Sad thing is even if Eddie averaged 15 ppg for the rest of the season, he would barely be avg 11 ppg. No way he can catch Gaso or Battier in that column. Hopefully, the nba will look at ppg per 48 minutes. All of those garbage time games, and/or no offensive plays, will limit his season ending stats.
Hey Crispee, OP, etc...... Does anybody know of a Rookie of the Year, that won based upon his performance (per 48 minutes)? Anybody that exploded in the 2nd half (or 2/3) of the season to win the ROY?
Now I'm not the type to just openly believe someone's word on the street, but if the thread about him going to a stripclub two nights ago is true, then I am very dissapointed in Francis. Following his DUI, whether it was fair or not, and now migraine headaches following a assumed trip to a strip club. If it is true it is pathetic. If not, then I hope he gets better soon.
OK, his migraine problem is really starting to bother me. It seems to be chronic... Jesus, I hope he doesn't have a tumor or chronic circulatory problems. That would be bad for him, but devastating for the team. Well, devastating for everyone, I guess...
If we don't go to the playoffs next year then Rudy should be fired. Its no reason you shouldn't be able to get atleast the 8th seed with Mo, Eddie, Steve, Cat, and maybe Rashard. If the Clippers are in the mix I know we should be.
Maybe if he wasn't up at STRIP clubs the night before a game partying, he might not get the Migraines. Just a thought !!! DD
Smeg, you called it! Most of the posts about the game complain about this offensive play or that offensive play. The simple fact is that the Rockets scored over 100 points. Offense was not the problem. If Alvin Williams had been held to his average, the Rockets win!
Migraines are severe headaches that are usually have acute on onset but chronic in nature. They are not tensions headaches brought on by common lifestyle compensation. They develop usually on one specific area of the head. Are progressive and zenith a blinding, nauseating, persistent and intractable. Sometimes they are associated with malformed conglomerations of blood vessels. Sometimes they are associated with neoplasms (unnatural tissue growths). They develop a set of pre-onset signals, some of which are the primary signs that the patient knows that one is coming and are called "triggers". These triggers can be single or complex in scope - as a combination of stress, sunlight, chocalate, sulfides in wines, certain specific smells or tastes, auditory stimuli, or something as simple as a mild sinus congection. They sometimes are accompaied by auras (lights, halos,chromographic intereferences, etc..) or without an aura recognition. And due to this are sometimes classed by clinicians as aura or non-aura type. There can be familial predispositions or no genetic dispostion. They are insidious and pervasive. They effect males and females alike and can have initial onset as early as preteen and as late as seniority. They are horrific in effect. They can cause an unrelenting wide scope of pain descriptions. But by and large .... they are horrific, throbbing and very difficult to arrest. Personally I have luckily only had migraines on six or seven occasions. One of these occasions lasted six hours and I was a blithering idiot for days afterwards. I was able to find an answer with a medication (sumatriptin) that is frequently prescribed these days and very effect. So effective in fact that at some clinical settings the medication was used to diagnios a "true" migraine from a "severe" tension headache. I have had patients that would gladly have accepted suicide as an alternative and sadly there are documented cases of that solution being chosen by some migraine sufferers. I can certainly understand some coming to that conclusion having had the experience myself. Steve Francis was sent home ( Washington area) to see a specialist who has treated migraines in a pain management and diagnostic center for years. They are known for their research and compile data as well treat stubborn or idiopathic (i.e. unknown etiology) migraines. The key is not always to find the reason. They first attempt to rule out pathological events - brain lesions (tumors), arterio-venous clusters (malformations), stenosis factors (narrowing of blood vessels), allergy sequences. In a lot of cases it is attributed to a spasmodic reaction at some key circulatoiry site. The specific area is very difficult to identify. They are lucky to find the triggers or sentinal stimuli that set off the incidents and that defines the preventitive tretament plan.. And, on occasions merely eliminating these triggers reduces the occurances drastically. The most paramount focus for the patient is finding an effective teatment. 1. Steve has had multiple diagnostics and several trial treatments in the past. 2. The cause has not been identified as yet. 3. On occasion he is totally debilitated by the onset or incapacitated by the treatment(medications) chosen. Both of which require him to Not play. PS: I am so busy that I am a particularily lousy speller today. Sorry.
