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Did We Give Up on Kanter and Hood Too Soon

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homeytennis

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I know Kanter is like the WWE bad guy in the valley, but he is playing like a boss for Portland with a separated shoulder. Hood hit the game winner last night and Spidey's and Rudy's tweets expressed love and happiness for the guy. Basically Portland got both guys out of dumpsters this year. I know salary cap and all but man we could have used both these guys vs Houston.
 
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 wish we could've kept Hood at a decent contract, but I don't think that was available, so you would have to factor in a pretty big deal for him. There was no way we could've kept Kanter anyway, so I think that's a pretty moot point.
 
The key with Hood is he can't be the main scorer and he can't play a ton of minutes. If you rely on him he'll get gastric distress or go 1-10. If you play him a lot of minutes he'll get injured. If you have other primary shooters like Portland and you use Hood off the bench he can be very useful.

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They didn't give up on Kanter soon enough---Twice.

First when they thought about drafting him, and second when it was clear he wasn't staying, that break-up could be seen a mile away and the longer he stayed the less he was worth on the trade market.
 
Hood at 7 million per is great. Hood at 70 million over 4 years kills you. Jazz and Rodney didn't agree on compensation, it was a crappy situation, but both sides had to move on.
 
First. Kanter gave up on the jazz when he publicly demanded a trade, also didn’t fit the identity of this team, no defense and only cared about his numbers as Trevor Booker so famously stated.

Hood regressed first lost his job to Ingles, then Mitchell the following year. He wasn’t happy and not sure you can say he was better for this team than Crowder was. Hood was injured far too often and had way to many crippling shooting off nights and didn’t play defense. We are better off with both gone.

Crowder is better than Hood

If we kept Kanter, we wouldn’t have Favors, Favors is better
 
Both were acquired by Portland for essentially nothing. Kanter was walking the streets and Hood was traded for two players that were waived. Sometimes some care and feeding by management could allow acquisitions like this.
 
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