The warm-up takes twice as long as it used to. You feel it on the first cut, and again on the first landing. You play anyway, because you're not done with the game — and tomorrow you do it again. A lot of hoopers live in that morning for years.
I got hurt bad enough that a clinic handed me pain pills and sent me home. Nobody trained me back.
So I worked it out in order, on myself. The lower body is a chain. The weakest link falls first. Get one link solid and the next one in line takes the load. Most programs train a body part. The problem was never a body part.
I'm still in it. I'm not selling you the end of this. I'm the first person it has to hold up for, and I'm still the one testing it.