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[Chron]Landry Update

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by bball1217, Mar 31, 2009.

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Can't wait to get him back:

The time to receive understanding and sympathy had passed. Carl Landry needed the normalcy he had missed.
He needed to again be a player, rather than a victim. He needed to have teammates mock him instead of console him.
On Monday, Landry returned to Rockets practice for the first time since he was shot nearly two weeks earlier, and he found little had changed. He stretched with the team, went through shooting drills, and smiled while teammates kidded him about coming back too late to make last week’s road trip to snowy Salt Lake City but in time to go to Phoenix and Los Angeles this week.
“Carl is as happy go-lucky as they come,” Shane Battier said after he and Landry completed their appearance at the team’s Driveway Challenge contest at the home of winner Lisa English of Stafford. “The enthusiasm is infectious. A great guy to be around.
“Obviously, what he went through was an unbelievably traumatic situation, and it’s our hope to bring some normalcy back to him. And the best way to do that is get on the court and joke with the guys and get back to competition.”
Landry, a 6-7 forward, had been around the Rockets only once — when he attended the last minutes of the morning shootaround March 18 — since the incident. He spoke that day about the events before and after he suffered a gunshot wound in the left calf early March 17.
Visibly shaken, he had said, “I’m blessed and lucky to be alive.”
On Monday, he ran on a treadmill at Toyota Center, played with a group of teenagers on a suburban driveway, and said he had suffered “a minor injury.”
“It’s going to be hard, but I’ve done a good job of not thinking about it.” Landry, 25, said. “I rarely ever think about it anymore because it’s in the past. You have to move on to the future. There’s greater things that God has for me. You can’t dwell on the past. You have to prepare for the future. I’m a strong-minded person. That’s something that happened. You move on from it.”
No timetable for return
Monday was an important day in that process, but just a first step. Neither Landry nor the Rockets put a timetable on when he would be able to practice or play, having had little experience with rehabilitation from gunshot wounds and not knowing how his injury would respond to Monday’s workload.
“Hopefully we’ll get him back, especially toward the end of the season when he can get some games under him before we hit the playoffs,” coach Rick Adelman said. “He’s huge for us off the bench — the energy he gives us, the scoring he gives us, just the whole package. I’m looking forward to seeing how quickly he progresses over the next week. I think he’s going to be able to get through it. It’s got to be a scary experience, but he seemed fine today.
“He seems really in good spirits right now. He came in and was just like the Carl of old. He had a smile on his face and went through some shooting, took a lot of ribbing from the players, and went on to what he has to do to get ready.”
In many ways, Landry seemed to have recovered.
“I’m doing fine,” he said. “I got on the treadmill a little bit, ran for a while. It felt good. I warmed up with the team a little bit. Didn’t do much, but I’m getting back out there. Just being around my teammates and the coaches and being able to put the ball in my hands again is a good thing.
Band of brothers
“It’s always good to be around my teammates. We’re always joking around. We’re all brothers. It was good to see every one of them. It was a lot of fun this morning, and I’m sure it will be the rest of the season.
“This is fun. It’s a dream come true to be in the NBA and a part of all the activities that go with it.”
Landry reveled in it all Monday, knowing that after nearly everything had changed, nothing had.
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#1 bball1217, Mar 31, 2009

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Sorry...here is the link:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/6350800.html

#2 bball1217, Mar 31, 2009
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That one did not work for me so:
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Sorry again

#3 bball1217, Mar 31, 2009
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It's been posted, just a heads up.
Get your flame-proof suit on.

#4 yaofan07, Mar 31, 2009
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Monday was an important day in that process, but just a first step. Neither Landry nor the Rockets put a timetable on when he would be able to practice or play, having had little experience with rehabilitation from gunshot wounds and not knowing how his injury would respond to Monday’s workload.

“Hopefully we’ll get him back, especially toward the end of the season when he can get some games under him before we hit the playoffs,” coach Rick Adelman said. “He’s huge for us off the bench — the energy he gives us, the scoring he gives us, just the whole package. I’m looking forward to seeing how quickly he progresses over the next week. I think he’s going to be able to get through it. It’s got to be a scary experience, but he seemed fine today.
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It sounds like he's out indefinitely.

#5 durvasa, Mar 31, 2009
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I know there's a lot of criticisms of this team... but the character of this team is really admirable... not just Landry alone, from the first guy to the fifteenth.

#6 t-mac4bigmac, Mar 31, 2009
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6-7 forward? Dude's 6-9. Supposedly.

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yaofan07 said:

It's been posted, just a heads up.
Get your flame-proof suit on.
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If it is, my bad.

But I did not see it posted, but I didn't look very hard either.

#8 bball1217, Mar 31, 2009
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6-7 forward? Dude's 6-9. Supposedly.
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Who said he was 6'9?

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MD_in_Training said:

6-7 forward? Dude's 6-9. Supposedly.
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dude's definitely not 6'9. even tmac's taller than him. landry's almost the same height as chuck. so he's most probably 6'7.

#10 engr_alex, Mar 31, 2009
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engr_alex said:

dude's definitely not 6'9. even tmac's taller than him. landry's almost the same height as chuck. so he's most probably 6'7.
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He looks to be the exact same height as Battier and McGrady when he stands next to him. I had the privilege of having some great seats one night and being about 10 feet from all three of them at once.

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Xsatyr said:

Who said he was 6'9?
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His NBA profile, as well as pre-draft measurements, have him at 6'9.

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Xsatyr said:

Who said he was 6'9?
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He said so himself in that interview after he got shot.

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According to DraftExpress, Landry was 6'7.75" without shoes when they did pre-draft measurements. With shoes, he's listed at 6'8.5" which rounds up to 6'9" by NBA standards. Usually players are at least an inch taller with shoes so I'm not sure what's up with that. Jeff Green was the same height as Landry w/o shoes but was 6'9.5" with shoes. I suppose it depends on what kind of shoes you're wearing when they do the measurements.

http://www.draftexpress.com/nba-pre...age=&year=2007&sort2=DESC&draft=0&pos=0&sort=

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durvasa said:

It sounds like he's out indefinitely.
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Not surprising,after going through such a physical and mental ordeal. We are definitely missing him.

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hopefully we get him back late next week

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BrooksBall said:

According to DraftExpress, Landry was 6'7.75" without shoes when they did pre-draft measurements. With shoes, he's listed at 6'8.5" which rounds up to 6'9" by NBA standards. Usually players are at least an inch taller with shoes so I'm not sure what's up with that. Jeff Green was the same height as Landry w/o shoes but was 6'9.5" with shoes. I suppose it depends on what kind of shoes you're wearing when they do the measurements.

http://www.draftexpress.com/nba-pre...age=&year=2007&sort2=DESC&draft=0&pos=0&sort=
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I wish he is 6'9, but he is NOT. He definitely is shorter than Tmac and Battier (not to mention 6'9 Scola), and is only a tad taller than Chuck. If he was 6'9, he wouldn't be so undersized on defense so often.

He was listed 6'7 in college.

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wireonfire said:

I wish he is 6'9, but he is NOT. He definitely is shorter than Tmac and Battier (not to mention 6'9 Scola), and is only a tad taller than Chuck. If he was 6'9, he wouldn't be so undersized on defense so often.

He was listed 6'7 in college.
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6'9 is his NBA height, i.e., with shoes. You are right about his actual height but if you want to compare him to other players, you have to take an inch off most every NBA players listed height.

He was measured at 6'7.75" without shoes at the pre-draft. I doubt they made a mistake.

The NBA generally uses height WITH shoes if it's available. Height with shoes is usually at least an inch taller than true height and rounded up. The NBA doesn't list half inches.

Landry is 6'8.5" with shoes. That rounds up to 6'9. His actual height is less but so is the actual height of most every other player in the league.

And Scola's TRUE height is 6'9. If he was measured with shoes, like the vast majority of other NBA players, he'd be listed on NBA.com, ESPN.com, etc... at 6'10. I don't believe he was ever measured with shoes because of when he came into the league. If you check out his Euro player profiles, he is listed at 206 cm and I believe they use true height in most cases overseas.

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cant wait

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so, he's gonna be back for the playoffs for sure???

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