Enes Kanter or Brandon Knight?

[Borat]

If true, this is a pretty massive difference, IMO. Part of the appeal of Knight was getting someone so young. He's still quite young, but I personally think the year between 18 and 19 is one of the biggest.

I was thinking exact same thing. I was amazed by the fact a 17 year old kid coming into the program could accomplish what Knight did and that made me think this was really a 3 man draft (Irvin, Williams, Knight). Now, a year older overnight so to speak, he still had a great accomplishment as a freshman, but not quite as outstanding as if he were a 17 year old doing it. Definitely hurts Knight's stock for these who thought he was a year yonger. Still a great prospect though, but now looks quite a bit below Irving and Williams. Still ahead of everyone else, but seems like quite a bit of drop off after first two.

 

[Borat]

Kanter is a man among boys, from what I saw, and I would have NO fear of him being worthy of a top 3 pick.

What are you basing this on: his practice time against assistant coach? He did not play a minute for KU and couldn't even practice with the team this year.

 

[Dr. Jones]

Borat: I've explained this earlier in the thread. It's not true that Kanter wasn't able to practice with the team. He was able to work out prior to being declared ineligible and there is more to the story as well. Playing against Nazr, Demarcus, etc.

I'm not trying to be a know-it-all, just sharing what I know and have seen.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Voting Kanter because of PKM.

 

[Borat]

Borat: I've explained this earlier in the thread. It's not true that Kanter wasn't able to practice with the team. He was able to work out prior to being declared ineligible and there is more to the story as well. Playing against Nazr, Demarcus, etc.

I'm not trying to be a know-it-all, just sharing what I know and have seen.

His workout agains Demarcus, Nazr, and so on, were they one on one workouts, or a game setting where both participated playing organized ball?

 

[Dr. Jones]

5 on 5 game setting. Organized? Wouldn't go quite that far. More street ball really. Nevertheless, it was obvious to this layperson that he was the best on the court, by a lot.

 

[margodydek]

5 on 5 game setting. Organized? Wouldn't go quite that far. More street ball really. Nevertheless, it was obvious to this layperson that he was the best on the court, by a lot.

I was starting to get excited that DWill was going to fall to us, and now I might be leaning once again towards Kanter. This is going to be a long month. Thanks PKM.

 

[BENTLEY]

Dwill2 or Kanter? Take whoever falls.

 

[Dr. Jones]

^^^ Very true.

 

[Jazz4ever]

^^^ Very true.

What do you think the main reason for Kanter not interviewing with us though? Be honest. The June 2nd workout is not a valid excuse because he has full day workouts with everyone. He also declined Toronto and Milwaukee, where he would get plenty of playing time but they also have the reputation of being less "desirable" places to play. Interesting....

 

[SojoDave]

What do you think the main reason for Kanter not interviewing with us though? Be honest. The June 2nd workout is not a valid excuse because he has full day workouts with everyone. He also declined Toronto and Milwaukee, where he would get plenty of playing time but they also have the reputation of being less "desirable" places to play. Interesting....

Honestly, it's because Utah sucks!

 

[Dr. Jones]

What do you think the main reason for Kanter not interviewing with us though? Be honest. The June 2nd workout is not a valid excuse because he has full day workouts with everyone. He also declined Toronto and Milwaukee, where he would get plenty of playing time but they also have the reputation of being less "desirable" places to play. Interesting....

Take this with a grain of salt, because I have yet to have any credible confirmation, but here's what I have heard ..

Enes' agent 'spoke for' his client and unilaterally made a decision to try to push for a large market. His reasoning, as I've heard, is Enes has a huge, very likeable personality (this much is certainly true) and has a huge upside in the NBA. Agent feels he's doing Enes a favor by pushing him into a city where the endorsement potential is greater than that of the salary differential. As part of the story, Calipari and 'others' intervened and urged Kanter to interview and be open to every team in the NBA, to which Enes agreed completely. Thus, the June 2nd meeting as well as others.