Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31278419-20170915213819/@comment-9782468-20170916221708

Kakashi isn't the best teacher, I think. But I don't think he was bad, per se.

I mean, him sending them to the Chunin exams wasn't because he'd think they'd really win. I think he sent them to give them more experience in Shinobi situations, since they were complaining about their D rank missions. It was a good idea to show them what they'd be up against in terms of Shinobi combat, with their wide variety of opponents.

As far as how much he focused on Sasuke; yes, he focused very much on Sasuke. But I think he did the best he could, and here's why:

Sasuke was very clearly on the path of revenge. Kakashi knew that the first day he met him. At first, Kakashi only trained them and took them on missions and stuff, to build teamwork and whatnot. But when Sasuke got the curse mark and was showing signs of rejecting teamwork for his path of revenge, Kakashi put more time into his development. He gave him more power so he wouldn't rely on the curse mark. He lectured him when Sasuke was falling farther. The lecture when he tied Sasuke to the tree almost got Sasuke to stay; you could see that Sasuke was rethinking things. Orochimaru got to him with the Sound Four. If not for Orochimaru, Kakashi would have brought Sasuke back.

With Naruto, he knew he couldn't train more than one Genin so intensely for the Chunin exams, especially knowing Sasuke was fighting Gaara. So he handed Naruto to the man who's only job is to train future Hokage, Ebisu. He didn't have time to train Naruto at the time, so he got someone who was more adept at teaching than himself. Of course, then Jiraiya took over from Ebisu.

With Sakura, remember the only thing he taught the team as a whole was chakra control (which is very important for Shinobi anyways; he could teach them more if they had their basics mastered). Since she was gifted with it, he didn't train her farther until the other two caught up. Then the Chunin exams roll around, where he couldn't coach them through round 1 or 2. Then in round 3 prelims Sakura drew in her fight against Ino, so she was out of the exams. Since she was out of the exams, Kakashi made sure the two who would be fighting had really good training; Naruto and Sasuke. He'd probably go back to all of them once the exams were over, if the story had permitted.

Also, Sakura had tied in her fight against Ino. So no, she wasn't the weakest; at least she was tied with Ino.

And let's look at the development of Team 7 under Kakashi until the Chunin exams:

Sasuke went from pretty good, to matching Lee's speed without weights and having the A rank jutsu Chidori. Remember that the Sharingan can help him mimic fighting styles and whatnot, but only if the body can keep up. So Kakashi literally trained Sasuke's physical prowess up to match Lee's at least for a short time. He did this in a month, while also teaching him Chidori.

Naruto had gone from the nearly useless Ninja that he was, to beating Neji in the exams. He also improved his chakra control to the point of being able to stick to trees (which for Naruto, is a big development considering his poor chakra control).

Sakura went from falling to D rank Genjutsu to seeing through Genjutsu faster then Sasuke, as well as drawing against Ino who, unlike her, had a special ability.

Kakashi wasn't the best, maybe, but he did pretty well with what he had.