Anthony Davis Discussion: Only Player On Both All NBA + All Def

I think we have Elden 2.0udleyshrug:got paid and never got up for a game again

 

Strange thread because I cannot see this link in the forum. Hmmmm, not sure what is going on, thought it might be because I had blocked the person who started it, but that is not the case. I have no clue why I have not been able to see it in the forum posts list.

Anyway, is it obvious to everyone that AD is playing injured? At the end of the playoffs I read a comment from Lebron, (I think), that said his feet were completely black and blue and that he was having a hard time playing through the pain.

He did not have time to heal with the shortened off season and I believe he is playing very hobbled. He does not have the explosiveness he has in the past. I was wondering why they are playing him so much and I came to the conclusion that one, he wants to play and two, they want the team to be together at the beginning of the season so all these guys can learn to play together. Perhaps as they start to gel, if Davis is still hurting, they can rest him for awhile then. Perhaps his injuries are slowing healing as we go anyhow and he figures he can just play through it. I believe this is one of the reasons that Vogel has told him to shoot more 3's, besides the fact that he seems very good at them, the more he shoots them the better his % will be. ?????

I find myself a little worried about his legs and feet staying healthy.

Sorry if you have already talked about this, as I was not seeing the thread and have not had time to catch up.

Any thoughts?

 

he's definitely playing hurt, imo. his mobility on d isn't as good as usual, and i think it's why he's not driving or diving as much on offense. my dad thinks lebron's iron man mentality makes it so that AD feels like he needs to play unless he's really injured, but i don't know. i guess if he's not at risk for further injury, he's not so bad he's hurting us out there. in fact, he made several plays down the stretch on both ends to keep memphis at bay yesterday.

 

There is little doubt that he plays pretty good while injured. But, I wonder if he is going to need a rest somewhere along the way?

 

this is assertion was applicable to AD as a Pelican too, BI and pelicans will be in playoff race this yr baring injuries

 

They have to do this, don't know what else people want. 6-8 weeks to figure this out.

 

Meh. He's KAT at the small forward position.

 

yes because its what happened, AD didnt win anything as the GUY, can you say different to the contrary? Do we win anything with same team minus Lebron? I bring it up not to diss AD but to counter OX statement

 

Sometimes people just have to admit they were wrong.

 

well, they'll be in the playoff race with ingram as their second-best player and with an all-nba guy as their best player. when AD had an ingram level player, they were good, too.

 

towns is substantially better than BI. and yes, same thing in that he's had trouble as the flagship guy. zion showed up and played, and NO got respectable. they were dog**** with BI as the top dog. these arguments were tiresome before, as weezy said, and they're ludicrous now.

not sure khmr made this argument in this thread, but i get your annoyance and why you'd assume that.

khmr was just trying to say that good players can be on bad teams, which is fine. but trying to equate it is where it's just...way off. AD is a hofer. ingram's a semi-star.

and again, check receipts: i said both things long before AD for BI was even a thought.

 

i was wrong on that part, don't take my counter to ox as wishing for any 1 back or taking the trade back

 

Yeah I don’t know who had what takes in the past, but I do disagree with Ox’s point. To hold the Pelican’s lack of playoff success in one season as some sort of indictment against Ingram is odd. He’s a 23 year old all star. Just because he didn’t win a championship in his first (incomplete) season where his co-star was injured for most of the year, doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have what it takes to win. That can’t be a serious basketball take, and bringing up AD’s lack of success in the past seems a valid counterpoint to this.

Feel like sometimes we do go too far in the other direction in praising our current team/AD, to crapping on everyone else. We got a top 5 player locked up for years, and he already won us a championship. We already won the trade. We don’t have to throw BI/Lonzo’s names in the dirt to make ourselves feel even better about the trade.

 

Ingram is better than Zion currently

 

I say this with all affection Wino but maybe you need those larger fonts type of device, like those Reader's Digest big book for seniors:Carusohearthands:

 

I already read it on my 65" television, or maybe it's just a 6.5" tv when I take the little blue pill. ????? No this is really strange because at one point, I marked this thread as one to watch and yet it also does not show up on my watched threads list. Despite the fact that there is still a lot of action in this thread it is not showing up on the forum for me. It does show up in my alerts section, now that I have posted here. Something weird in the code I think. Either that or that little blue pill is Fing with me?