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had to go to bed and missed the second half, but wow, huge fuckin win for the nuggies. sincere apologies ums :(

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2768696-how-did-kyrie-irvings-injury-go-from-bad-to-worse-weve-got-answers

There is another possibility. With the rise of sports science and armies of injury-prevention staffers in place, teams may be increasingly more risk-averse when it comes to bringing guys back from injury.

With more information than ever thanks to wearable tracking (outside of games) and fancy sports-science departments, it seems teams are being more careful than ever. Some in the league think that's the good, safe approach. But others believe the DNP-rest movement has gone too far, erring too much on the side of caution rather than understanding that playing basketball will always present reasonable risk. One executive called it "paralysis by analysis."

Injuries are up by 10 percent, but time missed due to injury is up by about 25 percent, per Stotts' analysis. So, yes, players are out longer.

that's an interesting dimension that i hadn't thought of. could be a fluke given some of the weird injuries this season.

Yeah it's kinda interesting I wanted to bounce the off you guys but actually basketball is bad and dumb, just for for thought

― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, April 6, 2018 12:18 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol drunk phone typing

the wolves don't really deserve to make the playoffs if they can't win games like that so i guess it is what it is....

Im cool with guys taking full recovery time because it means more of them will have full careers instead of being broken down at like 30 but we’ve definitely had a lot of freak injuries this year and it seems to have randomly hit star level guys more than anything

The pace thing is interesting though I wonder how the injury rates match up with earlier high pace eras overall

Friend texted me, got this text from a friend of his that works for the Wolves:

"I strongly content that Andrew Wiggins is the black Michael Cera"

― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, April 6, 2018 12:14 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is hilarious

I’m still I need mourning over kyrie btw but it is now kind of funny how the kyrie isiah trade wound up being a swap of damaged goods

Hopefully temporarily damaged in kyrie case

The pace thing is interesting though I wonder how the injury rates match up with earlier high pace eras overall

― gis for westbrook shark jump (agent hibachi), Friday, April 6, 2018 10:28 AM (seventeen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in the historical highest pace eras no one really played any D m/l just ran back and forth hoisting, if theres something about todays game thats causing more injuries its prob more like pace + intensity/style of play, like literally double teaming wasnt a thing in those classic wilt/russell battles nowadays everyone is rotating constantly so theyre not just running up and down the court theyre running side to side which is prob way more taxing on the body since theyre cutting jumping reacting and so forth while doing it

not that long ago when they iso/post up were bigger parts of the game and they played slower there was a ton of standing around not doing much during the game

maybe the league should go back to everyone playing in hi top chucks

I figure as much as well lagoon I’m just curious data wise if early faster eras had high injury rates too since barely anyone stretched and like three guys played above the rim. Agree that the amount of ground covered and lateral movement is much higher for a lot of players now, seem to recall some articles a few years ago about various swingmen who had to switch from bulking up in the offseason to losing weight and aiming for flexibility to stay on the court

Wish evolution could catch up and grant us a full ball joint knee adaptation or something lol

Ha yeah now if you stand around more than a few seconds a game you get a spot of shame in a weekly z lowe column or roasted by Twitter all season (looks at John wall)

its crazy too nba guys are cosmically huge and athletic but theyre playing with the standard issue tendons we all have

jazz up to the 4 seed now

jazz/rockets round 2 is gonna be fun

o shit wolves might not be dead yet

Jimmy Butler returning for Timberwolves against Lakers tonight https://t.co/6X2388qstU

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) April 6, 2018

we need u jimmy help us

apparently he was available last night too?

Anyway the wolves have two (potentially) easy games (lal, mem) then play denver final game. Denver has clips, pdx then minny.

+ who knows what else might happen with those other teams from 4-10

the nuggets will win the NBA playoffs

PDX is not immune from ending on a losing streak, either.

76ers v Cavs for the 3 seed on NBATV and ben simmons is stuntin

“Yo. Ben Simmons couldn’t even lead his team to the NCAA Tournament. He stinks.” (People actually believed this) pic.twitter.com/5jufd3ezg7

— Drew Shiller (@DrewShiller) April 6, 2018

i know i said this already but the bellinelli and elyasova signings were very smart. adding two more good shooting vets around their non shooting stars

marco played in brett brown's (spurs) system before, too

good pickups for sure

elyasova is a total wildcard but bellinelli is solid

wow they are lighting the cavs uppppp

damn this game

joel looking stoked on the side line

getting good minutes from all kinda dudes.

this is a pretty croosh game for seeding purposes

kinda want the celtics to be on cleves side of the bracket now that theyre "livin on a prayer" anyway

the cavs are playing really sloppy

def rather see the bucks than the wiz in the 1st too

cavs d for the first half only giving up the two shots you dont want to give up: wide open 3s and dunks

the cavs D honestly has not been great this year

they can still do points tho

Wow I turned it off

4pt gaem

Lebron smash!

76ers showing their issues when the game slows down they panic a bit

Yoooo this game

luv too get home from work at 6:30 and flip on the big 1pt game with 4.6 seconds to go

what the heck robert

He tried to foul early and kinda whiffed then should let Bron go but had a brain fart

Love had that tip!

liking this team "the philadelphia 76ers"

lol greg monroe triple double in the house

13 straight wins for the sixers, 3 seed, might be a legit team not sure

lebron had a hilarious carry earlier

the sixers floor logo looked awful tonight lol

Philly First round first home game is gonna be like warriors 07 oracle game 3 vs Dallas