Brogdon is absolutely a better defender than Conley, not to mention 5 inches taller. He's averaging more assists and rebounds than Conley as well. He's a much better perimeter disruptor and he can body up bigger guards. He's being asked to do a lot on that pacers team so he's not like a defensive specialist or anything but if he came here he'd pretty much instantly be our best perimeter defender. He's also younger than Conley. We'd be wins ahead, and better in the playoffs, if we could magically swap Conley for brogdon.
Conley puts forth the effort and gets some accolades "for his age", but the fact is in the playoffs when we are constantly facing bigger guard lines were cannot hang defensively because our guards are too small. It's been exploited again and again, to the tune of multiple 50-point games from Murray just 2 years ago. Brogdon would provide the size we need at the guard spot.
