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Welp, season's dead. Trade/Bench the vets, go all in for the #1 pick.

Brick for Vic is officially on!

King Bugs wrote:Welp, season's dead. Trade/Bench the vets, go all in for the #1 pick.

Brick for Vic is officially on!

Lmao. We have a straight path to the worst record without trading anymore.

Yeah, if Cade misses extended time, this tank is taking care of itself. No need to make any roster moves.

GreekAlex wrote:

King Bugs wrote:Welp, season's dead. Trade/Bench the vets, go all in for the #1 pick.

Brick for Vic is officially on!

Lmao. We have a straight path to the worst record without trading anymore.

In my Magic Johnson voice.. “He ain’t lying”

So long as this is an injury that won't have lingering effects, this isn't bad for Detroit. Ivey and maybe Bey can get a bigger offensive role for a season and the tank position in a really good draft gets stronger.

Grant Hill comparisons more on the nose than even expected.

5th OA as worst case pick would be all but guaranteed.

yeah... as soon as i read it was a shin injury i was hoping it was just shin splints and not a stress fracture. shin splints are essentially small tears in the muscles around the tibia and a stress fracture is a crack in the bone itself, pretty much because the bone has taken too much force that the supporting muscles couldn't handle.

i honestly didn't know surgery was even an option for stress fractures, i thought it was just rest and strengthening the supporting muscles for rehab. there's no reason to rush cade back obviously so hopefully the team does what's best for him long-term.

Bummer it's this serious. I wish him a (full) and speedy recovery! This team's ceiling and Cade's ceiling as a player are pretty closely aligned, IMO.

Laimbeer wrote:So long as this is an injury that won't have lingering effects, this isn't bad for Detroit. Ivey and maybe Bey can get a bigger offensive role for a season and the tank position in a really good draft gets stronger.

I actually this makes the season even worse. The path forward to relevancy is through Ivey and Cade, and the less they play together, the less likely that will develop.

I appreciate people trying to see something positive in this mess though.

Cade needs to be fully healthy before he returns. Hope it works out for well the seasons ahead. We're going to be watching some ugly games for a while.

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Laimbeer wrote:So long as this is an injury that won't have lingering effects, this isn't bad for Detroit. Ivey and maybe Bey can get a bigger offensive role for a season and the tank position in a really good draft gets stronger.

I actually this makes the season even worse. The path forward to relevancy is through Ivey and Cade, and the less they play together, the less likely that will develop.

I appreciate people trying to see something positive in this mess though.

Time together will come. This is a delay. We need one more top tier young player to have serious potential.

It feels weird to argue this side of it since I'm normally more of a pessimist.

Sucks for sure especially because you want him to be out there learning and developing this year not sitting on the sidelines. But we're likely without Cade, Bey, and Stewart for the next few weeks so its going to be a rough ride either way.

I'm all about using the next month to try and up trade value for guys like Bojan and Burks and then see what's available at the deadline. After that, lets start feeding Duren more looks the 2nd half of the season.

Kalamazoo317 wrote:Yeah, if Cade misses extended time, this tank is taking care of itself. No need to make any roster moves.

Pistons would have been close to the bottom with this season's version of Cade.
This is easy now.

So how long is he out I can't see the tweets


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mattao313 wrote:So how long is he out I can't see the tweets


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Don't know yet. They haven't decided on surgery or rest. If he gets surgery he's probably done for the season.

Either way it makes sense to go all-in on the tank. Without Cade there are less than zero expectations on this team.

Well that's not good, hate to see Cade lose out on a development year

mattao313 wrote:So how long is he out I can't see the tweets


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Just based on replies here they are mentioning it is due to a stress reaction/ fracture as opposed to just shin splints.

A cursory look online says at the minimum it is 6 weeks on zero activity (running) for non-surgical healing; with it being realistc for it to go several months in some cases. There would be rehab after that as well.

I don't know if surgery would expedite this or not.

If I'm the pistons I am choosing the long pole of treatment timing to ensure he is maximally healed. There’s literally no gain to rushing him back early. We have nothing competition-wise at stake here.

Cade needs to start eating meat and drinking milk.

JD43320 wrote:Cade needs to start eating meat and drinking milk.

Might not be the worst advice honestly. As far as technology and nutrition science has come a long way to let the body supplement without much red meat, it's still the most cost effective/efficient way to get proteins and other nutrients

Bone broths, animal gelatin/fats, etc there's so many ways to help the bone and tendons of the body

With the way the season has been going and potentially being winless or barely a few wins next month, Cade honestly has all the time in the world to recover should he opt or opt out of surgery either way