This is an interesting line of thought to look into.
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This is an interesting line of thought to look into.
The Jazz defensive rating from 1/22 (when Dante became a permanent starter) is 96.3 compared to 106.8 up to that point. Good work Doublea.
I don't know if it started it but Exum starting and Millsap playing more were big contributions to the improved D as well.
akirac73
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The Jazz SHOULD offer the max...if Kanter hates Utah as much as he has expressed, he surely won't sign our offer anyways. But he and is scumbag agent can use that as leverage to get other teams to offer the max. I'd love to see one of our competitors cripple themselves financially by overpaying for a one-dimensional/mentally-limited/immature player. Cool.
The best indication about that is that the team started playing OK defense even with Kanter on the floor once Dante became part of the starting lineup. At the same time Trey was playing more with Gobert and the defensive numbers of lineups with Gobert were similar to the defensive numbers of the Kanter lineups. In general what happened as far as defensive numbers go was Dante+Kanter=Trey+Gobert. Dante was able to keep up with his man and put Kanter in fewer bad situations where he usually makes mistakes/or is slow to rotate/, while Gobert had to compensate more about Trey's defensive deficiencies...
freakazoid
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Maxing Kanter will not cripple anybody. It will be an overpay the first year and then the cap will make an historic jump. The cap will be about 12 million more than where the LT is now, and it will jump even higher the year after that.