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Conley Benched

Would have been dumb as hell to bench him. Imagine him getting in his own head. This was perfect. He fit perfectly into this suddenly grooving team chemistry.

Nothing else that happened this season with Conley matters at all. Here we are in the playoffs with as favorable a road as you could want (which is still hard as hell). We look great. And have a coach who has proven again and again he can figure out a gameplan good enough to beat anyone in seven games as long as it is executed.

Feeling good about this team right now.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Barton left the bubble to rehab... he’s done. Harris is a good defender but he was completely terrible on offense this season. They in trouble. I expect a solid fight though.
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Weren't really aware of Barton situation. Harris offense been awkward this season, but at least he's someone that they can hope to make a play and be a guy that can start to make life harder for our creators. Porter can't defend ****, even if he drops 30, we make 50 on him, we already played him of the floor, and Craig, Millsap and Grant, they are good players, but we're more than good If that's who's creating offense If we keep doing our work on Murray and Jokic.
 
Bawse Dawg said:
Would have been dumb as hell to bench him. Imagine him getting in his own head. This was perfect. He fit perfectly into this suddenly grooving team chemistry.

Nothing else that happened this season with Conley matters at all. Here we are in the playoffs with as favorable a road as you could want (which is still hard as hell). We look great. And have a coach who has proven again and again he can figure out a gameplan good enough to beat anyone in seven games as long as it is executed.

Feeling good about this team right now.
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I hear you, but this Nuggs performance is hard to use in an evaluation of anything.

Things look dope af, doe
 
This whole debate about whether or not Conley should start will continue into next season. Obviously. Let’s not let the current moment cloud two important things: Bogdanovic’s absence (which makes including Conley in the starting lineup easier to reconcile), and the much less physical nature of these bubble playoff games from a regular playoff game (the physicality of a Conley-Mitchell-Joe-Royce combo isn’t great, to say the least, and this is being papered over right now).

Starting both Joe and Royce was hugely important to our starting lineup this year. You can’t do that if you’re also starting Bogey and Conley.
 
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NAOS said:
This whole debate about whether or not Conley should start will continue into next season. Obviously. Let’s not let the current moment cloud two important things: Bogdanovic’s absence (which makes including Conley in the starting lineup easier to reconcile with), and the much less physical nature of these bubble playoff games from a regular playoff game (the physicality of a Conley-Mitchell-Joe-Royce combo isn’t great, to say the least, and this is being papered over right now).

Starting both Joe and Royce was hugely important to our starting lineup this year. You can’t do that if you’re also starting Bogey and Conley.
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Next year may be substantially different from this year. Perhaps Mitchell has really taken a big step forward as a playmaker and we can afford to move Joe to the bench. Perhaps Conley is finally more comfortable and we can increase his ball-handling duties. But one of the big storylines of this year is that, try as we did to decrease our dependence on Joe, all those changes netted no difference. Moving him to the bench didn’t work. And I’m not betting that next year will be different. If we retain JC and let him gun off the bench, then Joe becomes a wallflower in that role. And do you really think someone besides Joe is magically going to step forward and learn how to feed Rudy at a similar rate and effectiveness? And it’s Rudy’s threat as a rim runner that’s opening Joe’s layup line (nobody on the bench has anywhere near Rudy’s impact).

In combos that include Conley and Mitchell, Royce is needed for some length and physicality defending the perimeter. It’s best if he isn’t slid down to the 4 in these scenarios; we need him to disrupt guys like Murray. Moving him to the bench neuters his primary value to the team because he won’t be matched up against the best offensive players. I also think we learned that while Royce can guard bigs, he is clearly better on guards and wings (at this point of his career, at least). That puts Bogey on the 4s.

Most of this is rehash. Just so we don’t forget.
 
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