down w/ a strained achilles. mri tomorrow. non-contact. fuck.
things were going too well.

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Theyre guessing Lakers are calling it a strain til MRI where they can confirm its torn and hes done for the year.

Sucks if true given he was having a bit of a revial year


>down w/ a strained achilles. mri tomorrow. non-contact.
>fuck.
>things were going too well.
>
>On Now
>Lakers vs Pelicans
>Pistons vs Hornets
>Clippers vs Brooklyn
>Cavs vs Bucks
>Magic vs Spurs
>
>9pm EST
>Rockets vs Jazz

Not sure who you are reading on reddit but a Thompson test has an established .96 sensitivity...meaning it can rule out full Achilles tears with a false positive rate of only 4%. An MRI would be used to confirm that but you don't need an MRI to have a very good indicator of whether it's a full tear vs a strain. If Nunez knows his stuff (and he's given every indication that he does esp with his technique while evaluating injuries during games), then if it's being called a strain, it's more than likely a strain.

Lastly, a "classic tear" would occur during active plantar-flexion of the foot where the Achilles activates and tears. Looking at the replay, Nick doesn't have a pain response until he lands on one foot which immediately tells me it's likely a high impact dorsiflexion mechanism which can also damage the Achilles via tensioning it (stretching) but doesn't place nearly the amount of load as plantar-flexion. I could easily be reading the replay wrong but that would be my inclination based on when he responded and subsequent diagnosis of strain (again, assuming Nunez used the Thompson test).

You don't think it's possible they' know what's up and just are saying strain pending MRI because the fight want to announce it being torn right away?

I'm going based off 2 assumptions: 1) Nunez knows the optimal manual test and 2)The info released so far is based off that test.

Very similar to an Achilles strain bc the calf (could be gastrocs or soleus) essentially becomes the Achilles' tendon. The mechanism is almost surely dorsiflexion tension as I described above.

Moral of the story: Attention to detail matters, esp when it comes to diagnostics.

In general, you can't do much to prevent high impact acute force injuries, he landed in a high stress angle off a dynamic movement....it's an unfortunate series of events.

Going forward, I'd tell him to be really sensitive to *any* pain in that leg because the calf is a big force absorber along with plantar-flexor so pain somewhere else in the chain would very likely be indicative of compensation...which can lead to subsequent injury.

and yeah, bummer for Young. Hopefully it's not too bad.
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They've been playing much better since Jrue returned, we blew them out after AD went out last time, and they are coming off 2 pretty bad losses on the road. That combined with our win over ATL and our first long distance road game in over a week had me really nervous about the game. Kept telling myself I was just being overly pessimistic but we were asleep at the wheel in the first half with I'm sure some shell-shock from Nick going down...NOH was the aggressor, got wherever they wanted.

is that he can basically Rondo it out there, but more efficiently

taking less shots, but getting about 9 assists a game

this is a cool reversal of how he was early in his career when he was basically "the man"

he still is, but he's doing it way differently know

and they catch a L

something wasn't right

the Bucks played stellar defense, did a good job off the glass, and didn't cough up the ball a ton, which helped to eliminate the open three pointers the Cavs normally feast on.

It looked like early in the fourth quarter the Cavs in general got frustrating and starting coughing up the ball carelessly; LeBron wasn't alone in playing sloppily last night.

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Related, the last 3 games might be the worst I've ever seen CP3 play... the numbers look OK but he's making just bizarre errors for him, like fast break turnovers, losing his handle, not being anywhere close to hitting from midrange. He's seriously made some JV point guard errors out there that I'm not used to seeing.

Checked my phone on my way home and Clips were up 18, got home and it was damn near tied, Lopez is raining 3s and Sean Kilpatrick is apparently unstoppable, CP3 hits a 3 to send it to OT..... Clippers down again in OT and Doc gets thrown out the game, Nets miss 3 of 4 to seal the game, Crawford hits another 3 to send it to double OT...

When he attacks the basket he's a pretty good player. Whenever Jeremy finally gets back it'll be interesting to see them playing together getting the ball side to side and attacking

There were several times in the OTs though where they needed to get brook some post touches.

he was about to kill that ref if he got loose

I think they didn't want the foul and was misheard (at least according to the local broadcast) from all the way across the court on the first T and just lost it.

There was a foul in the play. Kirkpatrick got hit on the arm swinging through. That was a foul. It wasn't blown prematurely from what I saw.

Agreed the original foul was a foul but that's apparently what set up off to try and body Kenny Mauer (also Clippers completely deserved to lose that game).

He swung through and got hit, then the foul was called.

They're still not fully healthy either

When Favors is healthy, their starting 5 is the best defensive team in the league but they are a younger version of the Grizz who also stay getting injured.

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The team essentially has been sleepwalking at home against every opponent while winning all 10 of their road games by least 5 points which is an NBA record.

You're gonna have games, esp on the road, where you're out of your comfort zone and the shots aren't falling or things don't go your way....what allows you to stay in those games and mitigate some of those factors is being able to hang your hat on defense rather than allowing your effort and attitude to depend on the offensive flow. Until that happens, we will continue to suffer some of these road blowouts...thus far vs Minny and tonight vs NOH

The Elias Sports Bureau notes that this is the second time in NBA history that has happened

http://tinyurl.com/jk22vja

https://m.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/5fn5u2/jr_smith_talks_to_jason_terry_during_game_gives/


https://streamable.com/426k

Like, you seriously dapping up the other team, while LOSING and let your man get an open dunk?

hahahahahahahaha

>Like, you seriously dapping up the other team, while LOSING
>and let your man get an open dunk?
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>hahahahahahahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEqU7JHkfu0

Kidd's angling for a technical advisor credit in kids' wacky underdog sports movies.