I hope they take advantage of the techs and use them to get KP days off. Get to 15 T's then get one during the first of a back-to-back. Rinse and repeat.
https://www.nba.com/stats/events?CFID=&CFPARAMS=&GameEventID=381&GameID=0022300031&Season=2023-24&flag=1&title=Porzingis T.FOUL (P2.T3) (N.Green)
Where did you see him get hurt? They didn’t show anything on NBC Sports Boston I could find.
Blake wouldn't be signed to win them a game - he would be an in-case-of-emergency big. There were rumors that Stevens wanted him back before the season started but Griffin has been leaning towards retirement. We don't know if Porzingis will be out for a long period of time and we don't know if the C's still want Blake or whether he'd even come back. But my guess is they go in that direction before making any bigger moves.
I'm having trouble understanding what you mean in post #69 then. If KP (a somewhat-fragile center with an injury history on both knees who's an all-star if healthy) were like AD (the same, only a bit more fragile and all-NBA when healthy, and injuries are more foot/groin than knees), we would not be getting excited (?) that he was about to miss a ton of time (?)... like I just can't follow what you're saying, or even parse if it's sarcastic or sincere.
I could have worded more clearly.
The bone bruise was around the trade deadline in 2022. He was out for a few weeks, then returned early March to play out the rest of the season with Washington.
ACL is a freak type of injury though. Where will he rank without that and only include normal wear and tear missed games? Like I don't expect him to play under 65-70 games unless he suffers another similar injury that could happen to anyone.
Or Rodgers who complained of calf strain in camp and then ripped his to shreds. Of course, that godawful MetLife turf may have contributed.
This is the first thing I thought of as well and it still could be the Achilles as they will never say otherwise until it Durants.
Exactly! Years ago that used to be followed up the next day with, "Will fly to Alabama to be evaluated by Dr. James Andrews."
Sometimes a calf strain is just a calf strain (pleasestayhealthypleasestayhealthypleasestayhealthypleasestayhealthypleasestayhealthypleasestayhealthy) . . . .
11 of the 18 games IND has played so far - IND and/or their opponent has scored 130+
The flip side is that Horford seems to play great with lots of rest. I bet they give Al more run in this one, like 30-34 minutes. (Which, to be clear, I'm fine with: I'd like to see on a one-off basis how he does with some extra minutes, before putting him back in his 25-mins/game-and-no-B2Bs bubble-wrap.)
Those have been Horford's normal rotation minutes when starting so no reason not to expect 30-34 aside from variables.
Good point: I didn't say that he had played 33 against Philly.
Me either. For one thing, and I assume this is what you mean, I think we can beat Indy without him and they lack the kind of player that we really need KP for (Horford matches up really well with Turner imo).
