This is ********.I'm sorry but I completely disagree with this. First off Kanter has been given a roll, he isn't getting spot minutes or being jerked around. He is the back up C to Favors. He is going to get between 12 and 20 minutes every night depending on his performance. If anyone thinks Kanter has deserved any more minutes than he has been getting the last 10 games then they aren't watching the game. He has been terrible. He can't defend, He isn't rebounding, He slows down any ball movement with his slow post moves and is missing almost all his mid range shots.
So what your saying is as a coach you just play him 25 minutes no matter what? Just because of development? There isn't a coach in the NBA that would do that with a player playing as poorly as Kanter is right now. What does this tell your other players who are trying to play to win games? How is this teaching the rest of the team to complete? So your sacrificing being completitive just because you think you have to give a player minutes?
When Kanter pulls his head out and starts playing like a real post player should on BOTH ends of the court. Then and only then should he be getting 25-30 minutes a game.
Out of his first 14 games before Kanter got benched he did not deliver or had bad games only on 4 occasions. The rest is 50/50 mixture of great and decent performances stat wise.
On defense his rotations were poor but just as almost everyone's else. If you make Kanter on pick and rolls show 6 ft above three point line you are asking for trouble. Man to man he was indeed bullied but you can blame loss of muscles over the offseason.
The most logical thing to do was tweaking defensive schemes to cover his lack of agility. On offensive the ball stops in his hands because he has no one to pass FFS more often than not! It's Corfense what makes Kanter look like a ball hog. Al at least had someone to kick the ball out. Now I recall only Burks getting himself open.
Instead of trying to figure out what works best for Kanter Corbin chose fool's gold in W's now with Marvin as stretch four. After he got benched he indeed looks like crap but there was absolutely no reason for him to be benched. He is a 21 year old treated by a clueless coach as if he is a rookie on a winning team.