GT #67, Cavaliers @ Bulls, 12 March 2022, 8:00 PM ET

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I'm too lazy to correct Ducler tonight... he'll eventually update his bot I guess (his starting-5s are becoming more and more ludicrous with current injures and non-pandemic DNPs... even more than during true Asymptomatic times).

Having two of our Giants out (Afro and Laurita) is too much for the roster structure.
We played a lot of Small Ball, matching shorty Bulls' lineups (basically, all of them without Vuc).

There was nothing counter-cultural in our systems tonight.
Besides, we lost RRondo who was having a good streak of games for the first time since we brought him in.

Let's not think about Jynx... half the NBA is having historic streaks of injures and forced Load Management.
Ironically, the League is now signing more 10-days than during the worst times of Asymptomatic Covhysteria... everybody out there are injuring as if tomorrow never comes.

There are people digging DNP stats before and after H&S Mandatory Era and babbling about adverse effects over cardiovascular system of ARNm and graphen and its effect over blood irrigation on joints and I-don't-know-what weird chemical stuff.

Others point out Load Management is today the name of the game and lots of people that would be playing more or less resented on past years are now methodically rested.

I don't wanna think 'health issues' suspiciously concurrent with scuffles between GMs and agents of players in disagreement about a trade have some impact on those stats but obviously this 'market injures' (at times, legit mental health issues) were a few days stuff in the past and nowadays can go from Late Pre Season to Trade Deadline,

Anyway, we lost after putting some fight because we're undermanned.

I'm foreseeing Silver allowing the Governowners to make 25-men rosters with tons of Luxury Exceptions on future CBAs if things keep derailing this way.