Blazers To Decide On Sitting Lillard, Surgery Soon?

The difficulty will be keeping Lillard positive during the rehab. He may get depressed knowing he's washed and drink like a fish.

 

I don't think he is washed. There are three things that could be affecting him as Quick pointed out. Adjusting to Billups coaching. Injury. Age.

I think everyone knows his injury is affecting him (even if Dame says it isn't), a new coach is probably taking some adjusting to. Is it Age too? Probably not. But, father time is undefeated. It will happen soon enough.

 

Whelp, looks like the ab injury won't heal with rest and rehab at home...his wife's IG story ( https://instagram.com/kayla.lillard ) shows him exerting and contorting his abs in all sorts of funky directions while play VR goggle boxing

 

Why all the veiled accusations that dame has a drinking problem? Seems to come up now and again.

 

That would be an old joke in here......

 

I think there’s a corollary to that rule: “unless it’s for an already proven star who better fits a team’s championship window.”

 

I like it when someone pretends to know what's better for a guy's own body than he does, especially a guy who has been meticulous in the way he's taken care of himself physically over his career.

 

...I always thought this originated from local "firsthand" account of witnessing Lillard in Portland nightlife/party scene during his early days in the league

 

I'm too lazy to research but I thought it was BGD (or BigGameGreg at the time) that first posted that Lillard was rumored to drink like a fish. (forgive me BGD if this is wrong)

 

...that could be, but I just thought it was based on something like my above memory. Somebody should chime in shortly to set us straight

 

What, already? How was this not done a month ago?

 

Regarding the poll question, if there is a damn surgery to get he should just get it now and I think having tried rest and treatment just to see it stop working after a couple of weeks, that decision should be obvious.

There is the possibility that a surgery to fix this problem is not an option. If there is no tear to the tendon (after having done a lot of research on tendinopathy and treatment for it) I'm pretty sure at that point surgery wouldn't be an option and he should probably sit for quite some time doing PT and possibly PRP to try and get this thing to heal permanently. There is always the possibility that there is a procedure out there that is new and wouldn't show up to the general public in research but that might be needlessly risky if there aren't a lot of long term results that show success. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

 

It just seems unlikely one can drink like a fish but be in world class physical condition, sans ab injury.

 

Dennis Rodman

 

Is there a player in the draft that could be an instant game changer?

Like.... could this be our David Robinson/Tim Duncan scenario?

 

No one indicated or specified a reason for the regression, just that statistically, there has been one.

Hopefully Dame does return to form. I want him to win a title here. But so far in 10 years, it hasn't been close to even being a contender. What can happen in the next 6 months to realistically change that? Not saying it can't be done, but what is a legitimate pathway to that goal?

 

So one example? It’s a bullshit rumor about Dame with no real evidence for it.

 

When I looked up Dames injury they said the recommended treatment for the inflammation was rest and strengthening of muscles around the tissue.....there's no surgery to fix that unless it's torn...last time Dame came back from it it wasn't torn but inflamed and only if there's a tear is there surgery required....no one has said they found a tear yet as far as I know so it could just be a condition that requires calming down the inflamed area and working on strengthening the abs around it. If it's torn that's a much more serious condition

 

Lol. I just gave you an example is all. I don't think he drinks like a fish.