playa-hater wrote:SuperDeluxe wrote:playa-hater wrote: Imagine being 19 years old playing only half the previous game and already getting a day off????
Dallas shut down Cooper Flagg, who is even younger. Gonzalez has just finished the Spanish league season, so we're grateful that he'll play a couple SL games.
So we're going to compare Cooper Flagg and his extremely heavy minutes he's expected to get with a player who may not even play half of his minutes??
It's got nothing to do with the amount of mins they're expected to get next season, which doesn't even start for like 3 more months.
It's about a 19 yr old kid who is a big investment since we used a 1st rounder on him and his pro season in Europe literally *just* ended (a season he played in 68 games which is like double the games that college guys play) so he hasn't had a break yet. Went right from playing EuroLeague games to fly across the world, jet lagged and practices 5 straight days with our SL team..
We want to protector our investment so he doesn't' get burnt out and doesn't get injured.
Dudes are tearing their achilles every other day because they play basketball too much..dudes never get a break, games after games, no days off, dudes play 2-3 games in a day when they're kids playing AAU ball. Now we're asking them to play back to backs in summer league when they aren;t yet used to playing back to backs at this level yet..
