As for his hamstring, Roy has not tested it since participating in practice last Friday and intends to stay away from basketball activities until next week. Roy did not have another injection of Platelet-Rich-Plasma (PRP) on Monday and said he may never undergo the procedure again. He is hopeful his hamstring heals naturally with rest and conventional treatment. “It was talked about but it’s not something that I want to do right now,” Roy said of the PRP injection. “So it’s (been) put off. Maybe never. Maybe in a week or so, hopefully, I feel a lot better and I don’t even think I need it. So my thing is to go through rest and treatment.” Is anyone else getting the feeling roy will be out much longer after the break? Sounds like he could miss at least 2 more weeks. that would be our season. the end.
As expected for awhile now, Nate McMillan is publicly entertaining the notion of a starting lineup shuffle. We're looking at it. We'll look at it tomorrow. We're looking at everything. Where we are, we want to finish strong before going into the break. I asked McMillan whether the change of heart regarding his current lineup was caused by the team's recent stretch of up-and-down play or by the news that Brandon Roy is out indefinitely. A bit of both. A little bit of both. We're looking at that. As discussed previously, it seemed like McMillan has been in a holding pattern for the last week or two as he waited for Roy's return. Now that Roy's return isn't pinned down to a specific date, he no longer has the luxury of waiting. Indeed, McMillan said any thoughts regarding Roy's return and its impact upon his lineups and rotations will be postponed until after the break. For us, we know he won't be back before the break so I'm not looking at that until we get back. We'll start to think about how we're going to approach it once we get back.
Yes. I'm getting a very bad vibe about this. Career-ending hamstring strains are unusual, but that's where I see this going, unfortunately. I'm not a doctor, but a buddy of mine got a hamstring strain once in a pick-up game and he never played basketball again. It's one data point, but must be considered. And do you REALLY trust the Blazers to correctly treat injuries or tell us the truth? If Roy was done for his career, after the Blazers gave him this huge contract, this is exactly what they'd be telling us. It's all consistent. I dunno. I'm not generally a pessimistic person, but I'm getting a bad vibe about this.
