WMC 24-25: What To WMC About Now? PLAYOFF TIME!

Big bummer .... at least one of our own (that I'm aware of on LB) .... @ZenMaster is in harm's way again with the missiles flying. Wishing safety for you Big Guy.

 

S***. I forgot about that. @ZenMaster wishing the same for you.

 

Thought I was posting this a few minutes ago in the general thread but it was Dalton's .... ooops. Maybe better here since injuries SUCK and this thread had drifted off to Page 2 .... can't have that.

A close family friendship of ours is wrapping up the final stages of them all moving to Idaho from Thousand Oaks, CA. Known since HS and countless boat/camping and houseboat trips with them. Their son and his family moved up there several years ago outskirts of Boise and built a house. Then more recently their daughter and her family decided they wanted to do the same, and by mid August our friends will have sold and moved as well, building a nice home on the same large property as their daughter and son-in-law.

The daughter and her husband leave in a few days and stopped by yesterday to say goodbye. Her husband is successful in sales but for all of the Bryan Twins' doubles career in Tennis, also from Thousand Oaks area and soon to be inducted into the HOF ...... he was friends of them and their family and worked with them as a physical therapist mostly when they were in town. He's a LeBron hater LOL but knowing what a Lakers fan I am and the changing makeup of the team he brought them up and asked if I was excited. After a bit I asked him what he thought was the cause of all the achilles injuries that are happening in the game now. He went right to all the sudden stops from speed and reversing or changing directions off those planted stops, while keep dribble alive and the step back Js going then immediately upward. Comparing how past eras where the handles and acceleration was basically forward with the side to side forward angled movement to work on the defenders. Seems logical and we have had 82 game schedules with balls out up and down the floor athletic action for a long time, but of course just his opinion.

 

it's an interesting idea, but if you look at the achilles injuries, they all come on plant and burst forward moves, often when the shoulders are low, right?

also, curry and harden--two of the most prolific stepbackers--have yet to have any achilles (or knee) injuries, and most of the achilles tears happened to guys who don't use the stepback that much. i guess haliburton and lillard both do, but again, these aren't the poster children--a lot of lillard's threes are step in from way out, i feel like.

anyway, i'm not sure that's the primary reason, and i'd point more to the pace of the game, particularly on defense. it's part of why i want everybody not named luka and reaves going forward to be mobile defenders. you save your stars by hiding them/developing schemes where they're not hauling a** over the floor on defense.