Dave DuFour
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But, again, the issue isn't 65 game rule.
The issue isn't necessarily even tanking.
There's too many games.
You're tanking half the season.
If it's 60 games, it's that much shorter to tank.
Mm-hmm.
Teams are going to lose on purpose regardless.
Until literally like β I mean like 10 years ago.
I just β it's interesting that people just can't see that or that there's a cognitive dissonance.
that allows your eyes to see it and for you to not believe it.
But the sport is just so different.
And honestly, I think that in a few years, what we saw with Isolo in Memphis, that John Morant kind of got mad about, these shorter stints, higher intensity bursts, I think that's going to be the standard.
And you look at what OKC does, they've got to have 10 guys.
And look, while I appreciate from the chat, Sebastian Perez,
Boo-freaking-hoo, they play sports for a living, man, and a lot of them emerge millionaires.
No, they're all millionaires when they play in the NBA.
But there are limits to the human body.
And frankly, I would prefer a league where the players were able to play because they were healthy
and not blowing their Achilles Achilles injuries are way up partially because of the style of play.
It's a lot more run, turn, jump.