@TarHeelHitch@Dain29227805@UofBasketball@BiasedSlightly You view athleticism too narrowly. The league is filled with guys right now that dominate using size, strength, balance, and elite deceleration. These are athletic traits that are traditionally viewed as less important but have proven to be highly valuable in the modern nba.
@Quintorris_@23JJohnson23 Why are you victory lapping a bad landing spot for a player you were lower than consensus on? That doesn’t make your eval correct?
Brock Bowers - huge update
If you watched the play, you can see the defender hit his right knee, and the inside of his right knee buckled a little bit.
What was lost in translation was that his left knee landed hard on the turf in a flexed position.
Up until today, we knew that he was dealing with a knee injury, but no specifics.
Now we have video of him practicing with a brace on his left knee. So essentially his right knee got lucky, but his left knee was actually the problem.
He’s likely dealing with a grade one, mild, PCL sprain of the left knee.
As a result, he is low risk for significant injury, and will play on Monday night and should not have any restrictions or dips in performance.
For comparison, last year, Puka Nacua had a grade 2 moderate PCL spray. If Bowers were to land on this knee again in a flex position, there’s a possibility that happens.
I’m excited to see Bowers’s play in a potential shootout against the Chargers on Monday night.