https://youtu.be/XBOjC0vJoCQ
24 minutes, 24 points for Enes Kanter in this game. Plus 12 rebounds, 8 offensive. A nice, even set of statisticles for “Mr. Rebounds” (as Warriors color commentator Kelenna Azubuike called him, I would never use such a lame, uncreative nickname). If you’re any good at math at all, you can easily figure out his per 36 numbers from this game, or if you’re kinda crappy at math, you can at least figure out his per 48 numbers.
We’re not even going to talk about what he was doing on the other side of the floor. Everyone and their mothers knows about that aspect of his game, it does not need to be discussed further. Besides, I don’t care about defense anyway.
The fact that I don’t give even a single, solitary hoot about defense definitely colors my perception of his overall efficacy. What I’m about to say might shock you, but I’ve been thinking about this real hard, harder than I’ve ever thought about anything before in my life (besides what to name this channel, man, you should have seen some of the failed drafts before “DownToBuck” emerged, fully formed, from my axonal matrix), and I think that Kanter has actually had an okay career for a 3rd overall pick.
Crazy, right? He hasn’t been great, obviously, as evidenced by the fact that he’s seemingly on a new team every season, but just look at the numbers. The per-minute numbers, I mean. No matter what kind of situation he’s in, you know you can count on him to run in there, grab some balls, and shove those balls into holes. Just shove ’em right in there. With fury. Turkish fury.
I’m too lazy to go into a more detailed analysis of why I don’t think he’s a bust at all, and I’m also going to be too lazy to read any rebuttals of my assertion. So you’re just going to have to deal with the fact that I’m really, really wrong on this one.