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Prediction: how many regular season games will Favors miss to start the season

♪alt13 said:
It's good that it's a gauntlet. We may have lost to those good teams anyway. I'm glad that the schedule isn't easy that way we aren't dropping too many games that we really shouldn't.

It's easier to make up for a loss to the Spurs than to make up for a loss to the sixers.
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I do agree with this... the absence may cost us a win or two, but if schedule was softer might be a difference of more games. I do think when healthy those Spurs games are very winnable... and the favors and Hayward injuries would hurt much more in those games because of matchups. Favors would be helpful against gasol and Aldridge. Hayward would obviously be huge against Kwahi.

I don't think this is something he'd be playing through if this was a regular season game... same with Burks.
 
Regarding Favors, I think the issue is not only how many games he'll miss during the regular season, since the actual number may be low, but that his injuries seem to limit what he can do on court, making him not only less mobile, but less willing to bang in the paint. People praise him for developing a jump shot, but he may end up being "just" a jump-shooting big man, with no consistent post game, and incapable to drive to the basket at all due to physical ailments.
 
Quin said that Favors hasn't turned the corner to even be able to practice, let alone play.

Lame.
 
Favors is turning out to be Boozer-brittle. Can't afford to pay everyone max money. With Lyles developing, Favs might be the most expendable, especially since he only plays 70 games/per.
 
Stifle Tower said:
Favors is turning out to be Boozer-brittle. Can't afford to pay everyone max money. With Lyles developing, Favs might be the most expendable, especially since he only plays 70 games/per.
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I still think we extend him because I think it raises his trade value. Long term he may be moved but no reason to do it this year.
 
No, I wasn't talking about moving him this year. I think you do it next season IF Lyles is ready to start. And I think he's most tradeable on his cheaper deal. Acquiring team would have his Bird rights, correct? And they could then go over the cap to offer him a higher max than anyone else could.
 
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