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the ever-changing feelings about Enes Kanter

Vermin said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGv0E8H_85I
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Why did you show a highlight of kanter playing pretty good defense against the best post up scorer in the league?

Jefferson has been pwning every big in the league for years and years.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
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I think vermin was trying to illustrate kanters bad defense.

Then i watch the video and see kanter make jeffy catch the ball almost at the 3 point line, then bump him with his body without a foul called, reach for and nearly get a steal and still get back in good position, bite on one of big als pump fakes yet still be in decent position and then nearly get a hand on the ball when jeffy shoots it.

Defense was not bad imo.

And jefferson schools every big in the league including hibbert, dwight howard, and tyson chandler so whats the big deal if jeffy can score on kanter?
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
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I guess i was talking about the first play in the video.

Then i watched about the next 10 or 15 plays in the video and i see blake griffin make kanter look foolish.

That was the only really bad defense i saw from him. In fact i saw 3 or 4 times that his man didnt even score.

Kaman had a nice spin move fadeaway jumper that he made which is basically unguardable.

He didnt close out on hawes for a 3 pointer one time.... but kanter is a really big/slow dude so closeouts to the 3 point line is something that i would not expect him to be good at or have to do very often.

Im not saying i think kanter is a great defender but if you want to show a video of hin playing bad defense then it seems like you should be able to find a much better video than that.

(I only watched about half of it)
 
fishonjazz said:
I guess i was talking about the first play in the video.

Then i watched about the next 10 or 15 plays in the video and i see blake griffin make kanter look foolish.

That was the only really bad defense i saw from him. In fact i saw 3 or 4 times that his man didnt even score.

Kaman had a nice spin move fadeaway jumper that he made which is basically unguardable.

He didnt close out on hawes for a 3 pointer one time.... but kanter is a really big/slow dude so closeouts to the 3 point line is something that i would not expect him to be good at or have to do very often.

Im not saying i think kanter is a great defender but if you want to show a video of hin playing bad defense then it seems like you should be able to find a much better video than that.

(I only watched about half of it)
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Oh...then you may have missed the airball hook shot from 5 feet out and piss poor transition defense after the fact. You don't need to watch a highlight video to know kanter sucks at d TBHB.
 
Watched the rest of the video and he played great defense on griffin later in the video (though griffin made a nice contested difficult shot)

Saw him play great defense against hibbert and force him into a miss.

Failed to close out on a really long 2 point shot by aldridge.

Gave one of the morris twins a bit too much space on a long 2 pointer. (Morris missed the shot anyways though)

Forced pekovic into a tough baseline hook shot that pek missed.

Got beat badly one time by cousins.

Played good defense on cousins 2 other times.
 
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Vermin said:
Oh...then you may have missed the airball hook shot from 5 feet out and piss poor transition defense after the fact. You don't need to watch a highlight video to know kanter sucks at d TBHB.
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Ya i saw the airball and bad transition defense...... the play where the blazers didnt even score and kanter helped on a nice trap and actually knocked the ball out of his mans hands forcing a turnover.
 
that video had about 25 or so plays.

I think kanters man missed the shot on about 5 of the plays.

Kanter played pretty good to decent defense quite a few times.

Play below average defense a couple of times.

Played bad defense a couple of times.

Played awful defense twice..... against blake griffin one time and against demarcus cousins the other time. (2 great offensive players)

So in my opinion the video shows that kanter is not one of the best defenders in the league and probably wont ever be in the running for DPOTY.

But we all know all of that already.
No one thinks kanter is a great defender but that video doesnt show him to be a horrible defender. IMO.
 
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