Jordy Culotta of all people: Zion dropping a video today

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Zionwilliamson is going to drop a video today

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Williamson and his camp needs to listen to the medical staff for once.

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Also he’s not even doing 1-1 work let alone 5-5 work. Not sure how any video could tell us he’s ready to play.

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Hopefully this isn't him thinking he's ready and the team refusing to let him progress to 1v1 work...

because then we're right back to square Portland

IF it were true yeah this could be that.

I find it hard to believe Jordy would have this info.

I guess we don’t know for sure. We haven’t heard it.

If his conditioning is there all you really need is the bone to be healed. Zion's Instagram would get the word out more than Jordy if this was about spreading the word and putting pressure on the team. This has to either be complete bullshite, or a warning shot aimed at the front office.

It did seem a little conspicuous that the Shams article was followed up by Dame being officially shut down but no word on Zion, like it's still up in the air.

Right—he hated, and we all did, that stupid “ burst” shite. Made no sense

I think with our terrible history, the new medical staff is being way too cautious with our guys. I brought it up with BI still being out—-We need balance.

We can’t try to over compensate because we sucked so much in the past—-that’s not how this works

This could mean ready to play as in "ready to be part of the team" rather than ready to be on the court this season

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I am going to trust the people that are paid to get and keep our players healthy long-term

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I'm not some anti-doctor hater. But by that logic, you believe our previous medical staff was perfectly fine? If that's the case then you clearly should have no say on the matter.

Culture and setting the tone are very important in things like this. I can imagine the former Pels medical staff being one that had a football mindset where players are pushed to play with injuries and the staff tried to use that with the Pels which led us to have a terrible rap with players and safety.

We bring the new staff in, and to combat the narrative we go to the other extreme, which is super conservative and babying.

There has to be a middle ground.

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and to combat the narrative we go to the other extreme,

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I don't think this is being done to combat a narrative, I think this is just how Nelson operates. The reasoning behind the bursts wasn't "we have to be overly cautious because the last guys weren't", it was "we are trying to rebuild Zion's biomechanics and when he's tired he'll revert to dangerous bad habits so don't let him play tired."

Honestly for any of us to judge some of these things like the burst strategy, we'd first need to know just how risky his previous movements were. I lean towards they were being overly cautious, but we honestly don't have the information or qualifications to truly dispute it.