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ORIGINAL: Mark Anderson

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ORIGINAL: David Levine

What a wonderful choke job!

Couldn't happen to a more unlikeable team.

I'm not seeing this. Who is unlikeable? Wemby?

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So what does the model tell us? First, each extra inch of height was associated with a 31.4% higher injury hazard. As seen in the graph below, the survival rate for someone like Giannis at 6'11 is much worse than the baseline, and the opposite is true for a 6'3 player like Stephen Curry.

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ORIGINAL: David Levine

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ORIGINAL: Mark Anderson

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ORIGINAL: David Levine

What a wonderful choke job!

Couldn't happen to a more unlikeable team.

I'm not seeing this. Who is unlikeable? Wemby?

The whole manufactured team. They make bad trades and signings and get rewarded with top picks in great drafts. They're all a bunch of floppers and complainers - led by Castle.

Wemby is good for at least one dirty play every game and he's turning into a douche off the court with all his visiting with monks, walking barefoot and other PR stunts. Plus the league is so far up his ass, they had to pass SGA on the way in. He's allowed to goaltend at will on both ends and should've been suspended at least twice so far this postseason.

Even when he threw that super dangerous elbow at Naz and got ejected, somehow the narrative for the next game was "Wemby's redemption".

He's so good, but he absolutely gets gassed and he gets pushed around. Maybe intense conditioning will help with the first, but his frame and high center of gravity will always be a problem fore the second.

Can he "bulk up"? Should he?

Longer limbs put extra torque and stress on joints, ligaments, and tendons - and those things are not proportionally stronger on a bigger guy. And while adding muscle increases strength, any extra weight magnifies these issues.

This dude did an interesting study on height vs injury in NBA players:

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So what does the model tell us? First, each extra inch of height was associated with a 31.4% higher injury hazard. As seen in the graph below, the survival rate for someone like Giannis at 6'11 is much worse than the baseline, and the opposite is true for a 6'3 player like Stephen Curry.

https://aryanjha.medium.com/figuring-out-why-nba-players-get-injured-using-cox-proportional-hazards-226a717eb55c

So what is the answer?

Is bulking up so he can play high 30s, low 40s as needed at the risk of a shorter career the way to go? Or is he a 28-32 MPG player that goes all out when he's in the game?