[Highlight] Mike Conley “I’m locking that sh*t up”
Unc still got it
I still remember the Conley cash money floaters from the Grizzlies days. He’s so good
The grit and the grind never abandon you.
Real talk though, Conley has been grinding his whole life. He grew up on the north side of Indianapolis at a time when there was a shit ton of concentrated basketball talent on the north side of Indianapolis. He was high school teammates with Greg Oden, and playing on the north side of Indy at roughly the same time as guys like George Hill, Eric Gordon, Jeff Teague, and many others were playing at rival high schools. True iron sharpens iron type shit between dudes who just happened to be from the same place.
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I’m going to sound like a Boomer for a second, but when I was in school here in Indy, teachers actually couldn’t be taken seriously if they talked about how low the chances were of getting a college scholarship to play basketball or making it to the NBA. Too many kids had legitimately made it. And damn near every public school district on the north side of Indy had coaches who could really develop players into real college prospects and eventual NBA or D-League/G-League guys.
This was all basically ruined by AAU ball & local private high schools waiving $25k/year in scholarship tuition for basketball players. Players still do trickle out of Indy and into the NBA, but it’s not like how it was before. It used to be that normal ass kids from normal ass families could play basketball at their public high school and be coached up into a prospect for free and with relatively minimal travel.
I think Indy might be second only to Cali or maybe NC in terms of basketball talent. Even D-rose went on teague’s podcast and said everyone that came up hooping in Indy knew how to shoot lol, testament to your statement about the excellent coaching
Ayyyy, Jeff Teague was my neighbor when that episode was filmed. The studio was in that house. He has since moved closer to the high school where he coaches, but he might still own the house on my street as his podcast studio while living at his new crib?
All I know for sure is that legal ownership changed hands from Teague’s name into a mysterious LLC about a year ago without the house ever officially hitting the market. There were moving trucks there taking shit out, but I never noticed anybody new moving in.
The place is basically a palace & needs a staff to keep up - it was built by a billionaire who tore down two normal-ish houses to build one huge one. Then he got in a nasty divorce & sold it in a fire sale to Teague, lol. He got a great deal - like probably \(2M or \)3M off its actual market value - but the place costs a ton just to maintain.
I imagine that it would makes WAY more sense to use it as a studio than as a house. That way, the up-keep, maintenance, and de-facto staff always going in & out to fix shit can all be written off as business expenses. That could explain the transfer to an LLC without the house ever hitting the market, but there are other plausible explanations as well.
I think the basketball talent is probably broadly clustered in this region of the Midwest & into proximate parts of Canada. Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, and lower Ontario. This area probably collectively accounts for the most professional basketball players per capita in the world or close to it.
Of those states/provinces, though, Indiana takes basketball the most seriously. It’s like football in Texas. A religion.
I just wish my coaches could’ve fixed my jumper, shit.
Honestly, Mike in an important possession on defense is worlds better than Mike on offense
Dude’s been cold-blooded for years. Defensive masterclass right there - exactly why he’s been so valuable. Jazz might not get the headlines, but Conley’s legit.
Jazz?
Yeah that one was a bot. Look at his comment history
T this bad mean man up refs, I heard he is going to burn down an orphanage after the game
We have had a lot of unexplained orphanage fires since we picked up Mike.
How he vents his frustration, no man can look that happy all the time without some dark secret.
warriors don’t stand a chance without curry
Oh really? Next thing you’ll tell me is the 90s Bulls wouldn’t have stood a chance without Jordan.
Bill Russell was a system player
55 wins without him. They stood somewhat of a chance
Got knocked out round 2 tho right? Seems familiar
In a game 7. Almost made it to the conference finals without JorBum.
that 94 team was fantastic
I was just about to say - easy to say when Steph isn’t playing.
the bulls were 1 game away from the finals during mjs few year retirement
Wrong. They were one game away from the conference finalsfrom. You’re a series off.
warriors are better than those bulls
This warriors team?
THIS warriors team?
No they’re not
think about it
No?? Those bulls won a playoff series with jordan out, we wouldnt even make the playoffs without curry Edit- they were fucking 55-27 💀
The Bulls won 55 games in the year without Jordan. Warriors won 48 this year with Curry
those bulls would have jimmy quiet quitting and draymond trying to fight rodman by halftime
Draymond would not fight Rodman lol
Rodman wasnt even on the bulls then lool it was pippen grant and co
Jimmy on carry duty again
Jesus Christ we went from the warriors are getting swept to warriors may not win if curry doesn’t play
Almost as if the warriors won a game already with curry out for most of it.
It’s a little different when steph already got them a 10 point lead and into the flow of things. The team can’t find a flow without steph. If they’re gonna win it’s gonna take a great game from all of jimmy dray podz and buddy
Kerr’s “genius offense” getting locked up by 38 year old Mike Conley
if Kuminga didn’t get subbed in, Warriors might’ve not even broken 25 points by halftime
Kerr’s “genius offense” beat you without curry. Anthony Edwards was gone for one quarter and you guys started shitting your pants
“Everyone stop accusing Mike Conley of being an angry Black man!!” - Draymond probably
Locked up AR so many times, thought AR would feast on the old man
In both the Lakers and Warriors series, I keep hearing from the pundits that the teams NEED to switch onto Conley to punish him for his size. He has done well to avoid being a weak link and has locked a few guys up (even got a block on LeBron).
Dammnn. Unc got the no-look double pump low 5’s all while talking smack. That kinda connection can’t be taught, ya got it or ya don’t.
Moody is locking himself up and Conley is taking the credit smh
He was like 0-6 vs Houston game 7 and 0-4 in game 1 lmfao
I love that immediately Joe was right there on the sideline hyping him up. I love these dudes.
Lock me up daddy
Mike “First team FIRST TEAM ALL DEFENSE” Conley
Ik he’s old but why the hell did Hield try to iso Mike here and multiple times in the game
Steph would be eating against these fools
For 13 minutes WCF was inevitable 😔🙏
Grit n Grind legend Mike Conley 🔥
feel like conley been playing forever
Uggh, easy to talk when Steph out smh