The title to my Blog is: Meschery's Musing on Sports, Literature & Life. I cover the basketball part and the poetry part reasonably well, I think. The life part recently has been consumed by the election and was toatlly stressful. So much so that I've given up all news except PBS and not always their news regularly.
But life goes on and considering it is part of my Blog, I too go on with life.
Often sports and life come together as in this example of total idiocy. The Pelican management is allowing Zion to play at 295 lbs. Are you kidding me? Zion is 6'5". With his history of inuries, this weight is rediculous.. Zion should not weight more than 250. You don't need to be an orthopedic doc to know that. Zion's problem only magnifies an ongoing problem facing the NBA - INJIURIES, not only to stars but to rfeserves as well. One obvious way to help reduce injuries is to reduce the number of games played per season. But, since this will cost the NBA and owners too much money, this is a "mute" solution.
That said, the other possibility is drastically improving the physical training that NBA players go through. Without giving up these tradional methods, the NBA needs to research outside the box to see what other foms of physical fitness strategies are being used around the world. What do professional dancers do? What about martial artists? Circus acrobats? Contortionists? I can't be sure, but I'm betting not enough emphasis is placed on flexibility. Has enough attention been paid to diet?
In the meantime, I'm curious why owners are willing to pay huge max or close to max contracts to stars with injury history.
Here's a small thing that falls into the Life/ Sports category: Dark basketball court floors for the NBA cup don't work as it is difficult to see the ball.
Another small gripe. Peacock NFL games freeze in the middle of plays. It happened last season and it is still happening. When is this problem going to be fixed?
