#I don't wish you insomnia but it makes for good asks🤣

[thankyouforthememoriesworld]

Another random thought:

Kyrie played 8 games for Duke as a freshman before getting injured and didn't return until March. Duke fell in the sweet sixteen. Kyrie played a total of 11 games.

He then proceeded to get drafted 1st.

Point is - sometimes it doesn't matter what your injury history because coaches recognize generational talent and the potential and that automatically places those players higher.

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I also think about Steph's injury history and how everyone thought it was incredibly risky for GSW to renew his contract. He then proceeded to win so many championships. Like reading this article again (I love Pablo Torre) because it really lays out how similar it is to Azzi:

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/14750602/how-golden-state-warriors-stephen-curry-got-best-worst-ankles-sports

"In his first NBA season after the original procedure, he suffered five ankle sprains while playing in a mere 26 games.....The league had once envisioned Curry as a sharpshooter with a close-up magician's gift of misdirection. But now, as the Warriors guard rested atop Ferkel's operating table, his career resembled a crossover in reverse: a case of ankles breaking a man."

"Curry, Lyles believed, was already among the best in the world at changing direction. But the guard overwhelmingly relied on his ankles for speed and quickness. Those body parts appeared to be basketball's take on the mythical wings of Icarus: melting, as if made of wax, from overuse and ambition. But what if Curry could add another way to fly?"

"The objective is never bulk; Steph prefers his weight at no more than a chiseled 190 pounds. Instead, both Lyles and Payne -- to whom Curry still entrusts his ankles in the summer -- harp on stability amid a storm of jumps, hard cuts and pick-and-rolls. For that same reason, some 90 percent of Curry's lower-body strength work with Payne is one-legged: single-leg reverse lunges, rear-foot elevated single-leg squats, single-leg dead lifts."

I truly believe whatever program Brandon Payne designed with specialists has made Azzi leaner on purpose, changing her diet, improved her core/hip strength even more. I think perhaps for Azzi's speed and movement, she relied on her knees quite a bit but also I think the foot injury and hip syndrome adjusted her gait even more causing more load on the knee and a bit of asymmetry. My guess is this new program likely reset her movement to prevent such a heavy load on the knee. I really want someone to do a deep dive. Because I think they used the Calgary Sports Medicine Center as it is known for ACL research and there is specifically a professor that has a research program for women's basketball and soccer. And I believe she and others have papers on the notion that hip/spine control is directly related to knee injuries in the past. Recently:

https://ucalgary.ca/news/new-testing-protocol-prevents-knee-injuries-female-athletes

"ACL injuries occur in very fast movements like cutting and pivoting and landing situations. Warm-up exercises are not challenging enough to improve muscle strength and game-like movement skills."

I do wonder if she has new warm up techniques from her team of experts that she does in addition to UConn drills.

For the nerds - https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=gcXAZDcAAAAJ&view_op=list_works

Anyway, back to the OG article:

"So we decided to bet on a couple of things," Myers explains. "We bet on who he is as a human being. We bet on his ability. We bet on the fact that he was the type of player who'd do everything within his power to come back and be smart and be diligent."

This was talking about that 2012 contract renewal. I think this really reflects the bet front offices take on someone despite the injury history.

Okay that's it for this random thought!

Always providing so much additional information and making me want to see Azzi even more, I love it 🤗. Here's hoping for the same result for the people's princess.

After all that agony and uncertainty, does he honestly believe that the absurdity of his ankle history has saved him from a worse career?

"I think so," Curry matter-of-factly replies. "It definitely drove home my work ethic. Post-surgery, it's kept me driven about taking advantage of every day. There was a time when I was just worried about playing basketball, much less playing at a high level. Now I try to have as much fun out there as possible. You don't enjoy the surgery and the rehab process. But I enjoy how I came out of it, for sure."

His answer carries the rosy whiff of cliché, admittedly. But when you remember all that must be waved aside to embrace this unfinished timeline of events, so much positivity sounds less like optimism and more like the real secret to Steph Curry's flying, higher than ever.

He learned to forget, finally, that he still might fall.

[hyunjinz]

Idk if winter falls counts as a bside since it had a whole gorgeous ass mv but rn I’m ADDICTED to it!!!! The melody is perfect the lyrics- the mv- everyone’s voices in it- just everything. I feel like the song is perfect for me🥺😍😮‍💨 OKAY BUT YOURE SO RIGHT!! Debut era is so u n d e r a t e d legit every bside is perfect. well I’ll be honest rock is probably my least fav song of theirs but I didn’t say that n the rest more than make up for that Might be my most fav debuts of all time!!! Even their pre debut is so good😤😤💓💗✊ I became a stay around then too!! Somewhere around my pace and I am you!!!🥰🥰

If I had to list my All Time BSide Favs it’d be insomnia, glow, 3rd eye, 19, phobia, booster, silent cry, question, star lost, b me, pacemaker, sunshine- I legit could go on forever bestie they just make Good Songs!!! N I personally think side effects is the most underrated main track- like I get it’s a lot. But. I couldn’t ask for me for a better title n mv n concept n it can never be replicated😍🙈🥰

q: which member(s) do you relate to the most and why, n for the rest what do you admire about them? (You can do ot8 for both or however you want to do it I just think it’s a wholesome idea) -❄️

hi hi! first of all I'm sorry it took me a while to reply! and second of all I'm gonna put this under read more because it's way longer than i thought it would be jsjdjsjs

OH MY GOD ARE YOU CAPABLE OF READING MY MIND?? hdhdbdh out of the bsides you listed here there's two i don't like that much but the rest are literally all my favs 🤣🤣 and yes side effects is awesome too!! that's one of the few kpop songs even my non kpop friends like lmao but i do understand those who don't like it i see why haha

omg i agree winter falls is SO good 😭😭😭 i knew after the first teaser that i will love it :'))) jisung's songs always hit different 🥺

and yess i wish more people would appreciate their debut era. i think it's a very solid debut album. but omg what is this rock slander hdhdhdh okay I'm joking. I've seen a lot of people who don't like rock so i guess it's just my bad taste because i like it 😂😂

okay i think i relate to jisung the most. he's my virgo brother hsbdbd I'm also an introvert like him you know the type to stay at home and watch a movie instead of going out with friends. and when i read the lyrics to his songs it's always as if it was meant for me because he describes exactly how i feel :')) also I'd like to believe I'm funny but i guess i don't really show that side of me on tumblr lmao but lately i started to somewhat resonate with seungmin. I'm the quiet but savage type even with my friends haha

and for what i admire the most about the boys. chan has amazing leadership qualities and i think it's very admirable how he always looks out for the members and makes sure they're okay and included and listens to them. he has such a calming aura to him and i just love this boy. i think everyone needs a friend like him in their lives :')))

for minho i think he's actually super sweet. i LOVE how he shows his love through small gestures like buying food or something :'))) i can relate to this well because i usually have a hard time verbalizing my feelings. and i also love that he shows real concern like in the haunted house episodes of skz code he always made sure lix was okay and that's just so sweet 🥺🥺🥺

and then changbin. i think he's such an interesting person. i feel like there's definitely more to him than what he usually shows. he gives me mature vibes 👀 he's someone i would love to have late night conversations with and hear his opinion about anything. and i love his confidence so much. like pls can he give some of that to me hdhdbd

hyunjin :'))) such a sweet emotional boy 🥺💖 just wanna wrap him in a blanket and protect him forever. i think he's a good listener, someone you could talk to when something's bothering you. and i appreciate his emotional side too i wanna be sappy together shhdhd and his charisma. i just can't take my eyes off of him he's incredible and talented 😭😭 i have so much love for this boy it's hard to verbalize certain characteristics i love about him djjdjd

i already talked about jisung but i definitely love his sense of humor the most. he's just effortlessly funny and brings up the mood! jisung king 👑

felix 🥺 such a sunshine 🌞 he's so positive all the time and bright and happy and even the smallest things bring him joy 😊 he just has so much love in his little heart 😭 definitely best friend material haha

seungmin! i appreciate his honesty. he just says whatever is on his mind but still not in a rude way. and often what he says comes out so funny 😂 and i love that he's so precise and whatever he does he wants to do it perfectly. I'm like that too but i hope he is not too hard on himself like the way i am with myself sometimes. i just think he's very neat and cool 😎

for jeongin I'd also say his maturity. he's the youngest but it often doesn't feel like it. and i also admire his growth as a person and as an idol. he's growing up in front of our eyes gfhfygh and there's also a sense of independency. like even if he's the youngest he tries not to rely on the others too much. and he's such a bean i love him 🥰

okay wow i didn't mean to write a whole ass novel djsjdbd but i had a lot of fun answering!! maybe a lot of these are just assumptions but.. yeah 😂

also you said your bias is seungmin. why do you bias him? has he been your bias from the very beginning? do you have any other biases in skz?