Derrick Favors, not typically a loquacious force of personality anyway, was even more subdued than normal during the team’s locker room availability ahead of Sunday’s game vs. the Kings.
Word came out about 50 minutes ahead of tipoff that Favors, who had started each of the Jazz’s 18 previous games this season, would be coming off the bench for this one, and that Jae Crowder would be starting at the four.
In other words — the Kings play fast, and Crowder is perhaps better able to keep up defensively at that position than the 6-foot-10, 250-pound Favors.