Another poster wrote that Roy had this kind of surgery before and was back in 3 weeks. The second round is about 3 weeks from now. Should we consider rolling the dice and hope that we will still be alive AFTER his surgery?
No. Its much more likely that he can play on his injured knee as is then him being able to get surgery and make it back it time.
Roy should just bite the bullet and get some new titanium knees. The ones with polyurethane cushioning, doubly reinforced and supported by CO2-free air from a methane-clear test tube. Let's stop playing with fire here, huh Blazers?
"In time" for what? I guess that's part of the decision making process. If our goal is to win a title, I would imagine you would seriously consider surgery now, and hope we're still alive when Roy comes back in the 2nd or 3rd round. It would certainly help if we knew more info. I wonder what the chance of Roy playing through it are? And what level of play would he be at? I don't know the answers - but part of me would almost feel more hopeful if we were counting the days until Roy comes back, instead of where we're at right now.
it all depends on medical information that none of us are privy to or qualified to give an educated guess on if we were. My wild ass stab at this is I'd rather error on the side of caution. I wouldn't want to run the risk of running him into the ground (like DMiles) if there is a real risk of aggravating it unless it's vs an Eastern conference team in a month or so. There are more seasons ahead for this 25 year old... live to fight another day. STOMP
You guys are assuming that he'd be able to be back in time for the next round, which isn't super realistic. You're basing it off of one person's experience. Not all injuries are the same, even if they are the same or similar in title.
I have read some articles recently that said surgery for the type of injury he has hasn't been shown to have any more benefit than just letting it heal on its own.
He should try and play, but he will certainly have to alter his game. If Roy could sit back and let Andre be the main guy he could probably help with making wide open shots.
Depending on severity this is true. Yes, hopefully they'll start running a more fluid offense and move the ball around!
Ive had surgery for this same issue so I know a bit about it. It will never heal on its own. But I coiuld have gone my whole life without surgery and had minimal effects from it, however I am not an NBA basketball player. The main issue I had after the swelling went down is that knee will feel perfectly normal then out of no where it will just "pop" out of place and then the knee locks up, which is just the miniscus getting folded over. With some painfull work I was always able to get the minscus to pop back into place and then it felt almost 100% again. One non surguery possibility is that the knee can, over time, become strong enough that the "poping" wont occure, but thats a long shot.
bump. it sounds like this plan is working out better than we could have even hoped...i nominate myself as the new team doctor
