Does Kanter show Jazz made mistake in these playoffs ......
- Thread starter tleikheen
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Serious? laughing when someone got hurt, come on
**** that Moslem be hated in Utah.....https://newsok.com/article/5494580
That article reminds me that Kanter is a 12 year old kid brain trapped in a giants body. He really needs to be pampered and needs people to constantly say nice things to him to get him to be useful on the court (well half the court). Hope he doesnt pout too much when Durant leaves and they arent winning and people on his team call him out.
homeytennis
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This article is damning to the Jazz organization and perhaps what could have been with Big Turkey. DL and QS ought to take some ownership in the Kanter failure in SLC.
https://newsok.com/article/5494580
jope
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bro...
The jazz traded dominique wilkins for John Drew, Freeman Williams and $1M.
also this little gem...
August 5, 1976: The New Orleans Jazz traded a 1977 1st round draft pick (Kenny Carr), a 1978 1st round draft pick (Freeman Williams), a 1979 1st round draft pick (Magic Johnson) and a 1980 2nd round draft pick (Sam Worthen) to the Los Angeles Lakers for a 1977 2nd round draft pick (Essie Hollis) and a 1978 1st round draft pick (Jack Givens).
homeytennis
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But they did get Freeman Williams back as part of the Dominique trade.
Don't know if I agree with that without more information. We don't have the Jazz side of it. I'd guess the Jazz made some accommodations for Kanter as well, that aren't talked about in a Thunder promo piece, and I'm sure they respected his faith. It would be interesting though to see how different teams pamper their players and where the Jazz stack up. Stuff like the Thunder do has to go a long way in free agency.
homeytennis
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The thing is the Jazz did have experience in dealing with a Turkish/muslim player before in Memo but that was mostly under the KOC/Sloan regime and you have the DL/QS regime here. Memo liked it here so you wonder if the organization dropped the ball of that Kanter is a woos. Probably the truth is somewhere in the middle. I don't know about you but I can hardly wait for the Tibor Pleiss era to fully begin.
♪alt13
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Kanter leaving had nothing to do with him being a Muslim or a Turk. He left because he didn't want to accept his role as a 6th man. Durant and Westbrook were able to sell it to him. We didn't have a Durant or a Westbrook to be able to do that.
green
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Kanter is not stupid. He knew Utah was going nowhere. Do you want to be a bench player on a crappy team or be traded? I'd rather be a bench player on a top 3 team than on a team that can't beat out Houston for a playoff spot.
This Jazz team was a complete disappointment this year. Kanter looks to be pretty smart in demanding to be traded.
It worked out well for him but almost cost him a max contract. Many teams were scared off by his antics and bad mouthing a team that is well respected around the league. The only team that came in and offered him a max (0 chance OKC would have) was Portland. Portland most likely would have offered him the max if he came in and played hard with the Jazz and allowed them to trade him or do a sign and trade. Either way he ends up with a max based on the market its just a matter of he limited his choices the route he took.