Conley could miss multiple weeks with hamstring injury

[LifeOnaPlate]

My #1 concern with Conley, going back to last season's trade deadline, was his health. This is such deflating news. The team is better with Mike on the floor, and his shot is going to start falling. But now we'll have lost him for more than a month, and possibly longer.

Honestly, I would love to see Snyder try this: plug Exum into Conley's starting role and keep the other rotations largely the same.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

My #1 concern with Conley, going back to last season's trade deadline, was his health. This is such deflating news. The team is better with Mike on the floor, and his shot is going to start falling. But now we'll have lost him for more than a month, and possibly longer.

Honestly, I would love to see Snyder try this: plug Exum into Conley's starting role and keep the other rotations largely the same.

Even if it worked for a game or two just because it caught people off guard we could start a narrative that Dante is good and up his trade value... one of the things that intrigued Memphis was Grayson's big game in the last game where he scored like 35 or something. NBA teams might buy it... who knows.

 

[jom2003]

And? That’s kind of the point isn’t it.

So your point is to compare Conley with Giannis, lebron, Curry or Harden because he gets paid the same as those guys? Is this the best you can do?

There is a reason I bring up Indiana and Toronto because structure wise we are more comparable to those teams in that we don't have a single player that could be put in the same conversation with Giannis, Lebron etc. So we need to build our team in terms chemistry and well-roundedness instead of pure talent/star power. So it hurts us having this one overpaid non-superstar taking up all the space/resources so it puts burden on our other starters to make up for the deficit and that is exactly the case with DM/Bojan/Rudy. If you think them combing for 70+points/25+rebs/110+ min every night even against the likes of Warriors Magic and Grizz should become the norm, then your point is made. Maybe one of them should go for MVP this season.

 

[oneye]

So your point is to compare Conley with Giannis, lebron, Curry or Harden because he gets paid the same as those guys? Is this the best you can do?

There is a reason I bring up Indiana and Toronto because structure wise we are more comparable to those teams in that we don't have a single player that could be put in the same conversation with Giannis, Lebron etc. So we need to build our team in terms chemistry and well-roundedness instead of pure talent/star power. So it hurts us having this one overpaid non-superstar taking up all the space/resources so it puts burden on our other starters to make up for the deficit and that is exactly the case with DM/Bojan/Rudy. If you think them combing for 70+points/25+rebs/110+ min every night even against the likes of Warriors Magic and Grizz should become the norm, then your point is made. Maybe one of them should go for MVP this season.

Cool, and everyone was perfectly fine with it a few months ago. The only reason you have that flexibility is because Donovan is underpaid. This is the new reality, and once he's getting $30+ mill, and Rudy is getting like $40+ mill a year, the bench is essentially not going to be very good. Mike was brought in because they had financial flexibility to do so. The last 2 years were the model you talked about in spending that money on role players, it didn't work either. Donovan or Rudy will have to MVP level to win a title. That's just how it is. To win a title you have to have a player playing at that caliber or you aren’t winning one.

 

[str8line]

The Phoenix!

He’s sort of build like a bird the gangly ****.

Bambi-rd

 

[MVP]

Dante will RISE UP, ya'll!

 

[homeytennis]

I think we get like 40-50 games out of Mike this season... so we will have the excuse that he never got acclimated (if we don't get out of the first round). Will provide additional ammo to not make moves this summer.

Side note... I bet DL makes the driest damn baked goods ever.

You mean the Kak wasn't moist?

 

[Miggs]

 

[homeytennis]

Give DWill a call. One call that's all.

 

[DasJazz]

Dante will RISE UP, ya'll!

Yep, and then he'll stretch, maybe yawn, and then sit his candy *** back down on the end of the bench where he belongs.

 

[Dali]

Man this sucks. Our combinations and line ups looked better with having Mike back. Then he can't return for the second half and the collective bench suckage returns.

Our point guards have taken beatings recently. Dante and his well documented injuries, Hill and his toe, the goat Neto that couldn't stay healthy, Mudiay and his sore hammies, I'm waiting with baited breath for his next sore one so he misses time, Mike and his hammy. I don't think Shelvin got injured too much, but whenever he would play defense, it was like watching somebody in quicksand.

I agree with the notion of playing Ex to see if he can find any rhythm.

 

[r_u_s_t_b_u_c_k_e_t]

Give DWill a call. One call that's all.

https://www.deseret.com/2019/8/16/2...sport-now-that-his-basketball-ship-has-sailed

Still living in Park City. 50/50 he can bring it better than RXum.