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Surprised Fess hasn't been picked up

Beantown

Beantown

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With the supposed big men shortage in the NBA I'm shocked no team has picked him up. Especially with guys like Kwame Brown getting 7 mill a year. I thought he was a serviceable back up big man. Hopefully he lands on an NBA team.
 
He sucks, doesn't take basketball seriously, has never been in shape in his career, and as I mentioned before, he sucks.
 
Fes has good athletic ability for his size, but he has no fundamentals to speak of. If you took Millsap's brain and put it in Fes's body, he could be an all star. But that doesn't work, does it?
 
Hollinger thinks he is the best kept secret in the NBA:

https://insider.espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/2011-12-uth-preview/utah-jazz-player-profiles

The best-kept secret in the NBA right now is Fesenko's monstrous defensive stats. It's not that one or two metrics point out his defensive value; it's that all of them do, without any pointing to the contrary.

Last season the Jazz were an eye-popping 11.91 points per 100 possessions better on defense with Fesenko on the floor, and this is not a new trend. The season before it was 8.67; in limited minutes his first two seasons he also had a strong differential.
 
There is no doubt Fess provides a presence on defense. His size and length keep opposing players out of the lane, and he did a number on Nene when Memo tore his achillies. We would have lost that series without Fess. You don't see the impact in his stats.

Offensively he is abysmal. He has the pieces to be a pretty good player, but as other posters have said, he has no motivation.

We gave him a shot and we have great talent at the 4/5 so I can see why we let him go. He also doesn't get fair treatment by the refs, which gets him into foul trouble. (Ostertag had the same problem with the refs).
 
AlaskanAssassin said:
Hollinger thinks he is the best kept secret in the NBA:

https://insider.espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/2011-12-uth-preview/utah-jazz-player-profiles

The best-kept secret in the NBA right now is Fesenko's monstrous defensive stats. It's not that one or two metrics point out his defensive value; it's that all of them do, without any pointing to the contrary.

Last season the Jazz were an eye-popping 11.91 points per 100 possessions better on defense with Fesenko on the floor, and this is not a new trend. The season before it was 8.67; in limited minutes his first two seasons he also had a strong differential.
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Thank you I knew there was some info about his defense because Locke was referring to it the other day.

So eat crow other posters.

Also he's a much better option than guys like Kwame Brown, Aaron Gray, etc.
 
Fess should still be on THIS team. He is a defensive stud and we lack that at other positions. Lots of teams do well with a defensive center who does little on offense. The Jazz are just still too much in love with the ole Stockton-Malone duo and will accept poor defense if they get a big who is reminiscent of Malone.

For all who say he is not motivated, not in shape, does not care, etc etc: 1) How do you KNOW that? 2.) If he still produces, and he does, why does 1 matter?
 
Do you think Fes could do better than 3 rebounds in 20 minutes? What if Coach used his smoking habit as a motivator?

"Fess, I'll let you have a smoke at halftime if you get 7 rebounds and block 4 shots in the first half."
 
You would think that with his dominant +/- and how he kills the Lakers that he would have been signed by now, injured or not. The world is not right.
 
Beantown said:
Thank you I knew there was some info about his defense because Locke was referring to it the other day.

So eat crow other posters.
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LOL - eat crow?

Right now Fes is half way round the world passed out on a couch with a bong in his hand while some Euro-trash TV is blaring in the background. What exactly is there to eat crow about?

I'm sure he might get another look or two because of his freakish size; but I'm willing to bet he's already played the majority of games he'll ever play in the NBA..
 
mellow said:
Do you think Fes could do better than 3 rebounds in 20 minutes? What if Coach used his smoking habit as a motivator?

"Fess, I'll let you have a smoke at halftime if you get 7 rebounds and block 4 shots in the first half."
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You are being ridiculous... 4 blocks per half is absurdly high...
If he got one cig for every possession that the other team failed to score while he was on the floor, then you might be on to something.
 
midnight_hwy said:
That's what I thought. Seems like he was hurt in the Euro games this past summer.
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yes, he has a major knee injury. Fes isn't playing for anyone anytime soon. As lazy as he is, he may not be able to play next year ether.

Look I know he has a lot of talent, and he can help a team play better defense, but his pee sized brain and lack of commitment negates all of it. That's why I'm the biggest Fes hater on this board. Fes is the biggest wast of space in the nba, if he doesn't want to even bother to work on his game or conditioning how is he ever going to get minutes! Fes has been in the league for 3 or 4 years, if he hasn't figured this out by now he never will
 
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