When the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Utah Jazz on Friday night, there wasn’t many people, if anyone, that would’ve picked the Jazz to pull off a dominating victory. Maybe except for one man, Utah Jazz center Enes Kanter. From CSN Bay Area.
When asked if he saw Klay Thompson‘s 37-point quarter, Kanter confessed that he did and said, “Who cares?” “I think we have enough talent to guard (Thompson) and everyone on their team,” he said. … “Andrew Bogut: Big guy, knows a littler Turkish, I don’t know what to say about him,” Kanter said. “He’s just, I don’t know, a big guy — nothing special.”
Also from Aaron Falk of The Salt Lake Tribune.
Friday night’s wasn’t Kanter’s best game of the season, but he and the Jazz looked hungrier on the court. Kanter, who had been averaging better than 19 points and 10 rebounds during his five games coming into the contest with the Warriors, finished with five points and 10 rebounds. Bogut, who missed his team’s game Tuesday with the flu, played 23 minutes, scoring four points and grabbing four boards. Meanwhile, Thompson had just 12 points on 5-of-10 shooting. “Yup!!” Kanter wrote on Twitter after the game. “Just like what I said..! What A Win”.
Kanter said a lot there. Talking trash on Klay Thompson and his amazing performance, and the Warriors team as a whole but for some reason he believed in his team and wasn’t shy about it. The Jazz are just 17-30 on the season, and are 10.5 games out of the eight seed in the West. The Warriors, meanwhile, have been undoubtedly in the conversation as one of the top 2 best teams in the league to this point of the season and lead the West but for some reason, Kanter just didn’t care.
