Obviously we all knew about the collapsed lung, what I didn’t know about was the fractured rib suffered in the same incident.
How a collapsed lung added to Cade Cunningham’s superstar trajectory
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“I thought Cade was an absolute warrior,” Langdon said. “I certainly haven’t gone through a collapsed lung. I can’t imagine many people in this room have, especially a collapsed lung and fractured ribs at the same time and really getting no ramp up going into the most intense part of the season. He played three games. When you have a collapsed lung you can’t do anything for 7-10 days. You’re sitting on the couch and you’re making sure that you’re just relaxing. That decondition just happens and it’s deconditioning at the exact wrong time of the year when you’re heading into the playoffs, and especially with what we ask from him.
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Cunningham averaged 28.1 points, 7.5 assists, 5.1 rebounds and 1.1 steals per game while shooting 40.2% from 3 during the playoffs. His already-heavy regular season workload increased further, all while he was still working his way back from missing three weeks of action in March and April with an injured rib and lung.
Langdon stressed the deconditioning aspect of Cunningham’s recovery, as collapsed lungs necessitate rest to properly heal. As his peers ramped up for postseason play, he was instructed to keep his heart rate low. Cardio carried the risk of his lung re-collapsing, which would’ve further prolonged his return.
With just three regular season games to get his wind and conditioning back, Cunningham hit the ground running in the playoffs. He opened the series against the Orlando Magic with 39 points and was one of the top all-around performers of the postseason.
Yep. This year he proved he’s a true Championsip level Alpha. Now the question is do you go for the find a Robin approach or do you build a team around him with a deeper assortment of fairly high end options? Kind of a fascinating fork in the road tbh.
Gun to my head this strikes me as the wrong approach. Man if Ausur can just develop a jumper I think he can be Pippen to Cade’s Jordan. Each is not going to be at that level of course but I think there is a legit high end 1-2 with patience and the proper development.
A lineup of Cade, Ausar, Giannis, and Duren would have the least spacing of any championship team in a long time. I don’t care who your 2 guard is.
By the way, we’d certainly have to trade Duren to get Giannis, which leaves us with a hole at center, and it still doesn’t solve our ball handling or shooting problems.
I was all in on the Giannis train until I actually thought out what our roster would look like with him versus with someone else at the 2 like Kyrie or Trey Murphy.
Every team has their robin. Pistons the last team that didn’t have a super star, but really great players. It would be nice if Cade could do a LeBron and get two SS for a year or two. Oh wait pistons got f with wemby
I had forgotten how terrible of an offensive player Scottie Pippen was his first couple few years in the league. I remember he was scared to shoot we used to laugh about that make fun of it. Somewhere along the line he got pretty deadly from 17 feet. If our guy is actually Scotty Pippin this is a big big