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Saint Cy of JFC said:
I doubt he's injured. It's friendly games.
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From what I've heard, he wasn't injured. Sure, some general feelings anybody would have after the physical match on Monday. Also a few other of the keyplayers didn't play (like Mikael Jantunen) or were on limited minutes (like Maxhuni and Madsen), and like Lauri rested the match. Probably one or some of the following reasons:
-the team didn't want to take a risk of injury in a meaningless match
-the team wanted to find out who to use in rotation when the starters are resting, and thus gave the dudes probably on (very) small minutes the chance to prove their worth
-mind games, to give the Boomers the impression Team Finland is absolute poop (it's only 8 days to the opening match at World Cup)

What ever the reason, the end result was an absolute trashing, Latvia won 94-57. I sure hope it was some kind of mindgames :p
 
LogGrad98 said:
Yay. Gets injured during summer league stuff so it directly affects the season. Exactly why I've generally been against this stuff. They put so much strain on their bodies they need some rest time realistically.
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Not injured and my guess is he isnt even beat up. He is a big name in such exhibition games so they need to justify him sitting out to the ticket holders.
 
HermanG said:
Not injured and my guess is he isnt even beat up. He is a big name in such exhibition games so they need to justify him sitting out to the ticket holders.
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Yeah, it had apparently marketed as the rare chance to see Porzingins and Markkanen at the same time. Both indeed were present, they waved to the audience, photos were taken, but neither played due to "injuries".
 
Swuul said:
Yeah, it had apparently marketed as the rare chance to see Porzingins and Markkanen at the same time. Both indeed were present, they waved to the audience, photos were taken, but neither played due to "injuries".
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I got the sense Markkanen wanted to play just by the sideline shots of him looking slightly annoyed even at the start when Finland was ahead. So I'm guessing he was probably held out so Tuovi can get an extended look of different 2nd unit combinations to see what holds water against quality opponent.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Yay. Gets injured during summer league stuff so it directly affects the season. Exactly why I've generally been against this stuff. They put so much strain on their bodies they need some rest time realistically.
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That's exactly the sentiment I feel with those "unnecessary" NBA games. Now, you guys need to remember that for Lauri it is about a Military command. For the country and because of duty.

Nobody cry for that. Lest Lauri himself. Basketball for Alpha go-to-guy in military. In Finland. You know.

It can hurt. By performance levels, he deserved his off-duty.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Yay. Gets injured during summer league stuff so it directly affects the season. Exactly why I've generally been against this stuff. They put so much strain on their bodies they need some rest time realistically.
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Karen plz He's prob just got a couple bruises
 
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