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Yeah just saw this on TNT...
kd is about to be exposed for the cream puff he is. dude no shows constantly in the 4th quarter. dont want to be second anymore? well here's your chance.
Yeah just saw this on TNT...
Yep
We're the Heat's worst matchup coming out of the West. We have pound it down post scoring and a quicksilver PG, both of which they struggle with.Yay! We're going to win the West and have the privilege of losing to the Heat in the Finals.
People act like LeBron is God. He's 1-2 in the Finals.
I was just thinking that when I heard about Westbrook yesterday.
i'm genuinely going to miss his dumb ass sail boat shirts and over sized glasses to giggle at after each game
ahh well...
Don't doubt KD seriously, I can see him making a Dirk Nowitzki run tbh
The Thunder with KD are still a great team. Thing that is going to hurt OKC is that they have 0 time to figure out how to play without Russell.
The Thunder, in their existence have played a total of 0 games without Westbrook. He is also "their closer" every game, meaning he is the one who has the ball in his hands down the stretch setting up the offense or taking the shot. Durant has his hands full and I don't see him being able to figure it all out without an adjustment period. They are definitely still going to be a tough out. I think MEM or LAC can beat them now though.
Dirk didn't have to go through us. I think a one player team would really struggle trying to do that.
Huge talent blow but his replacement isn't a scrub. Plus he will find Durant more often like WB should so they might end up with more consistent good looks.
Im not a fan of winning when a teams superstar is out. I think it will always be said what if, or wouldve could've. I cant wait to see us in the 2nd round.
There is what ifs in every playoff. Nobody remembers things like this when looking back at history. Injuries are apart of the game and the Spurs have been on the wrong side of this many many times. Nobody felt sorry for us.
If the Spurs were able to make it to the Finals and actually beat the Heat (which I do think is very possible if all healthy), nobody will care about the OKC situation, bc we were able to beat the Heat.
I'm not one of the ones that think the Heat would automatically trample us. Depends on health and Spurs mindset at the time. Hopefully they are rolling and make it that far.
This.
I don't celebrate another teams injuries, but I sure as will appreciate the advantage. Your whole season can go to crap in a twist of an ankle or knee.
With this injury, I don't see OKC making the WCF. For Spurs, it quite erases the issues created by the waiving of Stephen Jackson. Spurs have what it takes at SF to compete with the other WC teams. It remains Miami, but with or without Jackson, Spurs will be crushed by them if they reached the Finals.
I hate to say I told you so lmbebo, but...
"Although we are of course disappointed that Russell will be unable to return to the floor with his teammates this season, the opportunity to repair the meniscus as opposed to remove it was the best possible scenario for Russell's long term health as a player and person," said Thunder executive vice president and general manager Sam Presti in a statement.
My prognostication was from having a medical background, not google.
How does anything I said actually NOT coincide with what was reported?
As I quote myself "It may be a longer recovery if they sutured the periphery of the meniscus and are giving it time to heal versus shaving/debrieding a relatively avascular portion of the meniscus."
I diagnose these tears every day... I don't have the greatest knowledge in there management (still learning, but thats primarily up to the orthopedic surgeon when they go and scope the patient).
If you really want to learn about the meniscus there is a great article in the AJR - American Journal of Roentgenology (Yellow journal) from September 2012 written by a radiologist by the name of Arthur De Smet (from Univ of Wisconsin) about how he evaluates the menisci and tears. He spent his career researching the menisci. (edit: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22915388)
If your going to bust out the "I hate to say I told you so" line, make sure you read first and can understand it. And are you sure your not the one using google?
Plus, no information was released (that I've seen) that actually said what kind of tear he had. Just that it involved the lateral meniscus.
I theorized that Westbrook could opt to go the Ronnie Lott method and go macho and take the shave but I hedged and said that if he goes repair, he's out for 6 weeks minimally. I don't know how many people are like me and spent their 500 hours in an Athletic Training room studying Sports Medicine, but realize that there are others here who do this professionally at some sort of capacity.
Since he went REPAIR, it simply means that the Doctor was able to repair what probably was a bucket handle tear that had good blood supply. I agree with Presti whole-heartedly. Like Pop, who had to the same thing with Tim in 2000, Presti learned about how Pop handled it and decided that if the Surgeon could repair, then he would shut Westbrook down. Good for the athlete, bad for OKC this playoff run.
Stop being realistic. We want to dream.
Considering that the chances of the Spurs run also getting derailed by injury is pretty high, it's difficult to know what to feel about this news. Obviously, it sucks for Westbrook and OKC ... but it doesn't impact the Spurs much right now since the second round will be far from a given.
There've been four times when the Spurs could have played the Heat in the NBA Finals: 1999, 2005, 2006, and 2012. Let's hope it finally happens this time.
This has to be the craziest year in NBA history in terms of injuries.
even if the Spurs get out of the west, how in the world would they be able to beat the Heat?
Last year was pretty nuts as well tbh. More season ending injuries this year tho.
If Spurs lose against Thunder, there will be NO excuses. It goes in our favor now though.
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