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Amen. The only non ex player with a decent analytical basketball mind? Chris Broussard. The rest are just spouting narratives.

FWIW I'm in the "Zion could stand to shed a few lbs"  camp. First he's NOT as lean as they make him to be. He could easily lose 10-12lbs without sacrificing strength and gaining explosiveness. Additionally a 82 game (+playoffs) season is physically taxing. I read once that the average guard/wing loses about 15lbs throughout the season. That's a significant amount of weight lose via cardio considering they have top flight nutritionist/dieticians and training staffs on hand 24/7. So anything to put less stress on his body would help. Hell, given the increase in game pace even LeBron looks like he's dropped a few lbs. The game is less physical and more speed now.

Granted... That also means he can use his strength to his advantage of played correctly.

Yea absolutely no clue how this will work. Two guys who demand the ball and one who doesn't even bother to cross half court when he isn't in the play.  But OKC pulled a fuckin HEIST with those picks. Good Lord.

Adarq...bruh....ya just got Russ.

Good points for sure. I think for now I'll try to double up my amount of SL jumps vs DL in training and focus on getting proper position and then adding as much speed as possible in the confined space I have. I definitely agree SL jumping is not only more "fun" but more applicable in half court sets for sure.

Also planning to ramp up some more strenuous depth jumps twice a week just to get some more tendon recruitment. At the end of July I'll program some heavy supra max quarters and hang cleans and see what happens. Usually those help me peak pretty well. Plan to hit them 2x a week for 2 weeks or so and see if I can get bouncy bouncy.

Still struggling to lose weight. SMH. I LOOK leaner and I'm heavier lol which isn't necessarily a bad thing but I'm sure it's not helping the SL journey lol

Hope you US guys had a nice 4th and all your fingers are intact!

Thanks LBSS, they're going to start me on a different med. The last one (rizatriptan) well, it definitely took away the migraine but holy F the side affects. I was useless the rest of the day. No bueno.

On another note this is the longest "episode" I've had. Going on 4 weeks daily. Normally they last about two weeks. I have cluster migraines behind my right eye fwiw. They differ from a normal migraine in that these are sharp, stabbing bursts of pain that come and go as fast as they appear. Usually if i can catch it IMMEDIATELY I can knock it back to a dull pain in my ass lol but lately they're impressively strong so we tried a prescription migraine med and it incapacitates me for hours lol dizzy, barely awake, feels like I ran a marathon, nausea, etc etc. Bleh. Just picked up the new prescription so... We shall see.

So I did what any same person would do after theyve taken double the recommended dosage of Excedrin migraine and Ibuprofen yesterday... I lifted 🙄😁🤷‍♂️ Probably helped because it lessened after I threw up post sled drives. I did gain some weight the past week so BW was 195.5lbs but I felt decently springy all things considered. Managed to try some SL running box jumps to try and get my form better. Took a clip of a few for reference later and filmed a 2 step approach on a 51" box DL. I REALLY should have filmed the first two one step attempts. The RL plant was decent but I avoided busting my face by about a millimeter on the LR plant 😂. I'll post the vids I did take in a few.


Annnnd that's basically my last week or so in review. Yay.

Logs are awesome! You're officially welcomed lol

Probably the fly. To be completely honest I could stand to lose some mass upper body wise and drop a few lbs but I feel great currently so who knows. I doubt I need the Westbrook program but it'll be in the discussion after I complete the standards!