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Exum Injured

Whoever is recommending starting Burks at pg is high. If we start him, our bench scoring would be abysmal.

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LogGrad98 said:
According to what theory?

That is like saying that if I were in a car accident on my way to work this morning, and I say I wish I had gone a different route to avoid it, saying I would have had a car accident anyway. That makes no sense.
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I don't think that's the right comparison to what he is saying, unless you say the accident was caused by your tire coming off due lose lugnuts, and the damage done was to axel, calipers, and rotors. Not from an accident with another car. So it could and would have happened on any road. Wouldn't that be a better comparison?
 
Cunning Linguist said:
You've been very solid throughout this thread but this is quite a bit off and hyperbole. I think I know what you're saying. That his body type, bone structure, what have you, made him more predisposed to injury. However, this is pure speculation. He went 20 years without a major injury like this and like many of these injuries, it may just be a freak thing.
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I was more going off the idea that it was a wear and tear injury that would have happened eventually with lots of playing/practicing.
 
I don't have time to wade through this thread. Can someone please update me on the facts of the case? What about the relevant speculations on the case? tia. rep.
 
fishonjazz said:
Well since it was a non contract injury then it shouldn't scare him from attacking. It could have happened simply dribbling the ball up the court or while guarding a player on defense.
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The injury came from coming down on one leg with most of his weight in an awkward position, it wasn't going to happen without that impact. As part of his recovery, I'm sure he'll go through dynamic strengthening and positioning, to teach his body to land in less compromising position to reduce chance of this happening again.
 
NAOS said:
I don't have time to wade through this thread. Can someone please update me on the facts of the case? What about the relevant speculations on the case? tia. rep.
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Exum suffered a non-contact injury in an exhibition game. The on-court diagnosis was a torn ACL, but he flew back to Utah for a confirmation of the diagnosis by the team's medical staff. We haven't heard from the Jazz yet.
 
sgjazzfan said:
The injury came from coming down on one leg with most of his weight in an awkward position, it wasn't going to happen without that impact. As part of his recovery, I'm sure he'll go through dynamic strengthening and positioning, to teach his body to land in less compromising position to reduce chance of this happening again.
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There was absolutely nothing mechanically strange about how he came down. You're jumping all day long while playing basketball, and you "come down on one leg" dozens of times a game.
 
NAOS said:
I don't have time to wade through this thread. Can someone please update me on the facts of the case? What about the relevant speculations on the case? tia. rep.
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Injured knee on non contact inury, looked bad on video. Diagnosed with possible ACL sprain presumably by docs on hand. Will get MRI when he returns to Utah, likely to confirm the expected result. Some are in hopeful denial, others are in wrist splitting doom. Others are meh, he wasn't that good anyways.
 
Siro said:
There was absolutely nothing mechanically strange about how he came down. You're jumping all day long while playing basketball, and you "come down on one leg" dozens of times a game.
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Perhaps not, but the landing was "awkward" enough that it presumably put the ACL in an position to give out. They will do strengthening on the muscles that help keep the knee in place so the ACL isn't put in as much of a compromised position on impact. Part of that will be positioning, which may need to be changed slightly to use more leg muscles than rely on the ligament.
 
Diamond77 said:
Somebody can explain me why the Jazz allowed Exum to play such a worthless friendly games with his national team, especially after his ankle injury in the SL! I know the Jazz want that he gains experience with playing time but I think they did a levity.
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Why did Indiana let Paul George play with the U.S. national team last summer? These are warmup games leading up to Australia's Olympic qualifying tournament. Jazz run the same risk as any team letting Gobert play for France or Burke play in a game in Africa...and so do all NBA teams with guys playing for their national teams...INCLUDING the U.S. National team.
 
Another way to look at this is at least it didn't happen after we gave him a contract at $20M/per. DL can trade for a vet while Dante recovers physically and works on his game. He might never be 100% again. Sad, but Jazz could really use a veteran presence at PG...someone who can give them immediate contributions, instead of waiting for Exum to grow chest hair, be aggressive and shoot consistently.
 
The worst thing about knee injuries is that it doesn't just affect the injured knee, it affects both cuz you start to compensate for the bad knee with the good knee.....he's ****ed
 
sgjazzfan said:
Injured knee on non contact inury, looked bad on video. Diagnosed with possible ACL sprain presumably by docs on hand. Will get MRI when he returns to Utah, likely to confirm the expected result. Some are in hopeful denial, others are in wrist splitting doom. Others are meh, he wasn't that good anyways.
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Very nice summary
 
NAOS said:
I don't have time to wade through this thread. Can someone please update me on the facts of the case? What about the relevant speculations on the case? tia. rep.
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Jazzfanz medical staff can only agree on one thing, it's probably an ACL(twitter has been an invaluable diagnostic tool in this regard).
 
Stifle Tower said:
Another way to look at this is at least it didn't happen after we gave him a contract at $20M/per. DL can trade for a vet while Dante recovers physically and works on his game. He might never be 100% again. Sad, but Jazz could really use a veteran presence at PG...someone who can give them immediate contributions, instead of waiting for Exum to grow chest hair, be aggressive and shoot consistently.
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Also, as someone else mentioned.... Now maybe we will get him allot cheaper on his next deal which would be really nice considering that Hayward and favors would have just got big raises, and then there is Gobert contract.

This could be a blessing in disguise if he comes back to 100% and then takes a couple years to reach his full potential.

Imagine that we re-sign favors, Hayward, and rudy to huge contracts and they are all all-star level guys...... Then we get Exum for really cheap and soon after he signs that cheap deal he makes a huge leap.


(I think Burks will be getting paid big time too and be one the guys involved in this core scenario but I will leave him out for now and avoid getting flamed)
 
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