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Is Mike Conley Coming Back?

Well is he?

  • Yup

    Votes: 13 20.3%

  • Nope

    Votes: 51 79.7%
  • Total voters
    64
l Abach l said:
Let's see....
- Mike will be 34 years old on opening tipoff. He ain't getting any younger
- Has a nagging hamstring injury that won't allow him to play any back to back games or consecutive games in the playoffs
- Undersized on D
- Puts us in the luxary tax

Think this is an easy answer - time to move on. I'd feel differently had we advanced to the WCF... but we didn't. Time for change.
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I think the real question is will we realistically get anything for Conley and the answer is probably no for the reasons you mentioned. Sunk cost red flags in this acquisition from day 1.
 
Mongoose said:
I think the real question is will we realistically get anything for Conley and the answer is probably no for the reasons you mentioned. Sunk cost red flags in this acquisition from day 1.
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Yup. Yet another reason to can DL... All we had to do was go out and grab somebody to align with Don's age to build going forward. Nope! Went all in on over the hill 30+ year olds in Bogey and Conley in the same off season. Made no sense.
 
infection said:
Kuzma better be going to a third team.
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Ehhhh... I don't love what he was a couple years ago but he has improved in meaningful ways on defense. I think sometimes it can be hard to play with Lebron... he's probably a guy that is a little over-rated because of the Lakers shine.

I think he could be flipped to a third team for something maybe more useful.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
I did... he kinda laid out a struggle... do we commit to him and having two small guards? Does he want to be here or does he have other options. Kinda indicated money is a factor but not the driving determination. He mentioned Kuzma and the Lakers...

If you look at the Lakers cap situation they could use MLE to get him but if they do a Kuzma for Conley deal they can give him a little more and avoid the hard cap. retain Caruso, THT, maybe Schroder... then use mini-mle.

We could then pivot from Bojan and get stuff.

TLDR it wasn't super positive.
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Well...that's pretty depressing. I'm not a Kuzma guy at all, I just don't think he's that good and I don't think he would move the needle for us at all. I really like Mike, I hope he doesn't make me hate him by going to the Lakers.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
I did... he kinda laid out a struggle... do we commit to him and having two small guards? Does he want to be here or does he have other options. Kinda indicated money is a factor but not the driving determination. He mentioned Kuzma and the Lakers...

If you look at the Lakers cap situation they could use MLE to get him but if they do a Kuzma for Conley deal they can give him a little more and avoid the hard cap. retain Caruso, THT, maybe Schroder... then use mini-mle.

We could then pivot from Bojan and get stuff.

TLDR it wasn't super positive.
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Meanwhile Tony Jones basically said why the **** would Utah do that.
 
White Chocolate said:
Meanwhile Tony Jones basically said why the **** would Utah do that.
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Obvious answer being that it's better to trade Conley to Lakers and get kuzma than Conley just go sign with the Lakers and we get nothing.

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Handlogten's Heros said:
Simple question... is he coming back?

I get the feeling he isn't. Locke had a podcast on it this AM. I also think Mike was pretty non-committal... which is not uncommon but it just came in a way that seemed to say "my time here was great but I'll be moving on".

I think the issue imo is that the Lakers can throw out the MLE and so we need to go quite a bit over that to make it work. I get the feeling that makes us queasy with the tax and his health. I think in the end we work a sign and trade and get something back but that he is gone. I don't think we are hard capped unless we accept a player who was signed and traded. So my prediction is the Conley for Kuzma rumors (even though they are just made up by some internet bozo) become a reality. I think Mike goes ring chasing in a market that is more fun. I'd put the odds at 30% that he is back.
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He's not coming back. But we also aren't getting anything for him.

What a terrible failed experiment.
 
I like Mike. The Jazz as a whole need to get a big bigger, younger and more athletic. The question you need to ask yourself is whether Mike can still defend at a high level. I think the Jazz would bring him back at the right number.

As for Mike's exit interview, Mike may just be posturing until he sees what numbers the Jazz would be willing to offer him. I wouldn't read too much into it.
 
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