This sounds exactly like what happened last year. After 20 games or so, he suddenly was "day-to-day" until they finally admitted he needed to be shut down for the season.
Not that I'm aware of. It's kinda like Dillon's ankle injury. I'm not sure when he rolled it, but suddenly he's missed the last 3 games.
It was a couple of games before he went out, I think it was the Sacramento game. He gets injured, goes out and slams his towel down and is visibly upset on the bench and looks concerned. He ended up going to the locker room and then comes back and I believe he played the rest of that game and the following two games. The way he looked on he bench I figured it was something serious as he was pissed off. He likely just tried to play through it. Based on what his mother said I wouldn't be surprised if he lied about feeling any pain just so he could play the next game or two.
World class facilities cannot change circumstances that are not conducive to playing elite sports. We can only guess but I would think his condition is a strange and novel one. ---- at least uncommon.
I mean, we're not really owed an explanation on the man's injuries. That being said and understood, "soreness" is not an injury. "injury management" is a confirmation of injury but not an explanation. I think the thing that bugs me is how they talk without saying anything. Is it a pulled muscle? Stress fractures? Rolled ankle/ligament? Quit trying to make it sound like him playing a couple 30 minute efforts made him so sore he had to sit out a couple weeks.
I wish I had some context of other players going through this, but I can't recall anyone having something like this done in all my years of following sports. So, it is a HOPE, more than anything I guess. DD
i’ll just flag that if anyone is going to overcome this situation, it’s Tari. I believe in Tari. He’s incredibly mentally strong. I think he has the biggest motor I’ve ever seen during my entire time as a rockets fan. I have very strong faith that this is just a rough patch recovering from a significant surgery and that we won’t be talking about this next season. I’m not a doctor but some injuries/surgeries take longer to fully recover from. I’m betting on Tari.
I thought Coach pretty much explained it’s still ongoing injury management from his major surgery last April/May — bone graft and rod. As a rec player at his young age, I wouldn’t do anything for a year after that, to achieve maximum recovery. But he’s a pro, so … the play must go on, but don’t be careless. I’m also confident he practices still, not just sitting around. And with his history of playing through pain, seems they’ve convinced him to be honest about pain during practice. Im fine with the details they’ve already provided.
What's weird s that they haven't been "managing" the injury. He played full effort, and in every game, and then they shut him down I guess Tari maybe wasn't open, or maybe they didn't expect it to need management. It seems he should have been sitting B2B's or something of the sort from opening day.
pretty wild that we have to load manage him in year 3 and he's been a bench player his entire tenure.
He was definitely on a 20 minutes restriction early on. Plus, only played 2 pre-season games vs 4 for the rest of The Core. And Coach reported he got cleared for more. Then it seems he pulled a Yao Ming, and wasn’t completely honest about recurring pain.
They want the pain down to zero. Basically saying, screw this … let’s wait for no pain "Obviously, if it lingers longer than expected, but the pain has subsided and he's been very close to going in," Udoka said. "So we just want to make sure that 100% of the pain is dissipated before he gets back out there. And so if the pain doesn't go down, obviously with less workouts or games or ramp up, that would be a concern, obviously. But he's going in the right direction."
