Enes Kanter for Otto Porter: A Wizards Fan's Perspective

[jimmy eat jazz]

This is his contract year. This is the year he works to collect his fat paycheck.

Count me a highly skeptical that there's anything to the notion that players try harder and/or perform better during contract years.

There may be, but this strikes me more as conventional wisdom than empirical fact. Does anybody know of any actual evidence on this issue?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Count me a highly skeptical that there's anything to the notion that players try harder and/or perform better during contract years.

There may be, but this strikes me more as conventional wisdom than empirical fact. Does anybody know of any actual evidence on this issue?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_year_phenomenon

It's real, especially in the NBA (though it may not be real for everyone, it's a thing that exist).

https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1780&context=cmc_theses

More empirical data if you want to wade through it (I don't).

 

[NUMBERICA]

Players should get 60% of BRI and owners should fight for almost no guaranteed contracts. Guaranteed deals are ****ing garbage, and so is the idea that the humans that actually play the game we watch and have a very limited time to do it only get half the gross revenue.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Players should get 60% of BRI and owners should fight for almost no guaranteed contracts. Guaranteed deals are ****ing garbage, and so is the idea that the humans that actually play the game we watch and have a very limited time to do it only get half the gross revenue.

This is a tangent obviously, but ****ing whatever:

Larry Sanders recently told some members of the Milwaukee Bucks' front office that he doesn't want to play basketball anymore, according to sources.

Sanders is in the first season of a four-year, $44 million extension and hasn't played in the past six games.

Jason Kidd initially told the media that Sanders had the flu, but he said on Friday he was away for "personal reasons."

Some friends of Sanders told Woelfel last summer that he wasn't committed to basketball and was interested in exploring other options.

Let's let the people that earn their paycheck every day like the rest of us get a ****ing raise AND improve the quality of the game at the same time.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Also, if you watch the Hawks (who are doing what we want to do (movement and starless basketball)) positions 1-5 can pass the ball. Everyone may not be a magnificent passer, but they all have court awareness and aren't selfish. Kanter isn't that. He is either offensively selfish or has very poor court vision, or both.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Mike Scott, the backup PF who averages 14 mpg, averages more APG than Kanter does.

****ing lol.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I clearly remember a series earlier in the year where Burks hit 2 corner 3's in a row. The next play Kanter get the ball around the FT line on a PNR. Burks is wide open in the right corner, like no one within 15 feet of him. Kanter doesn't even look his direction and drives to his right side to the rim. So he somehow managed to drive to the same side Burks was on and not even have the recognition to pass the ball to the open hot hand for a great shot (whose man was doubling down on Kanter's drive). Kanter threw up a contested 10' shot and misses and my head explodes.

 

[fishonjazz]

This is his contract year. This is the year he works to collect his fat paycheck.

Kanter has always been a hard worker. You know this.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Kanter has always been a hard worker. You know this.

Yeah like all those years he showed up to SL extremely overweight (cuz he knew as a 1st round pick he would get his minutes to play, so no pressure to come and fight for respect)?

 

[fishonjazz]

He averaged nearly 3 APG in college as a wing (very impressive).

Very similar to Burks (averaged 2.9)











My posts discussing Burks have seriously decreased..... I was due

 

[fishonjazz]

Players should get 60% of BRI and owners should fight for almost no guaranteed contracts. Guaranteed deals are ****ing garbage,

Yup.

I heard Larry Sanders is going to quit basketball. Yet he still gets paid I think

 

[stitches]

It was really weird reading opinions from several years back telling us how Kanter has great basketball IQ and how his passing is great. I never saw that. He has zero awareness on the floor. It's like he's a horse with blinders - only sees what's in front of him, no recognition of his teammates position, no recognition of spacing, no pass out of the post(he'd get double teamed and any half-decent passer out of the post will think "hey, there are two people on me, this means a teammate is probably unguarded", all he can think of is how to take his shot quicker or spin to the baseline and get into more trouble.

I can't ignore that he's improved defensively lately and his rotations are much better, but his passing game hasn't moved even an inch in the right direction from previous seasons. If we are going to play with lots of movement and passes, with lots of reads as the plays develop, we can't afford to have a player on the floor who cannot pass or make quick reads and move accordingly on the floor.