And did the injury cause the weakness or the weakness cause the injury?
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
And did the injury cause the weakness or the weakness cause the injury? [/quote]
Obviously he’s the only one who’d know for sure. Depends on exactly how long he was hiding the shoulder issue. If the combine was 4 months ago, it got found out this week, and he said it’s been an issue for “an extended period of time”, it could really be either/or.
There’s an article, from right after the combine and the media storm about his performance, that talked about him struggling with a set of 7 band-assisted pull-ups.
“With the pull-up, I never worked on it once. And I never did a pull-up like that before,” he said of his experience at the combine. “Now, I can rip off two or three [without the aid of the rubber band]. It was just bad timing. A bad time to get zero. I’d love to show people I can actually do them now.”
It’d be a wild guess either way without knowing more details about his training and history.
IIRC Gretzky could barely bench 130. The importance of skills can not be over stated.