Tim Duncan Injury vs. Wiz (Update: Sprained Left Knee and Sprained Right Ankle)

[benefactor]

Man that looks bad in slow motion. I really hope these aren't the last moments of the Duncan era.

[TDMVPDPOY]

so the webster **** gets block falls down trying to sell a foul, lands on duncan....fck that

[Obstructed_View]

No , Jeff

Did he really ing say that?

[SpurPadre]

My birthday too fwiw...

Damn, if I weren't in Northern California I'd ask ya if you wanted to meet up at a bar and drink this pain away, LOL.

[Capt Bringdown]

How long is Pop supposed to sit Duncan out? The original plan was for TD to return last Saturday against the Suns. Pop held him out longer since the Spurs were winning and to buy Duncan some extra rest. Eventually Pop has to let him play. It's not like the plan was ever for Duncan to skip every "meaningless non-conference" games.

This injury was just a fluke. It sucks but not much anyone could have done now ...

Pop's earlier caginess with playing TD raises the question. It's not a matter of an arbitrary rule of X number of games, obviously. It's about good judgment in accessing risks, as it was with the Miami game.
We're playing the Wizards before the All-Star break. Tim is coming back from an injury.
Seems like as legitimate a point to sit him as with the Miami game.

Every injury is a fluke. You expect the coach to wisely minimize the risks, as he did with the Miami game. Right?

[Man In Black]

Leg whip, freak injury. I think it's kind of malicious of Webster because it doesn't need to happen. He could have just curled up in a defensive posture but he didn't. At any rate, the hindsight is dumb. A player can get injured walking down a flight of stairs at home. Who gets the blame. Tim Duncan is a pro basketball player and he plays in the NBA and he got hurt doing it. That happens on all levels. The difference is that this team has shown, above and beyond, about how serious they are when it comes to health and injuries. Paying for surgeries for players that never even played in the NBA for them(Javtokas), making Tim sit for the 2000 season to not risk further injury, bringing in state of the art healing modalities such as the Hydroworx Underwater Treadmill.

Freak injury-Thanks Martell Webster...but again, I think we need to thank the Brace company for the knee and Will or Dice's tape job for the ankle. The Leg Whip could have caused more injury without those preventative measures.

[99 Problems]

Oh. Tim. Just Oh.

[Obstructed_View]

Not being JR Smith best friend works for me...

[Mugen]

the replay is pretty much identical to the Tom Brady injury tbh.

[HarlemHeat37]

Sean doesn't seem to think it's that bad, but he's an optimistic and positive person, he may not have actually heard anything yet..

[RodNIc91]

His face said it all. FML

[emanueldavidginobili]

Now that I got a look at it, that looks to me like a torn ACL, and will be surprised if its not. Im praying its not, this ing sucks.

[Ice009]

JMcDonald_SAEN Maybe it's just me, but the mood on the Spurs' bench (players and coaches) just seems grim.

That's not what I wanted to hear at all. The mood tells a lot. .

[benefactor]

Pop's earlier caginess with playing TD raises the question. It's not a matter of an arbitrary rule of X number of games, obviously. It's about good judgment in accessing risks, as it was with the Miami game.
We're playing the Wizards before the All-Star break. Tim is coming back from an injury.
Seems like as legitimate a point to sit him as with the Miami game.

Every injury is a fluke. You expect the coach to wisely minimize the risks, as he did with the Miami game. Right?

None of that made any sense.

[td4mvp21]

Mother. er.

[SpurPadre]

the replay is pretty much identical to the Tom Brady injury tbh.

You have to believe Tom was hit with more force, though, right?

[Obstructed_View]

Sean doesn't seem to think it's that bad, but he's an optimistic and positive person, he may not have actually heard anything yet..

Sean's a bigger Spurs fan than about half of Spurstalk put together, and he had to witness it live and still do his job. He's firmly in the "denial" phase.

[SpurPadre]

I mean, when Manu gets his bi-weekly injury, the bench is like "Oh, that's just Manu being Manu" and play on. Now they look like Bonner cloned two more of him and forced Pop to sign them to the team. That's how grim it looks.

[timvp]

Pop's earlier caginess with playing TD raises the question. It's not a matter of an arbitrary rule of X number of games, obviously. It's about good judgment in accessing risks, as it was with the Miami game.
We're playing the Wizards before the All-Star break. Tim is coming back from an injury.
Seems like as legitimate a point to sit him as with the Miami game.

Every injury is a fluke. You expect the coach to wisely minimize the risks, as he did with the Miami game. Right?

There are five more games before the All-Star break. If Duncan was healthy enough to play last Saturday, how much extra is Pop supposed to sit him out? Just sit him out on back-to-backs and/or every game against a bad team?

Eventually Duncan had to play. Giving him a warmup before going out on the road for the RRT sounds like a more than reasonable plan to me.

[HarlemHeat37]

Ya, everybody will have to wait until the MRI, no point in predicting..

I'm dreading logging in to SpursTalk tomorrow afternoon, that update could be ing scary..

[Trainwreck2100]

that's either a sprained knee or a career ender

[DMC]

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[timtonymanu]

Agreed with Harlem. Not even sure I want to log onto ST or even tune into ESPN/NBATV.

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[Fabbs]

I really liked some of the cat praying photos some of you posted.