O Lordy ! Gibberish .Originally Posted by drortego316
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O Lordy ! Gibberish .
He looked gassed because he was gassed. He looked like a statue when Forbes blew right passed him for a layup. Zion was standing under the goal bending over pulling down on his shorts say hard, I'm surprised they didn't come off.
That is really rushing to conclusions, imo. Zion's here in New Orleans pretty much for the next 7 years due to the rules of restricted free agency, and I very much doubt that he will be making his decision to stay or leave with a single thought of this game in his mind. In fact, I figure he probably won't even care too much about this game within two or three weeks. It's frustrating to be sat when you're feeling it, but only really in the moment. Zion's a smart kid, looking back he'll recognise why the med staff did it, even if he didn't agree with it, and he'll get over it.
I promise you that when we're wrecking shop in the playoffs next season and the years after that, Zion's memory of getting pulled 3 minutes early in his first game will be far from his conscious thought.
Basketball.
Shortsighted? I'm always thinking about the long view. Which is why I was on board sitting Williamson the entire season so when he came back there would be no limits on his play. Call me what you want but taking a person that's always been in favor of stretched out meticulous rebuilds and calling them shortsighted seems very inaccurate.
Then you call a time out and let him catch his wind before sending him back out.
If you Jimmer it, they will come.
ESPN be showing his one foot landings last night. Whoever taught him the new landings well it went in one ear and out the other.
I dunno.
You really have to listen to your medical staff on this one. You are not going to get to the playoffs if hes crocked again!
Hype of the crowd can work against you physically, remember this with rushing back KD and Russ in OKC.
Should be celebrating that 3pt confidence!
Stephen A Smith will give his opinion on this situation on ESPN First Take.
He has to get himself up to full speed, and you just can't do that by not playing. It's natural to bring him along by playing him in the game for short spurts, and then slowly lengthening that over time. It sucks to watch right now, but it makes no sense to delay that even further by waiting a whole offseason. At this stage, I trust Griffin and what has been the best training staff in the league for the last 20 years. If you don't, that's your call, but I feel people are making much ado about nothing.
You know that you can land on one foot and it's not inherently a bad landing? Obviously 2 feet landings are always preferable, but if you don't have the space or you've been knocked off balance in mid-air (as happened in this game a few times), it's perfectly possible to land on one foot and do it properly.
I just rewatched a highlights clip of all of his buckets, assists, and turnovers. In it, he made what I would call 8 real jumps last night: not little 6 inch hops, legitimate jumps. Of those 8, 6 were one footed landings, which is obviously not optimal, but of the 8 only 2 were what 'bad' landings. Another 2 were meh landings, where they weren't exactly what you'd want but for understandable reasons (lack of room to land, or getting shoved off line in mid air), and the remaining 4 were fine.
It takes time and practice to really nail down a new way of moving when your old ways are so ingrained. You expect a transition period where someone displays a mixture of the new and old. Last game was fine.
I agree. You could already hear in his post game interview that he was acknowledging he was frustrated when the decision was made, but sounded accepting of it. He's 19. It's natural to be upset when you are having a good run and you're told you need to come out. When stepping out of the moment, cooler heads prevail and he understands why they're doing what they're doing.
Your view is not a "long view" no matter how much you want to call it that. It's an illogical over reaction. Sitting a healthy player an entire season does nothing but put more stress on the player to keep weight down and keep his skill level up. All you are actually doing is inviting MORE probability for injury next year not less.
I'm guessing you have never played organized basketball on even a semi elite level. But the only way to prepare yourself for what this game does to your body is to PLAY. Not get on a treadmill, not scrimmage, not play 3 on 3.
Holding him out all year when his body is ready for games is the most counter productive thing you can possibly ask for.
That's NOT how "catching your wind" works. Wow.
Agree. Weaning would be the process regardless . Waiting until next year , when you can start the normalcy process now is literally wasting time!
He was not tired. A normal workload would have averaged 60pts for him last night. Easily defeat Spurs.
Huh, that's odd. Zion on Woj POD said that he was a bit winded. Don't know about you, but I was sitting about 20 yards from Zion when he got blown by on defensive end & he was all but pulling his shorts to his ankles, while bent over under the goal. Working so hard to be contrary has to become tedious after a while.
Just as a horse doesn't run 22.1 in the last quarter of a race. That loopy attempt at logic sounds silly.
Listen to his postgame interview again.
Keeping weight off is mostly dietary. So this argument that he needs to play to lose weight is ridiculous false. Zion carrying around 280 is likely to have a huge negative impact on his body.
Putting a guy on mins restriction says he's not fully ready. So the argument that he's 100% is again inaccurate.
1st it's about the weight that Zion is currently at. I don't want him playing until he 15lbs lighter. 2nd I'm aware of easing a player back in. The question posed to me was when does a player not get eased back in. My response was when that player is given an entire off season to get back to full health and conditioning. I think it's far more important to have him miss development time on court to put development time into getting his body in place that will allow him to better handle the grid of the NBA schedule. It's the lesser evil. Zion can easily bounce back from missing the 2nd half of the season. If his body starts to break down that is not easily overcome.
I knew this tread was coming. Folks blame Gentry for the coronavirus that's infecting China.
Got it. Players never fib. I watched the guy basically looking for an oxygen mask. I don't have to listen to an interview, when 40 minutes prior I was watching him sucking air.
Imagine revamping your entire training staff to hire the absolute best trainer of the last 20 years, and then having a plan set out by both that expert trainer and also a group of trained medical professionals, and being like this.
So, every NBA player that comes back from a long layoff after surgery immediately plays 35-40 minutes their first game back?
Huge exaggeration. He was not that tired. You mention Forbes (a fast guard) blowing past him when he wasn't squared as the proof. I am sure he was starting to get winded just being his first game back, but he was not that bad at all.
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