And Bojan. For all of his good, he is a 31-year old that got signed for four years at $18 million a season and he is bad at basically everything besides scoring.
It was a contextually good signing: you’re buying four years of Bojan for two years of good Bojan in a meaningful two-year win-now mode prior to Gobert, Mitchell, and Conley‘s, contract expirations. We needed a versatile and potent scorer at the forward positions. Only problem is Conley brought redundant positives (good scorer) and negatives (bad defender), which means the positives run into diminishing returns and the negatives get multiplied.
We didn’t need Conley is the long and short of it, and with both it is more of a problem to manage on and off the court than it is help.
I just want everyone to marinate on the fact that the Jazz didn’t appear to terribly miss either during these playoffs (beyond having the depth). I think they could’ve lost even worse if they had both for the entire series. Until game 7, the issue was we were a **** defensive team and a historically great offensive team. There is no way having both would’ve helped either.