<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>On Paul George: stanchions must be 4 feet from baseline in NBA games. Last night in Vegas about an inch shy of that standard, source says.</p>— Ken Berger (@KBergCBS) <a href="https://twitter.com/KBergCBS/statuses/495610689122480128">August 2, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
dang, tough set back for a rising star. but you can't really blame a stanchion that was a freak accident.
I just don't understand why ANYTHING is anywhere near where a player could land or run into. It serves no purpose besides being a hazard. As we saw last night, there's too much to risk.
So worst case scenario is that he's out for 2014-2015 and back for most of 2015-2016? Or are we looking at a DRose scenario?
I think it's not as bad as we initially thought. He's out for a year, probably a easier recovery than D.Rose. But he has to be mentally prepared to stay patient and train.
The stanchion was 3'11" away fun the court. A lot of things are much closer than that including all courtside seats, the scorers table, and cameramen. Maybe they could have a ten foot buffer in all directions, but no court has that from what I've seen.
Essentially, yes. The only even remotely realistic contender to that is the Bulls (and maybe Miami? Maybe?), and that all depends on Rose coming back to form.
Might as well sit him out all of next year. No reason to hurry him back especially considering the Pacers will be out of contention by the time he potentially gets back. If I were Pacers I'd trade West, Scola, Hill etc. and rebuild.
Not with the way Rose is looking and the addition of Gasol and McDermott. Bulls will be right there at the top.
Either way the landing area is, in general, nowhere near big enough. It's such an easy thing to clear up, so they need to go ahead and get it done.
If Drose looks as spry and good as he looked, the Bulls are the favorites. Cavs are still too young and unproven defensively, unless they get Love.
The stanchion doesn't look abnormally close. It looks about 4 ft away, so the official tweet saying it was off by 1 inch sounds accurate. It no way looks 2 feet closer like Windhorst "Multiple Sauces" reported. Look at the non-graphic photo of that play. (non-graphic pic behind spoiler) Spoiler FT line to baseline is 19'. Half that distance, then half it again. That's 4.75' and looks close to the stanchion distance. This was just a freak / fluke accident. But a re-design of the goal should be considered. Maybe like a wishbone-style double stanchion or like a gantry so there isn't a single stanchion centered up directly behind the main focal point of the basket.
Both teams have question marks. For CHI, Rose may look great athletically, but he was fine athletically to start last season, too, as measured by speed, vertical leap, etc., his feel for game was just not back and he was not effective on court before he went out again. We'll have to see how well he plays day in and day out and how his health holds up. For CLE, even with Love they still don't have a rim protector or another good perimeter defender outside LeBron. Varejao is getting up there in age and is frequently injured. They can score but this is putting a lot on LeBron defensively.
the rest of the court is not a landing area under the basket, where players are jumping as high as they can, with midair collisions many times per game. big difference. It's definitely the most dangerous landing area on the court, and should get special treatment wrt safety.
