Kentucky coach John Calipari discusses Turkish center Enes Kanter.

[Chad Feldheimer]

I for one am shocked that the Kentucky coach wouldn't endorse a Duke or Arizona guy over a guy he recruited and that had committed to UK.

 

[NUMBERICA]

The ONLY thing worth a damn in this entire blathering ramble is how he compares two of his own and apparently has Kanter ahead of Knight on his board. And even taking THAT into consideration is something you have to take with a grain of salt (per GVC's sentiments, which are valid especially given Calipari's deserved reputation).

 

[Siro]

After seeing how Calipari talks, I'm in the mood for some James Joyce.

 

[YB85]

Enes Kanter is the scariest player who will probably be available for the Jazz since Kevin McHale. I have been a Knight supporter all along, but I go back to the old NBA saying that if you're going to make a draft mistake, make a big mistake. They should take Kanter.

 

[mdalby]

I jjust don't want DWill 2 to fall to us.

 

[//r00t 4 Jazz]

After all, even Sloan was way off in assessing Mo Williams and Wes potential, in spite of these guys playing a whole year for him, causing us to decline to match and lose excellent players. So, I am just not sure whether to believe Cal here.

I'm pretty sure Sloan and the Jazz wanted to keep both but it came down to $$$, on top of it while Sloan had influence it is KOC's job with the money made available by Miller's. So I know that didn't have anything to do with the draft just thought I'd share my opinion on what happened regarding the example you used.

 

[GVC]

I'm pretty sure Sloan and the Jazz wanted to keep both but it came down to $$$, on top of it while Sloan had influence it is KOC's job with the money made available by Miller's. So I know that didn't have anything to do with the draft just thought I'd share my opinion on what happened regarding the example you used.

I think with Mo it came down to minutes available, since the Jazz already had two burgeoning stars at the one: Carlos Arroyo and Raul Lopez.

 

[//r00t 4 Jazz]

I think with Mo it came down to minutes available, since the Jazz already had two burgeoning stars at the one: Carlos Arroyo and Raul Lopez.

I guess that is true as well and more of a factor but I was thinking since they signed Arroyo in 2004 (coming off his Olympic performance and the 42-40 season) the Jazz re-signed him for $16 million over four years so they didn't want to tie up more money in PG's.

 

[green]

i think with mo it came down to minutes available, since the jazz already had two burgeoning stars at the one: Carlos arroyo and raul lopez.

lol.

 

[sepanol]

i read this in hoopshype,
Ryan Feldman: If Jazz/Kanter really liked each other, they'd say the meeting/workout went great. But they didn't, so somebody is unhappy.

and its actually the same question back again, is this a strategy for us to keep quiet not to make minnesota draft kanter and rip some players out of our team, or we are unhappy with the workout?

 

[margodydek]

i read this in hoopshype,
Ryan Feldman: If Jazz/Kanter really liked each other, they'd say the meeting/workout went great. But they didn't, so somebody is unhappy.

and its actually the same question back again, is this a strategy for us to keep quiet not to make minnesota draft kanter and rip some players out of our team, or we are unhappy with the workout?

Feldman blew this way out of proportion. He thought because he's spoken with Kanter's agent before that he'd be able to get all the goods on his workout, but even after Kanter went against competition in the Cleveland workout he still didn't really get any info on how it went.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

How many times in the last 5 drafts, has KOC loudly praised in advance the player he was going to draft?

Right now, the Jazz have done a good job of keeping their cards close. At this point, it could legitimately be Williams, Kanter, Knight, or Vesely. No one knows with any certainty who the Jazz will take or what they will do on draft day.