Conley Benched

[Handlogten's Heros]

Also don't mention how much his salary is in your response.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Got to start Conley. He's still gives us the highest ceiling with him in the lineup and is one of our best shooters.

Why does he have to start. I get that we could stagger his minutes, but why have him get the vanity start, when Denver is biggest, only to sub him out quickly and then play him with the bench unit. He can still get 30ish minutes.

Starting him also means Morgan evaporates from the rotation and his minutes have been important. If Niang is left off the rotation then great, but we know he's teflon so likely gets Morgan's time.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

The offense when DM's on the floor honestly can't get a whole lot better.... Please tell me how much better Mike makes it? Then also please tell me who in the starting lineup you'd like him to guard? Also, please understand that bringing him off the bench is not like putting him in purgatory and not playing him. If the plan is to play Morgan as the backup 5 or 4 I can probably tolerate Mike starting.

 

[dipship31]

Got to start Conley. He's still gives us the highest ceiling with him in the lineup and is one of our best shooters.

Agree we absolutely have to have him to make any kind of run this postseason, but I'm still not opposed to having him come off the bench still getting 25-30 ish minutes

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Got to start Conley. He's still gives us the highest ceiling with him in the lineup and is one of our best shooters.

Also, the last part isn't true. His TS% is significantly lower than almost every rotation player we have. Just looking at wing guys he's lower than Joe, Royce, DM, and JC.

 

[NAOS]

The offense when DM's on the floor honestly can't get a whole lot better.... Please tell me how much better Mike makes it? Then also please tell me who in the starting lineup you'd like him to guard? Also, please understand that bringing him off the bench is not like putting him in purgatory and not playing him. If the plan is to play Morgan as the backup 5 or 4 I can probably tolerate Mike starting.

I think it makes sense to bring him off the bench in all scenarios, but it’s especially obvious to do so against the Nuggs.

 

[prodigy]

Don't disagree with that. He should come off the bench.

 

[NAOS]

Got to start Conley. He's still gives us the highest ceiling with him in the lineup and is one of our best shooters.

Your claim has already been adequately challenged by HH’s citing of MC’s TS%, but I’d also like to ask you who you send to the bench. Joe and Royce were both huge today.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

The offense when DM's on the floor honestly can't get a whole lot better.... Please tell me how much better Mike makes it? Then also please tell me who in the starting lineup you'd like him to guard? Also, please understand that bringing him off the bench is not like putting him in purgatory and not playing him. If the plan is to play Morgan as the backup 5 or 4 I can probably tolerate Mike starting.

He makes the offense better because he's another ball-handler who can shoot. Just because the Jazz had two good offensive games without Conley doesnt mean we are guaranteed to do it in game 3. Conley raises that odds that the Jazz offense performs well. It gives them more weapons. Don't be daft.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Your claim has already been adequately challenged by HH’s citing of MC’s TS%, but I’d also like to ask you who you send to the bench. Joe and Royce were both huge today.

Morgan lmao. Why on Earth would it be Joe or Royce?

 

[NAOS]

Morgan lmao. Why on Earth would it be Joe or Royce?

Morgan has also been key, imo, but I obviously should have listed him, too. His presence gives us the necessary size for the Nuggs.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I think it makes sense to bring him off the bench in all scenarios, but it’s especially obvious to do so against the Nuggs.

Whispers.... the only reason not to is vanity.... and it ain’t really mikes vanity... it’s the front office.

@Tony Jones was scoffing on the social media at why we would even question who will start... every time someone responds with something mockingly saying...

1-he’s Mike Conley.... MIKE EFFING CONLEY!

2- Yeah the guy we are paying max money for is coming off the bench.... hardy har har.

3- right the guy we traded all those assets for is coming off the bench... lmfao

no one mentions who he will guard in those first few minutes... no one mentions why he has to start and why the minutes can’t be staggered early.

He should be a net positive but it will be a huge huge positive if we bring him off the bench imo. If that means he gets 25 minutes instead of 30 I’m cool with that personally. His production this year has not justified taking the ball out of Joe and DMs hands... they are in a groove and if mike struggles it may throw those guys off. It will almost certainly **** up the defense which is already struggling at times.

Quin knee this was the right move in season... it’s why he did it. DL couldn’t handle how it’d look... the only reason to move away from what we are doing now is for someone’s ego to get stroked.

Championship teams have routinely had great players come off the bench to maximize the full roster. The fact that we won’t ask this or don’t have the stones to do it kinda tells me we don’t think of ourselves that way.