08-01-2026, 01:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-01-2026, 01:20 PM by Scott41theMavs.)
(08-01-2026, 12:46 PM)F Gump Wrote: I've always thought of Lively as a "healthy or not" question mark that too rarely is in the "healthy" category.
But the question of damage to what he can PHYSICALLY do is an interesting one.
And I wouldn't be so quick to render it an irrelevancy. You say all he needs is his mind and his height/length, but if he becomes slow up and down the court, and can't jump to be a shot-altering factor, doesn't that take away so much of his game that he's not really that useful anymore? Seems that way to me.
I was exaggerating.
Of course he would have to have not lost a ton of athleticism. I still dispute that the running, jumping and lateral quickness aren’t as important as other things that make him a great player. If he comes back looking like Gheorghe Muresan, then well, yeah, we’re going to hope they didn’t extend his contract. I’m pretty confident that whatever issues there are aren’t going to reach those levels of calamity.