No way around it... awful awful job by Pritchard and training staff

How can Batums shoulder be so bad yet take till the night before the season begins to have surgery? Did they not know after "their doctors examined him" that this would be a problem? I cant say im shocked after countless oden "bruises" that led to microfracture and a month of missed games. But seriously... it didn't occur to them that batum wasn't getting better? I realize the homers will scream im being negative but cmon... nobody knew this before today? How was batum allowed to play in that euro league like this when we are about to embark on such a huge season? Its just terrible judgement on pritchards part, and the blazers trainers/doctors. And with all that... KP drops IME from the roster? A guy that can play solid defense. instead we will go with outlaw????? Thats almost too funny to write. Are we trying to lose or is good ole KP over rated? Im sorry but this is hard to believe that nobody else saw this coming a mile away.

 

I've long had my doubts about our medical staff.

 

The medical staff sucks. Seriously.

And you should know by now that Travis, along with Blake, are KP's "boys" and probably wont trade them unless it's insanely in our favor.

 

You know, it's just possible that he hurt his shoulder worse this time.

Where did you guys get your medical degrees and just why is it that you so-called fans are always assuming the worst about the Blazers' management?

 

Sometimes I think getting a bag of chips back would be insanely in our favor!

 

We had no choice but to keep outlaw, that was decided in July.

Batum said on courtside today that he could have played through this season and gotten it fixed next summer, and then he said something in an accent that I couldn't understand.

My question is do our player contracts give KP the power to ban them form participating in sports outside the regular season... if they do not have that clause there's not much he can do but change all future contracts to include that in case this happens again. This injury goes back something like 7 months, if it is written up so that he can stop them, and they sign it for their fat paycheck, then I think you've got something.

 

He said it has been injured and he has been in pain everyday for 7 months...

 

WAY TO THROW THE TEAM UNDER THE BUS PRITCHARD

 

It's a good thing we didn't trade Travis. I think the team will be ok. It gives us a chance to see what we have in Martell and it gives Rudy more PT. It could relieve some potential problems.


And unless Pritchard has the power to make players have surgery then you should get off his back.

 

THIS. You know the difference between doctors and vets is? the doctor can ask their patients what hurts. If batum isn't telling people the pain is getting worse, the doctor's aren't going to know. DOCTORS ARE NOT PSYCHIC.

 

How many of you think either Pendergraph or MIlls will be dumped now to bring in Ime?

 

not me. do you think they would eat up a contract in breaking it, if they even can legally?

 

I do not. We still have 4 players that can play SF in Roy, Webster, Travis and Rudy.

 

Well they brought him back from Eurobasket to examine his shoulder so they knew something...

 

I'm no math major, but I'm pretty sure I can count to one...


Joking aside, you do have to wonder about KP's judgement in letting our Euro boys play in a non-Olympics year. Also the medical staff has looked a bit shaky (Blake's shoulder, Oden's Maggette knee injury, Webster too quick comeback and now Batum's shoulder) I have to agree.

Edit: Apparently KP has no say if they play or not. I think the team should request it of them at the least. Even if they can't compel them to not play you can at least ask.

 

and the french doctors thought he was okay too. Maybe they had their own agenda, but that seems unlikely to me. What with Batum probably being able to sue them for bad information... This is really a troll trying to stir up an argument that's not there.

 

I'm not placing the blame on anyone. I'm just pointing out the fact that Nic said the pain has been there for 7 months. He also said he could have played through the pain and waited til this off season to correct it so maybe it's not as serious of an injury as we might think...? The recovery time is really long though..

 

Injuries happen. Learn to deal with it or stop watching sports.

For all the idiots dissing Pritchard - this is EXACTLY why he assembled such a deep roster. Two days ago you were bitching about too many players, not enough minutes and needing a consolidation trade. Now, one player goes down and it's the end of the world. If we were two deep yesterday, losing one player doesn't make us too "shallow" today.

BNM

 

When he came back from France they did an MRI. That would have revealed something. Because the injury never got better. That shoulder has been damaged for a long time and everyone knew it. Nic chose to play on it and predictably it got worse. A reporter tried to pin Nate down today and inquired several times about when the injury occurred. Nate always referred to it as "soreness" rather than injury in his attempts to dodge the question. It sure sounded to me like he was hiding something....like maybe he knew about the tear months ago, but wasn't willing to admit to having Batum play with anything other than "soreness".

 

If a player needs medical treatment to play, and they refuse treatment, it seems that would be breach of contract. There has to be something in the CBA that covers the issue.

As for relieving a potential problem.....let's just say I strongly disagree. Webster and an injured Rudy are no substitute for a healthy Batum.