Let's talk about resting

[Ice009]

My take is that everyone was healthy to start the season apart from Tony and Kawhi. Most players seemed to be OK for a good stretch to start the season (apart from Joffery who sprained his ankle), then when he started resting people on a regular basis, injuries started piling up.

[cd98]

Latest Lowe Post episode goes into Spurs never playing anyone. Lowe says it’s impossible to assess if they are any good. VanGundy talks about how everyone used to play until this culture started treating the regular season like it was boring and unimportant. All good points. Van Gundy also hailed Spurs team performance against Rockets in the playoffs last year.

[bklynspursfan]

My take is that everyone was healthy to start the season apart from Tony and Kawhi. Most players seemed to be OK for a good stretch to start the season (apart from Joffery who sprained his ankle), then when he started resting people on a regular basis, injuries started piling up.

Who was being rested on a regular basis? This is what i'm legit confused by some of you guys.I posted earlier the games played by most our rotation guys, even 39 y/o Pau isn't being rested. Outside of Kawhi/TP (who are rightfully being brought along slowly) and Manu on b2b's. there hasn't been much rest. DG had his injury thing, Gay got hurt , Anderson got hurt, Joff got hurt, Manu is now hurt,.. You won't find many DNP-Rest this season

[Ice009]

I'm pretty sure Pau has rested a game or two. LA has rested at least one game, maybe two? Manu, as you said has rested even though he's looked fine in the first game of a lot of those back to backs. Rudy, I think I recall has rested some. Other players have gotten injured IMO because players being rested sit out the whole game, when all you had to do is limit their minutes within the so called "rest games". Sitting them out altogether from games is counterproductive. It's better that they play, but play less minutes. This way they can keep a rhythm too. Kyle got hurt in a game where resting was in practice. It's overworking the healthy players, who are then getting injured in later games when the extra stress that they're not used to starts ac ulating.

I think LA is doing OK with playing more because he's used to it. He's more conditioned to it. Most of the other players on the team are not. You either get them conditioned, or leave them in their normal roles. Don't half ass it like Pop is doing. That's not helping anything.

[bklynspursfan]

I'm pretty sure Pau has rested a game or two. LA has rested at least one game, maybe two? Manu, as you said has rested even though he's looked fine in the first game of a lot of those back to backs. Rudy, I think I recall has rested some. Other players have gotten injured IMO because players being rested sit out the whole game, when all you had to do is limit their minutes within the so called "rest games". Sitting them out altogether from games is counterproductive. It's better that they play, but play less minutes. This way they can keep a rhythm too. Kyle got hurt in a game where resting was in practice. It's overworking the healthy players, who are then getting injured in later games when the extra stress that they're not used to starts ac ulating.

I think LA is doing OK with playing more because he's used to it. He's more conditioned to it. Most of the other players on the team are not. You either get them conditioned, or leave them in their normal roles. Don't half ass it like Pop is doing. That's not helping anything.

I mean Pau has played 43/45 games, I wouldn't consider that being rested on a regular basis. Rudy I remember played most his games early on, then folks thought he needed a rest because his level of play started to go down. And it's not crazy, the guy was out of basketball for a long time, he was bound to go through some rough patches.

But like Anderson played a lot more because Kawhi was injured, not due to rest. And let's be honest here, he landed awkwardly. Maybe it was due to overuse (not definite) but again, he was in there because Kawhi has been out/limited.

Joff hurt his finger on a freak injury type deal, and hurt his ankle which is obviously quite common in basketball.

Aldridge (like Pau) has played 43/45. Patty/Bryn/Murray have all played 45/45. Davis has played 41/45 (tho his mpg are probably all over the place)

Forbes and Anderson's minutes have doubled since last season, (and Anderson played heavier mins to end last season with Kawhi going out) but our other core guys are all playing about the same amount of time. I don't know if you can attribute these guys injuries to overworking honestly. It just seems to be more bad luck than anything.