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re: To help players, like Kawhi playing 46 minutes, the NBA may try target scores for OT
Posted on 2/28/23 at 11:15 am to dukke v
Posted on 2/28/23 at 11:15 am to dukke v
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My point is players back in the 80’s and 90’s played basically every game unless it was some MAJOR injury. Sore toes and a bruised knee shoulder pain or a headache these guys played through. If todays players have all the new ways to make themselves better then why are they soft as charming tissue.Anthony Davis wouldn’t last ten games back then.
And my point is a lot of what you are attributing to players not playing through bumps and bruises, Toni Davis aside, is organizations protecting their investments.
It's also a different type of injury a lot of times.
In the older days it was bumps and bruises, from a game with a lot of one on one iso banging of bodies, in today's era of hyper athleticism, its hamstring strains, achilles soreness, and rolled ankles. the former of which modern medicine has learned you don't frick around with cause it can end careers. So teams get an achilles soreness diagnosis and they are paying that guy half their salary cap and is the difference between being a contender and a lottery team, most franchises are sitting that guy one to two weeks minimum.
And I think that is the part of this whole equation that isn't going to change no matter how many games they play or not. The goal is to reduce the number of occurrences, but when they do occur, there is no world where billion-dollar franchises with 50-million-dollar players go back to telling those players to rub some dirt on their strained hamstring in game 20 of an X number of games season and get back out there.
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Posted on 2/28/23 at 12:05 pm to dukke v
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charming tissue
Posted on 2/28/23 at 12:09 pm to SPEEDY
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"That would prevent overlong broadcasts and overloading player minutes, like Los Angeles Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard's playing 46 minutes in a double-overtime loss to the Sacramento Kings on Friday."
No one has taken advantage of load management like Leonard. 46 minutes would have to be a record for this guy this season.
Of all the players who actually push themselves to play basketball, it ain't this guy.
Posted on 2/28/23 at 12:16 pm to tiggerthetooth
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And what that quote doesn't include is the fact that NBA players retire at like 30 as multi-multi-millionaires and the steel workers still work 5 days a week all year for the 35 years after the NBA player retires.
While this is true, people working at steel mines don't have the skills/education to do other jobs often. Most players in the NBA want to be in the NBA while most steel workers want to be in the NBA too.
You can be a below average employee at a steel mill for decades and get by. Can't do that in the NBA
Posted on 2/28/23 at 12:51 pm to Buckeye06
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While this is true, people working at steel mines don't have the skills/education to do other jobs often.
Like a lot of NBA players have transferable skills
Posted on 2/28/23 at 3:39 pm to chalmetteowl
This X infinity
Posted on 2/28/23 at 3:47 pm to chalmetteowl
Does it matter? The skills required to be an NBA player are insanely unique and special when compared to the general population. We are talking one percent of one percent of one percent of the adult population can play in the NBA. They also make billions of billions in revenue
They can take more liberties at their jobs. Cause they matter more and they cant just be replaced by some random arse person
They can take more liberties at their jobs. Cause they matter more and they cant just be replaced by some random arse person
Posted on 2/28/23 at 4:46 pm to WestCoastAg
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Cause they matter more
Ohhhhhkay
Posted on 2/28/23 at 5:19 pm to TexasTiger08
To their job? 1000000%
Posted on 2/28/23 at 5:23 pm to Buckeye Backer
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Adam Silver is the worst commissioner in the history of professional sports in America.
Posted on 2/28/23 at 5:24 pm to WestCoastAg
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The skills required to be an NBA player are insanely unique and special when compared to the general population.
I'm glad this is what is preventing LeBron from mastering his true career, the porta-potty cleaner.
Posted on 2/28/23 at 10:34 pm to WestCoastAg
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The skills required to be an NBA player are insanely unique and special when compared to the general population.
I’m pretty sure anyone can play pop a shot
Posted on 2/28/23 at 11:31 pm to SPEEDY
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overloading player minutes,
Whitlock has a great podcast on this and why the Joker is going to win 3 straight MVPs joining, Bill Russell, Wilt, Bird and Jordan.
Because he actually tries, plays hard and plays the minutes.
While Silver has designed the League to cater to players who routinely take games off, spreads out games like never before (when its far easier for teams to travel now on private jets)...its a pampered privilege league 3-point contest where getting your contract is all that matters to the players... Like the 70s, you get yours, I'll get mine.
Posted on 3/1/23 at 3:09 am to WestCoastAg
quote:It's not the world's most complicated machine. It's a game children can play that they play against each other. If the 400 current NBA players had never been born and we had 400 players with much worse skills you would have never known the difference. The one percent of one percent exclusivity is due to the size of the league
The skills required to be an NBA player are insanely unique and special when compared to the general population. We are talking one percent of one percent of one percent of the adult population can play in the NBA
Posted on 3/1/23 at 6:14 am to RogerTempleton
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defense is much harder than ever to play because of pacing and space. You dont just have dudes going iso or throwing it into the post.
So what? It is a fricking game. The teams have 12-13 players to cover it.
Posted on 3/1/23 at 8:14 am to SPEEDY
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"That would prevent overlong broadcasts and overloading player minutes, like Los Angeles Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard's playing 46 minutes in a double-overtime loss to the Sacramento Kings on Friday."
Or, you know, his coach could play a sub for a few more minutes. God damn. Why are these entities always trying to reinvent the wheel?
Posted on 3/1/23 at 8:34 am to SPEEDY
Gotta love the NBA encouraging their already lazy arse and coddled players to be even more lazy.
Posted on 3/1/23 at 10:31 am to Gaggle
quote:i love this place
It's not the world's most complicated machine. It's a game children can play that they play against each other. If the 400 current NBA players had never been born and we had 400 players with much worse skills you would have never known the difference. The one percent of one percent exclusivity is due to the size of the league
Posted on 3/1/23 at 10:37 am to Buckeye Backer
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Adam Silver is the worst commissioner in the history of professional sports in America.
He is a spineless pussy and has let the players treat him like a doormat for years.
Posted on 3/1/23 at 1:58 pm to SPEEDY
Why is this a league issue and not a Kawhi's coach issue? What am I missing ( besides every NBA game)
Not sitting for 8 min or so seems like a strategy
Not sitting for 8 min or so seems like a strategy
This post was edited on 3/1/23 at 1:59 pm
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