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Re: Please fill me in on Avery Bradley
« Reply #15 on: February 26, 2017, 06:53:24 PM »

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Being sure he is healthy is The best course of action for our team. Surely he will come of the bench for the first few games too.
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Re: Please fill me in on Avery Bradley
« Reply #16 on: February 26, 2017, 07:04:48 PM »

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Disappointed to not see him tonight, but I know how Achilles injuries can linger. They are erring on the side of caution so this is a problem only in January/February and not April/May.

We may lose games we shouldn't like the last two, but I rather be healthy once the playoffs begin.

It's starting to remind me of our last long-term Achilles injury:

Not even comparable...10 year age difference.

They're comparable in that they're lingering Achilles injuries that have taken much longer to heal than projected.

Please explain similarities in projections on non-tear achilles injuries for 25 year olds at 180 lbs and 7-footers at 300 lbs in their mid-30's and get back to me.

I don't recall saying the injuries were the exact same.  "They're comparable in that they're lingering Achilles injuries that have taken much longer to heal than projected."

It was a 17 word sentence written in plain English.  Anything you're reading into my words is out there by you, not me.

More important is Roy H's reply 17 words or 19 words?

"They're" is semantically two words, and means the same thing as 'they + are'.
However, it's syntactically one word.

Re: Please fill me in on Avery Bradley
« Reply #17 on: February 26, 2017, 07:12:53 PM »

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Bit of a digression here, but has there ever been a non-lingering Achilles injury? Has anyone ever come back quicker than "projected"?

Seems like they are all "slower than projected" to recover. Which means, you know, that medical staffs making injury assessments may want to re-think their definition of "projected."

I'm only semi-serious here, but it's weird. If a meteorologist always projected temperatures 5 degrees below the actual temperature and kept going on every day about how it was "hotter than projected," he'd lose his job. Projections should be right on average, sometimes too optimistic and sometimes too pessimistic.

Maybe there are plenty of guys who are projected to be out for three weeks with an Achilles, who bounce out of bed five days later feeling awesome. But I've never heard of one.

Re: Please fill me in on Avery Bradley
« Reply #18 on: March 05, 2017, 04:16:34 PM »

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Out tonight against Phoenix. This doesn't look so benign anymore, playoffs is nearing.
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Re: Please fill me in on Avery Bradley
« Reply #19 on: March 05, 2017, 04:22:03 PM »

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Out tonight against Phoenix. This doesn't look so benign anymore, playoffs is nearing.

It's a different injury.  He missed the games before with an achilles strain, this is hamstring soreness.  He was apparently only planning on playing of one game of this back-to-back anyway, so it just means he's skipping this game instead of the Clippers' game.

I wouldn't worry about it.
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