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It's my personal conspiracy theory that Fes is not committed to playing ball. Maybe parties when he should sleep, shows up late for practice, never goes the extra mile to improve his game. It's totally a theory lightly based on him getting sick more than the average bear, it seems to match his personality, and the fact that he never seems to get past mediocrity. Flame on!
 
Jazz1232
Basketball is actually played on two ends of the Court. The jazz were not expected to beat Denver and they did, easily. Nene had completely dominated Boozer and Milsap during the regular season. I watched as Nene was hopeless against the height and weight of Fes. He was so disruptive, so influential in the series Melo was left shaking his head and repeating Fesenko, Fesenko, Fesenko in the press conference. Your right he didn't have twenty points and 15 rebounds, but neither did Nene. Time after time Nene would catch the ball, try to drive to the hoop only to be stopped by the Russian wall, and have to weakly throw it back out. Given his performance in that series I had very high hopes for this season. That is why his performance in the last two games is so depressing. He looks like he has never played ball before. Maybe everyone is right and he just doesn't have the desire to improve and get better.
 
vegas said:
It's my personal conspiracy theory that Fes is not committed to playing ball. Maybe parties when he should sleep, shows up late for practice, never goes the extra mile to improve his game. It's totally a theory lightly based on him getting sick more than the average bear, it seems to match his personality, and the fact that he never seems to get past mediocrity. Flame on!
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Franklin approves of Fes's partying, but you can take a big blue genie **** on his play anytime you want. Now chop, chop 'em.

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oldtimer said:
Jazz1232
Basketball is actually played on two ends of the Court. The jazz were not expected to beat Denver and they did, easily. Nene had completely dominated Boozer and Milsap during the regular season. I watched as Nene was hopeless against the height and weight of Fes. He was so disruptive, so influential in the series Melo was left shaking his head and repeating Fesenko, Fesenko, Fesenko in the press conference. Your right he didn't have twenty points and 15 rebounds, but neither did Nene. Time after time Nene would catch the ball, try to drive to the hoop only to be stopped by the Russian wall, and have to weakly throw it back out. Given his performance in that series I had very high hopes for this season. That is why his performance in the last two games is so depressing. He looks like he has never played ball before. Maybe everyone is right and he just doesn't have the desire to improve and get better.
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You are right Fess is really big and that is an advantage on the defensive end. But it has been long enough. Fess needed to show some signs of improvement this year. The chances of him ever improving and reach his potential are gone.

We are going to see Favors play more and take all of the minutes Fess lucked into.
 
I was really impressed with how he looked coming into this season. They said he had lost weight and dedicated himself to the weight room. Unfortunately, all the weights in the world won't help his hands. I think that is his biggest problem especially catching the ball on the low post and in rebounds. He is a good 12th man, but I don't expect much more than that.
 
oldtimer said:
I know most people hate Fesenko, but I always been one of his biggest fans. He dominated Denver last year in the playoffs and came into this season like gangbusters. He lost weight and looked very good in preseason. He got a little burn early in the season with the second unit and I thought he looked very good. Then right around the time when the Jazz started falling apart, Fes was sent to the end of the bench were he remained for a good month or two. I really believe that Fes was being treated badly, until the Raptors Game.

When Fes reported into the game he was at least 6 to 8 inches taller than any Raptor. He was being guarded by very small power forwards giving him almost a foot height advantage. I would have thought he would go straight to the low block and bully the small defenders with dunk after dunk. Instead, he looked to screen and roll every play. His defender would slide off and help on the pick and then they would easily recover and get back to Fes on those few occasions he rolled to the hole. I was disappointed he never looked to dominate the smaller players.

I hope it was just rust from not playing, but next time a team tries to guard him with paul milsap sized power forwards he needs to go to the low block and demand the ball. If he can't score on players when he has almost a foot height advantage and 60 lbs on he can't be an NBA player.
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I too was in the Fesenko Camp (i said "unleash the Kracken" when Memo got hurt against Denver) but after watching him this season, I out! He cant block, box out, nor get boards w/o getting fouls!! He doesnt have a 5-foot shot, back to the basket game, hands, but the only thing he does 'ok' is the high-post pass.

Fes' play doesnt warrant another contract more that 2M/2yr. If it wasnt for his comedic personality, I'm sure we wouldnt have put up w/ his "potential" for this long.
 
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