<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">In his heart, Samuel Dalembert is ready to do all the things he has spent the last four seasons preparing to do. In his mind's eye, he is prepared to run, jump, rebound, block shots and score. The hardest thing of all to do, he is learning, is to wait. The lithe, sleek 6-11 projected 76ers starting center has yet to play this season, and probably will not for at least another 10-to-14 days, and very possibly longer. He has, with every bit of his youthful exuberance, hurried back twice since training camp from what the Sixers have termed a right quadriceps strain. Before last night's 112-97 victory over the Dallas Mavericks, he insisted he is not about to make that mistake again. "In the past, I've come in sooner than I was supposed to, doing things I wasn't supposed to do," Dalembert said. "I said, 'Listen, man, tell me to play, I'll tie it up and play.' But I asked 'What's the risk?' "The risk is, you can tear [the quadriceps] up to a third degree, then have surgery, and you might finish the whole season not playing instead of letting it heal, then coming back and being ready. I listened to that advice. [The wrong result] happened twice already. I was feeling great the last time, and was ready, and there we go... " This time, he will wait. "Two times is enough," he said. So, another 10-to-14 days... "That sounds right to me," Dalembert conceded. "That would give me close to a month. I looked at my past history; every 3 weeks, I was feeling better." But he is just as painfully aware that perhaps he should not put a time frame on returning. "I know myself," he said. "Every time I start touching a ball in the gym, I want to do more. I start doing more, the next day I'm doing more, and I [think] I'm ready. Really, I'm not."</div> Source
This hurts. What is the medical staff doing? I know there were many people within the organization that were pretty angry at the medical staff in the preseason and the beginning of the season regarding the initial diagnosis and treatment of Dalembert's injury. Well, hopefully he'll be good to go within the next 10-14 days, but until then Steven Hunter will need to step up his rebounding and continue his nice offensive play.
well, it is good to hear that he understands that rushing back to play isnt the best option. i think it is good that he wants to take it slowly back so when he returns he will be 100%. i just hope that he recovers fast because although james thomas had a pretty good game against the mavs, i highly doubt he can continue this.
I thought when he re injured it that it would be 10-14 days until he came back. So now its another 10-14 days then? The 76ers are definitely missing his pressence and they need him back as soon as possible. Isn't that something though? You sign a player to a huge contract. Then he gets hurt running sprints.
I'm not sure if Dalembert cares. Now that he has a nice big contract I get the feeling that his heart isn't entirely in the game or the team anymore. I hope I'm wrong about this though.
No, you are right. A guy from the RealGM boards who has a very good track record of knowing what is going on within the organization has said that Dalembert basically thinks he is Michael Jordan and is refusing to rehab twice a day like the Sixers want him to.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting BigMo763:</div><div class="quote_post">No, you are right. A guy from the RealGM boards who has a very good track record of knowing what is going on within the organization has said that Dalembert basically thinks he is Michael Jordan and is refusing to rehab twice a day like the Sixers want him to.</div> Well that's just great. Sometimes I wish the NBA was like the NFL and could just cut someone's contract whenever the hell they wanted. That would make Sammy get off his ass and get back into shape... That lazy mother ******.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">I'm not sure if Dalembert cares. Now that he has a nice big contract I get the feeling that his heart isn't entirely in the game or the team anymore. I hope I'm wrong about this though.</div> Agreed. I thought Dalembert wouldn't be like this and by no means I'm saying he is one of those guys that takes it easy after signing a lucrative contract but I have to say thus far he is certainly looking like he is one of those guys.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> Agreed. I thought Dalembert wouldn't be like this and by no means I'm saying he is one of those guys that takes it easy after signing a lucrative contract but I have to say thus far he is certainly looking like he is one of those guys.</div> ...I thought he was one of the good guys. He certainly doesn't look like a Jerome James to me. Anyways, perhaps Dalembert is just being careful since he doesn't want it to complicate into something serious? Thats what I hope is going on anyway.
I find that realgm is the most unreliable site for basketball information on the Internet, so excuse me if I find that hard to believe. If Dalembert was really doing this I am sure someone in the media would have reported it, or someone in the 76ers organization would have fined him. Had this been a Glenn Robinson type player who always was injured, and took a long period of time coming back I might be quicker to believe it. However, SD has not been known for that at any time in his career. Why rush back anyway? Though it certainly would be great to have him back. It is early in the season we are not in a dire need for him to get back yet, so let him recover fully. If he came back, and re-injured himself I am sure we would be criticizing him anyhow for not being able to stay healthy. He knows his body better than anyone who are we to judge him. When he starts missing two months because of a sprained ankle then we can talk.
I didn't mean that RealGM reported it, but one of the posters at the RealGM boards has a friend who works with the organization and interacts with the players everyday and he gives us inside information. He has an incredible track record of being correct on a lot of things regarding what is going on with the Sixers. We find things out from him days before the media reports it.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">I'm not sure if Dalembert cares. Now that he has a nice big contract I get the feeling that his heart isn't entirely in the game or the team anymore. I hope I'm wrong about this though.</div>That`s what I`m afraid of. But Sammy did seem pretty bummed when he talked before the season tipped off. Just get back soon...
