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Who’s More Athletic, Elson or Fesenko?
Posted by: JC on September 15th, 2010
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.Who can help us the most when the chips are in, the cards are down, Francisco Elson or Kyrylo Fesenko?
Who is more athletic? Who can block more shots?
Francisco Elson owns career averages of 3.9 ppg / 3.8 rpg / 0.6 blocks per game, over 7 years, 405 games.
Kyrylo Fesenko owns career averages of 2.4 ppg & 1.9 rpg / 0.5 blocks per game, over 4 years in 79 games.
Elson: 7-0 / 240
Fesenko: 7-1 / 300
Well, since there weren’t really any Fes highlights, let’s put his draft footage up (go to 3:19):
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To be honest, I think its sixes. You forgot to add mimutes played for either of the two, so compairing career highs, is not actually fair. Elson had more minutes, so that being said, neither are impressive. I was actually hoping we would wait until training camp and see that we brought in some surprising talent at that position. Someone who would actually surprise us and wow us. Signing someone right prior to training camp means that there was no one available and there was no one available. Could have probably gotten collins for dirt cheap, at least we would have been certain he knew our system and would try hard. Though again, he doesnt impress me either, but I would have been less bummed about it all and it would have made some sense.
Sorry I strayed away from your topic. Hoping Okur pulls a surprise and gets back soon, because the two listed in the topic box, unless one or both shocks us all, dont impress anyone. 7′ isnt everything, and with these two, its even less… Crosses fingers they both prove me wrong.
Whats their stats per 40 minutes?
Fesenko’s young. I really wanted to see him get some good playing time and see if he could develop his game with Okur out. I think he’s plenty athletic. What he needs is to develope his skills. Not foul so much, work on his post game and rebounding. Seriously, he’s so big that even if he developed just those things to a decent level, he’d have a long career in the NBA. He totally changed the Denver series with just his huge body. But Jazz and fans want wins NOW, and Jerry wants results on the court, not developing players, so we’ll probably see him ride the pine, when he would be doing better for his career if he were playing in Europe or some lower-tier team that would give him playing time.
1. I know that I rushed this blog up, I usually like to add more to the things I write, so input is appreciated
2. I don’t really believe stats per 40 min is as accurate as people may think it is (same with the daunted +/- stat)
3. Fesenko per 36 min: 10.8 ppg / 2.1 blocks / 8.6 rebs
Elson per 36: 8.7 ppg / 1.3 blocks / 8.3 rebs
4. As I recall, Fesenko is a player that can start hot, but the more minutes he got, the less productive he became (conditioning problem?)
5. Elson has averaged 16.2 minutes per game over his career (with a HUGE dip from 16 down to 5 last season)
Fesenko with 8.0 minutes per game over 4 seasons
6. Fes shoots .402 from the FT line
Elson shoots .688 from the FT line
You know who is going to ake the back up center spot it sucks but, fez is barely going to see any playing time what so ever. If Fez was going to be the back up center i don’t think they would have made a move for Elson but i honestly think Fez would be more effective down there he is a lot bigger plays a lot more physical and, has room to improve. Elson does have experience but, he isn’t going to improve much and is a lot smaller then Fez is so if it was me i would be playing Fez over Elson but, i think the jazz are going with Elson over Fez
Am more athletic then all ya
and i play Point Guard