Derrick Favors and Rudy Gobert are the only players who were on the Jazz’s roster the last time Alec Burks was fully healthy and playing a major role. That was five years ago. Gobert, though, spent part of that 2013-2014 season in what is now called the G League, and much of it not playing.
So you might call Favors the expert on Burks' game among his teammates, and when he says something like this, it means more than if it came from nearly anyone else.
“He looks like AB before the injury. He’s been explosive, passing the ball a lot better, and getting back to the way he was playing before he got hurt,” Favors said.