Problem is they are both very one dimensional. In a right system and for limited minutes they can be useful for sure. I think I miss Hood more than Kanter TBH.
I'll take a couple of one dimensional players and call them assets. There's a few teams in the 2nd round of the playoffs that we are all watching from home that are doing just that as part of the success within their roster. I think it's fair to say that the Jazz lost miserably to the Rockets because of our lack of dimensions. We tried to play one dimensional defense to stop Harden and failed. They didn't have to do anything to stop us. We stopped ourselves because we ran out of "dimensions."
We got nothing for Kanter. Nothing. We brought him up and traded him for absolutely nothing. Instead of recovering some sort of asset for him, we got nothing for him!
Well, ok, you could call a couple of nobodies, somethings, but we never valued our somethings, so yes it was nothing. We traded him for Kendrick Perkins (who we cut and intended to cut immediately), the rights to draft Tibor Pleiss, rights to Grant Jerrett as well as a future 1st round pick from OKC and a 2nd round pick from the Pistons. (A common pattern with the Jazz, just see the past and you will have a good idea of the Jazz tendencies of the future.) Just so everyone is aware. There are 29 other teams in the NBA and drafting a talented guy and just letting him walk is something that no team tries to do, nor makes a name for their team while doing it. It happens rarely, except for the Jazz. It is something of the norm with us. Generally that player is traded and the team recovers an asset of some kind for his talent that is valued by that team. (See Gordon Hayward who showed signs of signing with the Celtics for several months before the trade deadline in which we did nothing about it but cross our fingers)
If you would like to state that we thought our assets for Kanter were going to be more than what they were, everyone knew exactly what we were getting for him, Nothing!
So what happened to one of our draft pics for Kanter? A pick was traded to acquire Rubio (The most one dimensional player on the planet). We all know what we are left with there. And of course our 2nd round picks equated into nothing, Because our staff doesn't value 2nd round picks. As for Hood, His trade could've been sweeter than it was. We traded him for Crowder and for Rose. We cut Rose immediately and he went on to the T-wolves and did very well with a few injuries as were expected. Happy to have Crowder, but essentially, we helped to pad Cleveland in their 3 team trade in attempt to help them survive post LeBron. We are protecting our Salary boundaries so much that we can't even make it past the first round of the post season because of our lack competency. We need to take risks, calculated risks, or any risks. Something to stay relevant. I don't think we are the team that can sit back and call players one dimensional.
