Should the Jazz shut Favors down for a while?

[fishonjazz]

If Favors faltering down the stretch is this detrimental to the team then how can we say he isnt a big reason for the best record in the NBA?

He was a part of it but if we are being honest, the reason we are the best team in the league is because we were the best 3 point shooting team in the history of the nba for most of the season.
Favors don't make many 3's

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[jom2003]

Because the Jazz had no choice but to blow the full MLE on a broken-down player, so they had to select HIS backup when the broken-down player breaks down. That would be as soon as he was better/more trusted than Juwan Morgan.

know you are being sarcastic but i'm pretty sure there is no back up to that 3yr full MLE.

if favs breaks down we are screwed either way cuz there is no more picks left we can give to other teams to convince them to take on his money.

 

[jom2003]

The Udoka pick makes more sense now.

why give Favs the full MLE which you know you can't get out of AFTER you drafted Doke?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

why give Favs the full MLE which you know you can't get out of AFTER you drafted Doke?

They trying to win the ring now dude.

They gave Favs money cuz they wanted him to make them better.

They drafted Udoka (I believe, I'm sure there are more reasons as well) because he provided insurance to a center depth chart that has injury concerns. That with his unique combo of vertical explosion and length, he probably gave the Jazz some visions of him being super effective in their offense. For as good as Gobert is at finishing, the guy has very little standstill explosion. Doka just has such outlier tools to be an insane rim finisher. Hopefully his body holds up.

They obviously think the position is more important than the average NBA person.

At the end of the day all that matters is results. If Favors proves to be important factor in the playoffs and helps the Jazz get to the Championship it would be hard to call it an overpay.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Has anyone mentioned he just got a week off? How much rest does he need?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

The glaring weakness was that the Jazz did a horrific job filling the backup spot. It would improve almost by default by grabbing any random player. Ed Davis was arguably the worst in the league and Tony Bradley isn't an NBA player. Bigs that do big things but can't shoot or dribble are not rare commodities. I don't know who would've come for the BAE, but that's what they should've spent since I guarantee you the Jazz are not retaining this team through next year's trade deadline, and they will probably have to offload an asset they're going to have to dig out of somewhere that could've been used to replenish team depth or improve the roster with. Bobby Portis comes to mind. Or you know, play the next Shaquille O'Neal that the Jazz were raving about. Or play Morgan.

And if Favors breaks down half way through the first season he's under contract, he's hardly more help than a scrub. Hopefully rest does the trick but he shouldn't be broken down and there's no reason to believe this will get anything but worse as the years wear on.

The Jazz center may not have to dribble/shoot, but they are tasked with a lot of offensive responsibilities that not a lot of those types of dudes (like Davis) can do well.

 

[NUMBERICA]

If Azubuike can get back by mid-April - that could really help the defense in the 2nd unit. He'd be learning still, but the other 4 men on the floor would know exactly what they are doing. He just needs to learn the lesson, that took Rudy a couple of season to figure out - don't jump.

The nice part would be with him in the middle, you would play exactly the same style of defensive you would if Favors or Gobert were there. But, you'd have his 7'7" wingspan patrolling the paint. If nothing else, it would give us 18 fouls to give from the 5 spot.

He's done for the season dude.

 

[jom2003]

They trying to win the ring now dude.

They gave Favs money cuz they wanted him to make them better.

They drafted Udoka (I believe, I'm sure there are more reasons as well) because he provided insurance to a center depth chart that has injury concerns. That with his unique combo of vertical explosion and length, he probably gave the Jazz some visions of him being super effective in their offense. For as good as Gobert is at finishing, the guy has very little standstill explosion. Doka just has such outlier tools to be an insane rim finisher. Hopefully his body holds up.

They obviously think the position is more important than the average NBA person.

At the end of the day all that matters is results. If Favors proves to be important factor in the playoffs and helps the Jazz get to the Championship it would be hard to call it an overpay.

Well guess what? if they wanna win the ring now they would almost certainly have to upgrade favs position before the deadline and it's impossible to do, all because of the money they paid him.

signing favs isn't the issue. just sign him to one year. maybe two. or make his third year a team option so we still have room to maneuver in case it doesn't work out.

but they gave him the full 3 yr MLE and now we are stuck.

 

[jom2003]

Has anyone mentioned he just got a week off? How much rest does he need?

by "shut down" i think of more than just rest. assign Favs the "Luol Deng" role and deploy Morgan as our full time Rudy backup.

we have enough sample size for a serious adjustment at this point, given the fact that attacking favs relentlessly when rudy is out should have already been featured on every opponent's scouting report.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Someone always gets turned into the scapegoat the second anything goes off course, even when you got the #1 record.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Just feels real ****ing lame that we are salary cap fearmongering while the Jazz got the best record in the NBA and are in the best position to win a ring that the franchise has ever been in.

 

[jom2003]

Sure.

Lets not worry.

Jazz have already secured the #1 seed for 2020-2021 season.

You know what? Screw it. Jazz have already won the 2021 NBA championship.

Quin just won COY. Mitchell won the MVP. Clarokson SMOY. Rudy the DPOY.

Forget about going 2-4 in early March. Forget about favors having a net +plus/minus of minus 69 when he's on the floor and costing us ball games.

The ring is already ours. Everything is fine folks.