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GVC said:
I'm not worried about Kanter. Looks like strength/energy is his problem right now, which hasn't been a concern in the past. He should be fine, even if it takes a couple months to get into playing shape. He's doing a good job of getting position, securing the ball in the post, and making his reads before backing his man down or facing up. He throws in quick moves occasionally to keep the defenders guessing. He still has a bad habit of forcing shots up when he's surrounded (which is happening even with loads of time on the shot clock...), but that should be correctable.

Derrick's forcing everything. Not making reads at all. Just puts his head down and plows ahead. Ugly.
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I agree on this. Favors is forcing way too much. However, Kanter being out of shape won't fix his defensive issues. But I think he will improve with time.
 
themanknownassting said:
I agree on this. Favors is forcing way too much. However, Kanter being out of shape won't fix his defensive issues. But I think he will improve with time.
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What defensive issues?So far in the preseason his defensive issues have been limited to holding his man off the block. He did a decent job in the pick and roll and in transition tonight. He's not a shot blocker, and gets caught ball watching at times, but he's decent positionally when he's focused.
 
GVC said:
What defensive issues?So far in the preseason his defensive issues have been limited to holding his man off the block. He did a decent job in the pick and roll and in transition tonight. He's not a shot blocker, and gets caught ball watching at times, but he's decent positionally when he's focused.
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I have seen a few times this year where he was out of position on help defense. And late to recover in transition. And not being as quick laterally. But that is probably due to him being out of shape.
 
themanknownassting said:
I have seen a few times this year where he was out of position on help defense. And late to recover in transition. And not being as quick laterally. But that is probably due to him being out of shape.
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I agree with you. He's got some flaws not about being out of shape. Surprisingly boxin out problems on defensive rebounding, generally concentrating on his man too much and late to cover for help defense, mediocre PnR defense due to showing up too much far way of the rim and covering lately rolling man. He's gotta watch Asik's and Marc Gasol's matches.
 
GVC said:
Derrick's forcing everything. Not making reads at all. Just puts his head down and plows ahead. Ugly.
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I've been saying this is my #1 reason to not extend him. I'm afraid he will make make Al look like an efficient offensive team player.

All Favors has seen is Al take the ball and go. And now Favors is the "leader" of this team with his new contract. And we have no offensive system to reign him in.

I worry that Favors will give us 15 and 12 with 2 blocks a game, but only shoot in the 46-48% range. And that sucks for a big man.
 
green said:
I've been saying this is my #1 reason to not extend him. I'm afraid he will make make Al look like an efficient offensive team player.

All Favors has seen is Al take the ball and go. And now Favors is the "leader" of this team with his new contract. And we have no offensive system to reign him in.

I worry that Favors will give us 15 and 12 with 2 blocks a game, but only shoot in the 46-48% range. And that sucks for a big man.
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15 12 for Favors? It would be surprising performance to me. Averaging 15 points make him all star candidate and seen his contract bargain. 12 reb is much for him too due to Kanter's rebounding ability.
 
illyasova said:
15 12 for Favors? It would be surprising performance to me. Averaging 15 points make him all star candidate and seen his contract bargain. 12 reb is much for him too due to Kanter's rebounding ability.
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I hate saying this, but I'd rather have Big Al scoring 20 and 10 than Favors scoring 15 and 12 with a much lower fg%. 15 pts off 46% fg is 15 shots for 15 pts.

No thank you. Not for 12 million.

I hate Favors if he gets 15 pts off 15 shots. I LOVE Favors if he can get 15 pts off 9-10 shots. HUGE difference. One makes him a steal at 12 million and another makes him a poor man's but at almost the same cost Al Jefferson.
 
green said:
So far, Favors is 13-40 in the preseason. 32%. Ouch.
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It's much about our guard problem. He's just finisher under the rim when he's passed well, not closer even scorer. He's gotta be involved in PnR and we gotta play up tempo to see his contribution of open court basketball. We've already know his post up or midrange shooting abilities so it's not surprising he's floundering.
 
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