Game Thread Game #37 - BLAZERS VS HAWKS - JANUARY 3, 2022 - MONDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT) ROOT SPORTS

Nurk looking extra eastern European in that track suit. Fresh though.

 

But at least you got your new coach!

 

Hey I'm running behind making dinner. Can they start at 730 instead?

 

Dame should just rest or get that surgery taken care off and comeback next season.

 

In December, he broke his foot and timeline for a return was 6 weeks. 6 weeks later is early February but they decided to shut him down for the season to tank.

 

terry stotts was a problem, that goes without saying

if anything, he should have been fired after the new orleans pelicans debacle

 

you could run in front first and make dinner later!

 

He hurt his back early in the season but was able to come back from that. Then after being back for six games he broke his foot. I'm pretty sure the foot had healed, if I remember correctly, a while before the season ended and there were videos of him getting in full workouts and scrimmaging but they didn't bring him back because they were already out of the playoff hunt and were tanking.

If Dame has a surgery (if that's even an option) to repair his injured abdominal tendon, then the recovery time for similar surgeries is 4-6 weeks before returning to normal activities. Maybe it would take him another two weeks to get back into good enough shape to play himself the rest of the way back into shape in games. So if that is a possibility and they made that decision he'd likely be back by early March but we'd likely be so far out of contention that it would behoove him to just get in shoot arounds with the team and sit the rest of the season as opposed to coming back and winning some games that might affect lottery odds.

This is all highly hypothetical because as much as I've read up on abdominal tendinopathy and that is sometimes the diagnosis for exacerbated abdominal tears, I just don't find articles that recommend treating it with surgery even though there is a surgery to repair an abdominal tendon tear.

 

even bad teams win sometimes

im thinking we might win tonight

 

I read that it wasn't torn and just inflamed which requires rest and the strengthening of the abdominal muscles around the connective tissue....everything I found said rest and conditioning were the cure for Dame's issue and surgery is only used for a tear which they said Dame didn't have....his is recurring inflamation that could lead to a tear if he pushes it at the wrong time.....Dame says cortisone shots are doing the trick and that's good news....I'd sure limit his minutes or have him rest games though with the record we've got ...especially if we go deeper into the loss columns

 

DRob missed games at the start of the season with a bad back. Then returned and played a bit. When he broke his foot, they were 6-18.

 

I am so fired up for this game. Can’t wait.

 

Me too.

 

HOLY EARLY LEAD BATMAN!!!!

 

My God. Competent basketball. It’s been so long.

 

Not bad start we hitting the boards early and that gives us extra shots.

 

I like this lineup. Size and defense.