Knicks big man Mitchell Robinson has a personal question if the NBA doesn’t restart the regular season this year due to coronavirus. “Does this mean I broke the FG record for the season?” Robinson tweeted late Sunday night.
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Ky Carlin: Philly is now 29-2 at home with a 124-106 win over the Pistons. Joel Embiid with 30 and 14 in his return, Al Horford with 20, 10, and 6, Furkan Korkmaz with 14, Tobias Harris with 15, 7, and 6, Shake Milton with 12. #Sixers
James Edwards III: Christian Wood has 32, setting a career high for the third time in a week.
Conley struggled out of the gate. He shot 28.6% from three in October. He shot 37.4% from the floor in November. He missed floaters, a bread-and-butter shot. He wasn’t efficient in pick-and-rolls. His assist-to-turnover ratio stunk. His defense wasn’t very good. In early December, he strained a hamstring. Without him, the Jazz improved. Conley doesn’t hide from questions about his problems. He’ll just tell you he doesn’t have all the answers. Sitting at his locker in Boston last week, Conley admitted the early adjustments were rough. He played 12 seasons in Memphis. He played mostly one style. Like everyone else, he heard how he was supposed to be the player to push Utah further into the postseason. Like everyone else, he believed it.
“When I came into this thing, I was like, ‘man, we’ve got a lot talent.’” Conley told SI.com. “I got a lot of players here. I don’t know if I’m going to do the same things I’m going to be able to do. We have five, six guys that can start, three or four of them that can average 20 points a game. I don’t even know when I’m going to have the ball. In Memphis I always had the ball. So it’s just a change of my role and, and I’m okay with that but it was hard. The public could look at it and say, ‘Oh, he’s not doing the same things he’s normally doing. He can’t do it anymore.’ But it’s like, man, I’m just trying to play the role I can play for this team that best helps us win with the talent that we have.”
Is Conley’s recent upswing sustainable? “I guess I would ask the question differently,” said Jazz coach Quin Snyder. “Is there something that would make someone think that it’s not sustainable? Because I think this is who he is … early on, there were so many things that were new to him and then as he’s beginning to kind of get comfortable, he gets hurt … him finding a rhythm with Donovan [Mitchell] and then with Joe [Ingles] and then with Bojan [Bogdanovic]. Rudy [Gobert] is probably as different a player that he’s played with as anybody. There was just a confluence of things.”
Tommy Beer: We could see history tonight. Duncan Robinson has made at least seven 3-pointers in three consecutive games, becoming just the sixth player in NBA history to achieve the feat. No player has ever hit seven treys in four consecutive contests.
