
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