Orthopedic Surgeon writes in to Blazersedge

And all you and the other geniuses around here said was Brandon is fine, there's nothing to be concerned about, just wait until the season starts, yada yada yada.

Nope. What I knew all along was that he wasn't giving a full effort, and now we know why.

 

I tried become friends with my surgeon, we struck up a conversation about baseball because he found out I was a fan. I also found out he's a huge fan of porsches, as am I. Nonetheless, I couldn't get his personal number and doesn't want to hang out, I'm just a client. I'm just another number in one of his countless surgeries.

He did prescribe me some good vicodin though. So he's a buddy in my book.

 

Don't be an idiot. This is beneath you, whoever you are. Obviously, no one would tell Roy to play harder if we knew he had an injury. The point is, I thought his "disappearing act" during the pre-season was cause for concern, and most people here thought it meant nothing.

 

You said he wasn't giving full effort, he was just lollygagging around. Not true. He was injured, should he have been exerting full energy during a meaningless preseason game if he was injured?

Lets not act like you haven't had a vendetta against Roy for some time either. I rememeber you chiding him for having a kid before he was married and his role in that rap video. The reason you made that thread had little to do with Brandon coasting through a preseason.

 

Don't be absurd. You thought his "disappearing act" meant he had no heart and was pathetic. That is what you were ridiculed for, and rightly so. If anything, this new information makes your pre-season position even sillier, since it conclusively proves that it had nothing to do with lack of heart or interest.

As per usual, you were engaging in soapbox moralizing. It just blew up in your face, is all.

 

My surgeon lives 5 houses down from me and on the other side of the street. He was my neighbor before he was my Dr. He's a good guy, but his wife is a total bitch.

 

You must be loaded. My surgeon lives in a multi-million dollar house on Mt. Scott. He's a great guy, genuine, great bedside manner and doesn't sugar coat. But, he still won't let me hang out with him. I really want to play with all his toys too.

 

The apparent seriousness of Roy's knee issues actually show how much heart and leadership he was giving to his teammates and the organization in the preseason. It would have been easy for him to sign the big contract and then sit out,, claiming a bum knee, but my take is that Brandon's will to succeed would not allow him to do so, even if it meant that so-called "fans" would bash him for "coasting". Now, he is going onto anti-inflammatory meds to try and play, a treatment that can have serious side effects.

 

Well, if his disappearing act was caused by the knee problem, and he would have been playing harder if he could, then that means he disagrees with you and every other genius who thinks it's not important to play hard during the preseason. You were applauding him for "disappearing," when in fact he didn't want to disappear at all!

 

Wow, you're really going to continue to try to spin this as somehow justifying your earlier complaints, huh? Why not lump it all in and say the knee is likely damaged from the extra use of walking to the tunnel during the Anthem, as opposed to staying on the court. Clearly, it all comes back to his hatred of America.

 

You can't yada, yada, bone on bone!

[video=youtube;av64gOA9nXM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av64gOA9nXM[/video]

 

I've yada yada'd bone on bone.

 

I still think the preseason is useless, injury or not to Roy.

 

I didn't say any of that, actually. I have no idea whether he would have played harder had he two fresh knees. The idea that heart and desire is illustrated by pre-season play is silly. Further, I actually made the point back then that, with Roy's past injury issues, I'd prefer he took it easier in pre-season so as not to add further beating to his body over games that don't help the franchise at all.

Essentially what I'm saying is you managed to be wrong in two ways: 1. that pre-season play measures heart and, uh, non-patheticness (new word, copyright), and 2. even if they did, Roy was struggling with knee issues, making your frothing-at-the-mouth attacks on him even sillier.

The fact that you are now trumpeting your epic embarrassment in that thread as prescience is just gold.

 

Wow. That's all. Just wow. Brandon Roy is probably my favorite player on the team. I used to have a picture of him for my avatar. If I could get a bobble-head doll of him, I'd put it on my car dashboard. I am devasted by this injury, and I've been moping for the last two days.

The fact that I criticized Roy a couple of times is irrelevant. You apparently don't know me at all (which is understandable), but I just call it like I see it. Right now I'm hoping that this is all just a bad dream, and the old Brandon Roy is going to be out there on the court tonight against Memphis, launching crazy drives to the hoop and hitting rainbow jump shots.

 

This thread was going along great until the children trolls got out of grade school, came home and got into daddy's liquor cabinet. But, it's an old story here.

 

Congratulations are in order.

You were half correct, Roy wasn't himself but the problem was his knee not his attitude.

But hey, why quibble.

You were right on the money.
Good for you.

Too bad for the team, though.

 

I'm pretty sure they ruled him out for tonight's game...

 

The fact that you called him heartless, pathetic and, last year, levied the greatest insult in your mind against him, un-American, is irrelevant. You love that guy. Just a little constructive criticism.

 

Not loaded at all. You have to understand that Houston's realty is light years different than Portland's......especially 5 years ago. We lived in Clackamas, off of 152nd, in a semi upper middle class neighborhood. We got in to our house at the right time (190k), and sold it 3 years after living there for 330k. Here in the Houston suburb where I live, we took 180k of that money and put it down on a house that was 400k, and over twice as big as the house we lived in up there in Portland, with all the goodies (pool, spa, media room, big yard, etc.) So with my payments staying the same as they were in Portland, we went from 2500 SF to 5200 SF with more stuff. Sugar Land is in Fort Bend county, which either last year, or the year before that was one of the most affluent counties in the country......none of that has anything to do with me though. A lot of Astros Texans and Rockets live in Sugar Land because it is the easiest trip to Houston via the fucked up freeways here


So no, not loaded at all, but lucky to have bought and sold when I did. Think of me as the cousin Eddie of Sugar Land