& was/is a shadow of his former self. Dude was an elite on ball defender taking on the toughest assignments nightly... he was their Camara. Post Achilles, those days are over and he's guarding the baseline in a zone... it's why he didn't fit on the W's anymore. The difference in his mobility is night and day Came back? He played in all of 41 NBA games post Achilles over two seasons and was terrible. I asked for... "30+ year old athletes who made it back to anything close to their former selves post torn Achilles?"... & you came up with two who NBA players who did suffer torn Achilles but absolutely do not inspire hope for Dame regaining his game. If there is an example of an 30+year old athlete actually making it back to close to their former form from an Achilles I'd like to hear it STOMP
Rudy Gay was 30, actually pretty productive relative to his pre injury performance. I don't think anyone is expecting Dame to return to pre injury performance. The question is more how effective of an NBA player can he be.
Yeah, I wonder if Billups or Cronin are still in Vegas? Probably need all 4 in PDX. Not sure when Jrue will be there.
Jrue and his family arrived days ago ..there's a clip of their arrival on the team page. I'm sure the Blazers are helping them set up a home in Portland and give them a big welcome!
Jrue was here before the front office and coaching staff went to Vegas. He was here with his family. I don't know if they're still here or what but they were here at the practice facility whenever that short video was shot. Word is that Dame is here. Maybe they'll do something with the media when SL is over. I don't know about Joe but Chauncey has usually stayed until the end of SL and so have the players that went down to practice with the SL team like Donovan had reportedly been doing and maybe the rest of the guys we saw on the sideline during the games.
I'll bet Dame throws some kick ass off season parties with his new teammates ...Clingan loves to fish and Dame's got a killer boat on the river
Yeah I saw that, I had assumed he might have flown home to where he lives in the summer but maybe your right and he's still in PDX.
I saw a youtube video of Clingan fishing with Justin Minaya but looked like Clingan knows how to fish.
