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PG Mike Conley (1st Team All BIG, NBA All-Star, Oscar Winner, Minnesota Timberwolves)

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Conley has certainly proved that he is more than just "Greg Oden's" teammate.......in the first 3 games......24 points, 21 assists and 8 turnovers.

He will only get better folks. :wink2:
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Couldnt agree more, but one big kicker is that once Greg comes back Cook and Conley are already going to have that chemistry from playing with him thru the years, so it will make the transisition of having him on the floor easier with those two out there...

I knew Conley could move the ball and get it in the scorer's hands, but what has suprised me is his ability to penetrate and score the ball...
 
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Conley was impressive in spots, but he has to finish those blindingly fast moves to the hoop, and get better at his shooting in general. I really like what I see from this freshman. He is going to be a great point guard someday.
 
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Michael is a TRUE point guard -- not a "scoring" point guard. His offensive game will develop more, but he has an incredible innate ability to know when and where the ball needs to be. That is something that can't be taught -- you have it or you don't. Mike is the perfect PG for this team because they have scorers, and with Oden back the perimeter scorers become even more effective. Mike will get you 20 on occasion if he really needs to, but those times I would guess will be few and far between on this team.

Watching the NC game, I was even more impressed than usual by his decision making and court vision up until the last 5 minutes or so. I think he forced a few things trying to make something happen -- but he will learn from that. Just watch the way he passes ans sees that court in the next game -- signs of a true PG.
 
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Ohio State's Mike Conley Jr. (1) guards North Carolina's Ty Lawson (5) during the half of a college basketball game in Chapel Hill, N.C., Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker)

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on the last five minutes, what i was most disappointed with is that he was on the floor with an experience pg who faded as the game tightened up in the second half. where did butler go? he made some mistakes, pgs do that, freshmen do that. im fine with that. ive said it in a few of the game threads the thing that bothers me is he tends to dribble himself into the trap, and even worse is that his floor postioning, he tends to end up in the corners or on the sideline. all this is very coachable stuff. its mistakes young kids make. i can more than live with that. but, you also need to realize the break is going to change with the big man, with a guy 7ft or 7 1, they are going to get the ball to the middle of the floor, who is going to be standing there...ill give you one hint, hell likely wear the #20. that is one aspect of oden i have yet to really hear mentioned...


the shoot. it may come, it may not. examples fuss and butler. fuss never got it, butler settled in and found some comfort in knocking down at first the open shot then the contested and now the difficult shot. he needs to find enough comfort level, (im relatively sure its comfort level at this point it looks fine well a little hitch but nothing serious) untill he shows a willingness to take the 3ball and to make a decent amount of them people are going to continue to go under every perimeter screen on him.



all in all very impressed. i feel often times we seem very negative but it is much easier to point out weaknesses and areas where kids need to work on. no doubt his game will improve every game as he learns and grows.
 
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http://cbs.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/story/9870744

Conley working to emerge from Oden's lengthy shadow
Dec. 14, 2006
By Gary Parrish
CBS SportsLine.com Senior Writer
http://cbs.sportsline.com/columns/writers/parrish
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  • McDonald's All-American.
  • Parade All-American.
  • Multiple national titles.
  • Three state titles.
  • Top 30 recruit.
Over the past four years, Mike Conley Jr. was a dominant presence in both high school and on the summer circuit. He was called everything good and many things great. But honestly, if not regretfully, there is one label that stuck more than all others, one label that has always been featured in either the sentence before or after any mention of the Ohio State freshman's name. [/FONT]
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Mike Conley knows there are perks to being Greg Oden's teammate. (US PRESSWIRE) "When I got on campus I realized a lot of people have the opinion that I was just Greg Oden's high school teammate," Conley said. "That's the way a lot of people see me."
To be clear, this is not Conley complaining. If you have to be teammates with somebody, whom better than Oden, OSU's 7-foot center and the likely No. 1 pick in June's NBA Draft? Throw the ball to him, he dunks it. Miss a shot, he grabs it -- and dunks it. As far as teammates go, you could do worse.
But that's not the point.
The point is: For as accomplished as Conley is -- he won two AAU national titles before ever teaming with Oden -- just about every success from the past four years has been presented with the caveat that he was merely Oden's high school and AAU teammate. Despite Conley being showered with awards, many doubted his true worth. One Division I coach -- privately, of course -- went so far as to tell CBS SportsLine.com that Conley simply wasn't capable of playing at the high D-I level, that he would never be a factor at Ohio State.
That coach was wrong.
Bad wrong.
Conley, a 6-1 point guard, is averaging 9.3 points, 6.4 assists, 3.0 rebounds and 2.7 steals in 26.8 minutes through nine games. The 6.4 assists rank 10th nationally, and it's worth noting all these numbers have been produced while playing the first seven games without Oden, who was recovering from wrist surgery and didn't debut until a Dec. 2 victory over Valparaiso.
"It hurt a lot knowing Greg wouldn't be able to play at the start of the season and play in big games," Conley said. "But at the same time, I feel like that was an opportunity given to me to prove I can play without him and run a team even when he's not in the game."
Opportunity seized. Though, in fairness, the OSU staff insists Conley had nothing to prove to them because what they have watched in this 8-1 start is what they expected all along, that Conley would flourish in the fourth-ranked Buckeyes' system and become a vital part of what appears to be a team capable of advancing to the Final Four.
"I do think that sometimes people pigeonhole him as Greg's sidekick, but that's been good for Mike a little bit," said Ohio State assistant John Groce. "It's put a chip on his shoulder and really motivated him to prove to everyone that he can play that position just as well as anybody, and that he can play as important a role as Greg does on our basketball team."
Whether that last part is true is debatable, if only because it's doubtful anybody will play as important a role on any team as Oden will play on Ohio State. He's a star and deserving of everything he gets. That's why NBA teams would be wise to tank as many games as possible, giving them the best opportunity to draft this potential franchise-changer.
Still, that has nothing to do with Conley, who is impressive in his own right, just on a different, more human level. He played seven games at Ohio State before Oden, and he'll play dozens of games at Ohio State long after Oden is gone. And if the skeptics haven't recognized it already, they'll certainly recognize it before everything's over, that Conley is a great player who happens to play with Oden, not a good player just because he plays with Oden.
"Maybe now people can see me as a point guard on this team rather than just Greg Oden's teammate," Conley said. "Hopefully, that's the case."
Definitely, it should be.

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Oden's thread gets plenty of love...so this one can go in Mike's

CPD

Indiana's loss, OSU's gain

Star freshmen left Hoosier state to be Buckeyes
Saturday, December 16, 2006Doug Lesmerises
Plain Dealer Reporter
Columbus - Thad Matta returns to the scene of the crime today, to the city from whence he swiped the two players reshaping the face of Ohio State men's basketball.


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For some reason I never thought otherwise. I always envisioned him as a very talented guy. 26 ppg average says something. Also the write ups I read last year stated his ability to lead an offense.
Go Mike!
Go Bucks!
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Cincinnati's Jamual Warren (33) battles for a loose ball with Ohio State's Mike Conley Jr. (1) during the second half of a college basketball in Indianapolis, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2006. Ohio State won 72-50. (AP Photo/Tom Strattman)
 
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MIKE CONLEY = NATE "TINY" ARCHIBALD

As I have seen Conley play more and more, the similarities between him and Archibald are staggering.
Any relatively old-timers on here remember "Nate the Skate"?
One year in the NBA averaged 30+ Points and 11+ Assists per game.
 
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Definitely nice to see his free throw stroke reappear. After going a combined 7-15 against Valpo, CSU, and Cincy, his ft% had dropped to 63.3%, but the 7-7 outing against ISU has it back up over 70%.

Also, he's shooting 64.29% (36-56) from two-point territory, good enough for third on the team behind Oden (73.5%) and Lewis (65.2%).

Unfortunately, he's still shooting 17.65% from three. :biggrin:
 
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