Come playoff time we might need call upon our big 4 to log more minutes, but they're all young and healthy (not 30+ players like the recent Celtics or the Nats). We will be fine.
Young and healthy? Martin missed 31 games last season, and 21 games the season before that. Since 2005, Pau Gasol (age 29 next season) has had seasons where he has missed 26, 23, and 16 games. Al Horford missed 15 games last season. Raja Bell is 33 years old, and missed 15 games last year.
Only Chris Paul among the starters on your team is both young and healthy.
Should the owners of the Portland CrotoNats being tearing down other teams health situations with players like Shaq, Jermaine, Manu, and Redd figuring so prominently into their rotation? Maybe this particular criticism of another team is best left alone by the CrotoNats owners lest it come back to bite them in the butt come voting time.
Everyone already holds our health against us, regardless of how healthy the player was last year. It's the big myth in our draft; it seems as though Portland is the only team dealing with injuries.
That being the case, we're absolutely going to point out when other teams have similar rosters to us in terms of their injury situations. It's not unusual at all for players to have serious injuries, and bounce back from them just fine. That's Portland's stance, and I would assume it's Chicago's, too, Phoenix's, and any other team that is relying upon a previously injured star, as well.
So let me see if I have this right. The stance in Portland is that injuries from the past shouldn't matter because players are more than capable of bouncing back the next year, as has been proven very often. It's a logical stance.
But if you feel that injuries shouldn't be held against a player and team as a weakness, why are you pointing out that another team has players that were injured and saying that it is a weakness when you don't feel it is a weakness?
Kind of ironic and maybe a bit hypocritical, don't you think?
Wouldn't it give more credence to your belief and give other voters and GMs the idea that you actually believe what you are saying in defense of your own players if you actually defended another team the very same way you defend your team against those accusations rather than pointing them out? Since you honestly don't believe in what you say because you are willing to critique another team's players in that manner I think in my eyes, it lowers my opinion of your team because it makes me feel like you have no conviction in the defense of your team.
By the way, I love your team and think it is by far the deepest 1-12 in the league and I too think the whole injury accusation is hogwash unless you can give proof in numbers and reports that the injury is chronic and has over a period of years cost a player time off the court and quality in their game. Grant Hill, Penny Hardaway, and Danny Manning come to mind just off the top of my head of players that fit this bill. I think Redd and Manu and Al Jefferson and KG will bounce right back because it's a one time injury, much like Pierce's was in 2007. That injury didn't effect his 2008 season.
Now if you want to talk possible game deterioration as a critique for your team, like I think I see in some of your players, I don't think that's an unfair criticism. Injury bounce back criticism I think is a bit unfair unless you know like Leon and Yao that they will be out for a major portion of the next season.
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