Slartibartfast wrote:Tai wrote:Slartibartfast wrote:Kanter is good value for the room so we did well.
But he's a pretty bad fit for our current roster. We've recreated the problems we had last year with too many hungry mouths to feed.
Kanter needs, needs, needs shots to be useful. He can create some through his work on the offensive boards, but he gets the rest through rolls and post-ups.
Kemba, Jaylen, Tatum, Hayward, Kanter - that is too many scoring oriented guys and too little D. Someone is gonna have to go the bench to make room for Smart.
What? What's the difference between that and Horford? Again, Horford had 3-point range but to a degree he needed the ball in his hands too.
Shots. Al was low-volume shooter and high-volume facilitator. A strong passer and ball-mover who also spaced the floor for others.
Kanter does not space the floor for others and he's not a great passer. He's a scorer. He plays well off of ball-dominant guards because he's a good roll man and offensive rebounder, but he also needs post touches to put up his points.
Kemba and Kanter in particular need to shoot the ball a lot to maintain their value. Both are terrible defenders who will be attacked repeatedly. They stay positive (or neutral in Kanter's case) primarily by scoring in impressive volume at impressive efficiency.
This type of set-up works best when the other guys on the floor are 3/D. Portland had Harkless and Aminu, two sub 14% usage guys, to work around Dame (29% usage) CJ (26%) and Nurkic/Kanter (25/23).
Asking 2 of Hayward/Tatum/Jaylen to be shooter spectators is not going to go over well.
I notice you didn't say anything on Kemba. Even in his interview with SVP on Sportscenter, he admitted without explicitly saying it that he could compete in Boston, cause reality is no one was really around him in Charlotte thus he took more shots. I wanna see how he plays now that he actually has players like Hayward/Tatum/Brown. Not saying he won't put up shots, but I don't think you're giving enough credit to what Kemba's joining in Boston vs what he's leaving.
You have a point on Horford being a better passer, but apart from that, he has similar FGA to Kanter. The only thing even there as I mentioned is that Horford can shoot 3's, but it's not like he put up less actual shots than Kanter. One other thing I notice is that Kanter's a bit of a better rebounder, so it works that he plays closer to the basket. Look, Horford's better by a mile I'm not disputing that, but I don't buy that suddenly we'll have a "only one ball on the court" problem that we didn't supposedly have last season.
