Player The unfortunately low-ceilinged Shaolin monastery of Victor Wembanyama

[Corso]

20 min up and down.. Stand at the 3 PT line and take it easy..

Embarrassing

 

[couchman]

It makes sense to have Wemby play against Dallas to reach 65 instead of Denver where he'd have to pound with Jokic and Gordon again.
Let's be honest, if it wasn't for that rule he would be sitting until Game 1 of the playoffs.

 

[Dbreiden83080]

Embarrassing

Blame the 65 game rule.

 

[scott]

Another problem with the league rule -- it puts players on the margins risking themselves who are already injured in order to pass an arbitrary benchmark.

It was fine before. Voters priced in whether players were available and how many games they played. Once again this is Silver trying to solve one problem (load management) in the wrong way.

Adam Silver's legacy may end up being the guy who poorly solved all the problems that never really existed

 

[scott]

make it 60 games or x total minutes

I agree with adding an "or minutes" - in which case you can leave it at 65 games.

Wemby has played 1839 minutes this year, which is the lowest of any All NBA consideration guys. Austin Reaves, as another example has played 1762 over 51 games... whereas Lauri Markkanen has played 1443 over 42. Giannis is at 1039 over 36 games. I think most people would agree Lauri and Giannis should not qualify... but a lot of folks might think Reaves has played enough to have impacted his team.

I'd say 65 games or 1700 minutes is probably a good balance.

 

[SpursBrazil]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2042018491772104971

 

[scott]

The issue is that NBA tries to solve a problem that NBA created... everybody knows that 82 games in 6 months is too much but then you add more games, play in, nba cup finals.... The 65 games rule is fucking dumb and makes 0 sense, load management became a thing because NBA has never had the courage to tackle the root causes... too many games. Back to back games is insane concept, 4 / 5 games a week is insane especially considering the distance you need to cover.

NBA has depreciated his own product. Less games better quality not that hard.

You either play 82 games over a longer period of time or you reduce that to 65 (it seems to be THE magic number).

BTW why 65, why not 66 or 80 or 50 ? what NBA thought it would happen tbh ? that never a star player would be uneligible because of 1 or 2 games or 10 mn ? Also I am not familiar with working law in the US but how legally is it allowed, you can reduce salary/contract because of injuries you got doing your profession ? I would not be surprised to see a legal action against NBA if ever a player has a lower contract due to this.

I like having 82 games and forcing teams to think about depth when building their rosters... but I like the idea of maybe stretching the season an extra two weeks to accommodate for this

 

[scott]

How is Shams getting this before our local guys?

Shams actually does his job, whereas the local guys wait for someone from the Spurs to send them an email

 

[tearsofmorningdew]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2042018491772104971

Didnt Vic play 40 minutes against Denver? these anchors don’t do any research