Q&A: Mike Conley on Being Tricky and the ‘Why Not Us?’ Grizzlies said:
Lionel [Hollins] also says you don’t like shooting. Like, you object when the team asks you to shoot more. Is that true? You wouldn’t love to shoot 20 times a night? Everyone wants to shoot more!
Twenty is tough for me. When I see that I shot 12 times, I’m like, “Whoa, man, I’m shooting a lot.” And now it’s 14 or 15 …
Wait … 12 times? There are bench guys who get up 12 shots in 15 garbage-time minutes.
Oh, yeah. I come from playing in Indiana, where we don’t care who’s scoring, or how many shots you get.
So the Indiana romantic team-first basketball thing is still true?
That’s just how it is. It was a culture shock for this season for them to tell me, “Hey, we need you to shoot 17 or 18 times and try to score 18 or 19 points per game.”