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Manu Ginobili hobbled through the playoffs on a bad hip and then injured his ankle against the Lakers. Gregg Popovich, head coach of the San Antonio Spurs, begged and beseeched him not to play for Argentina in the Olympics.
But Ginobili listened to the call of his homeland rather than the urgings of his coach and went off to seek the gold. Ginobili didn’t care that he and his Argentine teammates already had Olympic gold medals, he wanted another one.
What he got instead was a bronze medal and the necessity to undergo immediate arthroscopic surgery for ligament impingement.
He will be out indefinitely, which puts a damper on the Spurs' hopes of getting off to a fast start. If the NBA’s Western Conference is as tight this year as it was last year, the Spurs cannot afford to lose their top playmaker for any length of time.
Ginobili’s decision to forgo surgery in June and play on the damaged ankle throughout the Olympic games was a dumb one.
If the San Diego Chargers’ Shawne Merriman doesn’t learn from Ginobili’s mistake, then he is even dumber. His situation is much worse than Ginobili’s.
His ligaments are not impinged, but torn. Not one, but two of them. And they are knee ligaments. But unlike Gregg Popovich, Chargers head coach Norv Turner thinks he can control any further damage to Merriman’s knee.
He believes that, and Merriman believes that, too. Maybe I can sell them a bridge over in Brooklyn.
They also believe that they can brace up the knee to avoid any further damage. After all, the ligaments are already torn. What more can go wrong? Well, for one thing, the cartilage around the knee can suffer from the instability and pressure. That could be career-threatening and will certainly complicate any surgery that needs to be done in the future.
Even if Merriman is able to play, how effective can he be? Well, how effective was Ginobili? He led the Olympic basketball teams in scoring, but when the ankle finally gave out in the quarterfinal game against Team USA, he was done. Team USA went on to throttle Argentina and win the gold medal.
So, if Merriman eventually goes down midseason, how does that help the Chargers? Is an injured Merriman that much more effective than a healthy backup linebacker? Why not give the backup a chance to play now rather than have to rush him in later?
San Diego got off to a horrible start last year but still won their division with room to spare. The AFC West is one of the weaker divisions in the NFC. So, let the Chargers' backup linebackers have the chance to compete now and get better as the season goes on.
Don’t do this, Shawne. Forget that "warrior" crap that L.T. is spouting off. No one needs you to prove that you are a macho warrior. What Charger fans need you to prove is that you are not stupid.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/5...mb-and-dumber#
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I agree. Manu should realize he owes the team that pays his bills the respect of him making good decisions about his health.
A Ducks thread bashing Manu, how shocking. I guess Kori's warnings of a ban for this kind of stuff were just bluffs.
It's an article. A bad article -- yet an article nonetheless.
Thanks ducks for proving the point. Manu > Tony.
oh christ stfu.
Ducks is so annoying.
What an idiot. Like winning the bronze medal has no merit whatsoever.
Gee... What a surprise!ducks posting an article that bashes Manu. I guess its because he's such a concerned fan...
Merriman is an idiot, but at least he's doing it for the team that's paying him, he'll wear a brace and he usually only runs in a slightly curved line anyways.
Manu on the other hand, appears to be just like all his fans, caring more about Argentina-pride than the Spurs. But why not? after all, the only thing the Spurs ever did for him was draft him when no one else was going to, wait for him to come over, develop him, bring him NBA fame and les, and pay him 60 million dollars.
I eagerly await the day when Manu is no longer a Spur and all of the annoying-as- Manu fans stop pretending to be Spurs fans
I don't care about Shawn Merriman. If he wants to play let him. I never expected Manu not to play in the Olympics.
Tell that to ducks.
It's going to be a lot of fun reading the many threads over and over the next few weeks, months, and years that say "my opinion is that Manu should not have played in the Olympics."
Here are some other options:
*Raise some money to bribe a pilot in the Bolivian Air Force to accidentally (wink wink) drop a bomb on Buenos Aires. I'm thinking $500 will do it. That'll teach their we're the Paris of South America asses!
*Exterminate the llamas! Those things are so damn cute that they make me sick! A plague on their species!
*Let's invade the in' Falkland Islands! What's that? Great Britain owns the Falklands?! it, let's invade them too.
O, Manu! Why have you forsaken us??
Last edited by Tully365; 09-01-2008 at 03:52 PM.
someone should post the "dumb and dumber" video cover with Manus and Merrimans faces.....haha
but it still bashes manu
That makes one of us.
Yeah, trust me, you don't have to convince anyone of that. Its pretty damn obvious
True, but ducks didn't write it.
Anyway, people should stop posting "articles" from Bleacher Report. It's just a site where anyone can log in and write an article, and they always get everyone riled up.
Like I said before, SpursTalk posting Bleacher Report articles here is like ESPN posting some of Sequspur's posts on their site.
ducks is a cute name =]
I'm going to be like a fly on on all these idiots that bash Manu, once he is well again and helping the Spurs to their fifth ring.
You know who you are ers. I will be relentless.
you might want to start mentally preparing yourself for a much harsher reality
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