01-30-2021, 05:21 AM
(01-29-2021, 01:28 PM)HanspardsShowerVoice Wrote: This is a legacy of the injuries. People only look at the cost of injuries as the amount of games missed or long term decline of physical ability. They don't take into account the opportunity cost of every offseason he spends nursing and rehabbing a leg in the trainer's room could have been spent in the gym working on developing a new aspect of his game.Good point.
When I was raising my capspace and legit 2nd option concerns, I only ever considered the longevity of his career and the availability/reliability issues. I never gave much consideration to the idea, that the injuries could simply mess up his brain and take away his Unicorn powers.
For all the existing flaws in his game.....to me, when he first came back from the ACL he was the same old Porzingis. He was making dribble cuts like a 7´3 guy should not. He was running and flying around the court like a 7´3 guy should not. He had the energy and NO FEAR.
What I see right now is a broken player. He is scared to get hurt again (can you blame him?), so his whole game and movements become more grounded and slow. He´s now basically Shawn Bradley in a dramatically changed "3pt space and race"-game.
Maybe Porzingis comes back to form ONE more time, but then you have to be stone-cold. Do not delude yourself thinking that he won´t get hurt again eventually and then it is truly over.
If it becomes clear Lavine will leave Chicago in 2022, then you put the Unicorn on the table before it´s too late.