sipclip wrote:This Favors situation is probably the worst handled injury I have ever seen from top to bottom for an organization. I put most of it squarely on Quin though because any fool with eyes could see that Favors hasn't looked even close to right all year and he should have been shut down from the get go until he did look right regardless of what the medical staff said. Instead we screwed around with him and he has not only been a non factor all year but he is still hurt. Just pure incompetence from top to bottom.
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I know fans always like to have someone to blame, but its funny to see this. The only one that can be blamed here, is Favors body. Acting like this situation, where an athletic 6'10 player has knees that can't support his athleticism, is the first time it's ever been seen, is silly.
Favors has "bad" knees.....or at a minimum, average guy knees that are not built to handle the elite athleticism that professional basketball players need/use. Fav is huge, massive man. And we've seen countless times in the league that this happens to bigs.
If you think for a second, for ONE second that the staff and Quin haven't done everything in their power to handle this properly, you're out of your mind. Professional sports, with millions invested in players, has best in the world type medical staff.
The medical staff has watched him, determined that when he plays he's not in danger of further hurting himself, and so he was available. Quin then asked him if he was ready to go, and I have no doubt Fav always wants to play. End of story.
Look no further than the entirety of Favors career forward: He is what he is, this is what it is. No matter how much rest, how much pt, he is not going to be able to keep up with an 82 game schedule.
Sadly, probably the only solution where we could still be able to have Fav on the court, will be as a backup Center, playing MAYBE 20 minutes a game. And minimal amount of practice.
Dont get your hopes up Jazz fans, that all we need is Favors to get that restful offseason and then he'll be good. Talking about letting him heal....remember what happened beginning of the year? The pre-season? Fav was already hurting. This is what it is....and we know what it is.
Only silver lining here, is what MT mentioned. Now we'll be able to keep Fav on a decent contract. Too bad he's not going to be our 30min a night PF, with 15/10 per. Sad and extremely disappointing development.