Our Future - Donovan at PG

[LoPo]

I've wavered on this for a while, but after watching these first 13 games, our future lies with the ball primarily in Donovan's hands. The NBA is positionless now and we are trying to force feed a PG when we just need an offensive leader. Just look at most of the best teams in the NBA and who leads their offense:

LeBron - not a true PG
Harden - not a true PG
Clippers - no true PG
The list goes on of teams led by guys who aren't traditional PGs - Lillard, Curry and Kemba are shoot first, Oladipo, San Antonio, Denver, Philly, etc.
Is there a great team right now with a facilitate first small stature PG?

If we want to be a contender, Mitchell needs to be our catalyst more than he has been. Too many times, he is on the outside watching us run plays for Joe, Conley, Mudiay, etc. Our offensive rhythm is pathetically inconsistent because we simply just don't rely on our best offensive weapon often enough.

Yes, he has a lot of work to do. He needs more PG skill development. The way to get that is to put the overwhelming majority of the offense in his hands. If he develops at the same rapid rate with his PG skills as he has with everything else, we are a true contender. If we continue to quarantine him to trying to run our show out of rhythm in the last 5 minutes, we are destined for the 1st or maybe 2nd round.

I haven't given up on Conley, but regardless, our future lies with Donovan running things.

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[jom2003]

Why DL is so obsessed with (short)fixing our starting PG is beyond me. Just let DM start at PG and get some 3D guy like Danny Green to pair with him in the backcourt. Our problem clearly lies with our forwards, lacking athleticism, skill, length or all three. And this is clearly a forward's league right now.

 

[LoPo]

Why DL is so obsessed with (short)fixing our starting PG is beyond me. Just let DM start at PG and get some 3D guy like Danny Green to pair with him in the backcourt. Our problem clearly lies with our forwards, lacking athleticism, skill, length or all three. And this is clearly a forward's league right now.

I agree.

I'm okay with this Conley experiment for a couple years while Donovan absorbs everything he can. However, when that Conley ship sails, let's just focus on Donovan as our offensive catalyst and surround him with Danny Green, Joe Ingles, Bojan, Royce types with a basket protecting big.

 

[RJF]

We don’t agree on much but on this we do.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Hey welcome back @LoPo

I agreed last year that DM should be viewed as more of a point guard, but he needs other ball handlers around him. That ship has sailed as we are married to Conley... maybe in 3 years I guess. I don't think he needs a ball dominant person next to him. The primary difference would actually be on defense... having a bigger guy allows us to be a bigger team overall. I'm not sure the current issues the team is having on offense are because DM isn't in the right role.

 

[LoPo]

Hey welcome back @LoPo

I agreed last year that DM should be viewed as more of a point guard, but he needs other ball handlers around him. That ship has sailed as we are married to Conley... maybe in 3 years I guess. I don't think he needs a ball dominant person next to him. The primary difference would actually be on defense... having a bigger guy allows us to be a bigger team overall. I'm not sure the current issues the team is having on offense are because DM isn't in the right role.

Thank you. Good points too.

I just feel there is something very redundant in the way that Conley and Donovan are playing together. Neither does a great job getting Gobert dunks on lobs. Neither seems to be getting many wide open looks directly from the other player. Both seem to be struggling on the defensive end which makes us a liability against larger backcourts and teams.

For the time being, I concede that we have what we have. In the future, I hope we don't go after any more undersized PG's unless they are either: A - a lights out scorers like a Lou Williams or B - a defensive specialist who doesn't have to start.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Thank you. Good points too.

I just feel there is something very redundant in the way that Conley and Donovan are playing together. Neither does a great job getting Gobert dunks on lobs. Neither seems to be getting many wide open looks directly from the other player. Both seem to be struggling on the defensive end which makes us a liability against larger backcourts and teams.

For the time being, I concede that we have what we have. In the future, I hope we don't go after any more undersized PG's unless they are either: A - a lights out scorers like a Lou Williams or B - a defensive specialist who doesn't have to start.

I think both guys struggle to throw the lob a bit because they are smaller and both guys struggle at the rim. Conley because he's small and DM because he's not explosive off of one foot.

I think it will still work out really well.

 

[jom2003]

Hey welcome back @LoPo

I agreed last year that DM should be viewed as more of a point guard, but he needs other ball handlers around him. That ship has sailed as we are married to Conley... maybe in 3 years I guess. I don't think he needs a ball dominant person next to him. The primary difference would actually be on defense... having a bigger guy allows us to be a bigger team overall. I'm not sure the current issues the team is having on offense are because DM isn't in the right role.

The regression of Ingles has everything to do with that, even more so than Conley

 

[fishonjazz]

My vision has always been that DM would be the jazz point guard. That's just one of the reasons why I was unhappy with the Conley trade.

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