SALT LAKE CITY — For a number of years, Utah Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey and head coach Quin Snyder have been asked if the team can truly be successful with big men Rudy Gobert and Derrick Favors sharing the floor at the same time.
Up until last season’s trade deadline, however, the Jazz didn’t really have a starting-quality forward to pair with Gobert, so he and Favors played plenty together. But then Utah acquired Jae Crowder at the trade deadline, and Snyder almost immediately started playing Crowder and Gobert together more than Gobert and Favors.
Now with the 2018-19 season in the books, it has become more and more clear how Snyder views the “power forward” position moving forward: In the regular season, Gobert and Crowder played 1,369 minutes together, while Gobert and Favors shared the court for just 739 minutes.