(I will not assume the worst....I will not assume the worst....I will not assume the worst....I will not assume the worst....I will not assume the worst....)
My frustration isn’t that he’s injured. It’s that the dude hasn’t played competitive real 5 on 5 basketball in a couple years. Vegas was the perfect opportunity to get the experience and feel of playing team ball.
Oh high school ball, right right. He’ll realize as soon as he plays the competition is night and day from a lot of the schlub’s he was playing against in high school.
He also played 5 on 5 in practice against his KY teammates. Not as good as playing in an actual game but still a far cry from high school.
Here’s the thing, we aren’t that many years removed from the 1 year restriction being a thing. Many Pros have lobbied against it since it was put into place. Probably because the Vets outside of that bubble are similar to the newer players who agree that it shouldn’t exist. It’s definitely a regulation which benefits owners/teams more so than it does players. The 1 year requirement is a favor to NCAAB more than anything, but it makes sense from a scouting standpoint for the NBA too. Truth is, there are players who come out of HS ready for the development role which college players face. Your KG’s and Kobe’s aren’t common. Would have been interesting to see them in college… But there are players out of HS ready to be at the professional level. Playing against grown assed men, working out with grown assed men, hopping to win a championship in the next few years.
So is that saying that there might not even be a tear if they didn't use injection of contrast? That'd be encouraging if the medical staff is just being super cautious until they can get a proper MRI done back in Portland or something.
I didn't say he wouldn't be good. Nice try, though. I said people were ignoring the unknowns and the risks, preferring to hope we had pulled a fast one on the rest of the league. The only video we've got of him is being basically unguarded. We knew next to nothing about how he could handle game speed and contact. What exactly could they have evaluated in that context? And, do you really trust the Blazers current medical staff?
I figure at the very least teams get physicals of all players whom practice with them for the draft? Hopefully this is some freak injury… What a massive bummer though. Now we move our optimism from summer league to training camp/preseason.
Tore my labrum snowboarding on Mt. Shasta at 20 years old. Thank God my older friend bought me a beer it hurt so bad. Then again I flew off a box landing all my body weight directly on my shoulder.
