Bassong doesn't look nor has performed like a £10m defender - he is performing like a young player with no fear, playing on confidence due to playing regularly with an added bit of spotlight on him not because he's been simply outstanding but because the rest or most of those alongside him are either performing crap or not so well as they can do making him seem all the more better. He's playing reasonably well and showing promise, nothing more.
Beye, Coloccini and Bassong all looked very assured in the same defence, the clean sheets despite the woeful midfield speak for themselves.
Bassong's performance's against Chelsea, Spurs and Portsmouth show more then promise tbh, he's shown excellent physicality, discipline, and game reading abilities. Happy to agree with Kinnear on this one, he's been an absolute revelation