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Very unfair characterization of Okur. He was playing the best ball of his career when he went down with the Achilles injury.
Agree. Okur came over to Utah out-of-shape and worked his butt of after Sloan got on him. He acknowledged he had to improve in that respect. No, Okur was not a shut-down defender. But he was actually pretty good straight up against big 5's; the quicker ones gave him problems. Okur was deadly in the pick and pop with Deron, allowing Boozer to be the inside P&R player. Had Boozer even attempted to play defense - and had AK and Carlos not been in and out of the lineup with injuries - the Jazz may have had enough to contend. Okur still had some gas left in the tank until the injury essentially ended his career.
 
I like the idea of Kanter acting as a stretch 4 with Favors, but going back to the post when he is the only big. Kanter currently hits his mid range shots (10'-16') at 42.2%, he would be just as efficient hitting his three's at 28%, not to mention the additional space for Favors and Burks to drive. You lose out on some offensive rebounding, but its pretty negligible. He isn't quite the rebounder we thought he would be from the first two years.
 
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