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Official Derrick Favors Thread

**** me I take that back. He's currently 23rd in the league in rebounds per minute. There are three rookies ahead of him (Cousins, Asik, Griffin) but still. Very solid, especially since he's not just any rookie. He's freakin' 19 and on a team that probably offers him no help in boxing out and such.
 
KrazeeEyezKilla said:
**** me I take that back. He's currently 23rd in the league in rebounds per minute. There are three rookies ahead of him (Cousins, Asik, Griffin) but still. Very solid, especially since he's not just any rookie. He's freakin' 19 and on a team that probably offers him no help in boxing out and such.
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So humble. So naive. So ignorant. So awesome.

BTW, you not Favors.
 
Archie Moses said:
A few things about Favors:

He's 19 years old.

He's the youngest guy in the NBA.

From what I've seen, he doesn't have much of an offensive game outside of a dunk. Can anyone else add to this?

He has the size and athleticism the Jazz have been craving for like a fat kid salivating at my cheese fries.

Dude can float for a big guy.

He averages 6 points a game, but he's never shot more than 10 shots per game. (He's shot 10 3x's this year)

Big man who shoots over 50% from the floor. (I wish Big Al could. With that said, there's no reason any big man in the NBA can't shoot more than 50% from the field.)

He sucks at FT's.

He's a project.

Has a very good rebound/minute ratio for a rookie.

As I said in another thread Favors risk/reward factor >>>>>> DWill resigning in 2012 risk/reward factor.

Thoughts?
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unluckyseventeen said:
After watching the video (I know.. very credible stuff about to pop out of my mouth), he reminds me of who Millsap was during his first season. Workhorse, hard rebounder, scoring on garbage plays and outworking guys. Except Favors is a better athlete and a bigger guy.

Could be really good... he really needs some grooming from a true post player.
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I agree. I'm hoping he can come off the bench and bring the hustle and rebound well like Millsap did during his first few seasons. Walt Perrin, Dir. of Jazz Personnel, was on 1320 earlier and said that a criticism of Favors is that he doesn't always seem to play hard or with a ton of energy (unlike Millsap). However, Perrin had a lot of good things to say about him overall and believes he has tremendous potential and upside.
 
Hopefully Favors gets some good 'big man' coaching this summer to hone his offensive skills. At 19, and with Hayward at 20, we got some young'uns now. Hayward and Favors can grow up together now...
 
Maybe Jefferson can teach him some post moves. It's funny how I'm not even thinking about Harris with this trade- just Favors and rebuilding.

NotDeadYet said:
Hopefully Favors gets some good 'big man' coaching this summer to hone his offensive skills. At 19, and with Hayward at 20, we got some young'uns now. Hayward and Favors can grow up together now...
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The kid is a slow learner. Even his college coach mentioned that he was extremely slow at getting up to college ball speed. He said that at the first of the year at Tech he was lost, he worked his butt off and got a little better as the season went on. His coach went on to say that by the time the NCAA tourny rolled around, he was easily the best player in the ACC and quite possibly the best in the nation. Back on draft night he said the Nets needed to be patient because it may take a year or so for the NBA light to come on, but when it does the kid will dominate. If this guy had played just one more year of college ball, many felt he would have been the best draft prospect since the likes of a Shaq or Duncan.

The biggest thing for me is that the guy's work ethic is praised everywhere he's been. Guy's like that usually come around. Plus, the Utah Jazz have NEVER had a prospect that matches the physcial dimensions of Favor's.
 
Favors is averaging 5.3 rebounds in 19.5 minutes per nite. That's 13.1 per 48.

Over his last 13 games though, he has 85 rebounds which is 6.53 per game and at under 21 minutes a game during that span, that's a rebounding rate of 15.16 per 48...granted, that's basing it off of minutes per night which aren't to the exact second on nba.com but still, you get the point. He won't be 20 'til July and he's rebounding like this.
 
Howard averaged just 10.0 rebounds and 1.7 blocks in over 32 minutes a night as a rookie of almost exactly the same age. Promising.
 
jazzman12 said:
The kid is a slow learner. Even his college coach mentioned that he was extremely slow at getting up to college ball speed. He said that at the first of the year at Tech he was lost, he worked his butt off and got a little better as the season went on. His coach went on to say that by the time the NCAA tourny rolled around, he was easily the best player in the ACC and quite possibly the best in the nation. Back on draft night he said the Nets needed to be patient because it may take a year or so for the NBA light to come on, but when it does the kid will dominate. If this guy had played just one more year of college ball, many felt he would have been the best draft prospect since the likes of a Shaq or Duncan.

The biggest thing for me is that the guy's work ethic is praised everywhere he's been. Guy's like that usually come around. Plus, the Utah Jazz have NEVER had a prospect that matches the physcial dimensions of Favor's.
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If he was that bad early in the year and the supposed best player in college by the end of that same season, wouldn't that make him a fast learner?
 
KrazeeEyezKilla said:
Howard averaged just 10.0 rebounds and 1.7 blocks in over 32 minutes a night as a rookie of almost exactly the same age. Promising.
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Millsap was the top rebounder in the world in college. And has gone downhill each year since pretty much. Maybe Favors can light a fire under Sap so Sap starts boarding again the way he can.
 
Archie Moses said:
A few things about Favors:

He's 19 years old.

He's the youngest guy in the NBA.

From what I've seen, he doesn't have much of an offensive game outside of a dunk. Can anyone else add to this?

He has the size and athleticism the Jazz have been craving for like a fat kid salivating at my cheese fries.

Dude can float for a big guy.

He averages 6 points a game, but he's never shot more than 10 shots per game. (He's shot 10 3x's this year)

Big man who shoots over 50% from the floor. (I wish Big Al could. With that said, there's no reason any big man in the NBA can't shoot more than 50% from the field.)

He sucks at FT's.

He's a project.

Has a very good rebound/minute ratio for a rookie.

As I said in another thread Favors risk/reward factor >>>>>> DWill resigning in 2012 risk/reward factor.

Thoughts?
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My thoughts on Favors... I think we should think of him as a project, ala the Lakers' Andrew Bynum. Favors seems to have a better body than Bynum & if we can get Karl to coach him up (ala Kareem w/ Bynum), I like what we could have (front-court of AJ/DF).

I hated this trade but I'm slowly opening up to this 're-tooling'...
I posted earlier how I digusted what the NBA has become (by having me think of Boozer as the Next-Malone, to then start calling him Loozer & to having Deron as our stronger version of Stock, to no start calling him a 'whiny-bitch' ala Jay Cutler), where its now a league run by spoiled, egotistical millionaires...
 
KrazeeEyezKilla said:
If he was that bad early in the year and the supposed best player in college by the end of that same season, wouldn't that make him a fast learner?
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Just telling you what was relayed by the his college coach. I see what you're saying but I think his coach was saying he was a bit suprised that he really didn't hit the ground running in college. He also pointed out the learning curve is much more difficult in the pro's and it just might prove to take him a little while.
 
jazzman12 said:
Just telling you what was relayed by the his college coach. I see what you're saying but I think his coach was saying he was a bit suprised that he really didn't hit the ground running in college. He also pointed out the learning curve is much more difficult in the pro's and it just might prove to take him a little while.
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Gotcha.
 
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