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Kevin Pelton's take - Jazz got an A-

Kelly Dwyer Yahoo Sports
https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/grading-the-2015-nba-trade-deadline-010700022.html
Utah Jazz

Received: Kendrick Perkins, first-round pick, second-round pick.

Traded: Enes Kanter, Steve Novak

In context that includes the entire franchise history, turning a top-three overall pick who puts up great per-minute stats into an expiring contract and potential first-round pick from a very good Thunder team is a bum move. Kanter was drafted in 2011 and never quite fit in with (read: he was terrible alongside) Derrick Favors, but you’d like to get a little bit more out of this, right?

For the purpose of Thursday alone? There just wasn’t much the Jazz could do. They weren’t going to throw big money at Kanter when he hits restricted free agency this summer just to watch him struggle next to Favors. That was probably the case even prior to Rudy Gobert’s emergence, and any little bit helps. Even if it’s just a guy in Perkins that you’re going to waive, and unappealing draft picks.

Grade: C
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Flc said:
There's a lot of people on here who like him, but I've always considered Monson to be a Grade-A idiot.
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He said that in Hayward we are paying for a Ferrari and getting a Buick...
 
I love it when peoples see Kanter's per minute stats, inferring that he's being restricted, and expanding his role on a team would bring THESE stats forward!!



Uhh guys, he's started for this entire season.

The reason we don't play him more is because WE ****ING BLEED POINTS for every second that he's on defense.

Teams would literally organize their offense around exploiting the Burke/Kanter P&R defense
 
Citing good per minute stats and ignoring the fact that he makes the team terrible according to other statistics is just silly.
 
Diamond77 said:
"Monson: Jazz need more than what they got for Enes Kanter"

https://www.sltrib.com/sports/2199197-155/monson-jazz-need-more-than-what
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If you change it to "The Jazz need more than what they got from Enes Kanter", then the truth is revealed. We needed that 3rd pick in the draft to be better than he was. Too bad we don't draft perfectly because otherwise we would have Klay Thompson(instead of Kanter) and Jimmy Butler or Kawhi Leonard (instead of Burks) and be thinking championship next year.

But we have to live in the real world and in the real world Kanter wasn't that valuable. It will be interesting to see how he feels about playing 24 minutes a night and no crunch time minutes because go small with Durant at the 4.
 
Flc said:
There's a lot of people on here who like him, but I've always considered Monson to be a Grade-A idiot.
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Its painful to listen to him talk about basketball.
 
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