Celtics did not use Katner that much and u see what happens..he couldn’t shoot 3s so that’s why he didn’t play that many minutes
No. This is a flat out lie. He didn't play as much in certain matchups because he couldnt defend the PnR.
This.
And it’s a little weird to say the Celtics got rid of Kanter because they will only play bigs who shoot the 3. If that’s right, why did they go out and got Tristan Thompson? Turn down Myles Turner, who does shoot the 3? They thought TT would bring defense, championship experience, and a little chip-on-the-shoulder the team needs. Hasn’t worked out great, but clearly they didn’t get him and haven’t played him for his outside shooting.
If all they want is shooting why aren’t Kornet and Wagner playing more???
It's not because Kanter can't shoot the 3, Timelord can't either. It's because he can't switch on multiple players on the perimeter. Brad's entire coaching philosophy is based around positionless basketball, where the team switches pretty much everything. With Kanter he had to change his philosophy because Kanter can't really defend on the perimeter and can't be switched on guards. Basically, Kanter, Drummond, those types of players, Brad doesn't know how to use, or his system doesn't allow them to play to their strengths.
If you look at Kanter, n the 45-odd games he's played for Portland, playing 26 mpg he's had a 24-30, a 20-20 and a 19-19 game and a total of 26 double doubles, as well as 13 games of 15+ rebounds and 4 games of 20+ rebounds. Compare that with his tenure with us, he had 9 double doubles in 58 games averaging 16 mpg.
Brad's system just doesn't maximize the strengths of someone like Kanter, because the system magnifies his weaknesses.
The entire "Kanter in Boston" situation kinda leaves me scratching my head. Danny knows Brad's system, so why did he ever acquire Kanter, knowing that Brad wouldn't use him a ton? Conversely, why is Brad such a stickler with his system instead of being more flexible based on the players Danny gives him?
I love Kanter, loved having him in Boston, was bummed to see him leave, and I wish he'd gotten more run while he was here. I understand that he has defensive limitations, but he was easy offense and gobbled up rebounds. And doesn't Thompson have similar defensive limitations? He's not a great perimeter defender, is he?
I think the main reason Kanter was acquired was to defend against Embiid, after we lost Horford. Kanter's lateral speed is too slow for him to be switched to guards on the perimeter, so he's always a risk defending the pick and roll, but he's a solid man-to-man defender against bigs like Embiid because he can keep them in front of him and he has the bulk to not get sonned in the paint. And since Philly (at the time we acquired Kanter) didn't really have a great pick and roll game since they had no outside shooters and since Simmons can't shoot coming off a screen, he doesn't really run the PnR with Embiid (last year I think Philly was 2nd last in pick and roll possession frequency at 12.5%). So Kanter was a pretty decent defender to use against Embiid and if you look at his defensive rating vs Philly last year it was 108 vs an offensive rating of 131. But he was only ever going to be a tactical substitution for that reason, which is why he ended up with the same mpg as GWill who is probably half the rebounder and scorer Kanter is but fit into Brad's system better. And I can't remember the timing but I wouldn't be surprised if Danny looked at Philly collecting shooters like Curry and Green who could run PnR with Embiid and decided that Kanter was now superfluous to operations.
Why not change the system you say? My guess is it's not so much a need to change the system as it is the fact that the way the game has evolved, teams were attacking him. You'd need to change how far your help defense stood from their matchups to make sure you could cover for him, which would then affect how they would defend on the perimeter and go into rotation...it was probably too big a change for too many other players for too minimal a benefit to cover for one player's inadequacies. I haven't watched enough games with Portland to see how they are using him but given they also have Nurkic who is a similar player. Terry Stotts probably has a game plan that better uses Kanter's strengths.
As for Kardashian, he's a much quicker player on the perimeter than Kanter does. The flipside is he doesn't have quite as much bulk which is why he was getting thrown around like a rag doll by Embiid during the times we played them.
Also this is not to say that Brad doesn't want, or can't incorporate bigs into his system...I'm sure he can, but they have to be the right kind of bigs. Like someone like AD or KAT or Jokic, he'll have no problem incorporating them. Solid passers at the top of the key who can initiate offense and more importantly players who can defend multiple positions. If they can shoot the 3 it's a bonus but they need to be able to switch 2-5, if not 1-5. It's the Monroe/Kanter types that become really situational players for him. IMHO.
Now it will be interesting to see if Brad attacks Kanter, if Kanter starts for Portland
