Utah Jazz Finnish Star Lauri Markkanen has been on the sidelines of the last seven matches of his team. The reason for the club has stated the back injury.
Markkanen’s well-known national team coach and Finland’s first NBA player Hanno Möttölä Provides Utah’s own diagnosis.
“Yes, this seems to be more of a back cramp prescribed by the club leadership,” says Möttölä.
– As far as I know, Lauri is fine. But if he says he has back problems, then Lauri has back problems today.
Although it has not been pronounced out loud, Utah Jazz will try to disappear as often as possible, to reach good positions at next summer’s reservation. This is called refueling. In addition to Markkanen, other key players have also been flushed.
– This is a really nasty athletic side in NBA dynamics. For Laur, this is certainly extremely difficult. He wants to play basketball and win. This also affects his gaming when he cannot play all the games. You can see it from the outside, he has not played at the highest level.
However, national team coach Möttölä also finds the positive aspects of Markkanen’s fluttering.
-In Tampere, August 27, there will certainly be a hungry and a little more rested Lauri Markkanen as the European Championships run.
The first booking is rarely a rain maker
Möttölä questions the benefits of refueling in the pursuit of success. In a US sports culture, the young people, labeled as super promises, are lifted on the pedestal well in advance of their premiere on the NBA parquet.
However, the stamp of the first booking is not a guarantee of superstar or success.
– That number one book has not historically produced championship.
The previous NBA’s number one reservation, which has been able to raise the championship trophy, is the top name of the 2014 booking Andrew Wiggins. However, the championship came Steph Curry Starring at the Golden State Warriors, and Cleveland, who had booked him, or in Minnesota, where he started his NBA career.
2012’s number one reservation Anthony Davis He also had to change the landscape from New Orleans to Los Angeles Lakers before he celebrated the championship in 2020.
Kyrie Irving Indeed, the previous number one who won the championship in the company that booked him. Cleveland, who reserved Irving in 2011, won the championship in 2016. However Lebron Jameswhich Cleveland had reserved already in 2003 but lost to Miami for 2010-2014.
It could be claimed that the previous number one reservation on which the club that has reserved him has successfully assembled the championship team is the 1997 top reservation Tim Duncanwith which San Antonio Spurs built his dynasty.
According to Möttölä, the pre -San Antonio season is a successful example of a refueling operation that led to success.
– If the stories are true, they said For David Robinsonthat his back is still not in order and fluttered him throughout the season. They got the number one reservation and Tim Duncan. It was followed by five championships.
Does refueling work?
However, historically, refueling has rarely proven to be a winning method. Philadelphia 76ers’ sadly famous refueling process never (at least not yet) leads beyond the second round.
– The current situation in Philadelphia is the grim image of NBA’s contemporary culture. Nothing has been achieved and the future doesn’t look good. They have two injured superstars to which they have attached hundreds of millions for the next few years.
Möttölä also reminds me of the low probabilities of the NBA reservation system. The three weakest teams in the Draft lottery are 14 % probability to have the number one reservation.
– In the NBA, poor investment does not guarantee anything in the draft. If compared to the NFL of American football, the team that lost the most there will be sure to make the first booking. In the NBA, the chances are pretty bad.
Next summer, the super promise of the University of Duke will be reserved almost for the number one Cooper Flaggwhich is considered an exceptional basketball talent. He is exactly the kind of player who has been annoyed in US media for how long.
– Flagg seems like a player that he can certainly help the team for the next 10 to 15 years. But he’s not Victor Wembanyaman level talent.
If the number one reservation was to Utah Jazz and they would grab Flagg, the team would think that the team would be much better, but the way to the League’s top team level would still be brisk.
– If Flaggin puts on Laur and there is Walker Kessler As a central and young backmen, so is the potential team, but it doesn’t win the championship yet.
If Utah got Flagg in its ranks, the team should next have to put the numerous bookings he has acquired in the game to confirm the young team’s veteran department.
– Young people have never won the NBA championship, but there is experience there.