Conley wasn’t the issue with cap space. The issue was that we had a very limited amount of time to make a move because Donovan was on a rookie scale. We were much farther along than we DL’s conservative cake-baking would allow him to believe, and thought we had a lot more runway than we really did. The issue was that we were conserving picks because we over hyped them after we landed Rudy and Donovan for garbage. DL kept talking about “keeping the powder dry.” We reached a dead-end in terms of when we needed to cash-in based on cap timing because Donovan jumping to a max would then take away that flexibility, so whoever we got had to be before that. We waited so long that it was Conley — for better or worse, whatever anyone’s opinion on him or the move was. The FO was too slow to realize that we needed to be buyers earlier than we were, and by the time we realized that, we were up against a wall on cap-timing.Lame response.
Conley sapped all our cap space, cost us 3 good perimeter defenders (Rubio, Allen and Jae), and picks that could have helped us.
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