The guy could play tonight, they just don't want him to. Darius Miles is trying to play on a knee that is supposedly bone on bone. He rolled his foot after stepping on a guy's foot. He kept playing. He barely winced. I think he has a high pain tolerance, they will eventually just have to let him play. BTW, the whole team was like chicken little playing the Lakers. Scared silly. Those nerves will eventually go away. (when they finally do make the playoffs, I don't think the first game is going to go well for them)
nope. Thats 1 significant injury, and 2 injuries that missed a couple weeks. 3 injuries that mattered over a 3 yr span for a big man isn't "injury prone". I'm not denying its worrisome, but the fact that they are fully healed and not nagging is a good sign. I don't think this makes him injury prone though. I can probably list plenty of NBA players who had at least 1 injury that kept them out for 1wk+ every year... He was up to 300 and now about 283ish. Or it could be better... some of the people close to the Blazers organization (Our color analyst and radio commentator) said he will recover faster than ppl expect. Maybe the team gave it more time so they don't have to hurry him back but not have to answer questions if he is out longer than the diagnosis... You can think of this both ways i suppose.
Two significant injuries actually. Even though he played with it, I'd say his broken hand was pretty serious, especially since he did miss his first 7 games at OSU.
an incorrect diagnosis is always a possibility but unless there is an actual reason to believe there was one or the injury actually lasts longer than it was supposed to, you can't just expect that it's wrong and use that to support your argument. and two weeks is only something like 6 or 7 games. that's not a huge amount of time. obviously 4 weeks would be double that and then it starts to get more significant but still isn't a huge amount of the season.
Oden has had 2 big injuries but this last injury isn't anything big IMO. Basketball always has players roll ankles or get minor sprains, so this isn't anything really big. He probably could play in a week if he really wanted too but it's the higher ups that want to make sure he gets healed all the way. But I agree with what Shape said earlier on, why not start Pryzbilla, who showed he can start last year, and then have Oden off the bench? Why rush someone back that isn't in shape or 100%, that's how people become injury prone. I don't want to label the big guy quite yet since he's had 2 long-term injuries but it hasn't looked too promising for him so far.
How much more injury-prone could greg oden possibly be for some of you to start to consider him injury-prone? Come on now people, he fuked his knee up last year without even making it to the first game of his rookie season, was out a whole season, then comes back for 13 minutes just to hurt his foot. That is injury prone, dont be fukin stupid, thats pretty much the definition of injury prone, so wake up and realize what kind of player oden isnt. He isnt the new great big man, he isnt the new shaq or big ben, he isnt dominant, he isnt any of those things, because he's too busy being injured, he could be, dont get me wrong, but once you do in your ankle or your knee, they're never the same, especially for someone of oden's proportions. Lets face facts, oden's career is going to take a long time to take off, and im sure it will, but i also know that a player who's injury record is this big, without even playing a full nba game, is gonna have problems, recurent injury-like problems, hence the term injury prone.
