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Should the Jazz shut Favors down for a while?

When the Trib beat writer calls the team out for dogging it on D, it has to be time to let Morgan, Oni, Brantley, Forrest, Hughes and the new signee have some burn.
 
If Azubuike can get back by mid-April - that could really help the defense in the 2nd unit. He'd be learning still, but the other 4 men on the floor would know exactly what they are doing. He just needs to learn the lesson, that took Rudy a couple of season to figure out - don't jump.

The nice part would be with him in the middle, you would play exactly the same style of defensive you would if Favors or Gobert were there. But, you'd have his 7'7" wingspan patrolling the paint. If nothing else, it would give us 18 fouls to give from the 5 spot.
 
Joncolton said:
If Azubuike can get back by mid-April - that could really help the defense in the 2nd unit. He'd be learning still, but the other 4 men on the floor would know exactly what they are doing. He just needs to learn the lesson, that took Rudy a couple of season to figure out - don't jump.

The nice part would be with him in the middle, you would play exactly the same style of defensive you would if Favors or Gobert were there. But, you'd have his 7'7" wingspan patrolling the paint. If nothing else, it would give us 18 fouls to give from the 5 spot.
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He probably won't be ready though. Those G-League minutes would have been crucial.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Because the Jazz had no choice but to blow the full MLE on a broken-down player, so they had to select HIS backup when the broken-down player breaks down. That would be as soon as he was better/more trusted than Juwan Morgan.
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Ahhh okay now I get it.
 
A few weeks ago we were talking about how Favor's impact kept the Jazz up, mainly by offensive rebounds and just being solid positionally on defence. He has been faltering but I think the team's defensive effort went down as a whole and he can't no longer make up for it. He isn't minus but the second unit defense has to be much more of a team effort.

And I agree with Cy, Udoka could make plays purely off his athleticism and size for gimmicky 2-3 minutes each half, spell Favors and Gobert while keeping the same identity and covering for poor perimeter defenders.
 
We really should have seen this coming. Truth is, Favors has probably only had one good season in the last 5 or so years. His play is and has almost always been a reflection of his health and effort, but the norm for Favors is not him being healthy. That was obviously the aberration and the Favors we have now that can't jump is what we should expect.

Having said that, I do think we're dooming just about any backup C in the league with how we play defense. We are so incredibly on the C position, it just doesn't work without Rudy. Even with Rudy the defense can struggle at times. We can't do the 4 traffic cones on the perimeter strategy when he sits. I think Quin is hanging out Favs to dry and it would be much worse with Udoka.
 
Jingled said:
I think Bogey just needs to be better. Stop turning the ball over so much, stop driving into traffic, and give more effort defensively. I don't really think his struggles are injury related, physically he looks fine out there.
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Agreed. Bogey is sucking but I don't think he sucks. And he looks fine physically.

Favors kinda sucks though and doesn't look fine physically

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