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Tim Duncan has had ankle problems ever since the switch.
He had a hurt ankle his first year as well, but was healthy again untill the switch.
played the bench not pro ball
Tim rolled his ankle because for some reason he refuses to tape the out of his ankles so that rolling becomes almost impossible. Hopefully when Tim returns he will be taping his ankles so that this doesn't happen again for the rest of the season.
I don't see you on ESPN highlights either tough guy.
Just because you can bash on someone about something you don't even know makes you the coolest guy on earth!
TD seriously needs to tape those ankles. Or at least his right one. Now that it's loose, it'll keep twisting and twisting anytime he lands wrong.
The weird thing is it shouldn't hurt anymore. The first time you sprain your ankle hurts. After that, it shouldn't be too much pain.
Duncan acts like he got his leg severed with a spoon or something and lays on the ground looking like a human pendulum.
Seriously, by this point his ankles really should be very very loose. I've sprained my a dozen times apeiece and while it hurts for a bit, it's nothing that bad becasue of previous sprains.
European Champs this summer...
Tony will be part of it for sure...
About beno i heard from his own mouth that he would really like to parcipate but his health is what matters...
it's his first season he doesn't really know if he'll be on the ankles when comes euro's time.
Wait and see
About TD mmm how many games in a full season + playoffs? how many games during olympics? (tell me how many minutes TD played in Athens should be interesting stats...)
What are you doing bashing POP for the lost and calling him gay.I don't see you on espn either or maybe you come out on gay espn network LOSER,LOSER,LOSER
The Olympics are always to blame for NBA players' injuries. Funny how one month of compe ions once every four years has such a negative effect on players.
One year World Championships. One year regional qulaifiers for WC. One year regional qualifiers for Olympics. One year Olympics. No breaks.
Over-user injuries, like Tim's knee abruptly quitting on him last season against @DAL, could be linked to a few weeks of Olympic basketball.
But people seem to think that if Duncan hadn't done the Olympics, he would have come down on Rasheed's foot today and his ankle wouldn't have rolled, nor the previous 2 or 3 times he's rolled it this season.
I just don't think playing a few weeks of Olympic basketall is so very different or more "over-using" than the weeks of off-season practice and workouts Tim would have put in anyway between May and Oct if he hadn't done the Olympics.
Now I hear he won't tape his ankles as thoroughly as possible, nor will he wear knee pads, but he repeatedly rolls his ankles, gets his knees repeatedly banged and bruised.
Same with Manu. He said he felt great to start the season, after one month of doing nothing after Athens, came back with no aches or pains or injuries in October, started the season with incredible energy. Are all his current aches and pains and contusions and groin directly traceable to Athens? I really don't think so.
There are other sports, such as soccer, where players compete in their national tournaments and also play in the Olympic qualifiers, the WC qualifiers, their regional championships (Copa America, EuroCup, etc), the Olympics, the World Cup. They usually rest no more than one month per year.
I've never heard from Pele, Maradona, Beckham, Platini, Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos, etc, etc: "Oh, I'm tired, I think I will skip this year's World Cup . . ."
Agreed
Soccer players don't play up to 100+ all out games a year either.
Then reduce the number of games in the NBA regular season.
Sure you tell the players to handover a few million a year so they can play in the Olympics so Olympic officials can make a few million.
Huh?
PnR, the pressure of representing your country in the Olympics will not go away. The NBA will have to deal with it. the Olympics does not cut it.
Yep, if only Timmy was a little more selfish and chose to rest up instead of compe ing in the big scam.
Also, Manny is right in his point about Adidas. Tim has had probably 7/8 ankle sprains that have looked quite bad over the last 2 years, all wearing adidas. Before that, when he wore Nike, I can guarentee these things weren't happening as often. I don't know whether it is coincidence or not, but the Nike shoes he used to wear were of higher cut and designed much with being a bigman in mind. The Adidas he wears I don't rate at all, and the sheos must have something to do with him rolling his ankle every 15 games. Also yes, he should most definitly be taping those money making ankles u, why he doesn't I have no clue.
Guess you've never seen any of the exposes of the Sultans of te Olympics and how they live like royalty. you even have officials being bought off refereeing compe ons.
If the players don't want to go they won't. If owners, who pay their salaries don't let them go because the owners will be stuck paying $100 million dollar salaries on injured players, they won't. FranklyI don't give a rats ass about Olympic basketball. Let the US send YMCA league players and let East Bum win the gold.
Therein lies the difference. Most of us like the Spurs more than our respective Olympic team.
Picnroll, soccer is a far more demanding sport on the body and legs than soccer is.
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Just when I started to understand Ducks adidas11 comes along.
no its easy
soccer >>>><<<<< soccer
called a mistype i think
I sense this thread is taking a turn towards funny photos of soccer players getting kicked in the balls.
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