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Mike Conley for Chris Paul?

Mike Conley for Chris Paul?

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I find it amusing with all the talk about trading Conley. The consensus last season was trading for him was the solution to all our problems. I'm still not convinced he wanted to come here and wish we could have been able to sign bogey without him. As it stands, he's here with that albatross of a contract and our "genius" coach has to find a way to make it work. (Which I think he will, but probably not to the championship work.)
 
Ok, so it looks like people on Jazzfanz are more concerned about Conley's defense and fit next to Donovan/Rudy rather than his offense. I'm more concerned about having a 2nd consistent scoring option that can create for himself in the 4th quarter.

Anyways, for some reason I thought CP had only 2 years left on his contract but he has a 3rd year player option. So the risk for doing this trade is most likely not worth it.
 
The Conley thing is baffling. This is just not who he is. We aren't anywhere close to needing to think about other options here... but if we were another small PG wouldn't be the route.

It's just odd that he went from a low turnover great shooting player to.... well... what we've seen so far. Physically he doesn't look slow... I don't think its age or injury. It looks like he forgot how to play good basketball. Just so strange.
 
SoUjazzfan said:
I find it amusing with all the talk about trading Conley. The consensus last season was trading for him was the solution to all our problems. I'm still not convinced he wanted to come here and wish we could have been able to sign bogey without him. As it stands, he's here with that albatross of a contract and our "genius" coach has to find a way to make it work. (Which I think he will, but probably not to the championship work.)
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I think there was anything but consensus. A good chunk of fans didn't want him or felt he wasn't really the missing piece. The board was pretty divided in most threads. So this response isn't weird at all.
 
tfivas said:
We didn't sign him, we traded for him and gave up assets. I'm not saying it's a mistake by any means. But if it turns out to be a bad decision, there are repercussions outside of just paying him a lot of money.
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Semantics - I think you know what I meant. Anytime you make a decision there will be repercussions, it's always a crap-shoot. I like what Massai Ujiri had to say on Real Sports with Bryant Gumble, that he never looks back. This guy made the biggest one year gamble for a load management player and against all odds actually won an NBA championship because of it!
 
tfivas said:
For sure I knew what you meant and didn't mean to come across snarky about it....but with the Raptors decision they were also able to get out the massive contract owed to Derozan. Total win win for them.
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Still quite a gamble though as there was also a first round pick involved.
 
I partially blame the current mess on fans who wouldn't stop clamoring to trade last years players. Now some are advocating trading the current mess for a different, more expensive and more complicated mess.

If you want to do something productive start a "fire Dennis Lindsey" thread.
 
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SoUjazzfan said:
I find it amusing with all the talk about trading Conley. The consensus last season was trading for him was the solution to all our problems. I'm still not convinced he wanted to come here and wish we could have been able to sign bogey without him. As it stands, he's here with that albatross of a contract and our "genius" coach has to find a way to make it work. (Which I think he will, but probably not to the championship work.)
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Not anywhere close to being consensus at all. Lot of us here were against trading for Conley because of his age, overpriced contract and fit next to DM.
 
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