Regardless of what may happen. If Pryzbilla joins our club, I think he will instill toughness. The thing that seriously pissed me off last playoffs, was the other team bullied us and we didn't retaliate. I was waiting for someone, anyone to smash J.J. on the floor the next time he tried driving in the paint. We just don't have a player like that. Even if Pryzbilla is a former shell of a player than we are accustom to; he will bring toughness. He will jaw in the ear of our big men to bully the other team. I remembered on time Aldridge went to help up some player and Pryzbilla grabbed his hand and jawed in his ear. Don't fucking help him up. That's the mentality of a winning team. It's not that you hate the other team... It's more of we aren't Mr. Nice Guys and you are gonna have to earn points in the paint. We won't get bullied and we won't back down. So if Pryzbilla only plays 8-10 minutes a game; it could easily be minutes to teach our other bigs to be BIGS!
You talk like he will be playing significant minutes on this team... Camby is the starter. Camby gets injured. Eventually we want Oden to be the starter and we need some bigs to help fill that load until we know for sure Oden can play. It's pretty simple really. Pryzbilla's free-throws were much improved the last 3 seasons. Oh and P.S. The D always played 5 on 4. Having Hayes or Landry would still give us the same problem. NEXT....
Dude Przybilla is done....He has progressively got worse the last few years, on the downside of his career and coming off multiple significant injuries.... That being said, the idiots in the Blazer Organization probably will try and sign him.....Apparently they think that Roy & Przybilla are the same players they were 3 years ago.....
Filling in the paint and taking a firm stand. Not giving up free buckets and effecting shots. Getting in people's heads. Igniting a fire under his teammates.
Wrong. Prz played arguably the best basketball of his career during the 07-08, 08-09, and 09-10 seasons before he was injured. He looked like shit last year because he hadn't had enough time to rehab. I think he still has plenty left.
It seems like people here think it's impossible to come back from a ruptured patellar tendon injury. It's a significant injury, but you can make it back. I ruptured my patellar tendon when I was young and made it all the way back to the All Star poster you see today.
Loved Joel when he was here ... but those are some pretty tough injuries to come back from at his age.
rolled my eyes about 8 times in this thread. seriously Im waiting to hear see a joel should start thread.
It has been over 8 months since he has played, it should be easy enough to visually see if he has any mobility. In Brandon's case yes he can get worse as the season goes on. But for Joel, and I am no doctor, I would assume he can either move laterally or he can't. One quick workout will tell.
I don't understand why people want NBA players to pretend to be tough. Who cares if they thump their own chest and pretend that theyd throw a punch. It's not like any of them would last more than a couple seconds in a real MMA style fight, its just fake posturing. Go play basketball and don't pretend to be something your not. Joel's playing career is more or less over. No player has ever had a complete recovery from the type of injuries that he's had. Patella tendon tears and rebuilds are career ending injuries with a far worse prognosis then all of Oden's injuries. I guess we could bring him back in a role that Theo Ratliff played for the Lakers last year, but I'm not expecting that to help the team in any way.
I love seeing all the online doctors in this thread, analyzing Pryz without having seen anything or knowing what they're talking about in the first place. I see no harm in having him come for a few workouts for the team to see how his mobility, strength and jumping looks.
I say no. I like Joel quite a bit for what he did as a Blazer, but he is old and coming off bad injuries. And there are other options that are in the D-league or ones that went undrafted that have a chance (even if it's a small one) of turning out to be a pearl. Even if Joel is healthy, and is playing decent, how long do you really think that will last at this point in his injury-riddled career? Let's find another, younger and healthier option.
