Kanter has unreal instinct around the basket. Great feel for the game offensively. He’s also jacked. I also think while he’s not a good defender, he’s not as awful as it might seem. Big men are always going to look bad when their teammates can’t keep guys in front of them and they have to constantly help. Unless you are Hakeem or Gobert etc.
Mikan drills Nurk can learn a thing or two. He has the best touch for any big man I've seen this side of ZBo.
If the style of the game had such an impact, then you would see other big men around the league with similar results. I'm assuming the data doesn't back that up....
Paul Garcia: Coach Pop on how the game has changed for bigs today: “The big on the block is pretty rare. We don’t see that very often. We see big guys now they’re shooting 3s, they’re spreading the floor. The rules have something to do with that.” – via Twitter PaulGarciaNBA
You moved the goalposts. I said they looked better here. I didn't say they have looked bad since. Here, they started on winning teams, and were our no. 3 player in box scores game after game.
Tince implied that Kanter is stronger than his opponents, so I said his muscles aren't as defined as some opponents, so everyone of a certain persuasion pulled out the dirty pictures of Kanter they keep stashed. I didn't mean to turn the thread into a porn magazine!
I don't see the 2 sides as contradicting each other. In the Stotts years we have had great-dribbling volume scoring guards, and a center who not only rebounds their misses, but also scores more than he ever did before, or after being a Blazer. The center profits from the ISO system.
I said nothing about Kanters opponents. I was saying Kanter has size and strength. I would assume his height and weight are well in the upper half of NBA players if we are doing a comparison.
Well, the thread title asked how does Kanter do it, and you answered strength, among other things. I answered that I think he's a great inside scorer due to quick instincts, not superior strength.
You did. I think you are correct also in that he has great instincts and he is very quick also. But i also think he is pretty darn strong.
But is strength the reason he gets those layups to go in against 3 tall defenders? If so, why is he better at it than equally strong NBA big men? I say it's something in his brain, the vaunted anti-Meyers Gene.
He also has a nose and 2 ears and a belly-button. The thread asks, what does he have that others don't.
