Stress Fracture wrote:If you want to see advancements you just have to look at the Phoenix Suns.
So you say ligament tears can be easily avoided just because of medicinal advancements? One athlete may still get one with just a bad fall.
Stop being stuck in the 90s and with your hurr durr stop pampering players hurr durr shit.
That's not what it is at all.
Using "hurr durr" twice in one sentence was garbage. Not once did I say ligament tears could be easily avoided. In regards to serious falls, I didn't mention Gordon Hayward in that mix of players because that fall was 1 in 100,000 falls probably. I'm talking about the sheer number of injuries, and so many taking place even in the first week of the season. Also, we are seeing these injuries happen, they are not just fake reported injuries to give players rest.
The fact that injury numbers have gone up, while minutes have gone down, is my contest.
The only person you make look stupid when you go "hurr durr" is yourself by the way.
You guys have to get off the "stuck in the 90's" stuff. I LOVE the NBA in the early, mid and late 2000s, and clearly still enjoy it now. That doesn't mean that i don't think the players are pampered, and that I don't think injuries are happening too frequent, etc. I could say the same for you guys that you are biased towards the now NBA, but have I thrown that out at you? No.. because that's not the way to go about things.
"Oh you think this player is better because you like older basketball more", no... here are the reasons I like this player better. "You are saying players are getting injured more because you are stuck in the 90s", no, I provided a link that showed the spike in injuries from the early 90's til now, and I wanted to discuss why there was like a 100% increase in them in some years, and wanted to see if there was more data out there that showed something different. And, I wanted to call out the fact that just because we are in 2017, removed 25 years from some of what I am discussing, doesn't mean that now practices are actually better. Setbacks happen, and not all attempts at advancement are successful.
Kobe and Pierce both have made it known that they consider the NBA now spoiled, and pampered, not enough tough players, and they just retired recently. Barkley and others have said the same thing. Are Kobe and Pierce somehow "stuck in the 90's" as well? No. If you were sitting in front of one of them would you go "hurr durr" for calling the now NBA more pampered and less tough? Yeah right... of course you wouldnt. The stuck in the 90s or stuck in the past mantra is used so often just because it's a way to call someone's POV biased, seldom does it ever come with any facts.
Just like me being bent out of shape that Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, and Reggie Miller are in the new NBA top 50, and Clyde Drexler was removed. I live an hour outside of Boston, and am a huge Celtics fan. I love Pierce and Allen (Well, Allen is a tough one), but when I saw they were on that list and Drexler wasnt, I was furious. So wait.. the people calling me biased towards the Celtics (which I havn't shown) will just stay silent while I make my claim on Drexler because it doesn't suit the "Biased towards the Celtics" mantra. Miller and Allen were better shooters than Drexler, but he was better at literally everything else. I have stated that A LOT of players in the now NBA would be successful in any decade, but we will stay silent on that because it doesn't suit the "He's biased towards the 90s" garbage.
You guys can't seem to see the big picture in this discussion or others, because you are so quick to label. Let's look at the big picture of the topics we go over.