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Is Favors in the long-term plans at this point?

I think that Rubio in the problem in the starting lineup when Gobert and Favors are both playing. I'd like to see Mitchell, Hood/Burks, Jingles, Favors and Gobert as a starting lineup when Gobert comes back. At this point Rubio seems like the guy that should lose minutes when Gobert comes back and i don't ever want to see Rubio, Favors and Gobert on the floor together. I also think either Gobert or Favors should be on the floor at all times. I like Udoh and all but he's not as good as the other 2.
 
Here's a question. Why not start Mitchell with Burks? Move Rubio to the second unit with Hood, and let them feast on other team's D-League call-ups.

If the second unit is Udoh-Jerebko-Thabo-Hood-Rubio, there shouldn't be as many problems scoring as we've had earlier this season with our bench. And if you look at our direct rivals, this lineup looks like a dream. Take a look at the benches in the Wolves-Thunder game tonight: http://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=400975075

Gorgui Dieng, a 50-year old Jamal Crawford, and 3 minutes of Shabazz. Aaron Brooks collecting DNP-CDs like there's no tomorrow. Collison and Felton are 70 between them, and Jerami Grant is the only serious help they have off the bench.
 
framer said:
I guess, ultimately, if Favors would say, and we were forced to choose between Rubio and Favors, I would choose Favors and wouldn't even blink. That is assuming Favors would stay of course.
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I don't disagree, but what do you do with Rubio? The market seems pretty depressed, at least given his salary.
 
Greasy84 said:
Why couldn't something like this work?
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Because two of the three scenarios involves Rubio..

The real question to ask is which teams have a need a center and would be able to pay him 20m+ ?

Perhaps Dallas or Phoenix ? All they would have to do is wait til free agency arrives.
 
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framer said:
I guess, ultimately, if Favors would say, and we were forced to choose between Rubio and Favors, I would choose Favors and wouldn't even blink. That is assuming Favors would stay of course.
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as a Rubio fan, I agree.
 
JimLes said:
Here's a question. Why not start Mitchell with Burks? Move Rubio to the second unit with Hood, and let them feast on other team's D-League call-ups.

If the second unit is Udoh-Jerebko-Thabo-Hood-Rubio, there shouldn't be as many problems scoring as we've had earlier this season with our bench. And if you look at our direct rivals, this lineup looks like a dream. Take a look at the benches in the Wolves-Thunder game tonight: http://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=400975075

Gorgui Dieng, a 50-year old Jamal Crawford, and 3 minutes of Shabazz. Aaron Brooks collecting DNP-CDs like there's no tomorrow. Collison and Felton are 70 between them, and Jerami Grant is the only serious help they have off the bench.
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I was logging on to say something similar. Would rep
 
NUMBERICA said:
I don't disagree, but what do you do with Rubio? The market seems pretty depressed, at least given his salary.
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Whatever escape pod we had prepared for Burks gets used for Rubio. Also, nothing says that we have to start him. Rubio would work fine off the bench at least until we have to bring back Exum. . .
 
Rubio has value to us, guys. If he's a bench piece, then he's a good bench piece.

This is honestly looking pretty good to me:
Mitchell/Rubio/Neto
Burks/Hood
Ingles/Sefolosha
Favors/Johnson/Jerebko
Gobert/Favors/Udoh

Two notes, though:
*A rookie wall is going to happen at some point
*Is this Burks real?
 
Yeah, I think you bench Rubio for Mitchell when Rudy's back, then do the best job possible staggering them.

I would love for the Gobert/Favors thing to work. Still not confident it does/Favors would want to stay.
 
If Burks keeps it up, he has to be getting 25+ minutes it seems which I think will directly cut into Rubio, by shifting Donovan to more PG minutes and Burks to his SG minutes.

Rubio Burks and Favors as the main bench unit with shooters (JJ, Jerebko, Ingles) sprinkled in would be a solid bench.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Yeah, I think you bench Rubio for Mitchell when Rudy's back, then do the best job possible staggering them.

I would love for the Gobert/Favors thing to work. Still not confident it does/Favors would want to stay.
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A few months ago I wrote about how we should all shift our expectations on Favors. Realistically, he stopped being a valuable trade chip when he went down in the middle of last season. Unless someone blows us away with an offer for a mid-first-round draft pick + without any filler that will hamper us financially going forward (very unlikely), then Favors' greatest value to us is to play out his contract at the highest level and then simply expire. This off-season, we may be able to sign-and-trade him in the current cap environment, or we may find ways that he works as a long-term piece going forward. I think DL and Q are determined to plow ahead at full force.
 
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