Word. Hopefully when he actually gets on a competitive team, with regular minutes, he will develop that. I have a hard time blaming any of our players for their lack of fire this year with how dire the situation was in Utah. The team was obviously not happy with the coaching gameplan of playing slow and they knew management was against them winning, along with a large portion of vocal fans. Hard to get motivated, at least I would have a hard time, day in and day out getting pumped for games. He showed it against the big time opponents, which probably served as his only form of motivation. Ideally he would be able to do that every night, but he isn't on that level of competitiveness/sense of proving himself (he got an extension after all) unfortunately, but doesn't mean he can't be an all-star.
Really hope whoever our coach is next year really works with Favors on being a defensive captain. He really needs to learn how to be a vocal, Chandler-type where he can create energy for himself and the team on defense first. I saw him developing his offense this year where he could take advantage of mismatches (unlike previous years where teams could actually defend him with people like Matt Bonner) and he shows spurts of being able to put all his tools together to becoming a very good offense player.
Also, hopefully Burke gets more play-making responsibility (and in turn takes less shots) and Kanter starts taking 3's, giving Favors more pick n roll space.
Kind of really hope we sign George Karl because I think he is the smartest coach (available) in taking advantage his team's abilities on the offense end and always plays to his team strengths and doesn't stick to any stubborn preconceived style.
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