LjJazzman
Well-Known Member
I can't remember a player who is more all over the place then Kanter. His high and low swings are unbelievable. He seems to be a different player every 10 games with no two 10 game stretches during his entire career the same. You love him one play and hate him the next. No player has frustrated me more.
He is obviously incredibly skilled on offense. He's starting to understand his limitations better, and play within the offense more. His one dribble drives are a thing of beauty. His improvement in the post from where he started is amazing. His outside shot has gotten better but still needs a lot of work.
Defense is obviously his biggest issue. For the first 15 games or so he looked like one of the single worst defensive bigs in the league. Bad one on one, and even worse on team defense. Slow to react, slow to recover, and not enough intensity. He looks like he just didn't "get it". He has improved a lot in the last 10 games or so games. Playing with more intensity, not sagging off his guy when he shouldn't, and playing half way decent one on one D. So what happens during the next 10 games? Does he go back to being bad, or does he keep improving? Sadly neither would surprise me.
So the multi million dollar question is do we see him playing for us next year? Its hard to think we let a player with that much skill leave especially when we drafted him #3 over all. Rudys improvement also has to factor in to it. I wish we would see more of Favors and Rudy together to know if that can work long term or not.
I'd like to keep this thread to keep a pulse on what Jazz fans think of Kanter, if we think he will return, if he's going to be trade, and if we WANT him to be back. I'm waiting awhile to cast my vote.
He is obviously incredibly skilled on offense. He's starting to understand his limitations better, and play within the offense more. His one dribble drives are a thing of beauty. His improvement in the post from where he started is amazing. His outside shot has gotten better but still needs a lot of work.
Defense is obviously his biggest issue. For the first 15 games or so he looked like one of the single worst defensive bigs in the league. Bad one on one, and even worse on team defense. Slow to react, slow to recover, and not enough intensity. He looks like he just didn't "get it". He has improved a lot in the last 10 games or so games. Playing with more intensity, not sagging off his guy when he shouldn't, and playing half way decent one on one D. So what happens during the next 10 games? Does he go back to being bad, or does he keep improving? Sadly neither would surprise me.
So the multi million dollar question is do we see him playing for us next year? Its hard to think we let a player with that much skill leave especially when we drafted him #3 over all. Rudys improvement also has to factor in to it. I wish we would see more of Favors and Rudy together to know if that can work long term or not.
I'd like to keep this thread to keep a pulse on what Jazz fans think of Kanter, if we think he will return, if he's going to be trade, and if we WANT him to be back. I'm waiting awhile to cast my vote.
