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Thought this made sense in its' own thread rather than in a non-related one:

Some bad news (or good?) for the Blazers

Trail Blazers guard/foward Matisse Thybulle suffered a right ankle sprain while ramping up in an effort to return to the court. Thybulle underwent an MRI to confirm a grade 2 sprain of the right ankle. He is expected to miss three to six weeks.

I am convinced they are going to keep him away until they can unload him at the trade deadline. I was wondering how he was going to fit into the rotation anyway

Rookie center Donovan Clingan received additional imaging on the left knee which revealed a grade 2 MCL sprain. Clingan will be reevaluated in two weeks.

AKA you are playing too well and messing up our tank. All seriousness though glad it was not something worse

Center Robert Williams III has been placed in the NBA’s concussion protocol. Williams left Monday night’s game at Memphis and did not return for the second half.
Per the NBA’s Concussion Policy, Williams will now begin the NBA-mandated Return-to-Participation Protocol. This process includes a series of steps designed to ensure an athlete exhibits symptom-free behavior before resuming basketball activities. There is no predetermined timetable to complete the protocol, as each injury and player is different and recovery time can vary in each case.

Is this a "You have shown enough, so we are shutting you down" move? Call me cynical after these last few years of POR playing "name that injury" games to keep players sidelined. I did find it curious that both Moore & Minaya were traveling with the team instead of playing for the Remix. Yes I know, just a coincidence I am sure,

Ayton (finger) is questionable for Wednesday's game against the Pacers.

Ayton has missed seven straight games, but this is the first time he's listed as questionable since he landed on the injury report with a right index finger sprain.

7, now 8 games out with a finger sprain? Does no one else find that dubious? Especially when there isn't a minutes crunch anymore with Clingan & RW3 sidelined indefinitely

I winced and held my breath when Clingan grimaced and held his leg in that game. I doubt that injury is made up.

Timelord hit his head and took a beat while he was down on the ground after that loose ball. I doubt that injury is made up.

Ayton? Scoot? Who knows...

Walton1one wrote:
Ayton (finger) is questionable for Wednesday's game against the Pacers.

Ayton has missed seven straight games, but this is the first time he's listed as questionable since he landed on the injury report with a right index finger sprain.

7, now 8 games out with a finger sprain? Does no one else find that dubious? Especially when there isn't a minutes crunch anymore with Clingan & RW3 sidelined indefinitely

he had a pretty significant splint/wrap on his hand at the 2nd Houston game. It's the index finger on his shooting hand. So it probably is a legitimate injury

Speaking of...

Was there ever any update on the car accident that Scoot was in while in Houston? I heard via Mike Richmond's pod that he was in the back of a rideshare and got rear-ended, and didn't play the following game because of "lower back soreness" or something.

Vroom vroom

zzaj wrote:Speaking of...

Was there ever any update on the car accident that Scoot was in while in Houston? I heard via Mike Richmond's pod that he was in the back of a rideshare and got rear-ended, and didn't play the following game because of "lower back soreness" or something.

Also mentioned was a thigh contusion from a previous game

Derek Anderson's toothache has entered the chat.

Tim Lehrbach wrote:Derek Anderson's toothache has entered the chat.

Brilliant!

Just heard the bad news that Clingan is going to likely miss all games through the New Year and potentially beyond. Apparently 48 days is the average amount of time missed for grade 2 MCL sprains. Here's time missed by other bigs with the same injury -
Rudy Gobert: 38 Days
Nene: 45 Days
Marc Gasol: 53 Days

I'll be honest, I follow for growth and potential...Clingan is really the only player on the team that's showing both. So that makes games hard for me to watch.

Sharpe?
Looking like the same player that we've seen in his first two seasons--not really seeing any new wrinkles with him.
Scoot?
He has a long way to go to even become an average starting guard in the NBA...let alone anything beyond that.
Camara?
Fine. And has grown incrementally, but he's not the type of player you tune in exclusively to watch.
Deni?
Yeah, I like watching his role change and him getting acclimated...but again, with him it's more about fit with Sharpe and Clingan for me.

Everybody else?
Grant, Simons and Ayton are who they are...I've already seen enough of that. I'm not convinced the other players are ever going to be good enough to ever crack a starting 5.

Billups?
He's wrecking the team with his 4 out offense that has zero movement. With willing passers on the team, there's no reason Sharpe should be standing around ball-watching as people pass around the perimeter.

zzaj wrote:Just heard the bad news that Clingan is going to likely miss all games through the New Year and potentially beyond. Apparently 48 days is the average amount of time missed for grade 2 MCL sprains. Here's time missed by other bigs with the same injury -
Rudy Gobert: 38 Days
Nene: 45 Days
Marc Gasol: 53 Days

I'll be honest, I follow for growth and potential...Clingan is really the only player on the team that's showing both. So that makes games hard for me to watch.

Sharpe?
Looking like the same player that we've seen in his first two seasons--not really seeing any new wrinkles with him.
Scoot?
He has a long way to go to even become an average starting guard in the NBA...let alone anything beyond that.
Camara?
Fine. And has grown incrementally, but he's not the type of player you tune in exclusively to watch.
Deni?
Yeah, I like watching his role change and him getting acclimated...but again, with him it's more about fit with Sharpe and Clingan for me.

Everybody else?
Grant, Simons and Ayton are who they are...I've already seen enough of that. I'm not convinced the other players are ever going to be good enough to ever crack a starting 5.

Billups?
He's wrecking the team with his 4 out offense that has zero movement. With willing passers on the team, there's no reason Sharpe should be standing around ball-watching as people pass around the perimeter.

Sharpe has definitely improved tremendously since season 1. But he's also not there... and looking more like Rudy Gay, than a true lead player. If he can stay somewhat healthy... there's nothing wrong with a Rudy Gay type guy at 7.

Curse of the Blazer big men...

Only LaMarcus seems to have immune to this disease

zzaj wrote:Sharpe?
Looking like the same player that we've seen in his first two seasons--not really seeing any new wrinkles with him.
.

I'm not judging Sharpe quite that harshly. He went out with injury on January 11th and didn't return till November 7th. That's 10 months and he didn't have a training camp or a pre-season. He has only played 11 games since January 12 of last season

he didn't have much opportunity to really work on his game or conditioning in the off-season

Regarding Deni:

After last night's game, thoughts on his ability to guard PFs moving forward? If he can become their four to replace Jeremi, it presents some interesting lineup options moving forward.

Yikes on the DC injury. Didn’t Blazer press release say re-evaluate in 2 weeks, now more like 2 months?

Butter wrote:Regarding Deni:

After last night's game, thoughts on his ability to guard PFs moving forward? If he can become their four to replace Jeremi, it presents some interesting lineup options moving forward.

Deni can guard small ball C's well, he'll have no problems with PF's or SF's IMO

Blazinaway wrote:

Butter wrote:Regarding Deni:

After last night's game, thoughts on his ability to guard PFs moving forward? If he can become their four to replace Jeremi, it presents some interesting lineup options moving forward.

Deni can guard small ball C's well, he'll have no problems with PF's or SF's IMO

Id really like to see the Blazer get a true shooting SF like Ace Bailey, especially if they stick with Scoot.

I’d fire Chauncey just for putting DC back in the game with a mf sleeve in a meaningless effort because we won without him anyway

Pattycakes wrote:I’d fire Chauncey just for putting DC back in the game with a mf sleeve in a meaningless effort because we won without him anyway

You had me at fire Chauncy

Roy The Natural wrote:

zzaj wrote:Just heard the bad news that Clingan is going to likely miss all games through the New Year and potentially beyond. Apparently 48 days is the average amount of time missed for grade 2 MCL sprains. Here's time missed by other bigs with the same injury -
Rudy Gobert: 38 Days
Nene: 45 Days
Marc Gasol: 53 Days

I'll be honest, I follow for growth and potential...Clingan is really the only player on the team that's showing both. So that makes games hard for me to watch.

Sharpe?
Looking like the same player that we've seen in his first two seasons--not really seeing any new wrinkles with him.
Scoot?
He has a long way to go to even become an average starting guard in the NBA...let alone anything beyond that.
Camara?
Fine. And has grown incrementally, but he's not the type of player you tune in exclusively to watch.
Deni?
Yeah, I like watching his role change and him getting acclimated...but again, with him it's more about fit with Sharpe and Clingan for me.

Everybody else?
Grant, Simons and Ayton are who they are...I've already seen enough of that. I'm not convinced the other players are ever going to be good enough to ever crack a starting 5.

Billups?
He's wrecking the team with his 4 out offense that has zero movement. With willing passers on the team, there's no reason Sharpe should be standing around ball-watching as people pass around the perimeter.

Sharpe has definitely improved tremendously since season 1. But he's also not there... and looking more like Rudy Gay, than a true lead player. If he can stay somewhat healthy... there's nothing wrong with a Rudy Gay type guy at 7.

How? He looks basically the same to me. He showed ability as a primary creator with no defense in year 1. Maybe he's a touch more consistent, and a slightly better defender. Other than that, not really much different as far as I can tell...

Wizenheimer wrote:

zzaj wrote:Sharpe?
Looking like the same player that we've seen in his first two seasons--not really seeing any new wrinkles with him.
.

I'm not judging Sharpe quite that harshly. He went out with injury on January 11th and didn't return till November 7th. That's 10 months and he didn't have a training camp or a pre-season. He has only played 11 games since January 12 of last season

he didn't have much opportunity to really work on his game or conditioning in the off-season

He looked pretty full speed in the videos of the summer runs in LA. He had plenty of time to work on his game, IMHO.

Does he still have the highest ceiling on the team? Probably. As more and more time goes by I feel like that ceiling is getting more "realistic". Again, I haven't seen much skill improvement over what he showed in his first season.