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Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr said he's "very concerned" that the NBA's increased pace of play combined with its condensed 82-game schedule is leading to an increase in soft tissue injuries

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/47015001/kerr-concerned-nba-increased-pace-leading-injuries

 

Get rid of the stupid NBA Cup and play-in. More importantly, make the schedule more regional. More division games and play out of conference games only once. Less travel, more rivalry building schedules. Playing back to back in the same city isn’t as taxing.

Silver really needs to get his head out of his a**. This s*** should have started happening after Covid.

 

word, steve.

anyway, yeah, the league (and the players) won't do anything until it hurts revenue. but we may approach that point soon. when boston won a couple years ago, they didn't play a single opponent at full strength. i think it ended up not mattering to most because boston felt like the best team anyway, but when some 5th place team everyone knows wasn't a top-5 nba team wins a ring because everyone else got hurt...i think it could impact things.

 

Read my post where I talk about Bigs and fast pace of play. I said and now you see one of the top coaches validating what I said.

And now I got something for him. Kerr this is what you created you started it with Phoenix you ramped it up with fast pace of play free flowing ball movement.

s*** I’m going to take it there. The 10 second offense. Yeah I said it. Led to Kobe Bryant’s Achilles tear. We remember ramping up his minutes and then how fast they were playing. Ironically in the game against Golden State.

they put rules into the NBA that led to faster pace of play and more scoring. One of them being outlawing the hand check.

 

You mean the same Adam Silver that made our MVP of the finals play 2 weeks after winning the bubble championship to make us play. Which I think led to Anthony Davis injuries he was never the same after that.

players pleaded for a start after MLK. He made them resume and they had to get that Christmas money. Get that schedule.

another pace of play Center at the top of the Key. Joel Embiid And his knees fell off.

 

nope too much money.

 

it doesn’t.

 

I'm not even going to ask about your internet search history lol

 

yep, that is when people will start walking away from being a fan of the game and once they walk, the NBA is screwed because people rarely walk back.

 

Ayton 20 and 14 tonight. Another 20 and 10. But I don’t know what I’m talking about.

Lebron said this. Deandre Ayton sets the best screens in the nba. Best screen setter in the NBA. He protects our paint. Protects our backend. That’s been the difference with the team.

All summer season I’ve emphasized Ayton in the pick and roll.

one of Luka’s big dip up in scoring and Reaves also is his ability to set screens. Aytons ability as a screen setter. Hard screens that get you open looks and better spacing.

I’ll give you an example. Clippers harden Collins is a terrible screen setter. Lazy on his picks allows opposing Centers to get top over screens.

 

Don’t get cocky. Look what happened to Baseball.

 

I do think Adam Silver is reckless. He’s money hungry and think about bottom line. He works for the owners. He doesn’t want to give up that gate. But the players can’t be whores either. At what cost is it worth it????

back to backs. Theres too many back to backs. You can have back to backs but not so many back to backs.

I’d like a system of a back to back say every two weeks. Something like that a compromise. But they over do that. Add to it the pace. Too much.

This was said by Kerry Kittles a player from the 2000’s that pace is too fast. You can’t keep playing like that.

at what expense???? We saw Stephen Curry get injured with a soft tissue injury and had to sit out the playoffs.

enoughs enough Haliburton Taytum in one playoff. The league needs to regulate how they’re doing things.

Eliminate the back to backs bring back hand checks in some capacity. And try to have a balance.

I do think it’s reverse. I’m not calling myself Gary Vitti but when you’re sitting a guy on a back to back then he goes back to playing. How does the body get used to it? I like to work out back to back days to let my body get used to the regimen. I think players need to have that. Start and stop just leads to more of it.

I get if your old but LeBron but some of these guys dont need to do it. Embiid hasn’t played in a week.

the worst thing Greg Poppoavich did to this league was introduce Load Management. Nothing proved it worked.

they exposed him to it and Kawhi got turned out on it. Kerr bought it from San Antonio. Now it’s the norm.

It won’t happen yet but the league needs to access it self. And what is going to happen a player like Wembyana who has incredible ability is going to have to retire because he just can’t get on a court with a major Achilles injury.

it almost cost Durant his career. Also we have players who intentionally get in players landing areas on jump shots.just so much.

Ja with his calf AD what’s going on with that???? You probably couldn’t get Sabonis for AD that’s how bad his injury is. Who knows whats wrong with him??? At this point I don’t even know if Ayton will get him here?

Did DuPont do a private evaluation on his calf and get info that his calf is done and he’s basically done as an explosive player?? Is that why DuPont fired Harrison.


This is very puzzling to me. I look at Gianiss Brunson it’s league wide. You gotta look at the commissioner.

Would you continue driving your Porsche at 125?????? I know it’s a nice car but don’t you want to keep driving it?????