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How Many More Games Will Favors Take Off?

GVC

GVC

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Hard to win when your franchise defender takes consecutive road games off.
 
This is a good question, and he really did take tonight off...pathetic. However, when you've just lost 12 games in a row, it makes it tough to really give a crap about giving 110%. There are so many things on this team that would frustrate a young player, such as basically playing 4 on 5, having one of the worst shooting teams in the NBA, having a bench that is shooting 12.5% from three etc. Not that it's an excuse, but when there's no light at the end of the tunnel, sometimes it's easy to go through the motions. People forget that tanking might actually affect the people doing it. As fans we look at it like a video game and only see the outcome of another draft pick. I for one have a problem with tanking, not that I don't want a draft pick, but I hate losing, and it even begins to weigh on me, so I can only imagine the players, particularly the players who have no help at all. We'll see if the players have some mental toughness.
 
Favors didn't have one of his best games, but he did have 10 points, 14 rebounds, 3 blocks, and an assist despite Corbin not playing his down the stretch.
 
JJAS said:
This is a good question, and he really did take tonight off...pathetic. However, when you've just lost 12 games in a row, it makes it tough to really give a crap about giving 110%. There are so many things on this team that would frustrate a young player, such as basically playing 4 on 5, having one of the worst shooting teams in the NBA, having a bench that is shooting 12.5% from three etc. Not that it's an excuse, but when there's no light at the end of the tunnel, sometimes it's easy to go through the motions. People forget that tanking might actually affect the people doing it. As fans we look at it like a video game and only see the outcome of another draft pick. I for one have a problem with tanking, not that I don't want a draft pick, but I hate losing, and it even begins to weigh on me, so I can only imagine the players, particularly the players who have no help at all. We'll see if the players have some mental toughness.
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So...Favors quits after 3 regular season losses? Not a good sign. Gordo and Enes continue to battle (for the most part). Same goes for Burks and Jefferson (even if they can't hit jump shots to save their lives).
 
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Favors didn't have one of his best games, but he did have 10 points, 14 rebounds, 3 blocks, and an assist despite Corbin not playing his down the stretch.
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What percentage of the time does he seem engaged? Favors' tendency to float for long stretches, as he's done in the past, might not be a consequence of playing in a supporting role off the bench. It might just be who he is.
 
GVC said:
What percentage of the time does he seem engaged? Favors' tendency to float for long stretches, as he's done in the past, might not be a consequence of playing in a supporting role off the bench. It might just be who he is.
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He does seem to be his own biggest problem. If he would just get it together and try the whole game he has the potential to dominate.
 
The last two big he's faced made him look like a bitch in the paint. Granted, one was Lopez who is huge. But Brandon Bass wooped his *** last night. Man up.
 
I think that asserting that a guy is lazy and not trying is really not fair. Do you play sports? Did you ever have a bad game even though you tried as hard as ever? Are you suggesting that in his first year starting that if Favors just is not lazy, he will put up 20 and 15 with 4 blocks? Every night? Is it really that simple to succeed in the NBA? How easy is it when you have a brain-dead coaching staff?

Last night he looked fairly p*ssed off when he came out and was walking along the sidelines. A guy who is taking a "night off" does not get p*ssed off.
 
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