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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.
 
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