Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31278419-20170331010234/@comment-734582-20170405200729

Ancladar wrote: Right. A team is only as strong as their weakest link and Kakashi should have known that. I think Kakashi (justly) realized that he could never teach those two. Sakura has a very bookish knowledge and kakashi's not really one for theoretical understanding. Naruto is very intuitive and not very analytical. Spending a lot of time teaching them wouldn't work.

Ebuzi was a bit of a butt monkey but what little we saw of him, he was able to explain fairly simply to Naruto how the walking on water worked and had grasped how Kakashi taught the tree climbing and why it worked for Naruto. So despite his reputation he was actually probably a really good teacher.

Sakura is a difficult case, but she herself didn't even seem to know what she wanted. So i get that Kakashi didn't really know what to with her.

Could it have been done better? Yes, but that would mean rewriting some things. Sakura using booksmarts could've made her a really interesting character compared to Sasuke's analysis and Naruto's intuition. Ancladar wrote: You have Tenten fight the other weak links preshippuden and she would destroy them. If the story was set up a slight bit different, Tenten would be among the strongest characters in the series. The ability to seal and unseal anything while knowing a large array of weapons? You'd never catch her unprepared. She could maintain entire armies by herself.