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Dude wasn’t even walking correctly and couldn’t fully practice. There is no “what if” to any of that
**NBA FINALS THREAD - RAPTORS DEFY GRAVITY**
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Unnecessarily. And it's not even funny at this moment
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Kd played 12 mins and dubs were up 5 (3 or 4 after ibakas fts) when he left lol
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Yall might have already covered this but...
DeMarcus Cousins scored 14pts in 19min off the bench
Siakam and Green both started, each played 33min, and only scored 16 F'n points COMBINED
Thats the game in a nutshell right there
DeMarcus Cousins scored 14pts in 19min off the bench
Siakam and Green both started, each played 33min, and only scored 16 F'n points COMBINED
Thats the game in a nutshell right there
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He's a grown *** man who knows the extent of how he was feeling. He took the risk. Nobody is to blame.
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Anybody catch when Mark Jackson was talking **** about Kerr's lineups in the 4th and then he goes 'can I get an amen?' and van gundy was like umm..well it's..umm..
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KD's injury doesn't change opinions on the Warriors...if anything it makes the hate increase. That organization doesn't deserve sympathy KD does.
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Lol what? The doctors job at that point is to tell him if he’s good or not. That’s there ONE job at that moment. You drive your car off the lot after getting it fixed and blame yourself if they didn’t do **** and it break down the exact same way? “Well you had a choice, you know your car, you ah man” is a respectable comment? Stop
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I can see the staff saying "the calf strain isn't going to get worse" and KD saying...ok give me a cortisone shot and let me go i will give you what i can. They say ok he goes out there and has a freak injury that no one saw coming.
But that is all assuming that the achilles was fine and it really was just a bad calf strain the whole time
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Truth is none of us know how those conversations went, so I don't think we can know either way. KD could have felt pressured, or he could have felt confident with the diagnosis from the team doctors. We don't know what the doctors told him.
It's above all our heads. None of us can say absolutely. Just a ****ty situation all around.
The thing that makes me skeptical about the whole thing was the calf diagnosis and all the secrecy around an injury that people pretty much identified as some sort of Achilles issue.
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The Warriors hate does change the opinion of KD's injury.
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Comparing driving a car to a man in his body knowing how he's feeling on a leg that he iced before the game. Great analogy.
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This ain't on nobody man it's unfortunately a part of the game, Ya'll are talking about the Org "saving him from himself" it doesn't work like that. They pay these doctors & officials the money they do for a reason, so if they cleared KD to play i genuinely believe that Warriors Management/KD's Management thought he was good to go. On top of that what ya'll fail to realize in these cases is that outside of the money & narratives... these are grown men who LOVE what they do, it's their entire lives & they have a limited time to perform there.
You can't have KD medically cleared and just look him in the face & be like nah your not playing, it's not that simple man.
You can't have KD medically cleared and just look him in the face & be like nah your not playing, it's not that simple man.
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Great critical thinking....... here’s the reality, the medical staffs # 1 job is to protect the players. They didn’t. That easy enough to grasp or will pictures and coloring be needed?
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How
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Kd should not have played. His agent should not have let him if he felt even the slightest rushed.
It was just way too shady. One day he’s not ready with no timetable. Next day he’s ready without minutes restriction. Jalen rose said he saw him practice 3 days ago and said he’d be SHOCKED if KD played
It was just way too shady. One day he’s not ready with no timetable. Next day he’s ready without minutes restriction. Jalen rose said he saw him practice 3 days ago and said he’d be SHOCKED if KD played
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Of course he felt pressured. His team was down 3-1 and he knows he's the star. If they would've lost he would've blamed himself for not playing. Yeah that's pressure. At the end of the day, he made the decision to go. Does the medical staff deserve to he accountability? Yes. But *****" here acting like the Dubs just threw him on the court with no choice in the matter and acting like he didn't know how hurt he was. He's not dumb.
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Nobody saw coming? Freak injury?....... ok..... I see where this is going and I’m good on al that
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That’s why teams have doctors... no pity for the Warriors as an Org
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I am not picking a side im asking a legit question as to the medical facts behind all this
Anyone who has ever played competitive sports has had the "i think i can play" moment. I just wonder what the real story behind all of this is. Whether the staff knew that with a calf strain that bad that there is a higher chance he injures his achilles or if his achilles was injured this whole time. I just want to know how much of the blame the medical staff deserves here is all. Like did they tell KD you are good knowing he was at a high risk? Did KD know the risk and still went out there?
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I don't disagree, but you can't fault a player for playing through discomfort if he has the assurance of the teams medical staff that he'd be fine.
You're right about KD having the final say. I'm not in the business of finding someone to blame, though. Just a tough situation all around.
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And y’all really going to defend the GS medical staff all while Looney is also out there? Broken bone magically healed? LOL
Enough with all that BS
Enough with all that BS
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Nobody knew for certain KD would 100% get reinjured...but they knew it was a possibility. He looked perfectly FINE for first 11mins. Maybe they shoulda sat him down after first 8-10 mins...but..hindsight is 20/20. KD coming back last night helped sparked Dubs...emotionally more than anything...it gave Warriors inspiration and new life...and im pretty sure..this series is goin 7 now
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This. KD was the same dude hooping on the streets during the lockout. He doesn’t care about anything but basketball. It couldn’t have been me but I see why he wanted to be out there.
