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Preseason Game #2: OKC at UTAH
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I don't think Favors has any innate offensive ability. If the Jazz don't find a way to take advantage of his athleticism (PnR/transition), they're blowing it. Him and Kanter could be a wholly devastating combo.
You know, provided Favors wakes up from his nap.
You know, provided Favors wakes up from his nap.
All things considered, he didn't at all. Dropped out of nowhere and with no recent basketball experience as the youngest player in the NBA and buried on the depth chart where he forced KOC to trade Memo and Corbin to give him minutes (even if he deserved more a lot of the time).
This, pretty much.
His PnR defense was the best on the team last year. Besides becoming better at taking charges and blocking shots, I don't know what more you could ask from him last year. He really did a great job.
I agree we should be reasonable, but what's changed is people's perception. All we have is the last two games after the offseason, which is where you get better, and Favors appears to be worse in the pre-season than he did in the playoffs. If he always seemed like a total gamer, then this isn't a concern, but him moseying along and being good (but not great) without seeming to try particularly hard is par for the course, historically. People wanted to see if Favors had grown his skillset or his mentality, and the early results are that he hasn't in any appreciable way.
Put more succinctly, what's changed is what hasn't. That's the problem.
But again, I didn't watch either game. I just don't see how a talented monster puts up very pedestrian numbers against bad competition.
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Not exactly true. Illegal defense rules meant someone had to pretend to guard him. That's one of the things the Jazz offense was built around.
Since the rules changed, yeah, Brewer and AK kind of ruined everything, especially since it made keeping one of the worst interior defenders in the entire league on the floor a necessity (next to the other one of the worst interior defenders in the league).
As this all pertains to Favors, there are a lot of teams that have Cs who's offense doesn't have to be respected in a vacuum (which is why Jefferson's man-to-man D is good but overrated; he's not guarding anyone, and that's exactly why he got moved from the 4 to the 5), but you can't really send help out from the middle and just leave a guy next the hoop unguarded. If there's one guy you can hide on offense, it's a big.
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I agree but he lacked his same success against fast guards' drives and pg-c duos that have a presence on p&r's. This game, he was so quick to react to the guard fleeing off from the screen. Maybe his undeniable emotional game made me think so. But I'm sure his feet are hell of a lot quicker. 2ndly, on one possession, he grabbed the ball and layed it up so quickly that I couldn't believe it even I have heard about his improvement stories. Great first home game to see him actually do what he claims.