How long do you figure we'll keep winning if James has to miss any time due to a back injury because of the load he's been forced to carry? If Dwight is too hurt to play, fine. I'd love to know how much longer he needs to recover(why is this such a mystery, Rockets organization?), but give him however long it takes. If however he could be playing right now, but not at 100%, unless he's seriously at risk of reinjuring himself, he needs to suit up. I'm pretty sure Bev wouldn't have been out there tonight had Papa not gone down with a knee injury, but guess what? He sucked it up and played and thank God he did or else this would've been a loss.
Coach McHale said tonight he can't even run...and you want him out there on the court? Let him get healthy.
We aren't even Halfway through the season and you want Dwight to play injured? Forest for the trees, my friend.
So the NBA is using it's official media outlet to actively reduce revenue one of their most profitable network and secretly subvert positive coverage of Rockets for some kind of faux-political agenda of the United States during an active campaign of globally expanding the league brand we've seen in the last 15 years?
I thought they said last week he was doing sprints. Granted, that's not the same as running up and down the court for 48(or 36 to be more precise) minutes, but is McHale now saying he can't run even in practice?
When Dwight and the guards get back, Harden needs to take some time off. As much as I'm enjoying this hot streak, gotta think long term. But until then, I don't mind Harden shouldering the workload as long as it's reasonable in term of injury risk.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Harden said he was unconcerned about the back going forward. Said was tight, had trouble moving in 2nd half.</p>— Jonathan Feigen (@Jonathan_Feigen) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Feigen/status/541443795217571841">December 7, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Sigh of relief
Could be back spasms which anyone who followed this team during the T-Mac era knows can keep a guy out for a while. Hell, it derailed the entire 2005-06 season.
this is what Harden does. He is so durable. I hate that he makes us feel like his injures are season ending though.. One game it looked like he severely sprained his ankle and acted like it too.. came out for one play.. that **** is murder on my heart.
Idk how long we'll be able to keep winning, because 90% of us thought if Harden or Dwight miss any significant time, we would lose most of our games, well that certainly isn't the case, is it? Harden will be fine, yes he carries a big load, yes he plays many minutes, but he's young and all the greats have done it, even Tim Duncan (used to average 40 minutes a game). Dwight will hopefully play on Wednesday
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>McHale sounded optimistic about getting Canaan &/or Dwight back relatively soon. Sounded far less hopeful abt timely return for Papanikolaou</p>— Adam Wexler (@awexler) <a href="https://twitter.com/awexler/status/541441008446091265">December 7, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> And thank goodness Pap only has a grade 1 mcl strain. That means nothing is torn.
I don't know what to say to you sir but there is certainly open China hostilities. Donald Trump's allegations of some type of currency manipulation so that labor/shares costs are cheaper giving them an edge. Or even the designer cocktail drug ingredients that are mainly sold and distributed exclusively via China I just saw in a CNN documentary. What other NBA arena advertises the way Toyota Center does? Who's naive here? You tell me.
On the topic of Dwight, I wouldn't be surprised to see him miss another week looking at the schedule. We don't play til Wednesday which is at Golden State. That's a tough matchup even at full strength. The next night at Sactown is also tough, but winnable assuming Harden is ok. Then they come home Saturday for Denver which is a worse team than Phoenix and Memphis and the Rockets handled those two. The next game isn't until the following Wednesday at Denver. So sitting Dwight these three games would buy him another week. And BTW, he'll have been out 4 weeks by the time they travel to Denver on the 17th. One would hope he'd be back by then. Anytime a player misses more than a month with an injury, it ain't minor.
