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Joe Ingles Appreciation Thread (Edit: Confirmed ACL, Out for Season)

campaignist said:
I am 100% on board with Joe getting the “Udonis Haslem life time achievement” contract and just have him on the sidelines every game.
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I was actually gonna say that padding Joe's bank account with a minimum contract and letting him live in Australia is a better use of the money and roster spot than is being used by Azubuike.
 
Wut the **** is going on? Didn’t watch the game. Reading this sounds like Ingles had some kind of season ending injury. What happened?

He has given us so much, was it a knee, achilles, what?
 
Thee Idiotic Minivan K said:
Wut the **** is going on? Didn’t watch the game. Reading this sounds like Ingles had some kind of season ending injury. What happened?

He has given us so much, was it a knee, achilles, what?
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Likely a torn ACL (if not altogether ruptured and/or several different ligament tears) and almost certainly a dislocated knee-cap.

I think we just saw his last night in a Jazz uniform.
 
Great stuff from Tony Jones latest article about Joe's leadership and locker-room presence.

“It’s not even about the basketball at this point,” Utah forward Rudy Gay said. “Just having him in the locker room is good for us. That’s our guy.”

Those words encapsulate what Ingles means to the Jazz and has meant to the Jazz. At his peak, he was one of the better two-way small forwards in the league. He was a pick-and-roll maestro. He developed into a knockdown shooter and had excellent size for his position. He was a terrific defender in his younger years, particularly in help defense. He was one of the best passers and ball movers of the Snyder era and someone who made a living at secondary playmaking.

But, more important than anything Ingles did on the court, he was perhaps the single most important player of the Snyder era within the locker room. And, if not the single most important guy, he was certainly on the shortlist. His biting sense of humor, his ability to keep a mood light, his philanthropy within the Utah community, all of those factors contributed to what he came to mean to the Jazz and the organization as a whole.
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Even Sunday morning in shootaround, Ingles was his normal self, bringing life to a group that had been struggling the last two weeks, much of it without Mitchell and Gobert. He participated in a shooting contest with Elijah Hughes. He joked with coaches and teammates. He was very much one of the people with a positive outlook on things as the Jazz have struggled through a difficult stretch that included games against the Golden State Warriors, Phoenix Suns and Memphis Grizzlies.

That kind of presence within a locker room, it’s almost impossible to replace, even if his production on the court wasn’t the same this season. Ingles was also one of the veterans who badly wanted to win a championship, which made him going down Sunday night even more difficult to stomach. He’s been with the Jazz through a lot. He was there through the early years of Snyder when the Jazz were trying to find their footing in the league with a young roster. He was there through the initial playoff seasons. He was one of the guys who picked up a bunch of slack when Gordon Hayward left the Jazz in free agency for the Boston Celtics. He was one of the guys who had a real impact when Mitchell and Gobert were going through their issues a few seasons ago.

If Ingles is out for an extended period of time, the hole in the locker room will be gigantic. The Jazz have already missed Derrick Favors’ steady leadership and mentorship, as he has moved on to the Oklahoma City Thunder. Missing Ingles as well creates a vacuum that will be difficult to replicate off the floor.
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https://theathletic.com/3102108/202...oom-and-on-the-court-will-be-hard-to-replace/
 
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I'm hoping beyond reason that he can somehow at least walk and stay with the team. He's so god damn important to the locker room.
 
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