What's new
By:

Basketball Game (vs Lakers)

Handlogten's Heros said:
At what point is it fair to start judging Favors' play? I need more... AB came back and needed a few games to look like AB.

Interesting to see if we do anything about our generally awful PF play or if we stay the course.
Click to expand...

It is fair to judge him anytime but he is still injured and playing through it. I am hoping the all-star break does him some good but we might not get a healthy Favors this year. The big question is if he is going to get back to full strength ever. Good news is we have him under contract next season. If he bounces back and gets going great. If he is still hobbled next year we dont have to worry about resigning him. The worry is if he stays hobbled through this season we might have to replace him or hope Lyles starts stepping up.
 
Either Exum is struggling to stay healthy or keep the swelling down in his knee or Coach is playing mind games with him. He plays well and then gets 2 DNPs in a row. He really needs consistent minutes and a consistent role, so that is why I am guessing he has a real minute/game restriction right now. I guess we might be trying to shop Mack and/or Neto. I suppose we will find out after the trade deadline when minutes and lineups start to get more set and we see if a trade happens or attempts to happen.
 
Ron Mexico said:
Either Exum is struggling to stay healthy or keep the swelling down in his knee or Coach is playing mind games with him. He plays well and then gets 2 DNPs in a row. He really needs consistent minutes and a consistent role, so that is why I am guessing he has a real minute/game restriction right now. I guess we might be trying to shop Mack and/or Neto. I suppose we will find out after the trade deadline when minutes and lineups start to get more set and we see if a trade happens or attempts to happen.
Click to expand...

He's not good enough to play now that AB and Hood are both healthy... it's the right call.
 
Is anyone watching inside the NBA, that picture of Charles Barkley is the greatest thing I've ever seen.
688107be88e173c48048c67fa42d49d0.jpg


Sent from my VS990 using JazzFanz mobile app
 
Ron Mexico said:
It is fair to judge him anytime but he is still injured and playing through it. I am hoping the all-star break does him some good but we might not get a healthy Favors this year. The big question is if he is going to get back to full strength ever. Good news is we have him under contract next season. If he bounces back and gets going great. If he is still hobbled next year we dont have to worry about resigning him. The worry is if he stays hobbled through this season we might have to replace him or hope Lyles starts stepping up.
Click to expand...

I'd strongly consider trading Favs if we got a decent offer. I think we'd be better on offense and defense with a big power wing playing 4...
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
I'd strongly consider trading Favs if we got a decent offer. I think we'd be better on offense and defense with a big power wing playing 4...
Click to expand...

I dont think any player we can trade Favors for is better than a healthy Favors. It is worth the risk of waiting for him to heal up. Although that is under the assumption he can. I am positive we as fans dont really know what is going on health wise with him.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
He's not very good... not sure what to tell ya.
Click to expand...

I disagree with that and think he has been outplaying Mack who got minutes in that game.

Getting him some minutes each game isnt going to hurt us and change the outcome negatively. His potential is worth it. He also played great last time he got minutes. He outplayed Hill and was +14 against OKC.
 
Ron Mexico said:
I disagree with that and think he has been outplaying Mack who got minutes in that game.

Getting him some minutes each game isnt going to hurt us and change the outcome negatively. His potential is worth it. He also played great last time he got minutes. He outplayed Hill and was +14 against OKC.
Click to expand...

Who's minutes do u cut tonight? AB? Ingles? Hill?

Plus minus in an individual game is a really dumb way to measure how well a player played.

He had two impressive drives in that game and hit an outside jumper. It was progress... he also got owned by Westbrook... which happens. If Exum had a game like AB did tonight people would be over the moon talking about how awesome he's going to be. Honestly it's more important this year and next to get Burks some time.
 
What surprised me was that Quin put in Joe instead of AB down the stretch because we were having trouble with the quickness of the Laker guards and AB is faster than any of them. It was when AB was in during the third quarter that the Jazz went on a run. It was his quickness and pushing of the ball that jump started the run. He was the better option than Joe as was obvious to me, but Quin went back to Joe. Was anyone else thinking this.

Also, read some comments and yes, I agree, I think the Jazz are trying to move one of the PGs. It could be any one of our backups, but I'm more inclined to think it's Mack because he's the most experienced and most likely to be able to help another team as a backup. They surely aren't going to trade Favors at this juncture with his value so low right now. Let's hope he will continue to heal, but he definitely looks like he is struggling out there. No where near the speed or lift he has had during his career.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page
Back
Top