Free Agent/Trade Thread Offseason 2026, Part 8 (Those beaches will be open!)

[Marley2Hendrix]

Conley is on a vet min contract. If you are crying about that to add him as a 3rd ball handler, just get off the internet. He's a good mentor for young guys in his 20th season and is fine getting DNPs.

It's probably more this might mean any Brandon Williams hopes (uncertain how much hype that train had) are up in smoke, and Conley means one less end of the roster binkie. IDK, we certainly wouldn't have done worse starting Conley in game 7 against Philly.

Good older brother role to Joe?

[WeLikeOurGuys]

Brad we want to add speed to the perimeter.
Brings in Mike Conley

[GotDaSauce]

Brad's definition of speedy guard must be different than mine!
I feel like this is insurance for a different move.

[GrandTheftRondo]

I don't think this is true at all. Every other post in here is begging for a big man. Lots of people post ideas not involving big men because the position is scarce and hard to find. But it's pretty much everyone's first goal and talked about constantly.

I saw posts a few days ago with people saying how Queta is completely fine as our big man and maybe we don't need a truly great big to win a title.

Think someone even mentioned NY and KAT.

KAT is inconsistent as hell but he does things that your typical big doesn't do.

I don't go through advanced stats, but I'd be interested if someone has them on Queta. IDK, I'm struggling with a thought I had back when I joined here. In the absence of any great bigs, if you throw a guy out there for 24-30mpg at the 5, it's pretty hard not to put up stats. Potapenko was 11 and 7 in 28 minutes. Tony Battie probably peaked at 7/7 in 25 minutes, though way better D from what I remember compared to Pot. Queta is 10 and 8 in 25 minutes, though, pace adjusted, I'm not sure how different that is. Love me some Queta, absolutely stepped up for us in our wasteland of a 5 spot, but, homie showed what he was against Philly, imo, and I think he's getting close to his ceiling.

In short, I'm in the camp, with the possible exception of a Tatum/Giannis/Queta front court and (considerable injury luck) which I would have flaccidly accepted, I don't see this team winning a championship with Queta as our starting 5. He's an A+ first center off the bench, but as this team is currently built, I'm just not seeing the road to a title if Queta is our primary big.

Advanced stats like Queta but I swear they liked Luke Kornet when he was here too and he was unplayable during the Spurs playoff run.

I think Queta has some good traits and has improved heaps but he still gives off tall dude who doesn’t really know what he’s doing vibes. And it’s not like he’s going young

[cloverleaf]

Brad's definition of speedy guard must be different than mine!
I feel like this is insurance for a different move.

Those wheelchairs in old players' homes can be sneaky fast!

Meanwhile, might as well give up, Max. No room for you in Boston.

[jonige94]

Mike Conley last season 18min per game on 4 ppg, 2.9 ast, 1.7 reb on **** 33.5% shooting, ahaha.

[playa-hater]

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Yawn..

[165bows]

Makes me think there won't be a ton of trades going on. Ie, nothing that is opening up time at the PG position.

[Scarletfire81]

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I’m just not seeing any way JB comes back next season. They are literally going to take the best deal, whatever that is….

[hugepatsfan]

Brad got asked about if the team needed more leadership on the floor (player wise) and he went on a rant about how they need to deal with "prosperity" better and talked about how they've blown leads a lot over the years and laid eggs in games in series even the championship year. Blake's year here on the 3rd unit was well-received leadership wise. That's all this Conley move seems to be IMO. I think it's a mistake to make it out to be more than that or debate it too heavily. They signed a respected locker room vet for one of the last spots on their roster, that's it. Normal signing, nothing to really be up in arms over IMO.

[hugepatsfan]

Conley is on a vet min contract. If you are crying about that to add him as a 3rd ball handler, just get off the internet. He's a good mentor for young guys in his 20th season and is fine getting DNPs.

It's probably more this might mean any Brandon Williams hopes (uncertain how much hype that train had) are up in smoke, and Conley means one less end of the roster binkie. IDK, we certainly wouldn't have done worse starting Conley in game 7 against Philly.

Good older brother role to Joe?

I don't think it would stop them from adding BWilliams or any other guard with the MLE or a trade.

Pritchard / BWilliams / Conley
White / Hugo / Harper Jr.
Brown / Scheierman / Walsh
Tatum / Hauser / Cenac Jr.
Queta / Garza

Just puts the roster in a spot where you'd probably move off Hauser's money to fit a big man in. But I think Conley is just a 3rd unit guy and won't impact what they do with the 1st/2nd units.

[WeLikeOurGuys]

Makes me think there won't be a ton of trades going on. Ie, nothing that is opening up time at the PG position.

Or or D-White is getting shipped off to the pistons in a sign and trade.

Highly unlikely lol.

[playa-hater]

I don't know if this is old news or new news but a JB selling his penthouse in Boston came up today.. JB expecting to be gone?

[cloverleaf]

So does Conley make it more likely DW is leaving? Less likely Jrue is returning?

[cloverleaf]

I don't know if this is old news or new news but a JB selling his penthouse in Boston came up today.. JB expecting to be gone?

Old news.

Doesn't mean it might not be related.

[Larry_Russell]

Might see Pritchard included in a Brown trade now.

Or he starts?

[playa-hater]

12 pages since I last read last night and all we have to show is Mike Conley?

Brad Trolling us so hard right now

[playa-hater]

So does Conley make it more likely DW is leaving? Less likely Jrue is returning?

Good question. I can not imagine the Market was Robust to sign Conley. Not sure why Brad couldn't wait to see the results of a JB trade first.

[Bill Lumbergh]

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There’s our guard I guess…

I'm pretty shocked by this. Totally unexpected, per usual with Brad.

[SuperDeluxe]

Brad got asked about if the team needed more leadership on the floor (player wise) and he went on a rant about how they need to deal with "prosperity" better and talked about how they've blown leads a lot over the years and laid eggs in games in series even the championship year. Blake's year here on the 3rd unit was well-received leadership wise. That's all this Conley move seems to be IMO. I think it's a mistake to make it out to be more than that or debate it too heavily. They signed a respected locker room vet for one of the last spots on their roster, that's it. Normal signing, nothing to really be up in arms over IMO.

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