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Newsok's Berry Tramel: "Kanter had no defensive mentor with Jazz"

I don't think you can teach stupid. His problem is he is the stupidest guy in the NBA and he is an ignorant to.
 
Unfortunately I doubt the Thunder front office and coaching staff are as brain dead as the "reporter" who wrote this article.
 
Ellis269 said:
Thea best part about that article is that it glaringly overlooks the fact that Kanter's defensive mentor was Gobert. Rudy was always telling Enes where to be and how to rotate on defense. He would chastise him when he needed it and praise him when that was called for. Just because he was drafted two years later and is the same age doesn't diminish his value. Future Jazz players are going to have the same experiences. Hopefully they appreciate it more.
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Anybody remember Rudy literally pushing Enes towards the spots he needed to be at in defense and towards the rotations he needed to make? I should search for the gif...
 
Makes me wonder, who mentored Gary Payton or Shaq or Jordan on defense? Those must have been some pretty serious mentors, no doubt, since all it takes is a mentor to make a defensive star out of the LITERALLY LAST WORST DEFENDER IN THE LEAGUE apparently.
 
This article fails to explain how Gobert is our best defensive center in over twenty years as well as how Utah led the league in team defense (94.9).
 
I distinctly remember Richard Jefferson trying to help Kanter out with defense and Kanter thinking it was a joke.

Richard Jefferson on talking with Enes Kanter, "He believes that offense is more important than defense. Yes, I'm telling that to the media. Those are his own words. Not saying that he says that they're equally important. He says that in the playoffs, you need good offensive players. And I was like, you will not find a championship team that doesn't know to get stops in the last five minutes of the game."
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If Richard Jefferson was saying that publically, I'm sure that he wasn't the only one frustrated. . .
 
I know we all like to flame Kanter constantly now, but article kind of has a point.

Of course naturally great defenders don't need a defensive mentor, but maybe naturally poor ones do. Kanter had Al Jefferson to emulate, that couldn't have helped his defensive mindset since Jefferson basically used defensive possessions to rest so he could play offense. Yeah, he had Rudy and Favors, but you don't get mentored by guys your same age.
 
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