I could be wrong, and there's no way I'm going back to look, but I'm pretty sure there's a very specific reason this thread got off on the tangent it did...
Spida’s Ankle
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DasJazz
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If I had to call it anything, I'd say it was his knee.
Ineptimusprime
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Let’s just love Mitchell while he is here. I think everyone knows there is a very significant chance he moves on from Utah after his next contract is up, especially if we have failed to win a championship by then. But let’s not think about that right now.
all I can say is you do have your own reality bubble. Well, at least you cheer FOR the Jazz.
I'm not "in there" like "on the team" so what do I know really. Still, what I have seen takes me down this lane. I am biased perhaps by my brother who watches every game. Team chemistry changed when we brought Donovan on. He says...... and it could be logically argued it was an improvement over what was going on before/
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He would only do it for selfish reasons and to get attention for himself.
Just dripping with sarcasm, I know.
I don't think we had as much team cohesion and spirit and effort when we had Stockton to Malone, and that was awesome.
SteakNEggs
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So... I asked this a while ago but when is the last time DM has skyd up for a huge dunk? I truthfully can't remember. Maybe I'm just paranoid but I do think there's more to this injury.
DasJazz
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He's had some pretty acrobatic attempts at the basket in this series but he ultimately adjusted for layup attempts due to the defense.
Tonight was a full display of an ankle injury that has worn down. Donovan had the audacity to pressure the medical staff to clear him for games towards the end of the regular season. Listen, you can call it drive, gutsy, etc. all you want. The Jazz medical staff was right in knowing it wasn’t going to last. The Jazz have played the least amount of playoff games of any team. Donovan has played a total of 9 games. And now 9 games later, that ankle is cooked and he’s putting strain on his left leg, he can’t drive, he can’t beat anyone off the dribble, he can’t jump, he can’t defend correctly because he can’t cut, and our season is over. You can win games 6 and 7 and pull out this series, that ankle is toast and has no time to get better now. It’s sad, it’s unfortunate, but with that ankle simply getting more painful and less useful with one day in between grueling playoff games, the door has slammed shut. I do think the Jazz staff would have attempted to manage his ankle more aggressively had he let them. 9 games later, his ankle is simply done. Injuries got us too.
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Can't fault him for wanting to play. Same thing with Embid. His injury has affected his play as well. It's the playoffs; it's do or die. As Greg Anthony did say, you can still play with a bad ankle and help the team. Look at Harden who was a shell of himself last game but he gutted it out to help the team. That's not being a diva; that's simply wanting to help your team win.
The reason he’s a diva is because of the passive aggressive IG posts he always puts up, and the running to national media he does every time he gets mad, not the fact he wanted badly to play. It’s great he tried, but in the end the ankle was not ready for a full playoff run and I’m sure the medical staff knew that and would have liked to punt some games to give his ankle more rest. Obviously they weren’t even going to try to stop him from playing any games after he made a national story over it. At this point he’s putting a lot of pressure on his other leg now. Every time he jumps he’s making sure he lands on his left leg. Like now the strain of the injury on everything else has a real chance of hurting an achillies, knee, or something worse than just the ankle. I’m sure he’ll go for game 6, but it’s becoming pretty obvious it’s not all that smart, and there’s no way if we somehow did find a way to get to another series that it’s going to heal or hold up now. I’m not saying he shouldn’t have given those 9 games a go, I’m simply saying if you only made it 9 games, yeah his personal training staff is the ones he shouldn’t be trusting because he wanted to be cleared to play several games towards the end of the regular season. If by 9 games he’s at like 60% at this point he/his staff couldn’t have been more wrong at where his progression was. The Jazz training staff knew that ankle wasn’t going to hold up through a long playoff run and they were right. And here we are. Like many teams, our star ended up with an injury and our season is pretty much packed up. Hopefully the other guys can pull out a game 6 and 7 win. It’d still be fun to see.