Deron Williams
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Wonder if that’s ever happened before.
1 point from sweeping a series they lost
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Release the Kraken
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The way we played in game 5 and 6 irrespective of Conley tells me that our team already knows a thing or two or three about choking. Off shooting night for Conley yes, but he still looked better down the stretch than Clarkson did down the stretch in game six.
Look, it was a bad trade, gave up waaay too much for a guy that wasn't the right fit IMO. But still, I can think of a lot of guys that made more critical mistakes in that series than Conley. Anyway, a scintilla of a change in direction on that final shot and he's the toast of the town!
Deron Williams
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Aren't two of these losses to Durant/Westbrook Thunder? And one of them after Memphis, as an 8 seed, had already knocked off the 1-seed Spurs? I think it's more impressive the Grizz took OKC to 7 than it is an indictment of Conley that they lost.
I think his other Game 7 loss is vs. Paul and the Clippers? I guess they blew a big lead in Game 1 of that series, but again, there's really no tremendous shame in losing a 4-5 series to CP3/Blake.
Against Denver, Conley's playoff BPM was +9.2, just behind Donovan (+9.4) and ahead of everyone else on the Jazz. Zach Lowe mentioned on his podcast that, according to Second Spectrum, Conley was actually outperforming his expected shot outcomes by even more than Mitchell through Game 6. In Conley's previous playoff stint, he was at +11.2 BPM and had a pretty memorable game where he outdueled Kawhi. Career playoff BPM is + 4.0, better than his regular season figure.
Yes, he shot poorly last night. There's really no evidence that Conley is a consistent postseason underperformer.
Release the Kraken
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Actually, commulative point totals we win the series. But in all seriousness, why do we have the Teflon coach? Only the 12th time in NBA history a team comes back from 3/1 down. A friend from Philly texts me “three in a row, Snyder’s outta here.” Well not in Utah apparently I’d even settle for Brett Brown at this point.
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David Stern
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Quin probably did his worst coaching job this season, but we've clearly been outmatched in talent in the pretty much every playoff series we've played with him as coach.... I think the majority of the board would probably agree that the blame goes on the front office.
homeytennis
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I would be willing to promote Alex Jensen up. He learned under Rick Majeurs and has been a GLeague head coach. As a player, he played in a NCAA Championship game.
Losing Bojan for the series was huge for us. Also complete misses on Green and Davis last off-season were devastating to us.
This team could use some big trades but we could also be really solid home court advantage team if we just correct those two misses and Bojan is back and healthy.
Release the Kraken
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I like Alex, good solid player too, but he seems a bit laconic to me. Could be good I suppose, but hasn't he also been on the bench for that litany of missed challenges? I'd prefer a more fiery leader with some Head coaching experience and success. Kenny Atkinson would be my choice. Of all the coaches in the League, he's done the most with the least. Must've passed some of that along to Jacque Vaughn cause he was never this good!
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Release the Kraken
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Probably right in the board agreement part but we had Mitchell and Gobert which are better in my book than anything they have. My buddy the Sixers' fan told me that he thought we were the better team.
PS Nobody talks about it but I thought Plumlee did more than anybody to turn that series around. Too athletic for our scrubs. Still I thought Snyder gave up on Bradley too early and those extra minutes took their toll on Gobert.
Pastramiking
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Getting Conley was a good trade with the exception of including Crowder. Jazz sorely missed his toughness in the playoffs and Miami is definitely benefiting from it.