I worked in a warehouse for a year. I can tell you an AAU weekend required more energy than a work week. At least for me.
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Does anyone know the record for lowest combined score for a game in the post-shot clock era?
Cousins looks absolutely exhausted.
That's fair enough on an individual level. I also did warehouse work for about a year, and I can tell you I personally would rather swap for the NBA life, especially in this modern era where it's less physically damaging than ever and they're cutting back to backs down. I remember doing 13 straight 10 hour days at the warehouse and I felt like death.
You don't have to like it but it is the human condition in action. What is unrealistic is to expect that level of stress on any body, in any physical field, and expect them to perform at the same level. It is true for humans employed in the NBA and it is true for humans employed at FoxConn. What you are also not accounting for is the disruption of traveling. It is one thing to work a long shift back to back, it is another to have to hop on a plane, disrupt your sleep patterns, get jet lagged, and than be tired for your shift. It is an additional level of wear on a person.
Thats not to say there aren't things you can do as a person and as an organization to help overcome and compensate for that stuff, like having a better roster so the wear and tear on back to backs are not as great on your stars, having the chemistry on the squad be at its peak like a well oiled machine, and having coaches that manage the players and those situations as best as possible. All things I think the Pelicans lack.
Just because some of our guys are exhausted doesn't mean we should be playing lazy.
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Might need to reduce Cousins minutes a bit on back to backs
Sounds like a awful lot of EXCUSES.
That would be nice, but that's where the extreme 2-man gang nature of this team becomes a major issue. The Big 2 can't rest, and they can't miss games, or you almost can't win. People need to step up to get the workload within reasonable limits for the top guys.
No doubt, like I said I'm not saying they're not justified in being exhausted. Just got to dig deep, and make something happen. Especially for the guys who didn't really explode last game.
As a side note, I found the record: apparently the Bulls played the Heat on April 10th 1999, and only scored 49 points total. Kornel David had a team high 13 points.
Bulls with the goaltend, then the over and back, Bulls just getting away with anything
Demps is on the hot seat, he needs to make a move before fatigue causes another injury
WE NEED A BACK UP BIG ASAP.
Do we just draw all of the bad refs or what lol
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Lmao, wow Cunningham. Wow
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Discouraging performance . Teams lacks leadership
Why is Josh Smith on this team if we can't play him a few minutes to rest AD or Cousins?
Man this team is depressing to watch. The lack of cutlure and accountability on this team is starting to get really really old.
Finally hit a 3....
This is where you see that we have a very bad coaching staff, back to back games, you up 15 and you can’t open your bench, you end up having tired key players on the next day.
If we play any team other than the Bulls tonight, the game is over since the 6 minute mark in the 2nd
What is wrong with Jrue Holiday
All these years and AD still has low awareness on defense. He switches needlessly onto smaller players all the time. Then the team has to scramble from all the mismatches on the floor.
We are getting absolutely destroyed on both sides of the glass.
Clowns 🤡 running around out there this is embarrassing
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Quite possibly one of the worst basketball games I've seen in years.
Embarrassing
Gentry should put cousins on the bench. Put someone out there who wants to play
Two best bigs in the game and they spend all their time around the three point line offensively and defensively. Time to fire Gentry and let Finch have this team .
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Cousins has had a bad game. Real bad. Not entirely his fault but some plays you could see he'd rather be just sat on the bench.
The Turkish Hammer is coming back soon.
That will give AD and DC some rest.
I am sure Alvin Gentry has a game plan he set up at halftime to put this game away in the 4th quarter
Quick message to Adam Silver, you got the best league in the world with the best player, but you can’t afford to have even one average ref...
one of Boogie's warts over the year is that when he's tired, he has always played tired. efficiency plummets. I think one of the reasons there are misconceptions about him is because people will see one of these games and go wow, dude's a mess. Doesn't fight through it well.
That said, he absolutely has to suck it up and give the Pels just one quarter tonight if they want to sneak out with a win.
Miller is at least giving us a bit of scoring off the bench.