A smiling Derrick Favors started his media day press conference with a quick-fire list of answers prepared for the occasion. Among other topics, he boasted that he could play next to Rudy Gobert, thanks to his hard work on his 3-point shot.
But while it looked like a joke, and sounded like a joke, Favors was not joking. In fact, he recoiled when a reporter insinuated he was.
“I was dead-a-- serious. I was dead serious when I said that,” he said.
That’s not really a surprise: Favors took 63 3-point shots in the 2017-18 season, 55 of them from the corners.