Dont Forget About Favors

[Jazz4ever]

You mix Kawhi in with this group, nobody would score a bucket on us:

PG - Exum
SG - Hayward
SF - Kawhi
PF - Favors
C - Gobert

Burks
Burke
Hood
Booker
Elijah
Ingles
(big)

We'd have to be the longest team in the league. Swap out Ingles with another dead-eye shooter and add a solid backup big and let's rock.

That would be a sick lineup, but not financially feasible unless your LA or NY.
4 of the 5 will be max players on their next contract.

 

[green]

Hayward or Gobert will be All Stars next season if Jazz have winning record.

If the Jazz have a winning record and Hayward is averaging 18, Favors is 20, and Gobert is 15, then I think Favors gets the All Star nod. I just don't think Gobert will ever score enough to be a consistent All Star.

Favors at PF will have amazing stats.

 

[candrew]

Right now, Jazz are actually better as a team defensively with Favors on the floor and Gobert off. Since the AS Break Jazz are +66 with Favors without Gobert and +15 with Gobert without Favors. Both numbers are excellent - Favors' is ungodly.

 

[freakazoid]

Right now, Jazz are actually better as a team defensively with Favors on the floor and Gobert off.

I'm gonna need additional numbers to back this up, please. I love me some D-Fave, but this team has been transformed by the emergence of Rudy Gobert. Favors + Kanter was a failure. Gobert + anyone on this planet seems to work. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm extremely suspicious of any stats that say we are better defensively without Rudy on the floor. Prove me wrong.

 

[CAKAR]

Gobert is a better defender than Favors, but Favors is all in all a better player.

 

[gregbroncs]

Gobert is a better defender than Favors, but Favors is all in all a better player.

I don't think so. Gobert is a better rim protector. But Favors can step out an guard the perimeter while also guarding the rim. I'd say over all they are about even defensively with different abilities on defense.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Right now, Jazz are actually better as a team defensively with Favors on the floor and Gobert off. Since the AS Break Jazz are +66 with Favors without Gobert and +15 with Gobert without Favors. Both numbers are excellent - Favors' is ungodly.

Makes sense because Gobert usually plays the entire 3rd (if I recall correctly) and Favors comes in to start the 4th, so he will be going against backups for a bigger stretch than Gobert.

 

[Doublea]

Does anyone know how much these RFA can be offered? Is it the same as Hayward's contract? I could see teams willing to go into the luxury tax with the cap going up soon.

 

[Stifle Tower]

Does anyone know how much these RFA can be offered? Is it the same as Hayward's contract? I could see teams willing to go into the luxury tax with the cap going up soon.

It's tied to BRI, which will rise a little, so RFA's could be offered a bit more than Hayward. Free agency also ties to years in the league, with a big jump occurring after Year #7. That's why Hayward has the opt-out clause. He could get 30% of BRI instead of 25% at that point.

 

[colton]

Hate to be the party pooper, but we ain't getting a max player to come to Utah...not unless we pay one of the players in the next tier down max money to play in Utah.

That's one of the things that pushed Deron out. He couldn't get anyone to join him.

Also, to get a player at that level, Utah has to renounce Bookers contract. So cross him off the depth chart. My hope is to sign Tomic and our pick.

I was about to make the same comment. And we wouldn't be able to sign Tomic either, I believe, so cross him off as well.

 

[Doublea]

I was about to make the same comment. And we wouldn't be able to sign Tomic either, I believe, so cross him off as well.

Well they could go into the luxury tax, which (I can't remember where) the millers said they would do if it meant the Jazz were contending again. Plus the cap will go up an then no more luxury tax!

 

[LogGrad98]

I think Favors has been making more of a flash recently. I think the emergence of Rudy as a force to be reckoned with freed Favors up to play his game with more confidence. But he has had forgettable games in the past. He needs to keep that passion and edge going forward no matter what.