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Kanter traded to OKC

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franklin said:
This narrative that the Jazz somehow wiffed by picking Kanter in the 2011 draft is tiresome. The concensus had him going 3rd and nobody thought Leonard or Klay were top tier. https://www.nba.com/2011/news/features/05/18/consensus.mock.draft/


We were lucky Minnesota took Derrick Williams just like we were lucky Orlando took Gordon.


On the bright side, Minnesota got Luc Richard Mbah a Moute for D. Williams which is a whole lot less than DL got for Kanter.
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Great way of explaining it. Sure, it would have been nice to get two of Butler, Leonard or Klay Thompson instead of Burks and Kanter, but those guys didn't look that great in college, and Kanter seemed to have more potential.
 
b_line said:
Great way of explaining it. Sure, it would have been nice to get two of Butler, Leonard or Klay Thompson instead of Burks and Kanter, but those guys didn't look that great in college, and Kanter seemed to have more potential.
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People are also forgetting Kanter was a swing for the fences pick. Of course there was a good probability of missing.


Disagree on Klay & Leonard. I was pissed when Klay went 1 ahead of the Jazz and wanted Leonard behind him. Butler was so far down the list he's not even in the discussion.
 
franklin said:
People are also forgetting Kanter was a swing for the fences pick. Of course there was a good probability of missing.


Disagree on Klay & Leonard. I was pissed when Klay went 1 ahead of the Jazz and wanted Leonard behind him. Butler was so far down the list he's not even in the discussion.
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Yeah that's true about where the Jazz picked Burks. Klay and Leonard were not really in the discussion with number 3 though.
 
Is there a single person who thought we should trade Kanter last year? One single person? Show your work or shut your damn trap. Last year Kanter was our center of the future. This year he wasn't. That is a GOOD thing, because Kanter as our future starter wasn't going to cut it. As has been mentioned he is a poor man's Al Jefferson, but not as likable. Dude was medicore, and thank god we didn't have to settle. If Gobert would have said "Go out there and shoot Kanter in the head and drop his body into a shallow grave near Winnemucca." we would have been fools not to do it because Gobert matters and Kanter is a sideshow. The fact that we got anything out of Kanter other than a drive through the desert and bloodstains in the trunk is just a bonus. Kanter is never going to be a quality starter and EVERYONE on this board knows it. He may be a serviceable backup someday, but I'm glad the Jazz don't have to be the ones to convince him of that. Serviceable backups can be had for a cheaper price than Kanter's ego.
 
b_line said:
And Exum was a swing for the fences pick too. Hope that one turns out...
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When evaluating a "swing for the fences" pick, it is generally better to go with the one that isn't as dumb as a rusted shovel. . .I don't think that is where Exum is.
 
framer said:
Is there a single person who thought we should trade Kanter last year? One single person? Show your work or shut your damn trap. Last year Kanter was our center of the future. This year he wasn't. That is a GOOD thing, because Kanter as our future starter wasn't going to cut it. As has been mentioned he is a poor man's Al Jefferson, but not as likable. Dude was medicore, and thank god we didn't have to settle. If Gobert would have said "Go out there and shoot Kanter in the head and drop his body into a shallow grave near Winnemucca." we would have been fools not to do it because Gobert matters and Kanter is a sideshow. The fact that we got anything out of Kanter other than a drive through the desert and bloodstains in the trunk is just a bonus. Kanter is never going to be a quality starter and EVERYONE on this board knows it. He may be a serviceable backup someday, but I'm glad the Jazz don't have to be the ones to convince him of that. Serviceable backups can be had for a cheaper price than Kanter's ego.
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I've said, and a few others, that we should have never drafted him and we should have been trading him every year.
 
I find it interesting, the notion that the jazz should have drafted Kanter over Thompson or Leonard because Kanter was ranked higher by the media mock drafts. Shouldn't the teams make their own investigations and rankings? I hope that the jazz do their own and have the organizational strength to stick with it. Too bad if the teams fall back to a player they evaluate lower, just to keep their pick in line with popular opinion.
 
franklin said:
This narrative that the Jazz somehow wiffed by picking Kanter in the 2011 draft is tiresome. The concensus had him going 3rd and nobody thought Leonard or Klay were top tier....
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Is DL required to just do as the "concensus" says? If so, that must make his job a lot easier on draft days.
 
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