Re: 11/20 - 11/26 Games Discussion Thread
One of the best as in top 20ish overall, top 5ish for bigs, which is definitely a real thing. You inevitably score more points when you play more minutes and take more shots. Kanter topped at averaging over 24 per 36 just two seasons ago, which comparatively is only about 3-4 points less than Anthony Davis, Cousins, Embiid that season, and the same rate as KAT in what was his best season.
And that's just scoring, so when you also factor in that the only player over the past 3-4 seasons who's every year been a better offensive rebounder than him is Andre Drummond, and the fact that he's a great screen and roll option in a screen and roll league, I think he's definitely one of the best all around offensive bigs.. He just won't ever sniff 30+ minutes a night when he can be exposed so badly at the other end, and he doesn't have the ability to make a bad team good.
It's one thing to have just one fluke season, it's another thing to do it year in and year out for 4-5 straight seasons, and the one stretch of games he was starting a playing 31 minutes he was getting his 19 and 11 and would have averaged a league's 2nd best effort of 5 offensive boards a game.
Yes still rambling about Kanter, which like you said nobody gives a **** about Kanter, I don't even give a **** about Kanter, but it's less to do with him and more to do with things like this just interest me in general. Like it's interesting to me that the landscape of today's league doesn't allow a player like him to get minutes, yet hes a guy who literally is scoring at the rate of a top 20 scorer in the league, rebounding at the rate of a top 3 offensive rebounder, and works the pick-and-roll as well as anyone in the league. And is the only player who's doing all 3 of those at the same time. Whether it's Kanter or anyone else doesn't matter, it just interests me in general.
One of the best as in top 20ish overall, top 5ish for bigs, which is definitely a real thing. You inevitably score more points when you play more minutes and take more shots. Kanter topped at averaging over 24 per 36 just two seasons ago, which comparatively is only about 3-4 points less than Anthony Davis, Cousins, Embiid that season, and the same rate as KAT in what was his best season.
And that's just scoring, so when you also factor in that the only player over the past 3-4 seasons who's every year been a better offensive rebounder than him is Andre Drummond, and the fact that he's a great screen and roll option in a screen and roll league, I think he's definitely one of the best all around offensive bigs.. He just won't ever sniff 30+ minutes a night when he can be exposed so badly at the other end, and he doesn't have the ability to make a bad team good.
It's one thing to have just one fluke season, it's another thing to do it year in and year out for 4-5 straight seasons, and the one stretch of games he was starting a playing 31 minutes he was getting his 19 and 11 and would have averaged a league's 2nd best effort of 5 offensive boards a game.
Yes still rambling about Kanter, which like you said nobody gives a **** about Kanter, I don't even give a **** about Kanter, but it's less to do with him and more to do with things like this just interest me in general. Like it's interesting to me that the landscape of today's league doesn't allow a player like him to get minutes, yet hes a guy who literally is scoring at the rate of a top 20 scorer in the league, rebounding at the rate of a top 3 offensive rebounder, and works the pick-and-roll as well as anyone in the league. And is the only player who's doing all 3 of those at the same time. Whether it's Kanter or anyone else doesn't matter, it just interests me in general.
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