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he's that good they un-retired robinson's 50 and gave it to him?
Nice. Cool to see him in a Spurs uniform.
he's that good they un-retired robinson's 50 and gave it to him?
that's a 90
Uh, his number is 90, and always has been.he's that good they un-retired robinson's 50 and gave it to him?
Sweet; that's Popovich-speak for He will start tonight!
He wore 0 for a very long time. From memory with Memphis and probably Orlando as well.
Hopefully, we will be seeing Gooden plenty.
If he wears a headband, the chances of Pop doghousing him by the end of his stint in San Antonio will double.
Maybe he should do like Jax. Wear the headband only on the road
Maybe everybody here knows this... maybe somebody even posted it. But I somehow missed it. I haven't been all that concerned about Gooden's health, because everything I read (like the article quoted) talked about him "tweaking his groin". That doesn't sound too bad. Then I read some comments from Del Negro, that sounded like they kept him on the bench as a precautionary measure, to keep a minor injury from getting worse. I even read an interview with Gooden, where he said that he was worried that the doctors had mis-diagnosed a sports hernia as an abdominal strain - but the tests came back negative. None of that sounded bad enough to be concerned about.
I just ran across a short article from 1/25... just a few weeks before we signed him. This doesn't sound like any damned "tweak":
Gooden, who will not play Sunday against Minnesota, played through pain in games against Cleveland, San Antonio and New York and "took steps backward" because of it. "[The games played were] probably the most pain I've played with in my career," Gooden said. "It's something I tried to see if I could do and see if the pain would go away but it persisted. It's frustrating for me. I know it's frustrating for the fans and my team."
I also knew that he had missed the end of the season last year, due to this "abdominal strain". I thought it happened about this time of year, and he basically missed April, since the Bulls were out of the playoff picture anyway. I dug up an article that said he injured himself on Feb. 5 of last year, and his season was basically done at that point. He played some games after that, but almost every article mentioned that he was "still hampered by a groin injury".
After looking at all the articles together, I'm not sure this thing ever completely went away, after the initial injury on Feb. 5, 2008. He had some good games, even though it sounds like it may have been nagging him the whole time. And then, a full year after it started, he was playing with the worst pain in his career? I get the feeling that, no matter how well he is playing, he's just one strong rebound or slam dunk away from surgery.
Great. Well I hope Gooden is OK enough to be playing right now. The Spurs wouldn't risk him out there if he wasn't would they? So what exactly was the original injury? And Abdominal Strain or a Groin Strain?
They use the two terms interchangeably. It's one injury, so I guess that means a lower abdominal strain.
You can see, he had some really good games after the injury, but also some bad ones. It sounds like he would be a beast one night, but the next his groin would bother him and he would have a hard time. Then, just like that, the season was over. There was no apparent injury point in that last game.
2/5/08 - injures groin/abdomen
2/11/08 - returns to action with 10 PTS and 3 RBS
2/20/08 - Gooden looks to have found his shooting touch going 7-of-11, however the rebounding side of his game is still bothered by groin he injured several weeks ago. (17 PTS, 4 RBS)
2/21/08 - traded to Chicago
2/28/08 - Gooden posted a double-double with 10 points and 15 rebounds - eight offensive - in 25 minutes off the bench
3/2/08 - Gooden's first start since being acquired by the Bulls. He had 11 points and 10 rebounds in 32 minutes.
3/3/08 - Logs 21 PTS, 14 RBS, and 3 blocks
3/3/08 - made permanent starter for the bulls.
3/7/08 - 3 PTS, 4 RBS
3/25/08 - 31 PTS, 16 RBS
3/28/08 - 9 PTS, 6 RBS. Plays last game of the season. Out with "abdominal strain".
Gooden looked pretty good last night against the Rockets...he'll be fine...
He didn't seem to be hurting too bad if he got 13 points and 4 rebounds in 15 minutes.
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