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In Praise of Derrick Favors - The Downbeat #1788

Let us heap more praise on the giant shoulders of Derrick Favors. This comes from an excellent article on SI.com, by Rob Mahoney.

This is my favorite part:

Utah doesn’t run a switch-heavy scheme by design, but Snyder has allowed Favors to pick up some very challenging ballhandlers on occasion. Only one perimeter player—LeBron James—has managed to score on Favors off a switch thus far, according to Synergy Sports. Among those he’s withstood are Stephen Curry and Kyle Lowry, both of whom missed late-game threes over Favors’s contest.