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Anthony Davis was on fire to start the 2023 season before his injury. What has changed for him this year compared to prior seasons? How close is he to his peak form? This detailed film breakdown & scouting report analyzes what the Lakers have done with their All-Star big man to turn their season around before his foot injury.
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I feel bad for AD at this point. Could you imagine how frustrating it is to get hurt this much. He gets in his rhythm, becomes a top 5 player, gets hurt, misses a month and has to start all over again.
I honestly think he gets hurt cause he doesnt care about his legs and ankle. I remember watching a video on ankle strengthening in which it was revealed by the creator of the video that most athletes , especially hard wood and indoor sports playing athletes like NBA athletes, eventually suffer an ankle injury. However the person said that most of these athletes never get injured again AND recover once they start training and strengthening their ankles. Here is the video: czcams.com/video/mr0YhNAc4a8/video.html
When Curry was facing ankle injury after ankle injury his personal trainer in 2015 told him to strengthen his hips cause the musculature in his ankles showed that he was as strong as he could possibly be in his ankles. His personal trainer wanted some of the load to go over to Curry's hips and from where Curry is now....I think we can agree that it really worked, right? I think AD is uninformed of this and chooses to continue to remain uninformed.
FUCK YOU FEELINGS, HE'S STILL GETTING PAID!!
@@injusticeanywherethreatens265I did not know that but that is interesting. People have talked about the work he puts in on his body. It makes you wonder.
@@injusticeanywherethreatens265 actually it's curry's ankle braces that saved him. It was found that curry's neurovascular connections where fewer in his ankles which meant his brain wasn't fully capable of sensing his ankle in space and he was able to roll over it easily, even if he strengthened it. Foot Doctor Zach went over it in a recent video. Perhaps AD has a similar problem and his mass compounds the issue.
@@injusticeanywherethreatens265 if that’s true then it’s on his trainers for being incompetent, not him lol, his job is to play and put in the effort and trainers should be guiding him
It feels like a constant cycle with AD, I remember when people were still debating Giannis vs AD, which goes to show the potential he has. But he’s just constantly injured, he could just be a giant what-if.
he'll never be a what if
Still never understood that debate
He won a ring that's all that matters atp
@@owethunala2632 Exactly I mean Giannis best teammate ever is Middleton, I'm pretty sure that Giannis with prime Boogie or late prime LBJ (2020 & 2021) would win even more than him being the only superstar in Milwaukee, him being every year the most double or triple team player ( with Curry) because the opponents feels confident in letting Khris and Jrue alone.
But I guess these ppl never thought of that. Also AD can't create for no one outside of himself, which a big part of Bucks offense
@@paquinraino8180 prime boogie got injured , they were gonna win it that year
The most comforting thing about AD's injury is that he can't get injured while he's resting.
John Wall did
Different sport but Mike Soroka, a star pitcher for the Braves, tore his Achilles and then re-tore it during rehab from the original injury
klay did
Russ did 😂
Klay: hold my beer.
Props to Darvin Ham for the adjustedments.
-- props to WB for wiling to come off the bench. Many ppl said he needed to last season, but Ham earns the credit for convincing him.
@@jlui21 lol russ is playing worse off the bench, but its good since less minutes = less dogshit russ minutes. but again, hes still bad, even worse off the bench.
Ham was supposed to play through AD at the start. That's what he promised.
Props to still stinking
Even though I make fun of his glass cannon body with my brother whenever we talk about nba, I can tell he's trying his best to mitigate risk of injuries. I always see him hanging on the basket after a dunk now and waiting for a while before landing softly. Wish him better luck, he's a beast when healthy.
He does look like he's a lot more intentional about coming down in general.
I feel so sorry for AD & Kwahi Leonard. The careers they would have if it weren't for injuries would be quite ABSURD!
AD maybe, not sure how much effort he takes to prevent these things from happening though. Kawhi is just a bitch.
This. Sigh
Ye man it really makes me think what if but I think for ad he still has time as for Kawhi who is a bit older it gonna be harder
@@DRYZZ-_- Kawhi at least always seems to be able to jump right back in to his usual self after taking time off. AD always loses his edge.
@@richmahogany1710 Kawhi is a more polished/ finished product, he doesn't keep his edge anymore than AD. Everyone recovers and deals with injury differently
it really was a short moment.
whuat first?!?!?
this man twisted his ankle mid air, I have no words.
Who would have thought that running pick and roll with AD as the roll man would be successful? Seems obvious in hindsight
He should basically be playing like Karl Malone. But instead, he posts up and looks for the pass, after which he turns and fades or drives. He puts himself into danger too much.
Actually Bucks coaching staff still didn't figure it out with Giannis , so i guess this not that obvious
And he has the perfect partner for that in LeBron. Heck, that's basically the reason why they won the 2020 bubble championship. LeBron led the league in assist that season, and it's primarily because of AD picking up baskets in the rim.
Lebron did. The idea of him and AD doing PnRs on paper was already one of those guaranteed bucket schemes like screening for Steph as he runs around off-ball.
@@lordpaulphilippfernandez9904 in 2020 they basically never run pick and roll with LeBron. AD's jumper was ridiculously effective, so they didn't play any pick and roll basically. It was a lot of "your turn, my turn", and a big chuck of LeBron's assist came to other players or in transition, where Davis would just leak immediately without fighting for rebounds (they had plenty of size to do it), get the ball on a very long pass from LeBron and just dunk it on top of a smaller defender with zero or one dribble before any big man could catch up to put up any resistance at the rim. Rondo played al lof of pick and roll with AD in the bubble, but it was completely a different scenario, starting way outside the paint, with Rondo somehow hitting 45% of his jumpshots and working like your regular pull up threat.
Now both LeBron and AD are functionally big forwards, going both close to the basket and using angles and sheer strength and size to gain an advantage, old style basketball at its best. And Westbrook is basically doing the exact same: getting a head of steam instead of relying on sheer size and strength, using AD and then attacking a closeout or throwing it up for AD depending on what the big man does.
AD's career is going to be one of the biggest "What if's?" in NBA history when all is said and done.
He's an absolute BEAST on both ends of the court *when he's on-form,* clearly able to go toe-to-toe with the likes of Giannis, Embiid and Jokic, but it feels like he's injured way to often.
He's already proven himself by winning a championship and has had previous dominant seasons in his first stint with LA and the Pelicans. What do you mean what if?
@@g00gleh00 What could he have accomplished if he was more healthy? That "What if".
I can see where you are getting at. But his amazing blend of guard like footwork for a big frame had its drawbacks from the very start. Its more like 'can a team take advantage of his talents and put him in a situation to play at the highest level'? Because you get enough guys who have that elite talent like his but are never in a situation where they are playing with an equally elite playmaker/scorer to help exploit the one consistent core strength of their game. For AD it was his near automatic lob game off well placed screens.
@@shorewall Nah. He already has a ton of accolades, is a top 75 all time player, and a ring. He's also relatively young so a "What If" doesn't really apply. He's far from a bust, he's one of the greatest PFs all of time. More like what ELSE can he accomplish.
Embiid is injured all the time as well ...
Idea for a future video or video series… situational end of game management. One of the hardest things to learn as a coach with the crazy amounts of different scenarios that can get thrown at us. Show who does it well and cover some different scenarios…. Love your videos!
this was a great video. great storytelling. super engaging. i don't even really watch basketball and i loved it. keep up the good work!
Man, you and Get Gooder at Basketball just dropped the same videos! Great minds think alike!!
I can’t lie, I thought AD getting injured all the time was just a joke but my god you breathe on this man & he’s out for 4-6 weeks.
CHECK THE STATS!!
How often he play 75, let alone 82???
4:00 I dm'd you on patreon about this exact thing after the bubble. How AD and gobert actually open up the floor with vertical gravity. Would really love to see some in depth work done on it one day like there is with shooters
Thanks for the vid
Thanks for post this video
Its crazy how bad the injury luck has been for Lebron's best teammates. Wade, Bosh, Ky, Love and AD all had to deal with a lot of injuries but AD takes the crown here. But also lowkey do people not realize that Kawhi has played less games since coming to LA? If you go back to 2018 with AD and Kawhi its AD who's healthier by 100 games and they both have 1 ring in that timespan. But no one talks about Kawhi as being glass or the Clippers not living up to their potential.
Yeah we do.
@@phillipg1331 well talk louder Clippers have not done shit but I know if they'd won "the bubble ring" y'all would be spamming that shit
People talks about Kawhi's injury history all the time. What are you talking about?
Wade's injury luck has been up and down but he makes the most of it come playoff time. Bosh is relatively healthy up until that blood clot condition of his just basically put him on retirement. ADs unique body type along with his biomechanics already made him ultra prone to injury. Remember he entered the league with that recurring shoulder issue. Then as he is playing in his prime years, he's had other unique injuries to him like leg/ankle injuries along with big man ailments like foot injuries nipping at him. He's a decade in to his NBA career but considering what he has accomplished, that is a helluva feat in of itself.
The clippers don’t have potential and the sun will consume the earth before they win a championship
3:10 This video comparison was beautiful 👏👏
People give Joel a lot of shit for always "falling" but many of them don't realize he was taught to fall down in safe and controlled way specifically to prevent injuries. Maybe AD would also benefit from a training like that.
None of his injuries are from falling tf are you talking about. Ntm falling isn’t even how you get injuries in basketball😂 Their playing basketball not parkour.
A possession-by-possession video analysis of Embiid's season reveals that he has fallen 244 times since the start of the 2018-19 campaign, which comes out to 3.3 times per game or roughly one fall for every 10 minutes the Sixers center spends on the court.
How does that falling down stack up? Although no falls-per-36-minutes metric exists on a league-wide scale, we studied five games of video on five other players known for regularly denting the floor: Ersan Ilyasova, who led the NBA this season in drawing charges; Blake Griffin, second in charges; Jusuf Nurkic, who, like Griffin, gets hit constantly; Russell Westbrook, perhaps the sport's most aggressive player; and James Harden, the reigning MVP who drives to the basket -- and, well, flops -- more than anyone.
The takeaway: Embiid indeed belongs on the NBA's Mount Rushmore of Frequent Fallers. He falls more often, on a per-minute basis, than Griffin (every 14 minutes), Nurkic (every 13 minutes) and Westbrook (every 12 minutes) and at roughly the same rate as Ilyasova (every nine minutes) and remains upright a bit more frequently than Harden (every eight minutes). But among true big men -- those with farther to fall and bigger bones to bust -- Embiid stands alone in his inability to remain standing.
@@Foggycallabasashillshelicopter I'm literally saying the opposite lol. This last AD's injury is weird but before that he got injured at least a couple of times trying to land on his feet and awkwardly rolling his ankle. Maybe if learned how to fall instead it would save him from at least some of these cases.
Or maybe learn the best way to land. IIRC, LeBron has his own way of landing which allowed him to avoid major injuries in his 20-year career.
Are you kidding? Embiid is injury prone as well, lol it's like comparing Penny with T-Mac, Penny should learn with Tracy on how to avoid injuries
I saw ur More Thinking Basketball video, I knew this was coming
Dude I have been watching you for a long time and really appreciate you and your intelligent/ positive content.
13 days ago I got hit by a car while biking (Very cautiously, wear a helmet yall!) and had a near death experience.
As a laker/Lebron fan, Before the accident was somewhat annoyed at AD but now I only feel bad for him and just want people to leave him alone. He didn't choose to be fragile and is probably embarrassed/ bummed by it. I hope he gets through all of this and excels like never before, but if he doesn't I won't hold it against him.
On the recovery track right now and can't wait to play some basketball. That is all, thanks for what you do and Happy New Year, I hope you have a great one.
What timing 😂
Nice timing
Great wording for the title
brilliant break down
4:07 amazing lane that AD opens for LeBron. Thanks for your breakdown
It's very sad that davis is already injured again, shams says he is out for at least a month, and many other valuable sources said that this foot injury may already be the end of his season. I was really hoping to see prime AD play again, but this seems to be impossible now...
One very important aspect is him having elite passers around him that can maximize his value. 2020 he had Rondo and LeBron, now LeBron and Russ, in NOLA he had Rondo as well as Jrue who had learned how to play with him. He’s been amazing but this injury really sucks
M/oron
AD + Russ chemistry is underrated
"I was born with glass bones." - Anthony Davis
That's Kawhi
@@blue-phoenix115 Aint just Kawhi my guy
@@Tylercm262 Kawhi + AD = The Hurt Bros
Davis has gotta be setting some sort of records for most injured player.
Its a shame, Bron/Westbrook Pnr with Davis looks like a valid strategy. If only davis stayed healthy and they had some decent players besides the big 3
As a rockets fan, we struggled with Yao’s feet for a good stretch there
gotta cover the Nets !!! haven’t seen anyone talking about how they’ve been playing better
@ThinkingBasketball I think Shai deserves an update video. Smoothest player in the league is now one of the best.
Don’t wanna ask too much, but could you do I deep dive on the Knicks, haven’t understood how they’re doing so well!
Annnnnd he's hurt.
Dude I actually feel for the guy, he cant catch a break.
That’s the problem he keeps breaking
@@showtimej2582 this comment wins
@@linkonedgell894 😂😂😂
And then hurt again... The best ability is availability. It really doesn't matter if you are great 50% of the time.
He needs Kawhi schedule
Hi thinking basketball. Can you do a series about the finals competition of champion teams. It is just to know how weak or strong their opponents were.
Irrelevant
Can you make a video about chicago derrick rose
Thumbnail got me trippin, i thought it said "ALMOST BLACK" 💀💀
Same lol
Davis's body, specially his ankles are weakened by years of injuries, this time he didn't even land awkwardly and got injured for an entire month.
The man will turn 30 in 3 months, unless he temporally retires, his body will never fully heal.
"FLUKE INJURY"
I laughed.
@@darrengordon-hill What?
@@Mr.Sax. Maybe watch the video
@@darrengordon-hill I've watched it, next time at least write the reference correctly, it's just 3 words.
My comment was serious by the way, nothing to laugh about injuries.
@@gunnernathan7023 Main difference is that Bill Walton didn't have access to today's medicine, diets, rehab procedures, game gear... Had Davis played in Walton's era, he would have lasted 5 years at best.
This sounds a lot like the lakers offense is going back to their championship 3 years ago.
They won no championship 3 yrs ago
The one thing I'm concerned about AD is his consistency in playing like a monster. It's all well and good when he helps Lakers get the W in 1 or 2 games. However, can he do this for at least more than 5-10 games is the question.
The Lakers are about to use Bryant (offensively) the same way they used AD. I see it coming.
and will commit 6 to per game
Yea but TB and AD Is very different but we’ll see
💀3 days later
Hope for a speedy recovery
Can we get a follow-up on this video???
why'd you give him that lightskin rizz in the thumbnail 😭😭
0:58 Cant believe they really thought this would work smfh
LeBron AD pick and roll is deadly
AD really has the skill to be the very best player in the league. It's brutal how often he gets hurt.
Can you do a video about the Knicks recent success?
How is Backpicks BPM different that standard BPM?
What instrumental is that in the background?
Lisfranc injury. Yikes
WHERE IS THE TOP 10 PLAYERS FROM LAST SEASON BEN
It doesn’t look like a bad injury thankfully probably just a ligament strain or pop hopefully he’s back soon it hurts to see ad like this
Didn’t LA say he would miss a month?
thats what im saying i literally landed on my ankle that ive injured alot with my full body weight and only got a ligament stretch/strain
His ankles have been injured repeatedly though, which makes them easier to injure again and harder to rehab.
You do realize AD also may not be playing at 100% even when he comes back? Dude will still be run ragged on the court by the All-Star game.
@@t4d0W I think he should be fine by all star break, it didn’t look to be of a injury. Most likely it’s less then a month from what the injury LOOKED like
Almost back? This brother is out more than he is back lol. Speedy recovery thou young king!
0:26 I don't get how his foot twists like that in midair. Shouldn't the hit have moved his entire leg?
Imagine how good the lakers offense could be if they could shoot
I mean... Pelinka decided to let go of his wing depth and not resign Caruso just to get Westbrook. When the book was already written that a healthy Lebron + reliable shooters is a baseline playoff team. Now Laker fans went to cheering for THT to Austin Reeves.
@@t4d0W delusional
Since AD went down with that injury, Lakers have been hurt on the offensive glass, 10-6 against Wizards, 15-10 against Suns, 10-5 against Kings. Same with total rebounds: Lakers 43, Wizards 48 Lakers 38, Suns 51 Lakers 39, Kings 46.
Anthony Davis team Lasker getting better 👏 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👀👀
What's the rule for screening? because it sure loooks like he's not set and he's running at guys body checking them.
1d1ot
seeing this video just shows how good he can be when he is healthy being a top 5 player in the league but he can just never stay healthy🥲
Watching him tonight in Game 2 vs MEM, he was either in pain or disinterested, not boxing out and jogging like he was James’ age
Other injury that will keep him out of the court from months, he's a monster but he plays too few games
"Almost Back" I see what you did there.
If he was always healthy he’d probably be the best player in the league.
timing lmaooo
who is the player at 4:43 who sets like 77 screens per 100 with a low efficiency
It’s a shame he just got injured recently too
6:12 He must have tipped with the edge of his fingers
The first ever mid-air ankle sprain.
Dude looks like he Mr. Glass from the m knight shyamalan movie. Poor guy
AD gotta wear bulkier shoes, bro been balling out with kobes and bron 20s and constantly gets injured
major what if, healthy ad is mvp
Anthony Davis has a unique type of body that makes him a bit uncoordinated when in extreme offensive plays against other bodies. His legs are just all over the place when he comes back to the ground.
You can't jump between two bodies under the basket with one leg skyrocketing horizontally expecting to land well on your feet.
He should go through a complete rebuilt of his basketball movements from the ground up like Curry did for his ankles, or even Zion for that matter, who seems to have fixed his landing.
That body it's his gift and his curse, but he has to figure it out or he'll wear out.
Anthony Day-to-Davis
I always say that the way he moves around on the court adds to his durability woes. He almost always lands awkwardly when finishing around the rim and has put on a considerable amount of weight since the 2020 Finals run. Not to mention he also plays heavy minutes at the 5 against guys that are literally wailing on him often…
He needs to fundamentally change his diet to help his body combat injuries and change his lower body stances when in the paint
AD gotta wear ankle braces if he wants to wear low tops bruh. He’s such a talented player and has the capability to lead a team by himself to the playoffs, but these injuries is just keeping him back from exceeding with LA bruhhhhh
AD really needs to start wearing ankle length sneakers. It just baffles me why he doenst wear them
10:55 Amen
Title change lol
1:09 Typical strategy today. At this point you need more than that.
Anthony Davis did the same thing in the bubble! Let’s stay good Davis, 😊
i agree sort of but I would say he was better then
AD was a friggin beast in the bubble
Ben made a video about how AD was basically MVP (probably should have won DPOY) material that season
Bubble AD I think was a specific thing considering he was also not at 100% then either. He only had at least 21 games to push himself to near 100% playing form. Still impressive considering dude was guarding the opposing teams' best wing scorer in the finals at the perimeter.
@@jokimbuenafe13 no one cares about some bubble
@@t4d0W no one cares about some dumb bubble young fella
We all knew this was coming... Brother man is literally incapable of not getting injured
This just proves that no matter how good a player is, if they stay standing in the corner, they won't be able to showcase their talent and impact the game like they can. Another evidence that heliocentric offense is awful and that Luka is not alone, the mass just don't use their players properly
at 8:25 this is not a foul??
2:10 That's seems very, VERY, bad for glasses guy. I hope he doesn't do this all the time. I don't know the intricacies of his body but this feels too dangerous.
0:25 Glass man, he's literally like that guy from the Glass movie and must suck. I think his injuries are in big part his responsability cause he insist in a very physical style instead of building other weapons to suplant that, he could become a versatile player like Jok and Joel but he doesn't. It's like humans insisting to lifting more weight than their are capable of or trying to break sound barrier, physical limitations are natural and spread out in every facet of life, it isn't to circunvent them.
The Ben Taylor curse
almost back and straight to the bench :( why is he playing BB at all wth his body i don't get it.
YO AD, YOU MUS ASK LEBRON ABOUT HIS CELL REGENERATION PROGRAM! U MUST HEAL FAST!!!!
i blame Lakers front office/coaching for these injuries the last 3 years. remember the first year? AD played the PF with McGee/DHoward playing the Center position. it resulted in a ring. why fix what wasnt broken. 3 years since then. 3 years making him play center. 3 years of injuries. see the correlation??!??!
It resulted in no ring
Spread ankle in 3, 2, 1,....
Then immediately gets hurt that's the Anthony Davis story in a nutshell..
Want anymore proof the league stacks the deck for big markets, simply check the way refs are calling games vs the Lakers this year. The league is doing everything they can to ensure the Lakers stay revelant. These are the stats the Lakers are top 5 in and remember this is a team with a new coach, a whole plethora of new and young inexperienced players, and started 3-10. One more note, they are by far in first in quite a few of these plus many of these where they should be are per 100.
Free throw attempt rate
Opponent free throw attempt rate
Fouls per game/ opponent fouls per game
Least Technicals
Disqualifications (0) league leader has 9
Charges taken call rate and opponent charges taken call rate
I wish I could find flagrant fouls success rate because I can guarantee you the Lakers would probably lead the league. Anyone seen the Dennis Schroeder flagrant the other night which gave him two free throws, which he hit in the 4th quarter, in a game won by two points. It’s ridiculous and a complete sham. No other team even comes close to leading in the majority of these categories. I checked. I bet if I could pull the history of 3-10 teams you wouldn’t find another team which get favorable calls like the Lakers this year, except maybe another Laker team. You might not even find the best teams having ever led in all these categories.
The league should be ashamed of themselves. Anyone with a brain watching these games knows exactly what’s happening. The league has reached globetrotter territory and that’s why fans in America have checked out in masses over the last few decades. It’s a joke.
Almost back and there he goes…..
Top 10 2022?