Resting Guys = Heavy fines?

[Jscc]

I'm ok with it. Fans pay good money. And ask someone to play about 80 minutes of basketball over the course of about 26 hours doesn't seem that draconian. I often have to do about 22 hours of reading, writing, analysis, and management, in 26 hours. I don't ask the coach for a rest...

They're not playing just 80 minutes of basketball. A professional basketball player's job is essentially 24/7, 90% physical labor, and only a select few can handle it [and even then, they can only do it for so long]. It's not white-collar work like reading, writing, analysis, and management is.

And if we're gonna bring in other examples, I don't know of any unionized profession that doesn't allow vacation days/leave.

 

[WeinerSoBig]

I've been a hardcore fan for a long time now and I don't remember teams resting / sitting all of their best players for primetime games like Cavs + GS are doing. Seems like Pop was a bit more slick about it, wouldn't hold out all the good players at once.

Man if I could just take a rest day at work and not do shit, man would I love it, would probably clear my head and give me some relaxation. Problem is my company isn't paying me to sit on my ass and do nothing. And my customers would get hip quick and stop coming to my place of work.

You can't only have your mind on the future, (Playoffs), you gotta think about right now too. Resting someone like Kyrie is retarded in my book because he's young as fck and will only get better with more playing time, and if he's gonna get injured one game he will regardless if he rested on a few games days.

99% of people can't rest because they need to put food on their table and support their families. Then they go buy some hundred dollar tickets they can hardly afford to see their favorite sports teams play, and no one show up bc they need "rest". Smh.

You most definitely can take a rest day at work, and you'll probably get paid for it. In fact, my guess is that you get at least 2 weeks of rest days. It's called PTO.

 

[Lyst]

You most definitely can take a rest day at work, and you'll probably get paid for it. In fact, my guess is that you get at least 2 weeks of rest days. It's called PTO.

Eh... Do I get a long off-season where I can do pretty much whatever tf I want? Nah. If I'm suppose to be at work, and customers are expecting me to be there that day, and I instead come to work and tell them I'm not doing shit but sitting on my ass. That's more akin to what we are talking about here.

 

[shoes22]

Maybe we should stop comparing professional athletes to other professions and careers altogether, because it’s not the same thing at all. The end.

 

[Scholar]

I've been a hardcore fan for a long time now and I don't remember teams resting / sitting all of their best players for primetime games like Cavs + GS are doing. Seems like Pop was a bit more slick about it, wouldn't hold out all the good players at once.

Man if I could just take a rest day at work and not do shit, man would I love it, would probably clear my head and give me some relaxation. Problem is my company isn't paying me to sit on my ass and do nothing. And my customers would get hip quick and stop coming to my place of work.

You can't only have your mind on the future, (Playoffs), you gotta think about right now too. Resting someone like Kyrie is retarded in my book because he's young as fck and will only get better with more playing time, and if he's gonna get injured one game he will regardless if he rested on a few games days.

99% of people can't rest because they need to put food on their table and support their families. Then they go buy some hundred dollar tickets they can hardly afford to see their favorite sports teams play, and no one show up bc they need "rest". Smh.

That statement is absolutely false.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/8692304/san-antonio-spurs-sit-4-top-5-scorers-vs-miami-heat

 

[mAo_mAo]

Play the main guys 1 second for the whole game. That's it. Main guys rested. Fine avoided.

 

[Jack Brickman]

As others have mentioned, the problem here is that it's so easy to get around these fines. Instead of saying a player is out for rest, you cite a minor injury. Most of these guys have minor injuries basically the entire season, and I think most team doctors would agree that resting games here and there would be good for every player who plays big minutes. The NBA also has virtually no way of actually policing this if teams start doing it, which they will if you crack down on resting guys.

 

[Ohio]

As others have mentioned, the problem here is that it's so easy to get around these fines. Instead of saying a player is out for rest, you cite a minor injury. Most of these guys have minor injuries basically the entire season, and I think most team doctors would agree that resting games here and there would be good for every player who plays big minutes. The NBA also has virtually no way of actually policing this if teams start doing it, which they will if you crack down on resting guys.

Yeah, this seems like the inevitable end game at this point. Teams will just start putting minor injuries on the injury report to "justify" sitting them. There's no other reasonable way to end these scorching hot takes about resting.

Between that and there being less back-to-back's moving forward, and hopefully less National TV games on back-to-back's, this "issue" should be dead by next season.

 

[ACisKING]

I've been a hardcore fan for a long time now and I don't remember teams resting / sitting all of their best players for primetime games like Cavs + GS are doing. Seems like Pop was a bit more slick about it, wouldn't hold out all the good players at once.

Man if I could just take a rest day at work and not do shit, man would I love it, would probably clear my head and give me some relaxation. Problem is my company isn't paying me to sit on my ass and do nothing. And my customers would get hip quick and stop coming to my place of work.

You can't only have your mind on the future, (Playoffs), you gotta think about right now too. Resting someone like Kyrie is retarded in my book because he's young as fck and will only get better with more playing time, and if he's gonna get injured one game he will regardless if he rested on a few games days.

99% of people can't rest because they need to put food on their table and support their families. Then they go buy some hundred dollar tickets they can hardly afford to see their favorite sports teams play, and no one show up bc they need "rest". Smh.

The problem with this argument is that it assumes that players are being rested to give them time off. In reality, the players are being rested in order for them to avoid getting injured in the brutal regular season schedule and thus, in the long run, to be available to play MORE games. Moreover, they are being rested so they can play playoff games that are actually meaningful for the franchise instead of risking injury in a meaningless fourth game in five nights.

 

[Hydroponic3385]

Resting someone like Kyrie is retarded in my book because he's young as fck and will only get better with more playing time, and if he's gonna get injured one game he will regardless if he rested on a few games days.

Resting Kyrie was "retarded"? (nice vocabulary btw)

Kyrie left the previous game early with knee soreness. I don't see anything wrong with giving him an extra day of rest & recovery. Then you have Love, who the team seems to slowly but surely be re-integrating back into playing time after 5 weeks out due to injury. And finally you have Lebron, who has racked up minutes like no other in his career and especially the past 6 years having reached the finals each of those seasons. Hell, he's 0.1 minutes behind the minutes per game leader this season, and that's with all the minutes he's racked up at the age of 32.

I see nothing wrong with the Cavs decision to rest all 3 of them that Clippers game. It wasn't simply resting them just to stick it to the NBA, nor was it even resting them just to rest them without further reasoning.

 

[Jack Brickman]

I've been a hardcore fan for a long time now and I don't remember teams resting / sitting all of their best players for primetime games like Cavs + GS are doing.

Teams are a lot smarter now when it comes to player health than they were in the past. It's a natural consequence of better technology and smarter people running things.

 

[Lyst]

Resting Kyrie was "retarded"? (nice vocabulary btw)

Kyrie left the previous game early with knee soreness. I don't see anything wrong with giving him an extra day of rest & recovery. Then you have Love, who the team seems to slowly but surely be re-integrating back into playing time after 5 weeks out due to injury. And finally you have Lebron, who has racked up minutes like no other in his career and especially the past 6 years having reached the finals each of those seasons. Hell, he's 0.1 minutes behind the minutes per game leader this season, and that's with all the minutes he's racked up at the age of 32.

I see nothing wrong with the Cavs decision to rest all 3 of them that Clippers game. It wasn't simply resting them just to stick it to the NBA, nor was it even resting them just to rest them without further reasoning.

Didn't they rest Kyrie other games this season? I am not just talking about Clippers game.

Thanks for the vocabulary lesson on an internet sports fan forum....

 

[Lyst]

The problem with this argument is that it assumes that players are being rested to give them time off. In reality, the players are being rested in order for them to avoid getting injured in the brutal regular season schedule and thus, in the long run, to be available to play MORE games. Moreover, they are being rested so they can play playoff games that are actually meaningful for the franchise instead of risking injury in a meaningless fourth game in five nights.

Who cares what is meaningful for the Franchise? When has the franchise became more meaningful than the fans that watch the games, buy tickets and buy merchandise? And in the end give all of these people jobs.

When is it alright in life to forfeit battles to win the war? Everything you really want in life is going to take blood, sweat, and tears. Including winning a Championship.

Funny we are resting players but other teams that cannot afford to are not. Taking advantage of a super weak east coast. Taking the easy way out.

 

[Man Called X]

Who cares what is meaningful for the Franchise? When has the franchise became more meaningful than the fans that watch the games, buy tickets and buy merchandise? And in the end give all of these people jobs.

When is it alright in life to forfeit battles to win the war? Everything you really want in life is going to take blood, sweat, and tears. Including winning a Championship.

Funny we are resting players but other teams that cannot afford to are not. Taking advantage of a super weak east coast. Taking the easy way out.

This is all the more hilarious because the game you're complaining about players being rested as, was a CLIPPERS GAME. You know who goes to an LA sporting event to watch the game? NOT A DAMN PERSON. There isn't one fan in the Staples center. It's as much to be seen there as it is anything else.

This is one of those battles in life that I'm going to forfeit, and I'll just put you on ignore to win the war.

Answered your question and solved my problem.

Now go back to acting like the Cavs resting players is akin to mass genocide.

 

[Rich]

99% of people can't rest because they need to put food on their table and support their families. Then they go buy some hundred dollar tickets they can hardly afford to see their favorite sports teams play, and no one show up bc they need "rest". Smh.

Let's get something straight right now. The majority of people saying they can't just miss a day of work for rest are flat out lying. They earn sick time and paid vacation, and they fucking use it. Get real.

Second of all, if you're struggling so much that you actually can't miss a single day of work ever just so you can feed your kids......maybe you shouldn't be buying a 100$ ticket to a basketball game?