Tyrese Watch

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It sure would be nice if the NBA could use their $billions in having a Manhattan Project for these soft tissue injuries. We've got biotech, AI, tons of $, yet still it seems we don't have a clue about soft tissue maladies. Get to work, NBA. This is ridiculous.

Most NBA training staffs are already equipped to the gills with the necessary body optimization technologies and regimens, but at a certain point, human tissues just aren't meant to move the way that professional athletes push their bodies. Tyrese strained his calf and then played on it. Achilles injuries have been known to follow. Whether the team or the player made the ultimate call, it was a calculated risk and it didn't pay off. It really didn't pay off. It's a shame for Indiana. Next season's certainly going to be a struggle, but in the immediate sense, I would much rather have witnessed OKC beat them at full strength in a game 7 rather than watching Hali go down in the first.

 

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Most NBA training staffs are already equipped to the gills with the necessary body optimization technologies and regimens, but at a certain point, human tissues just aren't meant to move the way that professional athletes push their bodies. Tyrese strained his calf and then played on it. Achilles injuries have been known to follow. Whether the team or the player made the ultimate call, it was a calculated risk and it didn't pay off. It really didn't pay off. It's a shame for Indiana. Next season's certainly going to be a struggle, but in the immediate sense, I would much rather have witnessed OKC beat them at full strength in a game 7 rather than watching Hali go down in the first.

At the very, very least they need to come up with an objective medical test to determine the risk of an achilles injury. Just as they are coming up with better tests to determine cancer in very early stages, they have to be able to come up with some kind of scan that can give a yes or no to playing. You cannot rely upon upon how a player "feels" to determine whether he should play. You might as well rely upon how a woman "feels" about the lump in her breast.