Attention all haters who were hating on the concept of Derrick Favors being on the same team as Rudy Gobert despite neither of them being a jumpshooter: you can cease your hating at once becasue the Jazz have won eight of the last nine, conclusively proving that a team constructed with two non-shooting bigs can have considerable success. I may or may not fall into this category of haters who formerly were hating on this concept, but rest assured, I am not directing my hate-waves to them anymore.
In fairness to those haters, part of the reason that the Jazz are making it work is that Favors isn’t playing anywhere close to the amount of minutes he would be playing on most other teams. A healthy 27 year old can definitely withstand more than twenty or twenty-five minutes per game, and a power forward with the level of production that Favors has shown definitely deserves more minutes than that.
Rather than force Favors to develop more of a jumper than that little free-throw line midrange game he has going, or force Gobert to do the same (which is way less likely to work), I propose an offense where Favors and Gobert stand next to each other at the top of the key, one of them receives the ball, and then they both start walking towards the basket while volleyball-tapping the ball between each other. When one or both of them can’t go forward any more due to defenive pressure, whoever has the ball shoots it. In my head this is guaranteed points every trip down the court and it makes the Gobert/Favors tandem unstoppable, but I can’t test my theory because I don’t have access to tall people at my local gym.