No, I completely understood what you meant, it's the same crack I and 3 others have made in the Payton injury thread. I'm just mocking you for making a new thread for an old joke.
quote from Chauncey pregame: ON GARY PAYTON II’S STATUS: “Yeah I mean my conversations with Gary are obviously between him and I. He's working his behind off to get back, he's close, very close. Medically, we’ve and he’s done everything that he can do. I always tell people a lot of times likenobody really understands like when you have an injury, you have surgery, there’s not just a physical component that you have to get over, there’s a mental component as well. You don’t want to get hurt again, you don’t want to reinjure yourself, and I think that that’s kind of where it is with G is like, he's just trying to get over that. He's played hurt for so long in his career that he wants to be healthy so he can be himself out there. That’s kind of where it's at.”
Great trick but as of 12am tomorrow he will play this year for our team but what he does for us is completely up for interpretation, due to the fact that he hasn't played in the first two and a half months of our season. Just like your prediction, I'll make one that's ominous and hard to refute. GP2 will make a significant impact on this roster's in game play in 2023.
At some point, it's fair to question whether the team should be docking his pay. If he's been medically cleared to play for 4 weeks now, the net effect isn't all that different from Ben Simmons in Philly.
I don't know because like Chauncey said only the dude that's coming back from injury can really know where he's at. We don't know what it feels like. I do remember his dad taking his time to get back from an injury when he was in Miami... didn't come back until he knew he could give 100%. People need to stop acting like they know what's going on in this situation. Just seven months ago this dude came back a month after breaking his elbow and people are questioning his toughness. Fucking ridiculous.
I actually thought about that just yesterday. Payton played the bulk of a season on a broken foot, as I recall.
In your typical rush to jerk the ol' knee, you fail to connect the dots. Last year's demonstration of quick recovery and toughness is exactly why some of us question what is going on with him this year. It's precisely because it does seem out of character that people can't help but feel there's more to the story.
And his dad could very well be telling his son to take his time and get 100% healthy. Don't do what I did and fight through it and pay for it later in life. He's got a three year contract there's no need to push yourself trying to prove how tough you are right now.
Possibly, but pretty unlikely. That was in his Seattle days, and I'm not aware of any lingering effect as a player. And a non-displaced broken bone in the foot isn't something that's going to present problems later in life, like, say, knees, hips, ankles, or back.
