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What happened to Derrick Favors at the age of 25 and can he bounce back?

I feel for Favors because when he came in the league the staff wanted to beef him up and turn him into a post-up player and now we are asking him to slim down. That's probably rough on his body, especially for a guy who puts on muscle mass so freaking easily.
 
The wild **** about Favors is that he weighed 245 coming into the NBA and he looked skinny back then.

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Saint Cy of JFC said:
The wild **** about Favors is that he weighed 245 coming into the NBA and he looked skinny back then.

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Yah... he looked like he needs to put some more muscle on. If he gets back to about 250, I think he will be alright. Both for health and mobility reasons I think it will do wonders for him.

The freaky thing was... he was 245 with 6% body fat.
 
stitches said:
Yah... he looked like he needs to put some more muscle on. If he gets back to about 250, I think he will be alright. Both for health and mobility reasons I think it will do wonders for him.

The freaky thing was... he was 245 with 6% body fat.
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I would guess he has been playing the last 2 seasons in the 270 range.
 
stitches said:
Yah... he looked like he needs to put some more muscle on. If he gets back to about 250, I think he will be alright. Both for health and mobility reasons I think it will do wonders for him.

The freaky thing was... he was 245 with 6% body fat.
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I'm just saying in today's NBA if he came in with that body teams would be great w/ that size, and just look to add incremental strength/core gains. Seems like we were too focused on blowing him up to be a post bruiser and that could be a reason for his rapid health decline.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
I'm just saying in today's NBA if he came in with that body teams would be great w/ that size, and just look to add incremental strength/core gains. Seems like we were too focused on blowing him up to be a post bruiser and that could be a reason for his rapid health decline.
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Speculative as ****. Last year you were totally sure it was his bed.
 
Siro said:
Speculative as ****. Last year you were totally sure it was his bed.
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Weight and issues caused by a bad mattress arent mutually exclusive injury enablers.

There is data proving players north of 270 lbs face a much greater injury risk.
 
Jazz4ever said:
He's not that heavy. Brook Lopez, Marc Gasol are 270 and completely dwarf Favors when the guard each other.
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He was definitely 270 or over.

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That is a picture of Favors in his first SL game. He weighed in at 245 at the draft combine that year.
 
stitches said:
I think he was listed at 269lbs for last season... or the season before...
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This past season he was weighed in a 265 at training camp. IDK about the prior season, that stuff is hard to find.

IDK how anyone can outright deny that Favors was in the 270+ range given his massive frame and how heavy he was entering the NBA Draft Combine despite looking pretty thin (especially compared to how thicc he is now). Given the knee and back issues he probably had trouble losing weight which only compounded his problems due to the 270 lb injury threshold.
 
Will Favors have the same problems Nerlens Noel is having in getting a decent contract? Favors has a little more range, but Noel can guard 5 positions, and is younger.
Maybe he sticks with the Jazz for about 15m a year.
 
Jazz4ever said:
Will Favors have the same problems Nerlens Noel is having in getting a decent contract? Favors has a little more range, but Noel can guard 5 positions, and is younger.
Maybe he sticks with the Jazz for about 15m a year.
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It depends on how well he plays this upcoming year. He will be a UFA so he will have an easier time signing a contract.

I doubt Favors gets 15 million a year though. I bet he is closer to 10 million.

How many teams need a starting center? How many teams are going to view Favors as a PF?
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
This past season he was weighed in a 265 at training camp. IDK about the prior season, that stuff is hard to find.

IDK how anyone can outright deny that Favors was in the 270+ range given his massive frame and how heavy he was entering the NBA Draft Combine despite looking pretty thin (especially compared to how thicc he is now). Given the knee and back issues he probably had trouble losing weight which only compounded his problems due to the 270 lb injury threshold.
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And yet he only weighed 265 going into last season.
 
Favors/Gobert were +4.8 per 48 in their time on court together two years ago. As a team, we were just +1.8 per game.
 
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