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Gobert should start

jjscap said:
You guys seem to forget he has 2.5 more years on his rookie contract. Also he may get injured.
Benching Kanter means zero chance to resign him, also lower trade value.

I say.... start Kanter until the trade deadline (feb 20). And trade him if any solid offer comes along.
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Kanter has 0 say about returning to Utah. He is a RFA.
 
NAOS said:
Is Dirk still elite? That dude can't guard ****. I really think I could score on Dirk. srs.
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He at least knows defensive concepts. You could argue Love in Dallas's system could to, but until he does it hard to say it's possible for him.
 
JJAS said:
Not sure if you've watched a lot of the games this year, since your statement above suggests not. Hibbert played extremely well both last game and the first game we played them. He hit some difficult shots and had a great game. Rudy played great D on him for the most part, although Rudy needed to not let Hibbert get as good of position as he did at times. Hibbert scored the ball 8 times. He went 5/9 on Rudy (long jump shot, dunk off of a good pass, Al Jefferson hook shot from the free throw line, running hook, amazing hook shot with Rudy on his lap) and 3/4 on Favors (jumpshot, hook shot in the paint, hook shot from the block). Missed Shots with Rudy: Missed a jumper, missed hook, missed hook, contested jumper; Favors: sweeping hook (blocked). Your statement about Rudy is thus hyperbole. This was simply a learning moment for Rudy and a good game for Hibbert.
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As the matter of fact I've watched every game so far. Rudy is awesome and all but if we hold him to the same standard as Kanter then he was schooled by Hibbert who had its way and showed how raw and inexperienced Rudy is so far in man to man defense. Hibbert almost always was able to establish his position deep in the post (same issue with Kanter) and was taking away Rudy's length factor by going to his chest and throwing him off balance before getting the shot off. That's how experienced bigs will be playing against him and as I said Hibbert's offense is average at best.

I am not saying Rudy's overall defensive p[erformance is on par with Kanter's but let's not get ahead of ourselves.
 
What a great showing last night.

The next seven are crucial and gonna help me determine if last night was an anomaly or trend. This is a brutal stretch. Five of the seven are on the road. OKC and Cleveland are getting into must-win mode. The Spurs aren't quite at that point but at the 7 seed, they need to get hot. Golden State is the 1 seed. Houston the 5 seed. Milwaukee has played great ball all year and is #1 in the NBA against the spread. The Lakers are really the only gimme game but with Kobe back, who knows.

@ OKC
@ Houston
vs. Golden State
vs. L.A. Lakers
@ San Antonio
@ Cleveland
@ Milwaukee

I'd love to see Gobert average around 13/10/3 over that time.
 
In games where Gobert plays 30 minutes or more this season (only 6 games):

8.3 ppg
11.8 rpg
3.5 blocks/gm
1.0 steal/gm
58% FG

Give this kid 35 minutes every night and he'll be putting up all-star type numbers.
 
Lost in this discussion a little bit is the fact that if Gobert plays center it allows Favs to go from undersized center to bigger PF. So we get more length at two key positions. Everyone can see this is where we are headed... lets not mess around Jazz... do the right thing Quin.
 
Not taking any of the improvement that Kanter has made, but I think that Rudy has earned the chance to start. With that said, I think that Kanter off the bench could be awesome. He can score and his defense is improved. Making that move doesn't automatically kill his value either. Especially if they can get him some court time with Gobert.
 
A couple of tweets about Rudy.

Sean Highkin @highkin 07 Jan 09:39 ET
Gobert is evolutionary JaVale.



Tony Jones
Tony Jones @Tjonessltrib 05 Jan 10:50 ET
lol. Gobert scored 11 points in the third and grabbed three rebounds. Roy Hibbert pissed him off.
 
zbone said:
As the matter of fact I've watched every game so far. Rudy is awesome and all but if we hold him to the same standard as Kanter then he was schooled by Hibbert who had its way and showed how raw and inexperienced Rudy is so far in man to man defense. Hibbert almost always was able to establish his position deep in the post (same issue with Kanter) and was taking away Rudy's length factor by going to his chest and throwing him off balance before getting the shot off. That's how experienced bigs will be playing against him and as I said Hibbert's offense is average at best.

I am not saying Rudy's overall defensive p[erformance is on par with Kanter's but let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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Not so much just his one on one defense which did pretty well against Pau, but his ability to clean up the others defensive mistakes against driving 1-4's as opposed to no help at all opposing layups that really have made a difference in the numerous close losses. Also just makes everyone get out on the perimeter defense knowing they have the Gobstopper there. Nobody has really beat us up as bad as in the past on the 3 point line lately.
 
Cy said:
Kanter has 0 say about returning to Utah. He is a RFA.
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You bench him, you lose him. He is an emotional person with "Eastern" mentality.
Favors + Gobert should start sooner or later but gotta think about business and future cap flexibility here.
Kanter probably won't be a starter on this team. Either trade Kanter or resign him to a reasonable and tradable contract. You harm both these options by benching him at this point.
 
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