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Where does Favors rank among PFs/Cs in terms of defense?

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JJAS said:
Offensively, Favors is up to 14 pts/36 and 17.8/36 over the last 4 on 48% shooting.
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And offensively, he's scored about 6 baskets all year creating his own offense. I love the guy. And his upside looks delicious. But until he can score on the block, he's a better version of Faried.
 
billyshelby said:
And offensively, he's scored about 6 baskets all year creating his own offense. I love the guy. And his upside looks delicious. But until he can score on the block, he's a better version of Faried.
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Because there are no other ways to score.
 
billyshelby said:
And offensively, he's scored about 6 baskets all year creating his own offense. I love the guy. And his upside looks delicious. But until he can score on the block, he's a better version of Faried.
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Disagree. Dude needs to continue to work on his J to keep defenders honest enough to attack the basket facing up. That's where his athleticism will serve him best.

Also, the 07/08 Jazz had the most efficient offense in the league with very little iso scoring in general, and virtually no iso scoring from the low block. Steve Nash led some pretty damn good offenses without any iso scorers as well. With the hand checking rules as they are, low post scoring isn't really all that effective relative to other options. The Jazz need a serviceable point guard- one who can run a half decent high screen-roll- in the worst way.
 
JJAS said:
Just curious. Are you trolling or do you really think there's a question on this?
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Well it is not as clear as it looks if we talking about Jazz bigs - Favors is great help defender but post defense can be better. Big AL is opposite, he is really good one on one defender in the post but absolutely useless as help defender or defending pick and roll. Kanter is kind of mystery to me still, sometimes he shows great individual defense and his pick and roll defense is very adequate as well but most of the time he gets completely lost on rotations and help defense. Millsap is just undersized to be good defender in the paint, he gambles and gets some steals but most of the times opposing bigs score on him easily. We play zone to little to rank them in that regard, but I would say Favors should be the best here as well.
So to sum it up here is how I would rank our defending bigs:
Individual post up defense: Big AL, Kanter, Favors, Millsap
Help defense: Favors, Millsap, tie for Kanter and big AL
Pick and roll defense: Favors, Kanter, Millsap, big AL
Zone defense: Favors, Millsap, big AL and Kanter tie.

So all in all yes, Favors looks like the best defending big on the Jazz.
 
PKM said:
If Ty gets fired, I believe we will look back at his playing Al's offense over Favors' defines as the defensing moment in the decision.
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Lots of Lolz... repped.
 
dalamon said:
LOL. Mods, please delete thread due to extreme fail. ****ing macbook.....


EDIT: Or, be nice enough to change 'defines' into defense'.
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I fixed the thread title.

And what kind of computer thinks that "defense" isn't an English word??
 
"@ZachLowe_NBA: Watching Utah-PHX, and Derrick Favors in the first half is in full "holy cow is this guy scary" mode."
 
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