I don't begrudge you your POV, but for some of us this team no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt. Outside of Dame, every player is crap until they convince me otherwise. I literally have no faith in any of them. You are entitled to think me unfair. I consider the way this franchise has screwed its fans to be unfair.
He will need surgery 100%. You can try to play through it and manage the pain, it won't get worse but labrums don't heal they're just cartilage. So "re-evaluate in 10-14 days" means decide if he wants to play his entire rookie year hindered by shoulder pain and mobility restrictions, or should he get the surgery now and begin rehab asap. My guess is the latter and he will be out 3-4 months at least. There is a small chance he misses the entire year too. This fucking franchise has the most unbelievably bad luck in sports history. And yesterday people were wondering why some of us were pessimistic. Theres no other outcome to expect for us than the worst.
Oh yeah, that's totally what always happens because it's not like teams tanked to get LeBron, it's not like the Celtics blatantly tanked to get both Tatum and Brown, it's not like tanking has paid off probably hundreds of times because half the stars in this league over the last two decades were drafted by teams that tanked to get the pick they ended up with.
That's an illogically cynical POV but it's your right to have it and torture yourself with it. I have a lot of views of the world that are like that so I'm not saying I'm better than you. I'm just saying it's a shitty way to look at things but most of us do have at least something we look at that way.
A year from now, we will be hearing how hard he has worked and how great his rehab has gone...and oh my, he has a dime sized hole in the cartiledge and will miss an entire 'nother season! And yes, I am still bitter at KP for all the lies about Oden.
This isn't a knee, it wasn't even a separation. Shoulders are really weird and you can do some real damage just by running into someone the same way you have a thousand times before but just at the exact wrong angle. This really doesn't say anything about Shaedon's durability, more injuries like this in the future would be worrisome but this shit happens. It might be an 8 week recovery or a surgery and six months but I don't know of anyone in the league that has had a labrum tear without a shoulder separation and had chronic issues because of it. Put down the Oden memories and calmly back away from them.
our history with lottery picks getting hurt is uncanny tho. not just Oden and BRoy, but people forget that Aldridge was diagnosed with a fairly serious heart problem that cut his rookie year short. And Zach Collins repeatedly getting hurt of course. How about CJ breaking a bone in his foot in training camp of his rookie year, that too the same one he broke while in college? just seems like we get hit with this random shit so often whenever we have someone we think is promising. tough
You're right, they didn't blatantly tank for those guys my bad. I remembered people writing about how blatant they had tanked but that was the year they got Marcus Smart... I misremembered that one but the fact is tanking has paid off time and time again.
I made a big ol’ post about not freaking out during the game. I am sorry, it was the eternal optimist in me. I should’ve known better being this is the Blazers.
It's really fucking tough but this is far more like CJ's injury than any of the others because it has an extremely low, to the point of insignificant, rate of recurrence. So this is fucked up and I get why it stirs up memories of injuries past but for Shaedon it should just be a bump in the road and we still have no idea what kind of player he's going to be. Will he be the freak athlete with all of the moves in his bag that can't seem to put it together on the floor so he's just instant offense or does he have a head for the game to go with all of that other stuff? We don't know and now we'll have to wait and maybe we'll have to wait until next season because if he misses a significant portion of this early season, most likely only his teammates and coaching staff will be seeing his progress behind the scenes this year.
