I’m close to ditching the iPhone. If it had a slide out hard keyboard I’d really love this thing. . .

Shocked beyond measure to hear that Canzano—that bastion of truth and justice—is looking for areas of personnel on whom to heap criticism and blame. So unlike him.

You could airlift that guy into Valhalla and he would abuse the viking warriors there for being arrogant, the daily battles for being self-aggrandizing, champion the lesser warriors shut out of Valhalla for being deserving of equal time and money and immortality, and probably impugn the cooks serving the banquets as well.

That guy and his yellow press, sensationalistic garbage would fault Santa Clause if he could figure out a way to do it.

I’m with you: injuries are chancy things. And in fact, I feel there is less competition this training camp than prior ones. There is only one position up for grabs where as last year I think there were three or four. Oden and Roy have been specifically held out of practices and games Frye and Blake didn’t do anything more all summer than train. Even on its face, this argument is just ridiculous. It is self-serving, Canzano garbage.

Out of the US team, I think only Boozer has a little hamstring problem like Blake. Even Yao is not really more hurt than before the games. Nowitzki is playing year-round for many seasons. Rudy would be perfectly healthy if he had not stepped on Sergio’s foot. Etc.

If you take it a little lighter and plan for enough rest in between games and workouts, it’s not detrimental to your health to keep training hard over the off-season. You might peak a little early in the season, but that’s what we need this year with our front-loaded schedule to even make the playoffs.

How did his knee get so messed up?

Players get hurt, it could stand to reason that the more you play as a player, the more likely it is you could suffer an injury. That doesn’t mean you stop working hard to improve because you risk being injured MAYBE. That’s loser talk!

It’s not WORKING HARD = GONNA GET HURT, it’s WORKING HARD = MAKES YOU A BETTER PLAYER (and injuries can happen at anytime what can ya do).

You don’t work so hard you hurt your body, but I don’t think any of our guys were doing that. Them working out over the summer did not get them hurt; unfortunate circumstances got them hurt.

We do not want guys who do not work to improve in the offseason. We want them to rest and be sensible with their work, but it isn’t something to worry about. This is rich peoples worries!

Mortimer

the most strenous activity I ever personally observed was him hanging at safari with his cap low on his head hoping zach or darius would show up. Not joking.

Jay Allen reported on the Hocks Pre-Game broadcast, that Chan & Blakey were expected to be running with the Team, during practice next week.

Mr. Magoo and Chicken Little are just making comments to stir up controversy. I don’t have the link but remember Frye saying that the doctors were surprised that he wasn’t playing with pain LAST YEAR. So training hard this summer had nothing to do with his injury. Blake pulled a hamstring, he’s more likely to hurt that if he did nothing all summer, because it wouldn’t be as flexible. Martell’s injury is the only one that could be attributed to overworking and actually seems like it is an injury the is body is prone to developing.

and I have an opinion!

Navy seals. imagine what kind of unit they’d be if they quit practicing for let’s say 3 months of the year.

kinda the same thing. If you want the best tip top straight out of the shop preformance in your car. You constantly maintain it.

and last but not least. what don’t kill you makes you stronger. I’ve found this rule to alway’s hold true.

(and what is this, everytime I comment on a thread, someone else’s little black box show’s up over there > I’m feeling followed. or maybe I’m the follower..mmmm)

Canzano once again proves he’s another armchair warrior who doesn’t understand what is needed to excel at the professional level.

If it really was that easy John, people like you would be doing it instead of sitting on the sidelines writing about it.

Channing, Martell, and Roy were all the hardest workers of the offseason and are also the ones who have the big injuries. Coincidence? Maybe. Yet most of Roy’s work was cycling (i.e. non-contact), wasn’t it?

I doubt there’s a GM in the NBA who really, truly wants his players playing FIBA hoops in the offseason. But it’s not politically correct for them to complain. Unpatriotic & all.