Howard and Lin miss practice with sore backs 3/3/14

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Dwight Howard on his back: &quot;It's pretty sore.&quot; He's going to try and play tonight gainst the Heat.Said 2 days ago &quot;couldn't get out of bed.&quot;</p>&mdash; Mark Berman (@MarkBermanFox26) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkBermanFox26/statuses/440892913635954688">March 4, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Dwight Howard said his back his still sore but he wants to try to play tonight against Heat- he rushed off for treatment from shoot around</p>&mdash; Jenny Dial Creech (@jennydialcreech) <a href="https://twitter.com/jennydialcreech/statuses/440892672962605056">March 4, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>.<a href="https://twitter.com/DwightHoward">@DwightHoward</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/JLin7">@JLin7</a> both participated in shoot around this morning, but will be game-time decisions with sore backs.</p>&mdash; Houston Rockets (@HoustonRockets) <a href="https://twitter.com/HoustonRockets/statuses/440892702045917184">March 4, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Well damn. That doesn't sound good.

Can we fire the training staff yet? Back injuries seem unreasonably common for our team.

 

They should sit out. No need to risk injury aggravation.

 

Doesn't sound very promising for Dwight.

 

Hope Dwight play. But if he doesn't, man, what a luxury to have Asik. We may still compete with them with Asik. Imagine no Dwight and no Asik against the Heat.

 

Rest them ... Harden played very good against them last year... He will carry the team once again until the end winning or losing.

 

Play Dwight tonight if he can, then rest him tomorrow if his back gets worse

 

This is all a mind game they are playing on the Heat.

 

i can imagine DHO can be a mind game, but Lin???? nah, there must be truth to this back spasms

 

Lol...wouldn't put it past the coaching staff to do this to throw off Miami's game plan. Don't think it really should make that much a difference for the outcome though. Hope they both get better quick

 

Back when Parson was having back spasm, Lin said it was from the plane's seat

 

no use fretting about this game. DH should heal up.. besides no need to show our hand for when we meet in the finals.

 

I think it might have been Daryl Morey during a December interview on 790. He said people were wondering what the cause of Parsons and Lin 's back spasms were. Morey said the Rockets had just gotten a new plane, and some people thought it was the plane seats. It might make sense for Lin who was icing his back and on the stationary bike during the Pistons game right after their road trip. It makes less sense for Dwight who looked really good in that game

 

Has there been an update as to if Howard will play?

My buddy (Heat fan) is coming over and I want it to be a game at full strength. (Considering IMO Canaan and Lin are equal.)

 

We should pull a Pop and rest our these two, even if they feel they are ready to go.

 

I've never had back spasms, but one time I was sitting in a hard plastic chair for a long time and my penis fell asleep.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Both Dwight Howard and Jeremy Lin (sore backs) are expected to play tonight against the Heat.</p>&mdash; Mark Berman (@MarkBermanFox26) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkBermanFox26/statuses/440982587079532544">March 4, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Respect them for playing.

 

true, worried about the recovery but relieved that it's not something deeper than back issues.