Portland All-Jilted Sometimes You Dodge the Bullet and Sometimes It Dodges You Team

well...disagree across the board...I think Kanter is a better PF than you give him credit for....it's all good....Kanter played really well next to Steven Adams in OKC....don't see the difference playing next to Nurk

 

I think he's a tad slow.

 

Kanter didn't play next to Steven Adams in OKC. He was his back up and averaged about 20 MPG.

When OKC got Kanter from UTA at the trade deadline in 2015, they tried starting him at PF next to Adams for the final 26 games of the season. It didn't work so well. OKC missed the playoffs, and starting with the first game of the 2015-16 season, Kanter became Adams' full time back up. His two full seasons in OKC, Kanter only started one game - a game where Adams didn't play, and only averaged 20 - 21 MPG as Adams' back up

BTW, the reason UTA was so eager to trade Kanter - he was a poor fit next to Gobert.

BNM

 

No... That would be Felton.

 

Such a big fat... target on his back

 

That's not what happened.

 

I was actually serious. We get KD and Dame never comes to Portland. I'll take Lillard over him any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

 

RE Our tremendous luck in not signing free agent bigs who sucked with their new teams:

I like centers and power forwards who can play defense and rebound. That's Nurk, Ed, and soon, Zach. Someone like Kanter was simply never worthy of wearing the Scarlett and Black.

 

In spite of my posts in this thread, I'm not a Kanter hater. He certainly has his limitations, but he does two things very well - offensive rebounding and scoring within 3 feet of the basket. I thought he got totally screwed out of the 6th Man of the Year award in 2015-16 (he came in 3rd). He had an incredibly efficient season averaging 12.7 ppg and 8.1 rpg in only 21.0 mpg. He also had 8.1 WS and .226 WS/48, the highest of any bench player in the league (Ed Davis was 2nd with 6.7 WS and .192 WS/48 and came in 8th in the voting).

That said, back up center is Kanter's best position, by far. Playing with the second unit and averaging 20 - 21 MPG lets him use his strengths without his weaknesses being totally exploited by opposing starters.

Kanter is a MUCH more prolific scorer than Ed Davis (but with similar limited range) and a SLIGHTLY better offensive rebounder than ED (2nd in the league in ORB%, compared to Ed at 5th), but Ed is WAY, WAY better defensively, makes half as much, likes it here and is a good fit with his teammates.

Kanter doesn't suck, and will always be a good 6th man type big off the bench, like he was in OKC, but for THIS roster, I'd take Ed 1000 times out of 1000.

BNM

 

I think by that reasoning we could put Crabbe at SG. We leaped in front of the Nets to take that bullet, and they dove their hand into the wound and ripped it out and hammered it into their own chest, and stuffed some money in our shirt for our trouble.

 

What about Trenton Hassell?

 

I think some of you don't quite understand what the phrases 'dodged a bullet' and 'sometimes it dodges you,' means.