Do you support the team's hard line on "conditioning" with Zion?

quote:

---

effectively punting on this season for the hope of better performance from Zion in future seasons,

---

This was done last season and look where we’re at now. Same place we were 365 days ago.

Bring Zion in out of shape at the 6 minute mark each quarter. If he can't make it 6 minute bring him at 7, or 8 or whatever he can handle and increase it game by game from there.

He is too valuable to sit and it makes for bad blood if you start him and pull him after a few minutes if he is playing well to protect him from... being tired.

Then end of quarters is the perfect built in situation to remove him from the game. Legit superstars have come off the bench this year when coming back from injury, Zion can do it.

quote:

---

Zion getting hurt further due to a conditioning issue hurts the franchise big time.

---

Yeah. Good thing we did what we did. I’d hate for the guy to get hurt and miss a season.

I think we should atleast force him to dress out and sit next to Billy and Jaxson all game on the bench.

There's a lot that's been made of SVG's comments earlier this year about the league as a whole struggling with increased injury DESPITE seemingly both the league and teams doing damn near everything they can (short of reducing the number of games) to improve player health and performance.

NBA has done a TON of work in lengthening the season and reducing back to backs and 3 in 4 and 4 in 5 etc. Still happens but not nearly as much as it used to.

Teams have openly embraced the Spurs method of resting guys. There's like a tiny handful of guys who will be available for all 82 games, much less play in 82.

Facilities and training staffs across the league have had hundreds of millions poured into them. Our own team pumped themselves up MASSIVELY about the facilities investment gayle made as soon as she took the reigns.

Yet we have more injuries than ever. Most of the star players in the league have lengthy rap sheets for injuries with many of them being sidelined for huge chunks of time over the past few seasons.

KD
Booker
Simmons (lol)
AD
Zion
Curry
Embiid
Jokic
Murray
Every good player the bulls ever get
BI
Paul George
Kawhi
Dame
Cousins went from a top 20 player to a nobody in 2 years due to injury
Even Giannis misses close to 20 games a year now.



Emphasis on player health has never been higher, yet more games are lost to injury than ever.

Play him. If you feel like the best way to get him into shape is to “ramp him up” then do it in game. How does he get into shape during practice? Can’t imagine it’s all that different from a game. I doubt he’s Coach Cartering it and running 1000 suicides and doing 2500 push ups before he can play.

quote:

---

If Zion wanted to play, he could say so. He could say, "I really wish the team would let me play, even though I'm not at 100%."

---

He said that multiple times last year, and the team held him out against his wishes.

Maybe this year is different, and he is the one holding himself out. But I doubt it with Griffin sounding like a carbon copy of the way he talked last year.

quote:

---

if they are effectively punting on this season for the hope of better performance from Zion in future seasons, are you for or against that?

---

against

Preserving Zion shouldn't really be the priority at this point.

If it’s purely conditioning then we’re fricking retarded for not playing him at all when there is no tomorrow. So I’m not really buying that

I get you can’t be completely transparent about injuries but it’s two years in a row now of them just straight up lying about his status. Who wins by doing this ? The fans start to hate Zion and the FO, Zion looks like a fat pussy, Griff and the medical staff look incompetent, etc….I don’t see the point