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Which PF would you trade for Favors?

Who would you take over Favors?

  • Kevin Love

    Votes: 15 23.4%

  • Blake Griffin

    Votes: 4 6.3%

  • LeMarcus Aldridge

    Votes: 2 3.1%

  • Chris Bosh

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Kenneth Faried

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Serge Ibaka

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • Nene

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Al Horford

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Nobody at all. He impacts the game too much!

    Votes: 42 65.6%
  • Total voters
    64
Look at this:

Standing Reaches/Wingspan

Derrick Favors: 9'2''/7'4''
Kevin Love: 8'10''/6.11.25''
Paul Milsap: 8'9.5''/7.1.5''
Blake Griffin: 8'9''/6.11.25''
 
Weezur said:
Look at this:

Standing Reaches/Wingspan

Derrick Favors: 9'2''/7'4''
Kevin Love: 8'10''/6.11.25''
Paul Milsap: 8'9.5''/7.1.5''
Blake Griffin: 8'9''/6.11.25''
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All of Favors' combine measures were practically identical to Dwight's.
 
I wouldn't trade Favors for anyone in the league right now.
Big guys with his strength, durability, and athletic ability are way too hard to come by!

"Beer is proof that God loves us, and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin
 
LMA, Horford, Love, Griffin are all no brainers.

Wes Mantooth said:
Lack of natural scoring ability? What does that even mean? The kid is 20, ultra-talented and to me appears like could become a 24-12 guy. I predict in three years, he'll approach that. And he'll still be just 23 then. So relax.
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24 really homer? Please put this in your sig for three years.
 
Weezur said:
Look at this:

Standing Reaches/Wingspan

Derrick Favors: 9'2''/7'4''
Kevin Love: 8'10''/6.11.25''
Paul Milsap: 8'9.5''/7.1.5''
Blake Griffin: 8'9''/6.11.25''
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Which one of these guys got blocked on an iso post-up against Matt Bonner?
 
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franklin said:
LMA, Horford, Love, Griffin are all no brainers.



24 really homer? Please put this in your sig for three years.
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Griff and Love, yes. They both have HOF talent.

LMA, maybe. All-Star talent, but supremely soft for an athletic 6'11 guy.

Horford? No way, best defender of the four, but I think Favors beats him on defense and isn't that far behind offensively.
 
I'll take Favors for the next 3 years at $18 mil over Horford's remaining 4 years and $48 million any day.
 
franklin said:
LMA, Horford, Love, Griffin are all no brainers.

24 really homer? Please put this in your sig for three years.
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I don't think it's as clear as you think. Love and Griffin are relatively atrocious on defense and do not impact the game at all on that end. Favors is 20, and he's already close enough to Horford /36 to question that (in fact, he's better than him in most areas). Here's Griffin and Love in their second years with much more playing time. Favors has holes in his offensive game, but already scores 15/36 with not enough minutes to develop on the court. It's not clear in my mind who you take because Favors impacts the defensive end much more than these guys.
Per 36
Al Horford: (Age 24) 15.7pts, 9.6, 3.5asts, .8stls, 1.1blks

Derrick Favors: (Age 20) 14.9pts, 11.1, 1.1asts, 1stls, 1.7blks

Kevin Love: (Age 21) 17.7pts, 13.8, 2.9asts, .9stls, .5blks

Blake Griffin: (Age 22) 20.6pts, 10.8, 3.2asts, .8stls, .7blks
 
JJAS said:
I don't think it's as clear as you think. Love and Griffin are relatively atrocious on defense and do not impact the game at all on that end. Favors is 20, and he's already close enough to Horford /36 to question that (in fact, he's better than him in most areas). Here's Griffin and Love in their second years with much more playing time. Favors has holes in his offensive game, but already scores 15/36 with not enough minutes to develop on the court. It's not clear in my mind who you take because Favors impacts the defensive end much more than these guys.
Per 36
Al Horford: (Age 24) 15.7pts, 9.6, 3.5asts, .8stls, 1.1blks

Derrick Favors: (Age 20) 14.9pts, 11.1, 1.1asts, 1stls, 1.7blks

Kevin Love: (Age 21) 17.7pts, 13.8, 2.9asts, .9stls, .5blks

Blake Griffin: (Age 22) 20.6pts, 10.8, 3.2asts, .8stls, .7blks
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I would add that Griffin plays with Paul, which helps his numbers out a lot. If Favors actually played 35 mins, and played with a PnR PG (cough, Deron, cough), he would easily average 20 pts a night. That is only two more makes per night.

Favors biggest thing holding him back? Tyrone Corbin.
 
green said:
I would add that Griffin plays with Paul, which helps his numbers out a lot. If Favors actually played 35 mins, and played with a PnR PG (cough, Deron, cough), he would easily average 20 pts a night. That is only two more makes per night.

Favors biggest thing holding him back? Tyrone Corbin.
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What blows me away is how infrequently we use the P&R with him. The Spurs run the P&R all day long, even with Splitter. Just keep running the P&R over and over and eventually Favors with his speed and hops will get to the rim and either flush it or draw a foul. Then he can learn how to pass out of the P&R. This is how the Spurs are so good because their bigs know where to pass the ball on account of strategic and disciplined spacing. This is on the coach quite a bit.
 
JJAS said:
What blows me away is how infrequently we use the P&R with him. The Spurs run the P&R all day long, even with Splitter. Just keep running the P&R over and over and eventually Favors with his speed and hops will get to the rim and either flush it or draw a foul. Then he can learn how to pass out of the P&R. This is how the Spurs are so good because their bigs know where to pass the ball on account of strategic and disciplined spacing. This is on the coach quite a bit.
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I completely agree. Good news is, Locke just tweeted Favors will start tonight. Hopefully Harris will take advantage of Favors.
 
green said:
I would add that Griffin plays with Paul, which helps his numbers out a lot. If Favors actually played 35 mins, and played with a PnR PG (cough, Deron, cough), he would easily average 20 pts a night. That is only two more makes per night.

Favors biggest thing holding him back? Tyrone Corbin.
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Except Griffin's 2nd year numbers went down with CP3.

Favors is not a PnR forward. You have to have more than hops to play the PnR and his shot is not good enough yet. The plus side is he would get about 90% of his misses for putbacks and frustrate the hell out of the defense doing so.


Y'all have fan blinders on when it comes to Favors. If anything, at this point he's comparable to Serge Iblocka minus 2 bpg plus a little better offense and rebounding.
 
franklin said:
Except Griffin's 2nd year numbers went down with CP3.

Favors is not a PnR forward. You have to have more than hops to play the PnR and his shot is not good enough yet. The plus side is he would get about 90% of his misses for putbacks and frustrate the hell out of the defense doing so.


Y'all have fan blinders on when it comes to Favors. If anything, at this point he's comparable to Serge Iblocka minus 2 bpg plus a little better offense and rebounding.
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Put my comment in your sig you skell.
 
Standing Reach Favors: 9' 2"

Cyrone Torbin said:
Which one of these guys got blocked on an iso post-up against Matt Bonner?
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I'm sure every player in the NBA - even Lebron could have something like this written about them.. This sort of "stat" is utterly worthless.

One thing a high standing reach enables is defensive capability. Being able to man up without having to jump (Tim Duncan) is ultra valuable. Off the ball shot blocking is a function of timing, jumping skills as well as length (see P Millsap, R Price.)

The potential in Favors that he's both an offensive and defensive force (Tim Duncan)
 
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