Enes Kanter: Immaturity and controversial path he took

[phippsj]

To be fair to Kanter, the draft sucks for the players and in some ways screws them over. Imagine graduating college, and instead of you picking the job you want, you are told, "hey, congrats, you are off to North Dakota for the next 4-8 or 9 years!"

That would suck, and I'd probably try to get out too. I don't blame Kobe for forcing his way to LA. I don't blame Eli for forcing his way to NY. Or Elway to Denver. If you can do it, do it. Kanter got his way. Let's see what he does with it.

Also, doesn't mean I don't hope Durrant and Westbrook leave and OKC ends up at the bottom of the West with Kanter leading them there.

You mean like all those guys in College going through ROTC only to have the government tell them where they will live (in the world) and fight (in the world)? Yeah... I really feel for a guy whose making millions to pay a game because he didn't get to pick which city he lived in during the season. Poor baby.

 

[Siro]

To be fair to Kanter, the draft sucks for the players and in some ways screws them over. Imagine graduating college, and instead of you picking the job you want, you are told, "hey, congrats, you are off to North Dakota for the next 4-8 or 9 years!"

That would suck, and I'd probably try to get out too.

What a hilarious comment. 99.9% of college graduates would absolutely **** their pants with joy if they were offered tens of millions of dollars to work for a few years on an oil rig in the middle of the ****ing ocean.

I honestly can't believe you think his situation wouldn't be dream-like for practically anyone.

 

[stitches]

To be fair to Kanter, the draft sucks for the players and in some ways screws them over. Imagine graduating college, and instead of you picking the job you want, you are told, "hey, congrats, you are off to North Dakota for the next 4-8 or 9 years!"

That would suck, and I'd probably try to get out too. I don't blame Kobe for forcing his way to LA. I don't blame Eli for forcing his way to NY. Or Elway to Denver. If you can do it, do it. Kanter got his way. Let's see what he does with it.

Also, doesn't mean I don't hope Durrant and Westbrook leave and OKC ends up at the bottom of the West with Kanter leading them there.

That's not exactly the situation he's put in though, is it? The situation he's put in is - "The NBA is this entity that has those rules, do you accept those rules and want to enter or not? (option 1) Oh, you do! Ok then, go to North Dakota for 4-8 years and make 80 million bucks in the process. (option 2) Oh you don't want to be told where to work, sure, no worries - you have the right to go to work almost anywhere in the world. Sure, you will make less money, but the you will have the freedom be wherever you want"... Enes himself chose option 1, nobody forced him into it. I wonder why?

 

[Maneesh]

I like it that we get rid of Kanter fans. It's worth it.

 

[Beer]

What a hilarious comment. 99.9% of college graduates would absolutely **** their pants with joy if they were offered tens of millions of dollars to work for a few years on an oil rig in the middle of the ****ing ocean.

I honestly can't believe you think his situation wouldn't be dream-like for practically anyone.

If I was a young single millionaire SLC would probably be pretty low on my list of places to live. That being said I'd live anywhere if someone will pay me millions to do so.

 

[JimLes]

He didn't want to go to a team where he would be the 5th big.

Dude didn't play a minute of college ball, sat out not just an entire season, but the first few months of the next one, put up 2 PPG and 1.5 RPG in 4 minutes of action in Turkey. But yeah, it's unreasonable to expect his 19-year old *** to play backup to a legit 20-10 player, a future All-Star entering his prime, and the ACC Rookie of the Year.

 

[JimLes]

Also.

 

[freakazoid]

I guess we better just start asking the college guys where they want to play before we draft them. I wouldn't want to hurt their feelings by drafting them when they might not want to be here. Maybe we could just send out a questionnaire instead of scouting and then make a list of the guys that check "Utah" as a place they would deign to play. Then we can draft accordingly. That way no one gets their feelings hurt, no one has to worry about being in such a horrible place, and we can guarantee we get a guy that wants us too. Everybody feels good and no one has to be an adult. Win-win for all the crybaby ******* out there.

Yep, and while we're at it, we shouldn't have drafted Exum either, because he didn't want to come here. We probably should have drafted some scrub from the mid-first with the 5th pick. We also should have checked with Favors before we traded for him, cuz guess what? He didn't want to come to Utah either. Just so long as we only draft guys who want to play in Utah, doesn't matter if they suck. My hell, some of the ish that gets posted here...

 

[Maneesh]

If I was a young single millionaire SLC would probably be pretty low on my list of places to live. That being said I'd live anywhere if someone will pay me millions to do so.

I always wonder why? I have come to slc 3 times and found nice looking randoms twice. I can find it anywhere and especially if am a millionaire I will get randoms everyday no matter where I am.

 

[Sexual Favors]

Favors wasn't happy about being traded to the Jazz, but he loves it here now. Just because someone doesn't want to come here initially doesn't mean they won't change their mind later.

Tell that to Dominique Wilkins.

Although, that was another trade that worked out well for us in the big picture.

 

[JimLes]

I was just about to say that if you're 18-22, a millionaire, 6'+ with a chiseled physique and have trouble getting laid by attractive women in any US location with a population of over 10000, it ain't the city, it's you. You'd have to not just not have game, you'd have to have negative game.

 

[Nate505]

Not drafting a player because of depth at a position is the same sort of dumbassery that led the Blazers to take Sam Bowie over Jordan.

Say Tim Duncan was in that draft. Should the Jazz not have drafted a future HOFer because they were loaded at that position?