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Enes Kanter or Brandon Knight?

Enes Kanter or Brandon Knight

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Kanter has sat for a year.
Not entirely bad.
No wear and tear on body.
Time to get knee healed if bad.
 
LunaticWolf said:
Great! But that was over a year ago. All of your cited players played and developed while Kanter practiced.

Again, waiting until after the combine.
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so, after one year, he became garbage, just because he didn't play? maybe he improved? he also had eight offensive rebounds and hit 8 from 9 from the free throw line. he should be 6-11 with shoes, 255-260 lbs (he lost some weight, but wants to play around 260-270 in the nba), 7-2 wingspan and a 9-1 standing reach. those are like the numbers i expect.
 
LunaticWolf said:
Great! But that was over a year ago. All of your cited players played and developed while Kanter practiced.

Again, waiting until after the combine.
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He's been practicing, first with the team, then with an assistant coach, where I would argue he had more one-on-one attention to aide in his development.

May there be a one or two month learning curve, getting back into the groove of playing full-court games again? Sure but he's not going to just forget how to play and compete. And we're not worried about his first one or two months. We're sort of rebuilding and looking at the future and his future has waaaaaaay more of an upside than Knight who's shown very little in true point guard skills imo.
 
Game time develops players more than practice ever can.

My point is not that he turns to garbage, but he might not look as good against those same players, because they got court time development, and he practiced.
 
Knight is a reach @3. Let's be honest.
I love Knight, but we MUST go Kanter here unless he looks horrible in the combine/workouts (but we all know this won't happen).

Kanter is basically a Jazzman. I'm excited!

Now who do we take @12? So many choices there.
 
LunaticWolf said:
Game time develops players more than practice ever can.

My point is not that he turns to garbage, but he might not look as good against those same players, because they got court time development, and he practiced.
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A fair assessment. But we need to go Kanter here. He's big, skilled and fairly athletic. And one rule of drafting is never reach. Or almost never. And Knight is definitely a reach at #3. IMO.
 
i would go for both. Knight is good but, he isnt a guy who can be an elite guard like deron, rose.. i think he is one level behind irving, thats why he may eventually fall down to 7 -8 and i think its not impossible for us to use our 12th pick and some guys to trade to get knight. I would take enes for sure at 3. Knight isnt a 3rd pick worth guy. But in this draft i would go for both
 
KrazeeEyezKilla said:
He's been practicing, first with the team, then with an assistant coach, where I would argue he had more one-on-one attention to aide in his development.

May there be a one or two month learning curve, getting back into the groove of playing full-court games again? Sure but he's not going to just forget how to play and compete. And we're not worried about his first one or two months. We're sort of rebuilding and looking at the future and his future has waaaaaaay more of an upside than Knight who's shown very little in true point guard skills imo.
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If you are talking about him at KU. Kanter didn't practice with the team. He helped the team practice. Huge difference. He was basically an assistant. I highly doubt he was part of practice in terms of actual game time situation practicing.
 
Dwill_PwnasaurasRex said:
If you are talking about him at KU. Kanter didn't practice with the team. He helped the team practice. Huge difference. He was basically an assistant. I highly doubt he was part of practice in terms of actual game time situation practicing.
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False. He did practice with the team until the NCAA said he couldn't and then he had one-on-one practices with an assistant coach.
 
This is a very legit question that cant be answered yet. After the combine and team work outs then I think I might know. Right now my gut says Knight for some reason. I think Knight could really be a player that could be huge in our rebuilding process. But if Kanter has an even half way decent combine and Checks out on the Physical then I would have to change my vote to him.
 
I would not be upset with drafting Kanter and if Knight slips to Washington at #6 and they're interested in Kanter, trading picks/players and picking up a pick or picks in the process. It would be extremely UNLIKELY that Cleveland would take Knight at #4 if they go with Irving at #1 so a ton would depend on Toronto at #5 but they seem to have bigger needs than at the point and also have a love for international players so if they went with Vesely or Biyombo or one of those other Euro scrubs there, it wouldn't shock me. Given that Washington has Wall and they may want a big, they be up for swapping and handing us a future 1st rounder and/or the 18th pick in the draft this year.

A draft of Knight at 6, Burks or Biyombo at 12, and Singleton at 18. A ton would have to happen but that draft would be sick.
 
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