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2022-2023 NBA Regular Season Thread

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Jscc said:
He was available. Before the deadline, Fedor wrote an article on him and how the Cavs should consider it. So the awareness that he was available was also there.

It's a head-scratcher. He could've plugged a lot of holes (on a multi-year contract already, cheap, backup big, young, can stretch the floor from 3, has an edge, and his price was second rounders).
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Hawt.
 
Jscc said:
He was available. Before the deadline, Fedor wrote an article on him and how the Cavs should consider it. So the awareness that he was available was also there.

It's a head-scratcher. He could've plugged a lot of holes (on a multi-year contract already, cheap, backup big, young, can stretch the floor from 3, has an edge, and his price was second rounders).
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I think Koby either got out bid for alot of players that got moved for 2nd round picks or he is saving the picks for one last move. While we have a lot of second round picks they don't project to be good 2nd round picks. I think we will have to pay up 5 or 6 of them to get someone pretty good.

I don't think Koby could really afford to burn a couple of the picks on Bamba when it could hurt our already limited ability to get a wing in the future.

I think if we swing and miss on using the assets we have left, Koby will have to look at a major trade of one or two of our top 4 players to completely revamp the roster.
 
Cavatt said:

Thought this was interesting on load management
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Interesting read. I watched an interview with the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers strength/conditioning coach the other day. He said the current training paradigm for young athletes is rooted mostly in tradition. These kids are told to hit the heavy weights early and often without regard to the micro-tears occurring in their ligaments, tendons, etc., because of it. Then when these kids enter the pros, the micro-tears eventually become fully torn ACL's and rotator cuffs.
 
Jscc said:
Interesting read. I watched an interview with the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers strength/conditioning coach the other day. He said the current training paradigm for young athletes is rooted mostly in tradition. These kids are told to hit the heavy weights early and often without regard to the micro-tears occurring in their ligaments, tendons, etc., because of it. Then when these kids enter the pros, the micro-tears eventually become fully torn ACL's and rotator cuffs.
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I sort of raised this point before - without this evidence/detail - in the context of the "toughness" of players from different eras. These guys are pushing their bodies, especially in their connective tissues - to the limit in a way that athletes in prior generations weren't. Guys before weren't as quick or strong, but they also were more durable.

@2 For The Brew @jjvors
 
The Human Q-Tip said:
I sort of raised this point before - without this evidence/detail - in the context of the "toughness" of players from different eras. These guys are pushing their bodies, especially in their connective tissues - to the limit in a way that athletes in prior generations weren't. Guys before weren't as quick or strong, but they also were more durable.

@2 For The Brew @jjvors
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Yeah I hadn't really thought about the Mileage overall since they were kids. Kids used to chill in the offseason, but now they are never really resting because they "have to get better."

We saw even Jordan was smoking cigars and golfing in the offseason.

In the old old days the guys were getting part time jobs in the offseason. It's really different now. It will be interesting to see how the industry reacts and if it is possible for athletes who really give their bodies a rest will even be able to get to the highest levels.

I read something about AAU a few years ago and it was saying that even at that level guys who are really talented wash out all the time because their bodies can't hold up to several tournament games in a day.
 
RchfldCavRaised said:
Reminds me of watching Magic Johnson coach the Lakers for like a week

He couldnt hide on his face how irritated he was that all of his players didnt think and see the game the same way he did.

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Sound like what would happen if Lebron coached. Lebron has already said he doesn't want to coach. He doesn't have the patience for it.

Smart move.
 
Cavatt said:
Yeah I hadn't really thought about the Mileage overall since they were kids. Kids used to chill in the offseason, but now they are never really resting because they "have to get better."

We saw even Jordan was smoking cigars and golfing in the offseason.

In the old old days the guys were getting part time jobs in the offseason. It's really different now. It will be interesting to see how the industry reacts and if it is possible for athletes who really give their bodies a rest will even be able to get to the highest levels.

I read something about AAU a few years ago and it was saying that even at that level guys who are really talented wash out all the time because their bodies can't hold up to several tournament games in a day.
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Bill Simmons will bring up some of this stuff on his podcast. Kids today are pushed to specialize in one sport fairly early on. Their coaches don't want them to play other sports in the off-season, they want them playing the one sport in off-season leagues or doing off season drills with a coach.

While some kids might not have gotten rest in the off-season, they were working different muscles in different ways by playing other sports. Coaches make money privately coaching kids in the off-season which is why it a year round thing now. Coaches don't have to go out looking for other coaching gigs in other sports they don't love as much. They can be a one sport coach.
 
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KLove with the turnover on the inbounds pass ATO to seal the Knicks win; bad decision to sub in Love for that last play when he had sat all quarter
 
Pierre Pan said:
KLove with the turnover on the inbounds pass ATO to seal the Knicks win; bad decision to sub in Love for that last play when he had sat all quarter
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That was a crazy finish.

Love almost had a 5 second violation prior to the TO as well.
 
I really want us to keep that 4th spot. These Knicks aint playin.
 
MikeOC33 said:
Damn Knicks 10-2 (I think since Feb). 1.5 games behind Clev. Did not see that coming. Thought play-in team, but charging for top 4!

Will be a good test for them next 2 games @ Miami and @ Boston.
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Them catching up to us might be a good thing for us. Might light a fire in their asses to stop dickin around with these games.
 
The Human Q-Tip said:
I sort of raised this point before - without this evidence/detail - in the context of the "toughness" of players from different eras. These guys are pushing their bodies, especially in their connective tissues - to the limit in a way that athletes in prior generations weren't. Guys before weren't as quick or strong, but they also were more durable.

@2 For The Brew @jjvors
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Adding performance enhancers to the situation makes it really sad. Not only do young athletes have to damage their connective tissue to reach a minimum level of conditioning for their sport, they now have to enhance the process and speed it up to compete with peers. Juicing up nervous systems and muscles to increase speed/power faster than connective tissue can naturally adapt is injury inevitability.
 
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