So, Conley is like an MGB. Older and needs a lot of expensive maintenance, but when it runs, it's so sweet.
Mike Conley Contingency Plan
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NAOS
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You mean “sweet” for 80ish horsepower?
It may be underpowered (actually 95 hp, I believe), but it's pretty lightweight, so it doesn't need a lot. Which also actually fits in the comparison.
NAOS
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If you dyno any of those cars, they under-deliver..... which might be another way this description fits
homeytennis
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We have Conley, Ersan and the Minivan who are free agents, What other players could the Jazz just walk way from without enduring a financial hit?
Ineptimusprime
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Brantley, Forrest are two-way (so
can be dropped), Morgan, Thomas, and Oni are unguaranteed or partially guaranteed, so can be moved on from quite easily.
The only end-of-benchers that we would have any challenge moving on from are Doke and Hughes.
My guess is only Brantley and Morgan are gone and that’s it. Which is a shame, because Doke is the only player on the roster after Niang that has any chance of ever being an NBA rotation quality player. Sorry, just facts.
homeytennis
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Brantley, Forrest are two-way (so
It struck me that Hughes is so deep in Quin's dog house for whatever reason, we might as well name him DedExII.
Ineptimusprime
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Yeah, I think I’m done drafting guys that put up offensive numbers in college with serious defense concerns. Quin will never play them, and they probably aren’t NBA quality.
You'll have to give some parameters as to what you consider "heal up" because I think this hamstring issue will be under constant management the rest of his career. It will cause him to lose games, what the hope should be is that the lost games are load management and not weeks and weeks after re-injuring it.
He has missed 1/3 of his games on the Jazz due to recurring hamstring issues. He's past the age that he was supposed to fall off a cliff and still getting older. It's not going away.
So what I mean is to be able to play a consistent number of minutes, game after game, through a whole season. Maybe not 40 minutes, but 12 at least, Enough to let another player with a reasonably comproble skill set get some rest every game.
If there's no hope for that, we have to find a new plan.
That will never happen. He will miss games. Every single back-to-back at minimum, and I would guess a minimum of 20% of his games (he didn't play 5 consecutive games after his first hamstring injury this year).
I can deal with aggressive load management in the regular season, but only if a guy can last the playoffs. I don't believe Conley can without continued load management.