Inigo Montoya wrote:stitches wrote:The more time passes the more similar to Favors' injury this one turns into...
With one key difference--the Spurs are sitting Leonard until he's recovered instead of messing around with him while he's injured. Favors battled it out while injured for the team, lowered his value by playing hurt, and will still be gone at the end of the season. It is amazing to me how much the Jazz sacrificed to be competitive just to please Hayward. What a terrible decision.
Don't agree with this at all. Spurs tried to bring Kawhi back just like Utah tried to bring Favors back. Pretty much the exact same situation. Kawhi was feeling better, thought he was ready to play, and then once he tried he realized he wasn't ready. We just haven't gotten to the 2nd time they bring him back yet, but it's no different right now.
Fans want all injuries to be simple fixes, but not all injuries are created equal. In the case of both Favors and Kawhi, the medical staff is going a lot by how the players say they feel. They can't just look at an MRI and see exactly how bad it is and exactly when a player is ready. So these players get frustrated with being out for long periods of time, and even though they may know there's still somewhat of a problem, they decide to go out and give it a try. As badly as fans want there to be a magic formula for making decisions on tricky injuries, that's just not the real world.
If anything, this whole Kawhi incident should shed some light on all the criticism fans have given Utah's medical staff over Favors' chronic injuries. Fultz in Philly is also similar, in that doctors just don't have the perfect solution, if they even know for sure what the problem is.
I guess maybe we'll have to wait for a Phoenix player to have similar problems, before Jazz fans accept the fact that doctors don't always have all the answers, and that some injuries can be extremely challenging to deal with.