Tom Haberstroh- "5 achilles tears this season, number of star injuries in playoffs have increased five fold since 08. Since late 90s star seven fold"

[MicIsGod]

DOING WHAT MOVES?
SOMETHING YOU MADE UP
AND NEVER PERSONALLY SAW THEM DO?




WHEN HAS ISAIAH JACKSON
AND JAMES WISEMAN PLAYED
LIKE KAT?



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I’m not talking about them. I think play styles play a part but are not the close to the only factor.

 

[Rekkapryde]

DOING WHAT MOVES?
SOMETHING YOU MADE UP
AND NEVER PERSONALLY SAW THEM DO?​

look at his youtube training videos

these trainers are training these cats like guards and wings.

 

[Rekkapryde]

I’m not talking about them. I think play styles play a part but are not the close to the only factor.

this.

 

[CHICAGO]

THIS TYPE OF shyt
BUILT A DYNASTY





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[MicIsGod]

Iggy said Kd does everything perfect but his only flaw is he doesn’t lift weight really. How can you possibly avoid injury and muscle imbalances if you don’t lift weights at 7 ft?

 

[Rice N Beans]

THIS TYPE OF shyt
BUILT A DYNASTY





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Ya know, hard to imagine JR had a decent staff of medical personnel at some point.

 

[MikelArteta]

YOU NOTICE IN BOTH SERIES
THE KNICKS HAVE BEEN WEARING
TEAMS DOWN AND PLAYING
THEIR BEST BALL IN THE 4TH QUARTER



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Great observation
Yeah conditioning is top tier

Usually players tire by fourth Mikal out there playing his best

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Notice no new York Knicks just saying

This playing his guys major minutes then dudes conditioned like Navy seals

Them dudes would just not die vs Detroit. And, Detroit hung pause because they're young but weren't ready or really, as good.

 

[Shadow King]

Look at Ewing/Oakley, Mourning/LJ, Dream/Thorpe...these were barrel chested, broad shouldered front court tandems when teams prioritized paint presence and rim protection.



Check out the sizes of 5's and 4's 30 years ago.



This "bigger, stronger" shyt flies in the face of reality.



Difference between me and these resident Coli IT/Engineering and foreign nerds who never played ball is I can appreciate the game for what it was and what it currently is.



What i won't do is have somebody like @Gil Scott-Heroin or @Osmosis try and tell a nicca like me that the game was easier to play back then and the injuries suffered this postseason are a result of it being so much harder to play the game.

30 years ago most Players' heights were embellished.

Ewing was flabby and lol @ Thorpe and Oakley being "barrel chested".

 

[KFBF]

Faster pace . Popularization of low cut shoes

You wouldn't even think of wearing lows when I played. Niccas would look at you like a fool.



We used to pick shoes out of the Eastbay magazine and the team would vote on which shoe we all wore. If somebody suggested a low shoe they would've been slapped...

Inside Science

High-top vs. Low-top Basketball Shoes

After spending over 100 hours summarizing 30 scientific studies and analyzi

runrepeat.com

I don't believe the science backs up the low shoes shyt.

 

[NZA]

youth ball puts too much mileage on these guys.

 

[Black Lightning]

Its the shoes

That and the training.

Most of today’s players don’t think about physically improving their bodies they just think about their game.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Kids are playing school ball,have 4 unstructured AAU games on a day ,AND are training like pros from 13

THATS the problem. There isn’t any sort of cross training ..by the time they hit 18 they have big miles on them .

Youth sports need to be more centralized/regulated and NBA teams needs to handle youth development like they do in many sports across the world

Reducing the season by 10 games will do nothing when you have 6’6 220 pound men doing explosive side steps and step backs and have been constantly doing it since they were teenagers

This to me is one of the best solutions. NBA should be in control of the development process. Isn’t that the arrangement in European soccer? The ballclub does the development for the local talents. The NBA in conjunction with school districts should be at the lead of this. To me, AAU is way too for profit-ish for me to expect that they’d actually consider the well being of these kids over their profits.

 

[Harry B]

Not a good comparison or example. Load managing pitchers hasn't helped them.

Load management has not stopped it is not the same thing as not helped.

 

[VegetasHairline]

Load management has not stopped it is not the same thing as not helped.

Why are you even comparing load managing pitchers to load managing NBA players in the first place?