Derrick Favors - Mind of a child?

[Stifle Tower]

exactly. it worked really well with guys like john amaechi, walt palmer and adam keefe. how can you be a decent NBA player if you don't give long lectures in your spare time or have a 1400+ SAT score.

Well, I was thinking more along the lines of Jarron Collins when I said Stanford, but you nailed Walter Palmer. I was wondering if someone would get that reference.

 

[nightmare3983]

Jazz need to go after bigs with high general and basketball IQ and who are well-spoken, like players from Stanford or Ivy Leagues school like Dartmouth.

Well, I was thinking more along the lines of Jarron Collins when I said Stanford, but you nailed Walter Palmer. I was wondering if someone would get that reference.

This reminds me of a couple years ago when the Jazz had a different team captain for each game. I think Gordon Monson wrote a column about it and mentioned Jarron Collins giving some eloquent speech before the team went out onto the floor. Then he referred to Boozer saying "Let's beat those (two words that rhyme with brother truckers)!" on one of his turns.

 

[akirac73]

exactly. it worked really well with guys like john amaechi, walt palmer and adam keefe. how can you be a decent NBA player if you don't give long lectures in your spare time or have a 1400+ SAT score.

Actually, nowadays...a 1400 SAT score is considered below average (a perfect score is worth 2400).

 

[akirac73]

Enes Kanter still watches Sponge Bob so I guess he has a mind of child as well? Hayward still plays video games...him too?

 

[theNBAnerd]

Actually, nowadays...a 1400 SAT score is considered below average (a perfect score is worth 2400).

guess i just dated myself.

 

[Darkwing Duck]

That part is just wrong. Somebody on the Jazz needs to step up and fill the role referring to themself in the third person. That would make up for his otherwise unquotable interviews.

Someone on the Jazz needs to start referring to himself in the second person. That would really change the game.

 

[jazzfan1971]

Jazzfan1971 says Jazzfan1971 said Jazzfan1971 gotta be Jazzfan1971.

That cover it?

 

[nightmare3983]

Jazzfan1971 says Jazzfan1971 said Jazzfan1971 gotta be Jazzfan1971.

That cover it?

You can take that role on Jazzfanz. But a Jazz player needs to step up and do it as well.

 

[Karadrys30]

I remember another Jazz member who was a great media man. John something. Played point guard.

 

[asian_roger]

So are you saying you want a loud, obnoxious idiot? Gtfo. I like favors "silent but deadly" attitude. You are quick to judge a guy who doesn't like answering interviews. Kanter still likes the undertaker, is he a child too?

 

[JohnnyClutch]

guess i just dated myself.

Do that too much and you can go blind. Trust me, you don't want that! ;-)

 

[northeast]

OP has a point, you want players to be mentally involved... and smarts matter a lot...
However there are different kinds of smarts,
basketball smarts and media talking head smarts are very different.