NippySudz wrote:It's still not smart. Hammy's injuries should be treated with caution. Be glad that injury didn't re-aggravate and live to play another day. He didn't do much to aggravate it in Boston. He took a jumper than got shut downesqtvd wrote:NippySudz wrote:I disagree. Your muscles is not at full game strength after being rested for so much time. You can't just magically be ready to play 30mins after missing two weeks.
Your body has to build back up to game load. Practice isn't going to simulate game load. Just as his breathing needs conditioning, so does his hamstring
Either it was misreported as a hamstring strain the second time and the clippers didn't want to risk it or there was an actual minor tweaks that didn't take that long to heal.
Either way he shouldn't have been playing when the team is up 30. If he got injured again, can you imagine? This isn't a Rodney mcgruder scenario where rodney tweaked it once and after that he was fine. PG has had hamstring complications on three different occasions.
Dumb decision. That's a thibodeau type of move.
That should be an emphatic hell no. You're done for the night.
I questioned it too but I'm sure Doc asked PG if he wanted to go back in. And I watched closely--PG just coasted up and down the court a few times without really doing anything strenuous and played about a minute and 10 seconds. It was more a conditioning move than actual play.
I'm gonna guess he was capped at 24 minutes, what he averaged when he came back from the broken leg a few years back. PG had only played 20 minutes and finished with 21, so one more easy stint while up by 29 was just for the exercise.
Mcgruder hurt his going for a dunk in Memphis if the wrong foot. PG is attempting to speed up the process and not taking it day by day. Which is probably what led to him re-aggravating the Injury in the first place. Within a couple games he was off his min restriction and went back to playing b2b. Again, not smart. The medical staff needs to be adamant about that.
PG pulled himself out for 2 weeks because of a tiny twinge, not a pull. Better safe than sorry. He practiced Friday but still skipped Saturday's game.
In theory, of course I agree with you. In reality, Kawhi's patience just got short. Sense of urgency. School's out. This is what everybody's been kvetching for. Can't have it both ways.
And PG really did coast. He had already played in the 4th quarter, and was just running the floor a little more before he tightened up and shut it down.