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I don't know. Spelling and grammar on this forum aren't stellar so making that assumption is "buyer beware" at best.
And I think it was stupid of Kerr to play Curry so much in the RS chasing a meaningless record against a depleted western conference, but he got away with it. What happened was separate from all that. It would be like blaming Chris Paul's injury on RS minutes.
I don't know. Spelling and grammar on this forum aren't stellar so making that assumption is "buyer beware" at best.
You're falsely equivocating "heal" with "rest". No, Pop would not rest guys in the playoffs but the DNP for injury isn't "rest", it's "injury". Again, that falls primarily on Steph. It's his future.
Before you get all sensitive, I genuinely mean this. All those years pop did resting his players for what ever reasons, they failed to repeat every time? Whats the point of resting your players? I guess you could say players like Curry want to be in the history books, because its important, but if im Pop im going all in towards the end of the season/ playoff time. I never saw other great players sitting resting and stuff. This trend imho makes players soft. I wasnt alive in the 70's and majority of 80's but is this how it was back then?
LOL. I've noticed this.
I reinforced it in the OP though, I said "Yes, Steph Kerr." I also could have said Steve Curry.
Exactly
Pop himself has played Manu with a ed up ankle in 2008 and a broken elbow in 2011. Both way worse than Curry's injury.
Again, that falls primarily on the player (Manu in that case). Steph's ankle was injured in the RS and he sat out a couple games. Pop would have sat Manu the rest of the RS if that happened after having HCA locked up. I don't have a problem with Kerr, but you cannot have everything, you have to sacrifice something to get those hard to reach goals. Having a healthy roster all year, getting the RS record and winning a championship in the same season is almost unheard of. If the Warriors ring, no one will care. If they don't, it will be blamed on Kerr for the RS record push and the ankle injury. It has to be.
If you can show me another team that has played a long as the Spurs without missing the playoffs, won 5 rings with low draft picks other than their main star, we can compare apples to apples.
touche. point is, there are *'s, but none discredit the run the Spurs have had. Popovich is a master at spotting talent, but sometimes i think the rest thing hurts him.
It doesn't hurt him. It might hurt how you view him but he doesn't care. You cannot be GOAT by doing what the betas think you should.
If he was cleared to play by doctors, it's not about healing. It likely wasn't 100%. But that doesn't mean he required more time for healing. It's the playoffs. You don't sit your best player when doctors clear him and he says he's good to go.
And again, all of this b.s. over an injury UNRELATED to the sprained ankle, UNRELATED to regular season minutes. It was a slip on a wet spot on the floor. It's the type of injury a full rested, 100% healthy player could have just the same sustained. And yet, there's still this silliness about somehow indirectly blaming the coach on an accidental slip.
Not to mention 5 rings in small market with 0 major free agent signings outside of guys at the end of their career.
First big fish was just caught this year, 19 years into the run.
Lol no.
Almost any time the Spurs failed to repeat there was an injury involved. Not sure why it's hard to understand why Pop would want his team healthy for the playoffs.
There was a period of time where Pop cut minutes rather than cut games and guys didn't have the wind to play heavy minutes once they were needed in the postseason, and the Spurs paid for that. It's why he altered the way he does it, and it seems to have paid off.
Doubt it. You don't play on a sprained knee. If they say reevaluate in two weeks, then he won't play for at least ten days. Neither of Manu's injuries could be made worse by playing.
You have to trust your player to tell you when it hurts and you should not play him if he's not up to speed. Curry wasn't up to speed when he returned from the ankle, you know it.
It's all related. He played all year without any issues and suddenly he gets two in just a couple weeks? They're related. With a solid ankle he doesn't go down like that. Sure a healthy player can get hurt, they were healthy the first time they got hurt, but an injured player is compensating by putting weight in areas he normally wouldn't. You could see it in his shot and how he fell.And again, all of this b.s. over an injury UNRELATED to the sprained ankle, UNRELATED to regular season minutes. It was a slip on a wet spot on the floor. It's the type of injury a full rested, 100% healthy player could have just the same sustained. And yet, there's still this silliness about somehow indirectly blaming the coach on an accidental slip.
No, it's not. He slipped on a sweaty place on the floor. No amount of ankle stability was going to prevent that. Anyone would have fallen like that. If his ankle had REALLY been bothering him, he probably wouldn't have been trying to defend a half-court shot in the waning seconds of the quarter.
People slip every game. Curry played over 82 games prior to the playoffs including preseason and never injured his knee. He gets an ankle injury and a couple weeks later a routine wet spot slip takes out his knee, oh and that's a coincidence? You'd be investigated for that level of coincidence it was about stock trading.
No one said it was bothering him. How was his game performance otherwise?
Are people ign re ed. Wrap your ankles so ing tight that when he slipped. The torque went to his knees.
In the 16 minutes Curry played that night, he was 1-7 from three and had 6 points and 5 turnovers. Yeah, nothing was bothering him.
People don't understand basic physics. These are the same people who would put a 2Amp fuse in a 1Amp slot because the 1Amp keeps blowing. Then the device it's meant to protect just fries.
Didn't know you were a stupid down here too.
And you think if he got hit by a bus it had to do with his ankle simply because it hadn't happened before.
So you can explain to all the stupid s how having flexible ankles overcomes all the laws of physics to keep a player from slipping on a sweaty hardwood floor.
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