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jom2003 said:
Suns didn't have a healthy CP3 and Booker literally had to wear a face mask to be allowed on the court. But the rest of their guys help split the load to make things easier for the stars, while we were literally overworking Donovan/Rudy/Joe/Royce cuz noone else on the bench could take any of the burdens off of their shoulder.

Besides Conley’s hamstring problem, we had Favs and Niang, who were our 7th and 8th man in the rotation, couldn't even stay on the floor against the Clippers, so of course our main guys like Don and Rudy would've gassed themselves and struggled with injury/fitness. That's when you would wish you have that options of Jeff Green, Kaminsky or Jabari Parker being available from the bench.
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Favors and niang could stay on the floor against the suns though. Our normal offense and normal defense could do what our normal offense and normal defense does against the suns. Just like against Memphis.

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LoPo said:
Don't get wrong - we are a better team with Conley than without him. I just can't let him off the hook for not being there when we needed him most. He was supposed to be the missing piece.

Instead, he was just missing.

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It sucks he wasn't available against the Clips. But Conley vs role players/late 1st for a chance at winning a chip is a reasonable trade in my opinion. Had we been deeper, we probably beat LA without Mike and then he is healthy against the Suns.

The problem wasn't his acquisition. Is the dumb moves to fill out the roster and the overall lack of positional flexibility. You had a point about teams scheming against Rudy. We had no counter. We couldn't go small. If we wanted to play big, we needed good perimeter defenders in front of Rudy. The same weaknessess from the previous offseason: that's on the the FO. Had they taken Bane, get Craig or someone else besides Thomas, we would most likely be in the Finals. Also, let's not forget Don played in one leg.
 
fishonjazz said:
Favors and niang could stay on the floor against the suns though. Our normal offense and normal defense could do what our normal offense and normal defense does against the suns. Just like against Memphis.

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Yeah, it's a better matchup. On the other hand, it would have been a midrange nightmare but that's easier to defend and less deadly than the Clips all-out small ball 5 lineup.
 
latin jazz said:
Yeah, it's a better matchup. On the other hand, it would have been a midrange nightmare but that's easier to defend and less deadly than the Clips all-out small ball 5 lineup.
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Agreed. The suns are good. It would be hard to defend their midrange. Hell it would be hard to defend their inside game and 3 point game too. They are really good
But so were we when we were healthy. We were really hard for every team in the league to defend. Even against clippers with no Conley and a banged up Donovan and niang playing worse than he ever played before, we still put up points. We didn't have any 84 point games. Didn't even have any under 100.


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l Abach l said:
Lol go look it up man. Niang started a number of regular season games as did Sefalosha... So did Jerebko.
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And players that some fans don't like will continue to have the occasional start in the future. It's unavoidable.

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Not sure if this was posted, but this is the first time since 1971 that the winner of the title is guaranteed to not have someone with a ring already on a roster. Literally everyone on the team who wins will get their first ring. That's pretty amazing.

Even without the Jazz in it, this is the first FInals I've looked forward to in years. Suns vs Bucks would be epic, Suns vs Hawks would be just so fun to watch.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Durant literally joined the team with the best regular season record in the history of the game the very next season after they slaughtered his team in the playoffs and rode their coattails to a championship. So with his unearned rings, who is the better forward, Durant or Malone?

A ring's a ring, when it comes right down to it.

Malone will go down as maybe the best player to never get a ring. Ho-hum. While Durant is a champion finals MVP, nevermind that the dubs would have likely won whether he had been there or not.
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A ring doesn't determine if one player is better than another player. With your dumbass logic, Rodman is better than Malone.
So I would have happily taken the ring this year and celebrated it as if we had beaten the bulls and dubs in their primes back to back.
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That's because you're an idiot.
 
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